Who uses research funded from Belgium

Where the papers funded from Belgium are cited inside the 400 tracked journals: by country, by institution and by funder, and whose research the papers from Belgium cite. A citation link is one paper citing another, both in the tracked journals (from OpenAlex references). The source is the country of the cited paper's funders (OpenAlex funders and their countries); the users are the countries and institutions of the citing paper's authors. A link counts once for each funding country of the cited paper and each country (or institution) of the citing paper, so the rows overlap. Papers without funding information, about half of them, have no source. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited the 1,764 papers funded from Belgium 9,617 times (counting each citing country), #20 of 128 funding countries.
10% of the links come from papers with authors in Belgium; abroad, the largest users are China (3,166), the United States (1,259) and the United Kingdom (1,088).
The institutions citing this research most are KU Leuven (351), Ghent University (285) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (173).
The Belgium funders behind the most-cited links are Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (3,545), Vlaamse regering (2,670) and KU Leuven (1,709).
In turn, papers with authors in Belgium draw most on research funded from China (2,020), the United States (1,374) and the United Kingdom (814).

Citing countries#

Countries whose papers cite Belgium-funded research, since 2023
#	Citing country	Links	Share
1	China	3,166	33%
2	United States	1,259	13%
3	United Kingdom	1,088	11%
4	Belgium	969	10%
5	Germany	771	8%
6	Italy	765	8%
7	France	627	7%
8	Netherlands	552	6%
9	Spain	464	5%
10	Australia	463	5%
11	Canada	343	4%
12	Hong Kong	335	3%
13	India	320	3%
14	South Korea	200	2%
15	Portugal	188	2%
16	Switzerland	188	2%
17	Turkey	169	2%
18	Sweden	168	2%
19	Singapore	165	2%
20	Austria	159	2%
21	Japan	147	2%
22	Brazil	137	1%
23	Finland	130	1%
24	Norway	121	1%
25	Taiwan	121	1%
26	Poland	115	1%
27	Iran	111	1%
28	Denmark	111	1%
29	Chile	105	1%
30	Greece	105	1%

Citing institutions#

Institutions whose papers cite Belgium-funded research most, since 2023
#	Institution	Country	Links
1	KU Leuven	Belgium	351
2	Ghent University	Belgium	285
3	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	France	173
4	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	164
5	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	130
6	University College London	United Kingdom	128
7	UCLouvain	Belgium	105
8	Vlerick Business School	Belgium	105
9	Nanjing University	China	100
10	The University of Sydney	Australia	97
11	Xi'an Jiaotong University	China	95
12	University of Antwerp	Belgium	93
13	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	92
14	Tsinghua University	China	88
15	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	86

Funders#

Belgium funders whose papers are cited most, since 2023
#	Funder	Links
1	Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek	3,545
2	Vlaamse regering	2,670
3	KU Leuven	1,709
4	Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS	813
5	European Cooperation in Science and Technology	623
6	Universiteit Gent	616
7	Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds UGent	388
8	Belgian Federal Science Policy Office	325
9	Universiteit Antwerpen	320
10	European Accounting Association	244
11	Innoviris	215
12	Agentschap Innoveren en Ondernemen	173
13	Toyota Motor Europe	167
14	Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum	150
15	Onderzoeksraad, KU Leuven	145

What papers from Belgium cite#

Research funded elsewhere that papers from Belgium cite, since 2023
#	Funding country	Links
1	China	2,020
2	United States	1,374
3	United Kingdom	814
4	Germany	737
5	Spain	562
6	France	406
7	Canada	389
8	Italy	385
9	Netherlands	357
10	Australia	293
11	Sweden	266
12	Switzerland	243
13	Portugal	229
14	Brazil	223
15	Japan	181

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Who uses research funded from Belgium. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/supply-chain/belgium

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  title = {Who uses research funded from Belgium},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/supply-chain/belgium}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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