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title: "Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca was named as a funder of 1,113 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (380), operations research (269) and AI (198). It ranks #48 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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# Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca

Papers in the tracked journals that name Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca 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), Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca was named as a funder of 1,113 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (380), operations research (269) and AI (198).
- It ranks #48 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 188 of them were published in 2025, against 62 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Sapienza University of Rome (51), University of Bologna (45) and University of Pisa (34).
- The journals publishing most of them were European Journal of Operational Research (15), Socio-Economic Planning Sciences (14) and Artificial Intelligence (13).
- The most-cited of them is “Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A manifesto of open challenges and interdisciplinary research directions” (Information Fusion, 2024), with 571 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) | 18 | 18 | 15 | 25 | 38 | 35 | 54 | 60 | 72 | 45 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 19 | 20 | 23 | 34 | 30 | 27 | 24 | 37 | 38 | 17 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 28 | 28 | 32 | 26 | 18 | 32 | 7 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 9 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 16 | 7 | 13 | 7 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 10 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 15 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 62 | 58 | 65 | 109 | 126 | 123 | 138 | 149 | 188 | 95 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 15 |
| 2 | [Socio-Economic Planning Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/socio-economic-planning-sciences.md) | 14 |
| 3 | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 13 |
| 4 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 10 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Sapienza University of Rome | 51 |
| 2 | University of Bologna | 45 |
| 3 | University of Pisa | 34 |
| 4 | University of Naples Federico II | 32 |
| 5 | Politecnico di Milano | 31 |
| 6 | University of Padua | 29 |
| 7 | University of Rome Tor Vergata | 25 |
| 8 | University of Milano-Bicocca | 24 |
| 9 | Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli | 23 |
| 10 | University of Bergamo | 23 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Italy | 541 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 56 |
| 3 | France | 32 |
| 4 | Germany | 29 |
| 5 | Spain | 28 |
| 6 | United States | 27 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 24 |
| 8 | Austria | 11 |
| 9 | Canada | 11 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 9 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 22 |
| 2 | portfolio optimization | 12 |
| 3 | Italy | 11 |
| 4 | gender differences | 11 |
| 5 | agent-based modeling | 9 |
| 6 | trust | 8 |
| 7 | circular economy | 7 |
| 8 | firm size | 7 |
| 9 | global value chains | 7 |
| 10 | risk aversion | 7 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. |
| 2 | 489 | 6.7 | [The duality of digital and environmental orientations in the context of SMEs: Implications for innovation performance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.09.022) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-10-02 | Lorenzo Ardito, Simon O. Raby, Vito Albino et al. |
| 3 | 399 | 6.6 | [Rescaling Egocentric Vision: Collection, Pipeline and Challenges for EPIC-KITCHENS-100](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-021-01531-2) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2021-10-20 | Dima Damen, Hazel Doughty, Giovanni Maria Farinella et al. |
| 4 | 306 | 4.0 | [A gentle introduction to deep learning for graphs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2020.06.006) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2020-06-11 | Davide Bacciu, Federico Errica, Alessio Micheli et al. |
| 5 | 218 | 3.3 | [ESG investing: A chance to reduce systemic risk](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2021.100887) | [Journal of Financial Stability](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-stability.md) | 2021-05-18 | Roy Cerqueti, Rocco Ciciretti, Ambrogio Dalò et al. |
| 6 | 205 | 2.2 | [Parcel delivery in urban areas: Opportunities and threats for the mix of traditional and green business models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.01.006) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2019-01-11 | Guido Perboli, Mariangela Rosano |
| 7 | 196 | 3.7 | [Functional mimicry of Ruffini receptors with fibre Bragg gratings and deep neural networks enables a bio-inspired large-area tactile-sensitive skin](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-022-00487-3) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-05-30 | Luca Massari, Giulia Fransvea, Jessica D’Abbraccio et al. |
| 8 | 175 | 2.7 | [About calibration of car-following dynamics of automated and human-driven vehicles: Methodology, guidelines and codes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2021.103165) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2021-05-28 | Vincenzo Punzo, Zuduo Zheng, Marcello Montanino |
| 9 | 171 | 2.7 | [External knowledge search, opportunity recognition and industry 4.0 adoption in SMEs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108234) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2021-07-10 | Riccardo Ricci, Daniele Battaglia, Paolo Neirotti |
| 10 | 146 | 1.9 | [Interpretable and lightweight convolutional neural network for EEG decoding: Application to movement execution and imagination](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2020.05.032) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2020-05-29 | Davide Borra, Silvia Fantozzi, Elisa Magosso |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/ministero-dellistruzione-delluniversita-e-della-ricerca

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