National Research Foundation of Korea

Papers in the tracked journals that name National Research Foundation of 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.

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Key findings#

From 2017 to 2026 (so far), National Research Foundation of Korea was named as a funder of 3,821 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,427), economics (518) and operations research (461).
It ranks #11 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
521 of them were published in 2025, against 233 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Seoul National University (228), Korea University (210) and Yonsei University (168).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (252), Knowledge-Based Systems (89) and Pattern Recognition (75).
The most-cited of them is “ProtTrans: Toward Understanding the Language of Life Through Self-Supervised Learning” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021), with 2,325 citations.

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	52	63	90	118	139	176	192	211	228	158
Economics	56	40	60	41	56	47	38	56	63	61
Operations Research	31	40	39	44	48	47	38	49	69	56
Finance	12	28	27	37	43	43	44	57	55	53
Statistics	22	41	21	35	39	26	25	43	42	27
Management	29	31	27	26	42	29	19	20	20	23
Information Systems	17	15	19	17	15	13	11	17	13	9
Tourism and Hospitality	2	7	6	14	14	12	10	9	12	15
Higher Education and Research	9	7	5	12	18	9	9	3	8	12
Marketing	1	3	8	3	7	4	7	7	5	10
Health Economics and Policy	2	0	2	3	3	0	3	2	5	7
Accounting	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	2	1	1
All categories	233	275	304	351	426	407	396	476	521	432

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	252
2	Knowledge-Based Systems	89
3	Pattern Recognition	75
4	Finance research letters	65
5	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	59
6	Neural Networks	53
7	Journal of the Korean Statistical Society	49
8	Computers & Industrial Engineering	48
9	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	35
10	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	29

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Seoul National University	228
2	Korea University	210
3	Yonsei University	168
4	Sungkyunkwan University	155
5	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	147
6	Pusan National University	117
7	Hanyang University	114
8	Kyung Hee University	81
9	Ajou University	67
10	Sejong University	63

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	South Korea	1,761
2	United States	252
3	China	187
4	United Kingdom	61
5	Hong Kong	40
6	Vietnam	39
7	Australia	34
8	Oman	34
9	Canada	26
10	Pakistan	25

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	South Korea	68
2	COVID-19 pandemic	53
3	large language models	52
4	data augmentation	27
5	interpretability	27
6	explainable AI	26
7	convolutional neural networks	24
8	computational efficiency	23
9	feature selection	23
10	graph neural networks	23

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,325	36.4	ProtTrans: Toward Understanding the Language of Life Through Self-Supervised Learning	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2021-07-07	Ahmed Elnaggar, Michael Heinzinger, Christian Dallago et al.
2	1,759	41.4	Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): What we know and what is left to attain Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence	Information Fusion	2023-04-18	Sajid Ali, Tamer Abuhmed, Shaker El–Sappagh et al.
3	1,003	10.5	Chatbot e-service and customer satisfaction regarding luxury brands	Journal of Business Research	2018-11-10	Minjee Chung, Eunju Ko, Heerim Joung et al.
4	979	11.6	A Survey on Data Collection for Machine Learning: A Big Data - AI Integration Perspective	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2019-10-08	Yuji Roh, Geon Heo, Steven Euijong Whang
5	911	13.2	Knowledge Distillation and Student-Teacher Learning for Visual Intelligence: A Review and New Outlooks	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2021-01-29	Lin Wang, Kuk-Jin Yoon
6	822	10.8	A smart healthcare monitoring system for heart disease prediction based on ensemble deep learning and feature fusion	Information Fusion	2020-06-26	Farman Ali, Shaker El–Sappagh, S. M. Riazul Islam et al.
7	787	7.6	Forecasting the volatility of stock price index: A hybrid model integrating LSTM with multiple GARCH-type models	Expert Systems with Applications	2018-03-05	Ha Young Kim, Chang Hyun Won
8	717	9.5	Sensor-based and vision-based human activity recognition: A comprehensive survey	Pattern Recognition	2020-07-22	L. Minh Dang, Kyungbok Min, Hanxiang Wang et al.
9	646	7.8	Technology acceptance theories and factors influencing artificial Intelligence-based intelligent products	Telematics and Informatics	2019-12-16	Kwonsang Sohn, Ohbyung Kwon
10	642	14.1	A Comprehensive Survey of Image Augmentation Techniques for Deep Learning	Pattern Recognition	2023-01-18	Mingle Xu, Sook Yoon, Alvaro Fuentes et al.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). National Research Foundation of Korea. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/national-research-foundation-of-korea

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