Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology

1 paper in the last 7 days · country: Germany · web domain: fraunhofer.de

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Key findings#

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology was involved in 2 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #957 of 3,828 institutions.
Most of them appeared in Electronic Markets (1) and European Journal of Law and Economics (1).
Countries: Germany (2) and Luxembourg (1).
From 2023 to 2025, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology ranks #5 in information systems.
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology took part in 208 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in information systems (131), economics (31) and management (21).
29 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Bayreuth (67), University of Augsburg (28) and University of Hohenheim (26).
The journals publishing most of them were Business & Information Systems Engineering (32), Electronic Markets (18) and Energy Policy (6).
The most-cited of them is “Ready or Not, AI Comes— An Interview Study of Organizational AI Readiness Factors” (Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2020), with 637 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology has 2,818 works with 103,314 citations (h-index 131).
The tracked journals hold 184 of its 1,631 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (11.3%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Business Process Modeling and Analysis (276), Usability and User Interface Design (271) and Semantic Web and Ontologies (181).
OpenAlex lists it under Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

In the rankings#

Top institutions, 2023–2025: #5 in information systems

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
Information Systems	6	10	12	12	17	18	18	22	16
Economics	0	5	5	5	6	3	3	1	3
Management	0	2	2	2	3	4	2	3	3
Operations Research	0	1	0	1	2	3	1	2	2
AI	0	2	0	0	1	3	0	0	0
Higher Education and Research	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finance	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tourism and Hospitality	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
All categories	7	20	23	20	29	31	25	29	24

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Business & Information Systems Engineering	32
2	Electronic Markets	18
3	Energy Policy	6
4	Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research	6
5	Group Decision and Negotiation	6
6	Information Systems Frontiers	6
7	Information & Management	4
8	Information Systems and e-Business Management	4
9	Decision Support Systems	3
10	Journal of Business Research	2

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	University of Bayreuth	67
2	University of Augsburg	28
3	University of Hohenheim	26
4	Technische Hochschule Augsburg	24
5	Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences	17
6	Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust	10
7	University of Luxembourg	10
8	Queensland University of Technology	9
9	Kempten University of Applied Sciences	8

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	Germany	109
2	Luxembourg	11
3	Australia	9
4	Switzerland	7
5	United States	7
6	Denmark	6
7	Austria	3
8	Netherlands	3
9	Norway	2
10	Belgium	1

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	design principles	9
2	blockchain	8
3	large language models	8
4	process mining	8
5	business process management	7
6	digital transformation	6
7	digital innovation	5
8	digital technologies	5
9	self-sovereign identity	5
10	climate change	4

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	637	9.1	Ready or Not, AI Comes— An Interview Study of Organizational AI Readiness Factors	Business & Information Systems Engineering	2020-12-22	Jan Jöhnk, Malte Weißert, Katrin Wyrtki
2	508	6.6	The Energy Consumption of Blockchain Technology: Beyond Myth	Business & Information Systems Engineering	2020-06-19	Johannes Sedlmeir, Hans Ulrich Buhl, Gilbert Fridgen et al.
3	409	4.6	AI-Based Digital Assistants	Business & Information Systems Engineering	2019-06-11	Alexander Maedche, Christine Legner, Alexander Benlian et al.
4	399	4.8	Robotic process automation	Electronic Markets	2019-11-04	Peter Hofmann, Caroline Samp, Nils Urbach
5	264	3.1	Designing a multi-sided data platform: findings from the International Data Spaces case	Electronic Markets	2019-08-28	Boris Otto, Matthias Jarke
6	241	2.3	Integrating the ‘Troublemakers’: A taxonomy for cooperation between banks and fintechs	Journal of Economics and Business	2018-04-16	Benedict J. Drasch, André Schweizer, Nils Urbach
7	205	3.4	Digital Identities and Verifiable Credentials	Business & Information Systems Engineering	2021-10-01	Johannes Sedlmeir, Reilly Smethurst, Alexander Rieger et al.
8	179	2.3	An Exploration into Future Business Process Management Capabilities in View of Digitalization	Business & Information Systems Engineering	2020-03-20	Georgi Kerpedzhiev, Ulrich König, Maximilian Röglinger et al.
9	168	2.8	An Update for Taxonomy Designers	Business & Information Systems Engineering	2021-10-22	Dennis Kundisch, Jan Muntermann, Anna Maria Oberländer et al.
10	162	2.9	The transparency challenge of blockchain in organizations	Electronic Markets	2022-03-17	Johannes Sedlmeir, Jonathan Lautenschlager, Gilbert Fridgen et al.

In OpenAlex#

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	Research facility
Location	Sankt Augustin, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Also known as	FIT, Fraunhofer FIT, Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik
Part of	Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Works in OpenAlex	2,818
Citations	103,314
h-index	131
i10-index	2,018
2-year mean citedness	4.83
Website	www.fit.fraunhofer.de/en
ROR	ror.org/01ak24c12
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I4210110507

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	Business Process Modeling and Analysis	Business, Management and Accounting	276
2	Usability and User Interface Design	Computer Science	271
3	Semantic Web and Ontologies	Computer Science	181
4	Blockchain Technology Applications and Security	Computer Science	138
5	Innovative Human-Technology Interaction	Computer Science	128

Works and citations per year in OpenAlex, and its papers in the tracked journals
Year	Works in OpenAlex	Citations received	In the tracked journals	Share
2026 (so far)	187	5,298	24	12.8%
2025	260	6,298	29	11.2%
2024	241	5,725	25	10.4%
2023	246	4,831	31	12.6%
2022	241	3,768	29	12.0%
2021	213	2,955	20	9.4%
2020	158	2,013	23	14.6%
2019	111	1,624	20	18.0%
2018	74	1,417	7	9.5%
2017	87	1,292	0	0.0%

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Papers, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-31	Whose passport is it anyway? A decentralized web3-inspired architecture for sovereign digital product passports in the circular economy	Electronic Markets	Matthias Babel, Claus Guthmann, Marc-Fabian Körner et al.	University of Bayreuth; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology; University of Luxembourg
2026-10-13	Tax planning of spouses: a comparison of same-sex and different-sex couples	European Journal of Law and Economics	Johannes Köckeis	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fraunhofer-institute-for-applied-information-technology

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