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title: "Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación: funded research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación was named as a funder of 2,369 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (680), AI (564) and operations research (411). It ranks #13 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación was named as a funder of 2,369 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (680), AI (564) and operations research (411). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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updated: 2026-10-31T17:45:59+09:00
window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31
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---

# Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

Papers in the tracked journals that name Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación 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), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación was named as a funder of 2,369 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (680), AI (564) and operations research (411).
- It ranks #13 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 414 of them were published in 2025, against 80 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Universitat de València (92), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (85) and Universitat de Barcelona (85).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (94), Knowledge-Based Systems (39) and Computers & Operations Research (35).
- The most-cited of them is “Green process innovation, green product innovation, and corporate financial performance: A content analysis method” (Journal of Business Research, 2019), with 1,380 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) | 21 | 24 | 22 | 42 | 66 | 73 | 92 | 147 | 121 | 72 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 14 | 17 | 19 | 30 | 48 | 78 | 123 | 88 | 103 | 44 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 17 | 13 | 19 | 34 | 32 | 44 | 62 | 67 | 69 | 54 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 19 | 26 | 41 | 46 | 44 | 26 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 8 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 29 | 30 | 33 | 29 | 19 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 21 | 16 | 12 | 9 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 12 | 8 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 8 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| All categories | 80 | 75 | 75 | 130 | 212 | 286 | 399 | 447 | 414 | 251 |

## 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) | 94 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 39 |
| 3 | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 35 |
| 4 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 32 |
| 5 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 31 |
| 6 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 28 |
| 7 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 28 |
| 8 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 27 |
| 9 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 24 |
| 10 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 23 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Universitat de València | 92 |
| 2 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | 85 |
| 3 | Universitat de Barcelona | 85 |
| 4 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | 79 |
| 5 | Universidad de Granada | 77 |
| 6 | Universidad de Sevilla | 70 |
| 7 | Universidad Complutense de Madrid | 63 |
| 8 | Universidad de Málaga | 62 |
| 9 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 57 |
| 10 | University of Castilla-La Mancha | 52 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Spain | 1,445 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 131 |
| 3 | Italy | 116 |
| 4 | United States | 91 |
| 5 | Germany | 58 |
| 6 | France | 48 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 35 |
| 8 | Chile | 28 |
| 9 | China | 26 |
| 10 | Portugal | 26 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 48 |
| 2 | Spain | 39 |
| 3 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 28 |
| 4 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 23 |
| 5 | feature selection | 22 |
| 6 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 21 |
| 7 | gender differences | 20 |
| 8 | combinatorial optimization | 19 |
| 9 | metaheuristic optimization | 18 |
| 10 | multi-objective optimization | 18 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,380 | 14.8 | [Green process innovation, green product innovation, and corporate financial performance: A content analysis method](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.01.010) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2019-01-15 | Xuemei Xie, Jiage Huo, Zou Hailiang |
| 2 | 797 | 19.8 | [Connecting the dots in trustworthy Artificial Intelligence: From AI principles, ethics, and key requirements to responsible AI systems and regulation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.101896) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2023-06-24 | Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez, Javier Del Ser, Mark Coeckelbergh et al. |
| 3 | 613 | 9.4 | [The Big Three and corporate carbon emissions around the world](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.05.007) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2021-05-24 | José Azar, Miguel Duro, Igor Kadach et al. |
| 4 | 591 | 5.0 | [A meta-analysis on the price elasticity of energy demand](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.01.002) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2017-01-10 | Xavier Labandeira, José María Labeaga, Xiral López-Otero |
| 5 | 571 | 17.6 | [Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A manifesto of open challenges and interdisciplinary research directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2024.102301) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2024-02-15 | Luca Longo, Mario Brčić, Federico Cabitza et al. |
| 6 | 376 | 3.3 | [The monitoring role of female directors over accounting quality](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.05.016) | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 2017-05-31 | Juan Manuel García Lara, Beatriz García Osma, Araceli Mora Enguídanos et al. |
| 7 | 376 | 4.2 | [On the Circular Bioeconomy and Decoupling: Implications for Sustainable Growth](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.05.001) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2019-05-08 | Mario Giampietro |
| 8 | 367 | 5.0 | [Do short-term rental platforms affect housing markets? Evidence from Airbnb in Barcelona](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2020.103278) | [Journal of Urban Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-urban-economics.md) | 2020-09-01 | Miquel-Àngel Garcia–López, Jordi Jofre‐Monseny, Rodrigo Martínez-Mazza et al. |
| 9 | 358 | 3.1 | [‘Shaken, but not stirred’: Sixty years of defining social innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.03.012) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2017-03-31 | Mónica Edwards-Schachter, Matthew L. Wallace |
| 10 | 347 | 8.0 | [Data Augmentation techniques in time series domain: a survey and taxonomy](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-023-08459-3) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2023-03-24 | Guillermo Iglesias, Edgar Talavera, Ángel González-Prieto et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/ministerio-de-ciencia-e-innovacion

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/ministerio-de-ciencia-e-innovacion}},
  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/).