Top research funders, 2023–2025
Research funders ranked by the papers in the 400 tracked journals that name them, in each year from 2023 to 2025. 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 2023 to 2025, National Natural Science Foundation of China was named as a funder of the most papers in the 400 tracked journals (33,534), followed by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (4,645) and National Key Research and Development Program of China (3,899).
- In 2025 alone, National Natural Science Foundation of China funded 14,403 of these papers.
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Top research funders, 2023–2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders
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title = {Top research funders, 2023–2025},
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note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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