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title: "European Regional Development Fund: funded research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), European Regional Development Fund was named as a funder of 2,553 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (824), operations research (570) and economics (483). It ranks #24 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 Regional Development Fund was named as a funder of 2,553 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (824), operations research (570) and economics (483). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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---

# 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), European Regional Development Fund was named as a funder of 2,553 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (824), operations research (570) and economics (483).
- It ranks #24 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 335 of them were published in 2025, against 127 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Universidad de Granada (84), University of Castilla-La Mancha (69) and Universidad de Sevilla (57).
- 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 35 | 53 | 63 | 72 | 91 | 118 | 104 | 92 | 122 | 74 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 33 | 40 | 66 | 51 | 72 | 68 | 64 | 56 | 56 | 64 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 30 | 52 | 42 | 55 | 42 | 48 | 37 | 59 | 59 | 59 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 9 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 20 | 24 | 23 | 33 | 22 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 3 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 11 | 25 | 24 | 19 | 27 | 9 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 6 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 8 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 6 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 5 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| All categories | 127 | 194 | 228 | 250 | 271 | 312 | 287 | 290 | 335 | 259 |

## 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) | 98 |
| 2 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 45 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 40 |
| 4 | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 37 |
| 5 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 37 |
| 6 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 23 |
| 7 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 22 |
| 8 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 20 |
| 9 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 18 |
| 10 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 17 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Universidad de Granada | 84 |
| 2 | University of Castilla-La Mancha | 69 |
| 3 | Universidad de Sevilla | 57 |
| 4 | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | 50 |
| 5 | Universitat de Miguel Hernández d'Elx | 49 |
| 6 | Universidade da Coruña | 45 |
| 7 | Universitat de València | 41 |
| 8 | Universidad de Málaga | 37 |
| 9 | University of the Basque Country | 36 |
| 10 | Universidad de Zaragoza | 34 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Spain | 861 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 101 |
| 3 | Italy | 73 |
| 4 | United States | 66 |
| 5 | France | 64 |
| 6 | Portugal | 60 |
| 7 | Germany | 58 |
| 8 | China | 57 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 42 |
| 10 | Sweden | 27 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 26 |
| 2 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 22 |
| 3 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 22 |
| 4 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 21 |
| 5 | [mixed-integer linear programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-linear-programming.md) | 20 |
| 6 | Spain | 16 |
| 7 | combinatorial optimization | 14 |
| 8 | cooperative games | 13 |
| 9 | dimensionality reduction | 12 |
| 10 | metaheuristic optimization | 12 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,995 | 40.4 | [A comparative analysis of gradient boosting algorithms](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-020-09896-5) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2020-08-24 | Candice Bentéjac, Anna Csörgő, Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz |
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | 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. |
| 4 | 944 | 16.5 | [Forecasting: theory and practice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2021.11.001) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2022-01-19 | Fotios Petropoulos, Daniele Apiletti, Vassilios Assimakopoulos et al. |
| 5 | 822 | 10.8 | [A smart healthcare monitoring system for heart disease prediction based on ensemble deep learning and feature fusion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2020.06.008) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2020-06-26 | Farman Ali, Shaker El–Sappagh, S. M. Riazul Islam et al. |
| 6 | 772 | 7.6 | [Green bond and financial markets: Co-movement, diversification and price spillover effects](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2018.05.030) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2018-05-29 | Juan C. Reboredo |
| 7 | 758 | 18.5 | [ChatGPT: Jack of all trades, master of none](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.101861) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2023-06-03 | Jan Kocoń, Igor Cichecki, Oliwier Kaszyca et al. |
| 8 | 572 | 5.0 | [Entrepreneurial intention among engineering students: The role of entrepreneurship education](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iedeen.2017.04.001) | [European Research on Management and Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-research-on-management-and-business-economics.md) | 2017-05-02 | Virginia Barba‐Sánchez, Carlos Atienza-Sahuquillo |
| 9 | 541 | 5.7 | [Ensembles for feature selection: A review and future trends](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2018.11.008) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2018-11-26 | Verónica Bolón‐Canedo, Amparo Alonso‐Betanzos |
| 10 | 526 | 6.1 | [Price connectedness between green bond and financial markets](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2019.09.004) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 2019-09-13 | Juan C. Reboredo, Andrea Ugolini |

## 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

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-funders-european-regional-development-fund,
  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}
}
```

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