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# 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada was named as a funder of 2,968 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (1,286), AI (748) and statistics (440).
- It ranks #22 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 345 of them were published in 2025, against 258 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Waterloo (117), McGill University (85) and Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les réseaux d'entreprise, la logistique et le transport (79).
- 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 108 | 126 | 141 | 149 | 132 | 118 | 108 | 141 | 147 | 116 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 62 | 47 | 77 | 61 | 84 | 78 | 100 | 93 | 97 | 49 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 43 | 39 | 54 | 40 | 58 | 44 | 40 | 37 | 46 | 39 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 24 | 19 | 24 | 17 | 30 | 17 | 15 | 22 | 28 | 22 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 16 | 23 | 28 | 21 | 12 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 22 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 258 | 257 | 333 | 292 | 322 | 293 | 290 | 321 | 345 | 257 |

## 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) | 84 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 57 |
| 3 | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 45 |
| 4 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 44 |
| 5 | [Insurance Mathematics and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/insurance-mathematics-and-economics.md) | 43 |
| 6 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 37 |
| 7 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 37 |
| 8 | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 30 |
| 9 | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | 29 |
| 10 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 28 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Waterloo | 117 |
| 2 | McGill University | 85 |
| 3 | Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les réseaux d'entreprise, la logistique et le transport | 79 |
| 4 | University of Toronto | 79 |
| 5 | University of British Columbia | 67 |
| 6 | Université Laval | 67 |
| 7 | Concordia University | 63 |
| 8 | University of Alberta | 63 |
| 9 | Polytechnique Montréal | 59 |
| 10 | Group for Research in Decision Analysis | 58 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Canada | 1,145 |
| 2 | China | 191 |
| 3 | United States | 132 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 50 |
| 5 | France | 42 |
| 6 | Italy | 37 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 25 |
| 8 | Brazil | 23 |
| 9 | United Arab Emirates | 19 |
| 10 | Australia | 18 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 26 |
| 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-linear-programming.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.05.008) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2021-05-23 | Moloud Abdar, Farhad Pourpanah, Sadiq Hussain et al. |
| 2 | 1,830 | 19.3 | [Semantic Understanding of Scenes Through the ADE20K Dataset](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-018-1140-0) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2018-12-07 | Bolei Zhou, Hang Zhao, Xavier Puig et al. |
| 3 | 1,273 | 12.7 | [A Survey on Network Embedding](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2018.2849727) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.03.004) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 2019-03-20 | Xichen Zhang, Ali Akbar Ghorbani |
| 5 | 868 | 8.4 | [Autonomous vehicle perception: The technology of today and tomorrow](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2018.02.012) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2018-03-08 | Jessica Van Brummelen, Marie O’Brien, Dominique Gruyer et al. |
| 6 | 859 | 14.8 | [Explainable Artificial Intelligence in education](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2022.100074) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 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?](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2815601) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.12.020) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2018.09.012) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.116429) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2021-12-31 | Waleed Hilal, S. Andrew Gadsden, John Yawney |

## Cite this page

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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