European Regional Development Fund
Papers in the tracked journals that name European Regional Development Fund 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. Also as Markdown.
Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), European Regional Development Fund was named as a funder of 2,466 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (824), operations research (570) and economics (423).
- It ranks #24 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 327 of them were published in 2025, against 118 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Universidad de Granada (82), University of Castilla-La Mancha (67) and Universidad de Sevilla (54).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (98), Information Fusion (45) and Knowledge-Based Systems (40).
- The most-cited of them is “A comparative analysis of gradient boosting algorithms” (Artificial Intelligence Review, 2020), with 2,995 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 35 | 53 | 63 | 72 | 91 | 118 | 104 | 92 | 122 | 74 |
| Operations Research | 33 | 40 | 66 | 51 | 72 | 68 | 64 | 56 | 56 | 64 |
| Economics | 21 | 41 | 37 | 49 | 37 | 41 | 27 | 57 | 57 | 56 |
| Management | 9 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 33 | 21 |
| Finance | 3 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 11 | 25 | 24 | 19 | 27 | 9 |
| Information Systems | 6 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 7 |
| Statistics | 6 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 2 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 5 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| Marketing | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| All categories | 118 | 180 | 222 | 240 | 263 | 303 | 273 | 286 | 327 | 254 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 98 |
| 2 | Information Fusion | 45 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 40 |
| 4 | Computers & Operations Research | 37 |
| 5 | European Journal of Operational Research | 37 |
| 6 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 23 |
| 7 | Pattern Recognition | 22 |
| 8 | Neural Computing and Applications | 20 |
| 9 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 18 |
| 10 | Journal of Business Research | 17 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Universidad de Granada | 82 |
| 2 | University of Castilla-La Mancha | 67 |
| 3 | Universidad de Sevilla | 54 |
| 4 | Universitat de Miguel Hernández d'Elx | 48 |
| 5 | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | 47 |
| 6 | Universidade da Coruña | 45 |
| 7 | Universitat de València | 41 |
| 8 | Universidad de Málaga | 37 |
| 9 | Universidad de Zaragoza | 34 |
| 10 | University of the Basque Country | 34 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain | 839 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 101 |
| 3 | Italy | 71 |
| 4 | United States | 64 |
| 5 | France | 63 |
| 6 | Portugal | 59 |
| 7 | China | 57 |
| 8 | Germany | 57 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 41 |
| 10 | Sweden | 26 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 26 |
| 2 | explainable AI | 22 |
| 3 | large language models | 22 |
| 4 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 21 |
| 5 | mixed-integer linear programming | 20 |
| 6 | Spain | 15 |
| 7 | combinatorial optimization | 14 |
| 8 | cooperative games | 13 |
| 9 | dimensionality reduction | 12 |
| 10 | metaheuristic optimization | 12 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). European Regional Development Fund. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/european-regional-development-fund
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {European Regional Development Fund},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/european-regional-development-fund}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}