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title: "Horizon 2020 Framework Programme: funded research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Horizon 2020 Framework Programme was named as a funder of 1,827 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (606), economics (534) and operations research (332). It ranks #30 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Horizon 2020 Framework Programme was named as a funder of 1,827 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (606), economics (534) and operations research (332). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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# 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Horizon 2020 Framework Programme was named as a funder of 1,827 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (606), economics (534) and operations research (332).
- It ranks #30 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 243 of them were published in 2025, against 51 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Delft University of Technology (40), ETH Zurich (25) and Liverpool John Moores University (25).
- 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

*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) | 21 | 38 | 57 | 49 | 103 | 91 | 84 | 67 | 66 | 30 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 16 | 29 | 45 | 67 | 59 | 54 | 71 | 53 | 83 | 57 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 6 | 16 | 27 | 36 | 50 | 52 | 40 | 35 | 47 | 23 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 2 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 11 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 6 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 51 | 104 | 155 | 191 | 259 | 255 | 239 | 189 | 243 | 141 |

## 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) | 49 |
| 2 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 28 |
| 3 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 26 |
| 4 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 26 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 25 |
| 6 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 25 |
| 7 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 19 |
| 8 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 16 |
| 10 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 16 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Delft University of Technology | 40 |
| 2 | ETH Zurich | 25 |
| 3 | Liverpool John Moores University | 25 |
| 4 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 21 |
| 5 | Technical University of Denmark | 21 |
| 6 | Imperial College London | 20 |
| 7 | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | 19 |
| 8 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 19 |
| 9 | University of Bologna | 18 |
| 10 | Utrecht University | 18 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 202 |
| 2 | Italy | 178 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 139 |
| 4 | Spain | 131 |
| 5 | Germany | 124 |
| 6 | United States | 79 |
| 7 | France | 76 |
| 8 | China | 69 |
| 9 | Denmark | 52 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 51 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 15 |
| 2 | agent-based modeling | 11 |
| 3 | circular economy | 11 |
| 4 | Spain | 10 |
| 5 | climate change adaptation | 10 |
| 6 | AIS data | 9 |
| 7 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 9 |
| 8 | cross-national comparison | 9 |
| 9 | [federated learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/federated-learning.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22,385 | 196.1 | [DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2699184) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-04-27 | Liang-Chieh Chen, George Papandreou, Iasonas Kokkinos et al. |
| 2 | 10,445 | 127.1 | [Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Concepts, taxonomies, opportunities and challenges toward responsible AI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2019.12.012) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2019-12-26 | Alejandro Barredo Arrieta, Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez, Javier Del Ser et al. |
| 3 | 2,940 | 44.4 | [A Survey on Knowledge Graphs: Representation, Acquisition, and Applications](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3070843) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-04-26 | Shaoxiong Ji, Shirui Pan, Erik Cambria et al. |
| 4 | 2,576 | 27.0 | [A systematic literature review of blockchain-based applications: Current status, classification and open issues](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2018.11.006) | [Telematics and Informatics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics.md) | 2018-11-22 | Fran Casino, Thomas K. Dasaklis, Constantinos Patsakis |
| 5 | 2,248 | 32.7 | [Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA): Guidelines for research practice in Information Systems and marketing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102310) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2021-02-06 | Ilias O. Pappas, Arch George Woodside |
| 6 | 1,443 | 14.5 | [Wild patterns: Ten years after the rise of adversarial machine learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2018.07.023) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2018-07-21 | Battista Biggio, Fabio Roli |
| 7 | 1,428 | 18.3 | [Industry 4.0 technologies assessment: A sustainability perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107776) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2020-05-06 | Chunguang April Bai, Patrick Dallasega, Guido Orzes et al. |
| 8 | 1,236 | 16.3 | [Deepfakes and beyond: A Survey of face manipulation and fake detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2020.06.014) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2020-07-01 | Rubén Tolosana, Rubén Vera-Rodríguez, Julián Fiérrez et al. |
| 9 | 868 | 9.3 | [Machine Learning and Deep Learning frameworks and libraries for large-scale data mining: a survey](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-018-09679-z) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2019-01-19 | Giang Nguyen, Štefan Dlugolinský, Martin Bobák et al. |
| 10 | 717 | 11.4 | [Unbox the black-box for the medical explainable AI via multi-modal and multi-centre data fusion: A mini-review, two showcases and beyond](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.07.016) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2021-07-31 | Guang Yang, Qinghao Ye, Jun Xia |

## 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

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  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}
}
```

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