Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Papers in the tracked journals that name Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 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), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada was named as a funder of 2,916 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (1,286), AI (748) and statistics (440).
It ranks #21 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
341 of them were published in 2025, against 256 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Waterloo (115), Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les réseaux d'entreprise, la logistique et le transport (79) and McGill University (77).
The journals publishing most of them were European Journal of Operational Research (84), Expert Systems with Applications (57) and Computers & Operations Research (45).
The most-cited of them is “A review of uncertainty quantification in deep learning: Techniques, applications and challenges” (Information Fusion, 2021), with 2,769 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)
Operations Research	108	126	141	149	132	118	108	141	147	116
AI	62	47	77	61	84	78	100	93	97	49
Statistics	43	39	54	40	58	44	40	37	46	39
Finance	24	19	24	17	30	17	15	22	28	22
Economics	14	18	21	17	9	17	14	15	18	16
Information Systems	2	3	4	1	2	5	5	0	0	3
Management	0	0	1	2	1	2	0	2	3	2
Higher Education and Research	1	0	3	0	0	5	1	0	0	2
Marketing	1	0	1	0	2	1	0	2	1	0
Health Economics and Policy	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	1	0
All categories	256	252	326	287	318	288	284	315	341	249

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	European Journal of Operational Research	84
2	Expert Systems with Applications	57
3	Computers & Operations Research	45
4	Computers & Industrial Engineering	44
5	Insurance Mathematics and Economics	43
6	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	37
7	Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review	37
8	Mathematical Programming	30
9	Journal of Multivariate Analysis	29
10	Knowledge-Based Systems	28

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	University of Waterloo	115
2	Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les réseaux d'entreprise, la logistique et le transport	79
3	McGill University	77
4	University of Toronto	76
5	University of British Columbia	65
6	Université Laval	65
7	Concordia University	62
8	University of Alberta	62
9	Group for Research in Decision Analysis	58
10	Polytechnique Montréal	56

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	Canada	1,121
2	China	191
3	United States	130
4	United Kingdom	49
5	France	42
6	Italy	37
7	Hong Kong	25
8	Brazil	23
9	United Arab Emirates	19
10	Germany	17

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	COVID-19 pandemic	23
2	demand uncertainty	20
3	vehicle routing	20
4	feature selection	19
5	robust optimization	19
6	metaheuristic optimization	18
7	heavy-tailed distributions	17
8	facility location	16
9	mixed-integer linear programming	16
10	combinatorial optimization	15

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,769	42.4	A review of uncertainty quantification in deep learning: Techniques, applications and challenges	Information Fusion	2021-05-23	Moloud Abdar, Farhad Pourpanah, Sadiq Hussain et al.
2	1,830	19.3	Semantic Understanding of Scenes Through the ADE20K Dataset	International Journal of Computer Vision	2018-12-07	Bolei Zhou, Hang Zhao, Xavier Puig et al.
3	1,273	12.7	A Survey on Network Embedding	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2018-06-22	Peng Cui, Xiao Wang, Jian Pei et al.
4	997	10.9	An overview of online fake news: Characterization, detection, and discussion	Information Processing & Management	2019-03-20	Xichen Zhang, Ali Akbar Ghorbani
5	868	8.4	Autonomous vehicle perception: The technology of today and tomorrow	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	2018-03-08	Jessica Van Brummelen, Marie O’Brien, Dominique Gruyer et al.
6	859	14.8	Explainable Artificial Intelligence in education	Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence	2022-01-01	Hassan Khosravi, Simon Buckingham Shum, Guanliang Chen et al.
7	834	8.0	What Do Different Evaluation Metrics Tell Us About Saliency Models?	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2018-03-13	Zoya Bylinskii, Tilke Judd, Aude Oliva et al.
8	742	7.0	The use of machine learning algorithms in recommender systems: A systematic review	Expert Systems with Applications	2017-12-09	Ivens Da Silva Portugal, Paulo Alencar, Donald D. Cowan
9	671	6.9	Machine learning for integrating data in biology and medicine: Principles, practice, and opportunities	Information Fusion	2018-09-21	Marinka Žitnik, Francis Nguyen, Bo Wang et al.
10	619	10.7	Financial Fraud: A Review of Anomaly Detection Techniques and Recent Advances	Expert Systems with Applications	2021-12-31	Waleed Hilal, S. Andrew Gadsden, John Yawney

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/natural-sciences-and-engineering-research-council-of-canada

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