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title: "Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology"
description: "Research profile of Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology: 208 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly information systems and economics; h-index 131."
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# Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology

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

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

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/information-systems.md)

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 22 | 16 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 32 |
| 2 | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/schmalenbach-journal-of-business-research.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [Group Decision and Negotiation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/group-decision-and-negotiation.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [Information Systems Frontiers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-systems-frontiers.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Information & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-management.md) | 4 |
| 8 | [Information Systems and e-Business Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-systems-and-e-business-management.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [Decision Support Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-support-systems.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Bayreuth](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bayreuth.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/queensland-university-of-technology.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/blockchain.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 8 |
| 4 | process mining | 8 |
| 5 | business process management | 7 |
| 6 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 6 |
| 7 | digital innovation | 5 |
| 8 | digital technologies | 5 |
| 9 | self-sovereign identity | 5 |
| 10 | [climate change](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-change.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-020-00676-7) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 2020-12-22 | Jan Jöhnk, Malte Weißert, Katrin Wyrtki |
| 2 | 508 | 6.6 | [The Energy Consumption of Blockchain Technology: Beyond Myth](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-020-00656-x) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 2020-06-19 | Johannes Sedlmeir, Hans Ulrich Buhl, Gilbert Fridgen et al. |
| 3 | 409 | 4.6 | [AI-Based Digital Assistants](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-019-00600-8) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 2019-06-11 | Alexander Maedche, Christine Legner, Alexander Benlian et al. |
| 4 | 399 | 4.8 | [Robotic process automation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-019-00365-8) | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-019-00362-x) | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 2019-08-28 | Boris Otto, Matthias Jarke |
| 6 | 241 | 2.3 | [Integrating the ‘Troublemakers’: A taxonomy for cooperation between banks and fintechs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconbus.2018.04.002) | [Journal of Economics and Business](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economics-and-business.md) | 2018-04-16 | Benedict J. Drasch, André Schweizer, Nils Urbach |
| 7 | 205 | 3.4 | [Digital Identities and Verifiable Credentials](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-021-00722-y) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-020-00637-0) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 2020-03-20 | Georgi Kerpedzhiev, Ulrich König, Maximilian Röglinger et al. |
| 9 | 168 | 2.8 | [An Update for Taxonomy Designers](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-021-00723-x) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 2021-10-22 | Dennis Kundisch, Jan Muntermann, Anna Maria Oberländer et al. |
| 10 | 162 | 2.9 | [The transparency challenge of blockchain in organizations](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-022-00536-0) | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 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](https://openalex.org/I4923324) |
| 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](https://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/en/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01ak24c12](https://ror.org/01ak24c12) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I4210110507](https://openalex.org/I4210110507) |

*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% |

*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 |

From OpenAlex's own record of the institution (CC0), read again monthly. Works and citations count everything OpenAlex indexes, not only the tracked journals; topics are OpenAlex's classification of those works.

*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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-026-00927-7) | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10657-026-09887-x) | [European Journal of Law and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-law-and-economics.md) | Johannes Köckeis | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology |

## Cite this page

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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