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title: "Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia was named as a funder of 2,758 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (741), operations research (573) and AI (356). It ranks #20 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia was named as a funder of 2,758 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (741), operations research (573) and AI (356). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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# Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Papers in the tracked journals that name Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia 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), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia was named as a funder of 2,758 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (741), operations research (573) and AI (356).
- It ranks #20 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 359 of them were published in 2025, against 165 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Lisbon (379), Universidade do Porto (188) and Universidade Nova de Lisboa (184).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (56), European Journal of Operational Research (37) and Finance research letters (30).
- The most-cited of them is “Lost in Transition? Drivers and Barriers in the Eco-innovation Road to the Circular Economy” (Ecological Economics, 2017), with 1,166 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) | 45 | 54 | 57 | 87 | 76 | 81 | 85 | 91 | 86 | 79 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 45 | 39 | 59 | 50 | 61 | 83 | 51 | 56 | 72 | 57 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 27 | 21 | 22 | 24 | 41 | 42 | 60 | 38 | 50 | 31 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 18 | 22 | 29 | 38 | 40 | 37 | 53 | 43 | 34 | 31 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 10 | 9 | 20 | 14 | 28 | 39 | 39 | 42 | 40 | 27 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 3 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 17 | 16 | 13 | 17 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 3 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 25 | 8 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 17 | 11 | 12 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 8 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 7 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 4 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 8 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| All categories | 165 | 178 | 225 | 249 | 285 | 333 | 349 | 331 | 359 | 284 |

## 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) | 56 |
| 2 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 37 |
| 3 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 30 |
| 4 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 27 |
| 5 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 25 |
| 6 | [Utilities Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/utilities-policy.md) | 23 |
| 7 | [Socio-Economic Planning Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/socio-economic-planning-sciences.md) | 22 |
| 8 | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 21 |
| 9 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 19 |
| 10 | [Review of Managerial Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-managerial-science.md) | 19 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Lisbon | 379 |
| 2 | Universidade do Porto | 188 |
| 3 | Universidade Nova de Lisboa | 184 |
| 4 | Instituto Superior Técnico | 145 |
| 5 | ISEG - Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão | 144 |
| 6 | University of Coimbra | 136 |
| 7 | University of Minho | 113 |
| 8 | NOVA School of Business and Economics | 91 |
| 9 | INESC TEC | 87 |
| 10 | Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa | 87 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Portugal | 1,250 |
| 2 | United States | 112 |
| 3 | Spain | 106 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 96 |
| 5 | Brazil | 76 |
| 6 | Germany | 71 |
| 7 | Italy | 58 |
| 8 | France | 56 |
| 9 | Australia | 39 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 36 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Portugal | 67 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 65 |
| 3 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 32 |
| 4 | multi-criteria decision making | 27 |
| 5 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 26 |
| 6 | multi-objective optimization | 19 |
| 7 | cross-national comparison | 18 |
| 8 | inflation | 18 |
| 9 | euro area | 17 |
| 10 | [monetary policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/monetary-policy.md) | 17 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,166 | 10.6 | [Lost in Transition? Drivers and Barriers in the Eco-innovation Road to the Circular Economy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.08.001) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2017-09-06 | Ana de Jesús, Sandro Mendonça |
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | 764 | 8.0 | [To be or not to be digital, that is the question: Firm innovation and performance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.11.013) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2018-11-15 | João J. Ferreira, Cristina Fernandes, Fernando A. F. Ferreira |
| 4 | 561 | 7.9 | [Artificial intelligence in business: State of the art and future research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.11.001) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-11-20 | Sandra María Correia Loureiro, João Guerreiro, Iis P. Tussyadiah |
| 5 | 525 | 7.2 | [Evaluating time series forecasting models: an empirical study on performance estimation methods](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-020-05910-7) | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 2020-10-13 | Vítor Cerqueira, Luı́s Torgo, Igor Mozetič |
| 6 | 495 | 5.9 | [Transit-oriented development: A review of research achievements and challenges](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2019.10.018) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 2019-11-18 | Anna Ibraeva, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Cecília Silva et al. |
| 7 | 436 | 5.0 | [Supply chain digitisation trends: An integration of knowledge management](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.07.012) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-07-16 | Dara G. Schniederjans, Carla Curado, Mehrnaz Khalaj Hedayati |
| 8 | 429 | 4.0 | [Opportunities and challenges in sustainable supply chain: An operations research perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.10.036) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2017-10-31 | Ana Paula Barbosa‐Póvoa, Cátia da Silva, Ana Isabel Cerqueira de Sousa Gouveia Carvalho |
| 9 | 426 | 7.1 | [Structural similarity index (SSIM) revisited: A data-driven approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.116087) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2021-10-27 | Illya Bakurov, Marco Buzzelli, Raimondo Schettini et al. |
| 10 | 405 | 5.7 | [Leadership characteristics and digital transformation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.10.058) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-11-24 | José António Porfírio, Tiago Carrilho, J. Augusto Felício et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/fundacao-para-a-ciencia-e-a-tecnologia

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/fundacao-para-a-ciencia-e-a-tecnologia}},
  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/).