---
title: "European Research Council: funded research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), European Research Council was named as a funder of 1,403 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (721), AI (260) and operations research (235). It ranks #50 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 Research Council was named as a funder of 1,403 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (721), AI (260) and operations research (235). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31
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---

# 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), European Research Council was named as a funder of 1,403 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (721), AI (260) and operations research (235).
- It ranks #50 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 176 of them were published in 2025, against 106 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Liverpool John Moores University (30), University of Oxford (28) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (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

*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) | 52 | 48 | 85 | 98 | 71 | 61 | 66 | 66 | 94 | 80 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 22 | 20 | 29 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 25 | 22 | 29 | 17 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 19 | 21 | 21 | 35 | 26 | 19 | 16 | 21 | 26 | 31 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 5 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 106 | 97 | 150 | 185 | 148 | 132 | 126 | 132 | 176 | 151 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 31 |
| 2 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 24 |
| 3 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 20 |
| 4 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 19 |
| 6 | [Games and Economic Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/games-and-economic-behavior.md) | 19 |
| 7 | [Journal of Economic Theory](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-theory.md) | 16 |
| 8 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 14 |
| 10 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 14 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Liverpool John Moores University | 30 |
| 2 | University of Oxford | 28 |
| 3 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 25 |
| 4 | University of Leeds | 25 |
| 5 | Delft University of Technology | 23 |
| 6 | ETH Zurich | 21 |
| 7 | University College London | 20 |
| 8 | Toulouse School of Economics | 17 |
| 9 | Bocconi University | 16 |
| 10 | Imperial College London | 16 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 203 |
| 2 | United States | 104 |
| 3 | Germany | 99 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 85 |
| 5 | France | 73 |
| 6 | Italy | 66 |
| 7 | China | 64 |
| 8 | Spain | 64 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 50 |
| 10 | Belgium | 40 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | willingness to pay | 13 |
| 2 | AIS data | 11 |
| 3 | sustainability transitions | 10 |
| 4 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [income inequality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/income-inequality.md) | 8 |
| 6 | climate change adaptation | 7 |
| 7 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 7 |
| 8 | mechanism design | 7 |
| 9 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,948 | 25.7 | [Direct Sparse Odometry](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2658577) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-04-12 | Jakob Julian Engel, Vladlen Koltun, Daniel Cremers |
| 2 | 1,618 | 20.3 | [Deep Image Prior](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-020-01303-4) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2020-03-04 | Dmitry Ulyanov, Andrea Vedaldi, Victor Lempitsky |
| 3 | 1,221 | 16.8 | [HOTA: A Higher Order Metric for Evaluating Multi-object Tracking](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-020-01375-2) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2020-10-08 | Jonathon Luiten, Aljos̆a Os̆ep, Patrick Dendorfer et al. |
| 4 | 966 | 10.9 | [Apollo: A flexible, powerful and customisable freeware package for choice model estimation and application](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocm.2019.100170) | [Journal of Choice Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-choice-modelling.md) | 2019-06-04 | Stephane Hess, David Palma |
| 5 | 929 | 8.2 | [Long-Term Temporal Convolutions for Action Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2712608) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-06-06 | Gül Varol, Ivan Laptev A, Cordelia Schmid |
| 6 | 619 | 9.0 | [What do we want from Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)? – A stakeholder perspective on XAI and a conceptual model guiding interdisciplinary XAI research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2021.103473) | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 2021-02-15 | Markus Langer, Daniel Oster, Timo Speith et al. |
| 7 | 570 | 7.0 | [Transductive LSTM for time-series prediction: An application to weather forecasting](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2019.12.030) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2020-01-08 | Zahra Karevan, Johan A. K. Suykens |
| 8 | 548 | 7.4 | [Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange: Implications for sustainability in the 21st century](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106824) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2020-09-04 | Christian Dorninger, Alf Hornborg, David J. Abson et al. |
| 9 | 541 | 6.3 | [Measuring euro area monetary policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2019.08.016) | [Journal of Monetary Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-monetary-economics.md) | 2019-08-30 | Carlo Altavilla, Luca Brugnolini, Refet S. Gürkaynak et al. |
| 10 | 481 | 6.6 | [Post-pandemic transformations: How and why COVID-19 requires us to rethink development](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105233) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2020-10-16 | Melissa Leach, Hayley MacGregor, Ian Scoones et al. |

## 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}
}
```

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