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title: "Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea was named as a funder of 1,042 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (639), operations research (94) and economics (72). It ranks #44 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea was named as a funder of 1,042 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (639), operations research (94) and economics (72). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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# 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.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea was named as a funder of 1,042 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (639), operations research (94) and economics (72).
- It ranks #44 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 289 of them were published in 2025, against 3 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Korea University (111), Seoul National University (77) and Yonsei University (75).
- 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 7 | 19 | 39 | 75 | 65 | 75 | 60 | 184 | 114 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 27 | 25 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 19 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 18 | 22 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 12 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 8 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 5 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 3 | 18 | 27 | 56 | 121 | 94 | 106 | 109 | 289 | 219 |

## 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) | 118 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 57 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 53 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 36 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 25 |
| 6 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 23 |
| 7 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 23 |
| 8 | [Telecommunications Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telecommunications-policy.md) | 20 |
| 9 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 17 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Korea University | 111 |
| 2 | Seoul National University | 77 |
| 3 | Yonsei University | 75 |
| 4 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | 74 |
| 5 | Sungkyunkwan University | 64 |
| 6 | Hanyang University | 51 |
| 7 | Sejong University | 30 |
| 8 | Chung-Ang University | 28 |
| 9 | Kyung Hee University | 25 |
| 10 | Dongguk University | 23 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | South Korea | 704 |
| 2 | United States | 86 |
| 3 | China | 58 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 29 |
| 5 | Germany | 15 |
| 6 | Australia | 14 |
| 7 | Canada | 11 |
| 8 | Spain | 11 |
| 9 | India | 9 |
| 10 | Singapore | 9 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 40 |
| 2 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 26 |
| 3 | convolutional neural networks | 17 |
| 4 | South Korea | 15 |
| 5 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 15 |
| 6 | interpretability | 15 |
| 7 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 15 |
| 8 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 14 |
| 9 | anomaly detection | 12 |
| 10 | attention mechanism | 12 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,759 | 41.4 | [Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): What we know and what is left to attain Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.101805) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2023-04-18 | Sajid Ali, Tamer Abuhmed, Shaker El–Sappagh et al. |
| 2 | 1,338 | 24.0 | [Learning From Noisy Labels With Deep Neural Networks: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3152527) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-03-07 | Hwanjun Song, Minseok Kim, Dongmin Park et al. |
| 3 | 979 | 11.6 | [A Survey on Data Collection for Machine Learning: A Big Data - AI Integration Perspective](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2019.2946162) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2019-10-08 | Yuji Roh, Geon Heo, Steven Euijong Whang |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | 429 | 8.0 | [The impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the connectedness of financial markets](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.102976) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2022-05-16 | Zaghum Umar, Onur Polat, Sun‐Yong Choi et al. |
| 6 | 351 | 4.2 | [Subject-Independent Brain–Computer Interfaces Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2019.2946869) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2019-11-13 | Oyeon Kwon, Min-Ho Lee, Cuntai Guan et al. |
| 7 | 350 | 7.2 | [Recent advances in the application of deep learning for fault diagnosis of rotating machinery using vibration signals](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10293-3) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2022-10-09 | Bayu Adhi Tama, Malinda Vania, Seung‐Chul Lee et al. |
| 8 | 313 | 4.2 | [$\\mathcal {H}_{\\infty }$ Synchronization for Fuzzy Markov Jump Chaotic Systems With Piecewise-Constant Transition Probabilities Subject to PDT Switching Rule](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2020.3012761) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2020-07-29 | Jing Wang, Jianwei Xia, Hao Shen et al. |
| 9 | 270 | 14.8 | [A comprehensive survey of deep learning for time series forecasting: architectural diversity and open challenges](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11223-9) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2025-04-23 | Jongseon Kim, Hyungjoon Kim, HyunGi Kim et al. |
| 10 | 227 | 3.0 | [Effects of COVID-19 on preferences for private dining facilities in restaurants](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2020.07.008) | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | 2020-07-21 | Jungkeun Kim, Jacob C. Lee |

## 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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  urldate = {2026-10-31},
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).