European Research Council
Papers in the tracked journals that name European Research Council 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 Research Council was named as a funder of 1,337 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (684), AI (260) and operations research (235).
- It ranks #50 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 166 of them were published in 2025, against 104 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Oxford (26), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (25) and University of Leeds (25).
- The journals publishing most of them were Ecological Economics (31), Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (24) and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (20).
- The most-cited of them is “Direct Sparse Odometry” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2017), with 2,948 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 51 | 45 | 84 | 92 | 67 | 60 | 63 | 62 | 88 | 72 |
| AI | 22 | 20 | 29 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 25 | 22 | 29 | 17 |
| Operations Research | 19 | 21 | 21 | 35 | 26 | 19 | 16 | 21 | 26 | 31 |
| Finance | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 5 |
| Statistics | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Management | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 104 | 93 | 149 | 176 | 139 | 129 | 120 | 124 | 166 | 137 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ecological Economics | 31 |
| 2 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 24 |
| 3 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 20 |
| 4 | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 20 |
| 5 | Artificial Intelligence | 19 |
| 6 | Games and Economic Behavior | 19 |
| 7 | Journal of Economic Theory | 16 |
| 8 | World Development | 16 |
| 9 | European Economic Review | 14 |
| 10 | Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice | 14 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Oxford | 26 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 25 |
| 3 | University of Leeds | 25 |
| 4 | Liverpool John Moores University | 24 |
| 5 | Delft University of Technology | 22 |
| 6 | ETH Zurich | 21 |
| 7 | University College London | 18 |
| 8 | Toulouse School of Economics | 17 |
| 9 | Bocconi University | 16 |
| 10 | Imperial College London | 16 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 186 |
| 2 | United States | 102 |
| 3 | Germany | 96 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 77 |
| 5 | France | 72 |
| 6 | Italy | 64 |
| 7 | Spain | 63 |
| 8 | China | 56 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 49 |
| 10 | Belgium | 37 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | willingness to pay | 13 |
| 2 | AIS data | 11 |
| 3 | COVID-19 pandemic | 9 |
| 4 | income inequality | 8 |
| 5 | climate change adaptation | 7 |
| 6 | economic growth | 7 |
| 7 | mechanism design | 7 |
| 8 | convergence rate | 6 |
| 9 | innovation | 6 |
| 10 | mode choice | 6 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). European Research Council. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/european-research-council
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {European Research Council},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/european-research-council}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}