---
title: "Horizon 2020: funded research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Horizon 2020 was named as a funder of 1,227 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (422), AI (282) and operations research (212). It ranks #45 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 was named as a funder of 1,227 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (422), AI (282) and operations research (212). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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# Horizon 2020

Papers in the tracked journals that name Horizon 2020 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 was named as a funder of 1,227 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (422), AI (282) and operations research (212).
- It ranks #45 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 109 of them were published in 2025, against 39 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Delft University of Technology (27), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (17) and KU Leuven (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Ecological Economics (30), Expert Systems with Applications (26) and Energy Policy (24).
- The most-cited of them is “Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Concepts, taxonomies, opportunities and challenges toward responsible AI” (Information Fusion, 2019), with 10,445 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) | 12 | 16 | 31 | 64 | 57 | 55 | 83 | 60 | 40 | 4 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 11 | 16 | 23 | 37 | 40 | 47 | 47 | 35 | 24 | 2 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 7 | 5 | 19 | 29 | 38 | 34 | 31 | 28 | 19 | 2 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 22 | 17 | 25 | 15 | 13 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 39 | 46 | 88 | 162 | 189 | 189 | 228 | 164 | 109 | 13 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 30 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 26 |
| 3 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 24 |
| 4 | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | 21 |
| 5 | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 20 |
| 6 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 18 |
| 7 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 16 |
| 8 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Delft University of Technology | 27 |
| 2 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 17 |
| 3 | KU Leuven | 15 |
| 4 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 15 |
| 5 | Technical University of Denmark | 14 |
| 6 | University of Sussex | 14 |
| 7 | Wageningen University & Research | 11 |
| 8 | Eindhoven University of Technology | 10 |
| 9 | Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research | 10 |
| 10 | Technical University of Munich | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 113 |
| 2 | Germany | 99 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 96 |
| 4 | Italy | 90 |
| 5 | Spain | 60 |
| 6 | France | 56 |
| 7 | United States | 47 |
| 8 | Belgium | 39 |
| 9 | Denmark | 33 |
| 10 | Sweden | 31 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 12 |
| 2 | [energy transition](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-transition.md) | 11 |
| 3 | decarbonization | 10 |
| 4 | sustainability transitions | 10 |
| 5 | [technology adoption](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/technology-adoption.md) | 9 |
| 6 | agent-based modeling | 7 |
| 7 | citizen participation | 7 |
| 8 | cross-national comparison | 7 |
| 9 | Industry 4.0 | 6 |
| 10 | circular economy | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. |
| 2 | 888 | 8.0 | [Big data analytics capabilities: a systematic literature review and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10257-017-0362-y) | [Information Systems and e-Business Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-systems-and-e-business-management.md) | 2017-07-15 | Patrick Mikalef, Ilias O. Pappas, John Krogstie et al. |
| 3 | 691 | 8.4 | [Shared autonomous vehicle services: A comprehensive review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.12.008) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2020-01-06 | Santhanakrishnan Narayanan, Emmanouil Manos Chaniotakis, Constantinos Antoniou |
| 4 | 584 | 8.2 | [Industry 4.0 and the human factor – A systems framework and analysis methodology for successful development](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107992) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2020-11-28 | Patrick Neumann, Sven Winkelhaus, Eric H. Grosse et al. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | 527 | 4.7 | [A framework for sensitivity analysis of decision trees](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-017-0479-6) | [Central European Journal of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/central-european-journal-of-operations-research.md) | 2017-05-24 | Bogumił Kamiński, Michał Jakubczyk, Przemysław Szufel |
| 7 | 408 | 5.2 | [How to support the application of multiple criteria decision analysis? Let us start with a comprehensive taxonomy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2020.102261) | [Omega](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/omega.md) | 2020-04-28 | Marco Cinelli, Miłosz Kadziński, Michael A. Gonzalez et al. |
| 8 | 373 | 4.6 | [A graph CNN-LSTM neural network for short and long-term traffic forecasting based on trajectory data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2020.01.010) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2020-01-29 | Toon Bogaerts, Antonio David Masegosa, Juan S. Angarita-Zapata et al. |
| 9 | 354 | 3.5 | [Video Object Segmentation without Temporal Information](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2838670) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-05-23 | Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis, Sergi Caelles, Yuhua Chen et al. |
| 10 | 347 | 4.7 | [A Green New Deal without growth?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106832) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2020-09-21 | Riccardo Mastini, Giorgos Kallis, Jason Hickel |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Horizon 2020. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/horizon-2020

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-funders-horizon-2020,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Horizon 2020},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/horizon-2020}},
  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/).