Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea
Papers in the tracked journals that name Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea 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. Also as Markdown.
Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea was named as a funder of 1,021 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (639), operations research (94) and finance (69).
- It ranks #43 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 282 of them were published in 2025, against 3 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Korea University (110), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (74) and Yonsei University (74).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (118), Knowledge-Based Systems (57) and Pattern Recognition (53).
- The most-cited of them is “Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): What we know and what is left to attain Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence” (Information Fusion, 2023), with 1,759 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 1 | 7 | 19 | 39 | 75 | 65 | 75 | 60 | 184 | 114 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 27 | 25 |
| Finance | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 18 | 22 |
| Economics | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 17 | 14 |
| Statistics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 12 |
| Management | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 8 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Marketing | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 3 | 18 | 25 | 55 | 120 | 92 | 106 | 108 | 282 | 212 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 118 |
| 2 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 57 |
| 3 | Pattern Recognition | 53 |
| 4 | Neural Networks | 36 |
| 5 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 25 |
| 6 | Finance research letters | 23 |
| 7 | Journal Of Big Data | 23 |
| 8 | Telecommunications Policy | 20 |
| 9 | Artificial Intelligence Review | 17 |
| 10 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 17 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korea University | 110 |
| 2 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | 74 |
| 3 | Yonsei University | 74 |
| 4 | Seoul National University | 73 |
| 5 | Sungkyunkwan University | 64 |
| 6 | Hanyang University | 49 |
| 7 | Sejong University | 29 |
| 8 | Chung-Ang University | 27 |
| 9 | Kyung Hee University | 25 |
| 10 | Dongguk University | 23 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Korea | 689 |
| 2 | United States | 85 |
| 3 | China | 57 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 29 |
| 5 | Germany | 15 |
| 6 | Australia | 14 |
| 7 | Canada | 11 |
| 8 | Spain | 11 |
| 9 | Singapore | 9 |
| 10 | Vietnam | 9 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | large language models | 38 |
| 2 | explainable AI | 25 |
| 3 | convolutional neural networks | 17 |
| 4 | graph neural networks | 15 |
| 5 | interpretability | 15 |
| 6 | knowledge distillation | 15 |
| 7 | class imbalance | 14 |
| 8 | South Korea | 13 |
| 9 | anomaly detection | 12 |
| 10 | attention mechanism | 12 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/ministry-of-science-and-ict-south-korea
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/ministry-of-science-and-ict-south-korea}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}