Top funders of finance research, 2023–2025

Research funders ranked by the papers in the 50 tracked finance 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 50 tracked finance journals (2,814), followed by National Social Science Fund of China (1,027) and National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences (913).
In 2025 alone, National Natural Science Foundation of China funded 1,132 of these papers.

Funders named on the most papers, 2023–2025
#	Funder	2023	2024	2025	2023–2025
1	National Natural Science Foundation of China	717	965	1,132	2,814
2	National Social Science Fund of China	174	280	573	1,027
3	National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences	258	356	299	913
4	Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities	143	164	222	529
5	Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China	99	125	206	430
6	Humanities and Social Science Fund of Ministry of Education of China	49	96	172	317
7	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science	63	73	67	203
8	China Postdoctoral Science Foundation	36	78	72	186
9	National University's Basic Research Foundation of China	52	69	48	169
10	National Science and Technology Council	48	67	51	166
11	Major Program of National Fund of Philosophy and Social Science of China	14	45	106	165
12	National Research Foundation of Korea	44	57	55	156
13	European Commission	38	40	61	139
14	Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province	30	49	60	139
15	Ministry of Education	33	44	59	136
16	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación	41	46	44	131
17	Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China	36	41	49	126
18	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia	39	42	40	121
19	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada	25	28	37	90
20	Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades	33	25	29	87
21	Agencia Estatal de Investigación	20	32	32	84
22	National Social Science Fund Youth Project	11	19	54	84
23	Capital University of Economics and Business	16	35	31	82
24	Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan	41	30	11	82
25	Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province	21	25	34	80
26	Guangdong Office of Philosophy and Social Science	13	23	39	75
27	Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province	29	21	24	74
28	European Regional Development Fund	24	19	27	70
29	Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province	17	23	30	70
30	Zhongnan University of Economics and Law	27	24	17	68
31	Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada	15	22	28	65
32	Grantová Agentura České Republiky	16	18	23	57
33	National Key Research and Development Program of China	15	18	24	57
34	National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science	14	10	33	57
35	Narodowe Centrum Nauki	17	20	19	56
36	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	13	20	22	55
37	Zhejiang Office of Philosophy and Social Science	7	13	35	55
38	Beijing Municipal Social Science Foundation	8	16	30	54
39	Xiamen University	10	27	16	53
40	National Science Foundation	13	12	27	52
41	Central University of Finance and Economics	17	14	20	51
42	Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province	19	9	23	51
43	Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of Hunan Province	11	21	18	50
44	Đại học Kinh tế Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh	23	8	18	49
45	Agence Nationale de la Recherche	18	21	9	48
46	Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico	11	18	19	48
47	Renmin University of China	15	11	21	47
48	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics	11	12	24	47
49	Major Project of Philosophy and Social Science Research in Colleges and Universities of Jiangsu Province	10	18	18	46
50	Chongqing Municipal Education Commission	4	9	32	45

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Top funders of finance research, 2023–2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders/finance

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  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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