Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Papers in the tracked journals that name Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 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), Horizon 2020 Framework Programme was named as a funder of 1,716 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (606), economics (466) and operations research (332).
- It ranks #34 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 228 of them were published in 2025, against 50 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Delft University of Technology (37), ETH Zurich (24) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (21).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (49), Energy Policy (28) and European Journal of Operational Research (26).
- The most-cited of them is “DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2017), with 22,385 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 21 | 38 | 57 | 49 | 103 | 91 | 84 | 67 | 66 | 30 |
| Economics | 15 | 21 | 39 | 58 | 50 | 48 | 59 | 49 | 77 | 50 |
| Operations Research | 6 | 16 | 27 | 36 | 50 | 52 | 40 | 35 | 47 | 23 |
| Management | 2 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 11 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| Finance | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 6 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| Statistics | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 50 | 94 | 144 | 175 | 246 | 242 | 223 | 183 | 228 | 131 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 49 |
| 2 | Energy Policy | 28 |
| 3 | European Journal of Operational Research | 26 |
| 4 | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 26 |
| 5 | Neural Networks | 25 |
| 6 | Ecological Economics | 25 |
| 7 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 19 |
| 8 | Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice | 16 |
| 9 | Nature Machine Intelligence | 16 |
| 10 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 15 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delft University of Technology | 37 |
| 2 | ETH Zurich | 24 |
| 3 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 21 |
| 4 | Liverpool John Moores University | 21 |
| 5 | Imperial College London | 20 |
| 6 | Technical University of Denmark | 20 |
| 7 | Utrecht University | 18 |
| 8 | KU Leuven | 17 |
| 9 | RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment | 17 |
| 10 | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | 17 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 188 |
| 2 | Italy | 168 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 127 |
| 4 | Spain | 123 |
| 5 | Germany | 113 |
| 6 | United States | 76 |
| 7 | France | 67 |
| 8 | China | 65 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 49 |
| 10 | Denmark | 49 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | explainable AI | 15 |
| 2 | agent-based modeling | 11 |
| 3 | Spain | 10 |
| 4 | climate change adaptation | 10 |
| 5 | AIS data | 9 |
| 6 | circular economy | 9 |
| 7 | cross-national comparison | 9 |
| 8 | CO2 emissions | 8 |
| 9 | federated learning | 8 |
| 10 | last-mile delivery | 8 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/horizon-2020-framework-programme
@misc{scholar4ai-funders-horizon-2020-framework-programme,
author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Horizon 2020 Framework Programme},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/horizon-2020-framework-programme}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}