Top funders of management research, 2023–2025

Research funders ranked by the papers in the 46 tracked management 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 46 tracked management journals (1,185), followed by National Social Science Fund of China (303) and European Commission (242).
In 2025 alone, National Natural Science Foundation of China funded 473 of these papers.

Funders named on the most papers, 2023–2025
#	Funder	2023	2024	2025	2023–2025
1	National Natural Science Foundation of China	330	382	473	1,185
2	National Social Science Fund of China	72	80	151	303
3	European Commission	64	78	100	242
4	National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences	106	77	49	232
5	Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities	50	43	71	164
6	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia	53	43	34	130
7	Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China	40	40	46	126
8	Humanities and Social Science Fund of Ministry of Education of China	16	26	55	97
9	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación	30	33	29	92
10	Agencia Estatal de Investigación	30	25	35	90
11	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada	43	27	18	88
12	European Regional Development Fund	24	23	33	80
13	National Science and Technology Council	19	23	32	74
14	Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico	13	22	37	72
15	Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades	28	17	21	66
16	Norges Forskningsråd	19	24	22	65
17	China Postdoctoral Science Foundation	15	19	30	64
18	Economic and Social Research Council	25	24	15	64
19	Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek	17	25	19	61
20	National Science Foundation	17	20	23	60
21	National Research Foundation of Korea	19	20	20	59
22	Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior	16	15	27	58
23	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science	23	17	17	57
24	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	15	19	20	54
25	Ministry of Education	11	17	26	54
26	Horizon 2020	25	15	13	53
27	Major Program of National Fund of Philosophy and Social Science of China	10	18	19	47
28	Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung	16	15	14	45
29	Academy of Finland	14	13	16	43
30	Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China	13	6	24	43
31	China Scholarship Council	15	16	11	42
32	Australian Research Council	10	17	11	38
33	HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme	10	13	15	38
34	Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan	16	14	8	38
35	Liikesivistysrahasto	12	10	14	36
36	National University's Basic Research Foundation of China	13	11	12	36
37	Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	9	9	15	33
38	Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province	8	10	14	32
39	National Research University Higher School of Economics	8	6	17	31
40	Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung	11	8	12	31
41	Foundation for Economic Education	11	7	12	30
42	H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions	9	10	11	30
43	Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS	9	10	9	28
44	National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science	12	9	7	28
45	Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province	12	9	7	28
46	Narodowe Centrum Nauki	12	8	7	27
47	Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University	4	5	18	27
48	Agence Nationale de la Recherche	11	6	9	26
49	Copenhagen Business School	8	6	12	26
50	Guangdong Office of Philosophy and Social Science	3	11	12	26

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

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  title = {Top funders of management research, 2023–2025},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders/management}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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