---
title: "HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme: funded research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme was named as a funder of 899 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (292), AI (245) and operations research (142). It ranks #42 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 EUROPE Framework Programme was named as a funder of 899 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (292), AI (245) and operations research (142). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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---

# HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme

Papers in the tracked journals that name HORIZON EUROPE 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 EUROPE Framework Programme was named as a funder of 899 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (292), AI (245) and operations research (142).
- It ranks #42 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 243 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were KU Leuven (25), Delft University of Technology (22) and Technical University of Denmark (21).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (54), Ecological Economics (43) and Energy Policy (24).
- The most-cited of them is “ChatGPT: Jack of all trades, master of none” (Information Fusion, 2023), with 758 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) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 19 | 39 | 50 | 78 | 97 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 18 | 45 | 55 | 76 | 43 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 18 | 34 | 31 | 40 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 19 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 13 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 8 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 6 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 84 | 129 | 180 | 243 | 239 |

## 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) | 54 |
| 2 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 43 |
| 3 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 24 |
| 4 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 21 |
| 5 | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | 18 |
| 6 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 17 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 16 |
| 8 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 15 |
| 10 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 15 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | KU Leuven | 25 |
| 2 | Delft University of Technology | 22 |
| 3 | Technical University of Denmark | 21 |
| 4 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 20 |
| 5 | University of Twente | 19 |
| 6 | Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement | 18 |
| 7 | Utrecht University | 18 |
| 8 | University of Pisa | 16 |
| 9 | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | 14 |
| 10 | Politecnico di Milano | 13 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Italy | 167 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 140 |
| 3 | Spain | 138 |
| 4 | Germany | 127 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 121 |
| 6 | France | 70 |
| 7 | Belgium | 61 |
| 8 | United States | 59 |
| 9 | Denmark | 52 |
| 10 | Greece | 41 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 20 |
| 2 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 19 |
| 3 | circular economy | 14 |
| 4 | cross-national comparison | 14 |
| 5 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [energy transition](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-transition.md) | 11 |
| 7 | digital twin | 10 |
| 8 | [income inequality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/income-inequality.md) | 10 |
| 9 | supply chain resilience | 10 |
| 10 | [carbon pricing](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/carbon-pricing.md) | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 758 | 18.5 | [ChatGPT: Jack of all trades, master of none](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.101861) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2023-06-03 | Jan Kocoń, Igor Cichecki, Oliwier Kaszyca et al. |
| 2 | 215 | 5.5 | [Computational approaches to Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Advances in theory, applications and trends](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.101945) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2023-07-29 | J. M. Górriz, Ignacio Álvarez, Agustín Álvarez-Marquina et al. |
| 3 | 214 | 3.6 | [Information fusion as an integrative cross-cutting enabler to achieve robust, explainable, and trustworthy medical artificial intelligence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.10.007) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2021-11-12 | Andreas Holzinger, Matthias Dehmer, Frank Emmert‐Streib et al. |
| 4 | 198 | 3.8 | [Electric vehicles’ consumer behaviours: Mapping the field and providing a research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.06.011) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2022-06-21 | Silvana Filomena Secinaro, Davide Calandra, Federico Lanzalonga et al. |
| 5 | 183 | 3.1 | [CLEVR-XAI: A benchmark dataset for the ground truth evaluation of neural network explanations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.11.008) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2021-11-14 | Leila Arras, Ahmed Osman, Wojciech Samek |
| 6 | 177 | 9.3 | [Reference coverage analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05293-3) | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 2025-04-01 | Jack H. Culbert, Anne Hobert, Najko Jahn et al. |
| 7 | 173 | 3.1 | [The drivers of cyber risk](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2022.100989) | [Journal of Financial Stability](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-stability.md) | 2022-03-04 | Iñaki Aldasoro, Leonardo Gambacorta, Paolo Giudici et al. |
| 8 | 152 | 2.7 | [Data harmonisation for information fusion in digital healthcare: A state-of-the-art systematic review, meta-analysis and future research directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.01.001) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2022-01-24 | Nan Yang, Javier Del Ser, Simon L. F. Walsh et al. |
| 9 | 145 | 3.1 | [Beyond explaining: Opportunities and challenges of XAI-based model improvement](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.11.013) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2022-11-23 | Leander Weber, Sebastian Lapuschkin, Alexander Binder et al. |
| 10 | 131 | 2.4 | [Managing B2B customer journeys in digital era: Four management activities with artificial intelligence-empowered tools](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2022.04.014) | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 2022-05-12 | Sami Rusthollkarhu, Sebastian Toukola, Leena Aarikka‐Stenroos et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/horizon-europe-framework-programme

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-funders-horizon-europe-framework-programme,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/horizon-europe-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/).