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title: "Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades was named as a funder of 2,198 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (634), AI (536) and operations research (371). It ranks #23 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, Innovación y Universidades was named as a funder of 2,198 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (634), AI (536) and operations research (371). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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# Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades

Papers in the tracked journals that name Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades 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, Innovación y Universidades was named as a funder of 2,198 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (634), AI (536) and operations research (371).
- It ranks #23 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 323 of them were published in 2025, against 2 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Universitat de València (88), Universitat de Barcelona (74) and Universidad de Granada (69).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (104), European Journal of Operational Research (40) and Knowledge-Based Systems (40).
- The most-cited of them is “Forecasting: theory and practice” (International Journal of Forecasting, 2022), with 944 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) | 2 | 1 | 28 | 55 | 93 | 97 | 64 | 103 | 96 | 95 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 21 | 50 | 71 | 73 | 83 | 81 | 79 | 78 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 10 | 43 | 74 | 48 | 40 | 45 | 57 | 53 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 24 | 24 | 33 | 25 | 29 | 35 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 1 | 15 | 19 | 28 | 30 | 28 | 17 | 21 | 23 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 10 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 20 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 7 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 |
| All categories | 2 | 5 | 84 | 205 | 328 | 315 | 279 | 321 | 323 | 336 |

## 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) | 104 |
| 2 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 40 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 40 |
| 4 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 37 |
| 5 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 32 |
| 6 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 25 |
| 7 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 25 |
| 8 | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 23 |
| 9 | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 22 |
| 10 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 21 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Universitat de València | 88 |
| 2 | Universitat de Barcelona | 74 |
| 3 | Universidad de Granada | 69 |
| 4 | Universidad de Sevilla | 69 |
| 5 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | 60 |
| 6 | Universidad de Zaragoza | 59 |
| 7 | University of the Basque Country | 55 |
| 8 | Universidad de Málaga | 54 |
| 9 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | 54 |
| 10 | University of Castilla-La Mancha | 47 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Spain | 1,193 |
| 2 | Italy | 94 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 93 |
| 4 | United States | 73 |
| 5 | Germany | 40 |
| 6 | France | 36 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 28 |
| 8 | Chile | 27 |
| 9 | Denmark | 20 |
| 10 | Sweden | 18 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Spain | 39 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 37 |
| 3 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 25 |
| 4 | gender differences | 18 |
| 5 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 17 |
| 6 | combinatorial optimization | 16 |
| 7 | multi-objective optimization | 16 |
| 8 | axiomatization | 15 |
| 9 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 14 |
| 10 | [income inequality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/income-inequality.md) | 13 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 944 | 16.5 | [Forecasting: theory and practice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2021.11.001) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2022-01-19 | Fotios Petropoulos, Daniele Apiletti, Vassilios Assimakopoulos et al. |
| 2 | 822 | 10.8 | [A smart healthcare monitoring system for heart disease prediction based on ensemble deep learning and feature fusion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2020.06.008) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2020-06-26 | Farman Ali, Shaker El–Sappagh, S. M. Riazul Islam et al. |
| 3 | 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. |
| 4 | 666 | 10.0 | [Understanding influencer marketing: The role of congruence between influencers, products and consumers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.03.067) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2021-04-22 | Daniel Belanche, Luis V. Casaló, Marta Flavián et al. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | 597 | 8.2 | [Impact of digital transformation on the automotive industry](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120343) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2020-10-08 | Carlos Llopis‐Albert, Francisco J. Rubio, Francisco Valero |
| 7 | 530 | 6.1 | [The role of digital influencers in brand recommendation: Examining their impact on engagement, expected value and purchase intention](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.07.009) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-07-24 | David Jiménez Castillo, Raquel Sánchez‐Fernández |
| 8 | 526 | 8.5 | [Emergency remote teaching in higher education: mapping the first global online semester](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-021-00282-x) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2021-08-29 | Melissa Bond, Svenja Bedenlier, Victoria I. Marín et al. |
| 9 | 441 | 6.7 | [Enhancing user engagement: The role of gamification in mobile apps](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.04.028) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2021-04-22 | Paula Bitrián, Isabel Buil, Sara Catalán |
| 10 | 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 |

## Cite this page

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

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