---
title: "European Commission: funded research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), European Commission was named as a funder of 7,398 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (2,536), AI (1,702) and operations research (1,087). It ranks #5 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), European Commission was named as a funder of 7,398 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (2,536), AI (1,702) and operations research (1,087). (as of 2026-10-31)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-31T17:45:59+09:00
window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31
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---

# European Commission

Papers in the tracked journals that name European Commission as a funder. Funders are the organisations OpenAlex links to a paper from its funding information (Crossref metadata and the paper's acknowledgements); a paper counts once for each funder it names. Grant numbers are not shown.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), European Commission was named as a funder of 7,398 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (2,536), AI (1,702) and operations research (1,087).
- It ranks #5 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 1,162 of them were published in 2025, against 476 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (110), University of Bologna (96) and Politecnico di Milano (86).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (189), Energy Policy (96) and Ecological Economics (92).
- The most-cited of them is “CasADi: a software framework for nonlinear optimization and optimal control” (Mathematical Programming Computation, 2018), with 3,895 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 214 | 244 | 227 | 243 | 239 | 205 | 244 | 291 | 353 | 276 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 74 | 83 | 94 | 105 | 167 | 199 | 228 | 259 | 308 | 185 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 50 | 54 | 68 | 78 | 103 | 112 | 115 | 166 | 175 | 166 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 40 | 48 | 51 | 45 | 64 | 68 | 64 | 78 | 100 | 74 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 38 | 33 | 23 | 46 | 38 | 40 | 29 | 33 | 37 | 30 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 18 | 10 | 18 | 17 | 35 | 21 | 38 | 40 | 61 | 49 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 12 | 17 | 24 | 30 | 23 | 29 | 33 | 33 | 36 | 22 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 7 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 23 | 21 | 37 | 41 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 12 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 27 | 14 | 17 | 29 | 25 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 5 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 6 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 3 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 476 | 520 | 532 | 601 | 711 | 741 | 808 | 960 | 1,162 | 887 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 189 |
| 2 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 96 |
| 3 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 92 |
| 4 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 83 |
| 5 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 65 |
| 6 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 60 |
| 7 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 59 |
| 8 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 59 |
| 9 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 57 |
| 10 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 55 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 110 |
| 2 | University of Bologna | 96 |
| 3 | Politecnico di Milano | 86 |
| 4 | KU Leuven | 83 |
| 5 | Sapienza University of Rome | 80 |
| 6 | Delft University of Technology | 70 |
| 7 | University of Pisa | 66 |
| 8 | University of Padua | 65 |
| 9 | Ca' Foscari University of Venice | 60 |
| 10 | University of Naples Federico II | 60 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Italy | 1,288 |
| 2 | Spain | 825 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 626 |
| 4 | Germany | 456 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 397 |
| 6 | France | 328 |
| 7 | United States | 307 |
| 8 | Belgium | 240 |
| 9 | China | 170 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 153 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 102 |
| 2 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 74 |
| 3 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 70 |
| 4 | Italy | 52 |
| 5 | circular economy | 46 |
| 6 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 45 |
| 7 | [energy transition](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-transition.md) | 42 |
| 8 | gender differences | 38 |
| 9 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 35 |
| 10 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 34 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,895 | 39.1 | [CasADi: a software framework for nonlinear optimization and optimal control](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-018-0139-4) | [Mathematical Programming Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming-computation.md) | 2018-07-11 | Joel A.E. Andersson, Joris Gillis, Greg Horn et al. |
| 2 | 3,369 | 35.9 | [Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.05.008) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-01-01 | Patrick G M Bolton, Marcin T. Kacperczyk |
| 3 | 2,576 | 27.0 | [A systematic literature review of blockchain-based applications: Current status, classification and open issues](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2018.11.006) | [Telematics and Informatics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics.md) | 2018-11-22 | Fran Casino, Thomas K. Dasaklis, Constantinos Patsakis |
| 4 | 2,124 | 55.5 | [Interpreting Black-Box Models: A Review on Explainable Artificial Intelligence](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-023-10179-8) | [Cognitive Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cognitive-computation.md) | 2023-08-24 | Vikas Hassija, Vinay Chamola, Atmesh Mahapatra et al. |
| 5 | 1,980 | 22.4 | [Defining digital transformation: Results from expert interviews](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2019.06.002) | [Government Information Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/government-information-quarterly.md) | 2019-06-25 | Ines A. Mergel, Noella Edelmann, Nathalie Haug |
| 6 | 1,783 | 20.0 | [How to perform and report an impactful analysis using partial least squares: Guidelines for confirmatory and explanatory IS research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2019.05.003) | [Information & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-management.md) | 2019-05-23 | Jose Benitez, Jörg Henseler, Ana Castillo et al. |
| 7 | 1,428 | 18.3 | [Industry 4.0 technologies assessment: A sustainability perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107776) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2020-05-06 | Chunguang April Bai, Patrick Dallasega, Guido Orzes et al. |
| 8 | 1,278 | 14.4 | [Driving forces and barriers of Industry 4.0: Do multinational and small and medium-sized companies have equal opportunities?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.05.021) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2019-06-04 | Dóra Horváth, Roland Zsolt Szabó |
| 9 | 1,101 | 12.4 | [Exploring the relationship between big data analytics capability and competitive performance: The mediating roles of dynamic and operational capabilities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2019.05.004) | [Information & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-management.md) | 2019-05-29 | Patrick Mikalef, John Krogstie, Ilias O. Pappas et al. |
| 10 | 1,049 | 20.8 | [Human-in-the-loop machine learning: a state of the art](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10246-w) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2022-08-17 | Eduardo Mosqueira-Rey, Elena Hernández-Pereira, David Alonso-Ríos et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). European Commission. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/european-commission

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-funders-european-commission,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {European Commission},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/european-commission}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).