Who uses research funded from France

Where the papers funded from France are cited inside the 400 tracked journals: by country, by institution and by funder, and whose research the papers from France 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 3,706 papers funded from France 18,812 times (counting each citing country), #11 of 128 funding countries.
14% of the links come from papers with authors in France; abroad, the largest users are China (6,239), the United States (2,877) and the United Kingdom (2,011).
The institutions citing this research most are Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (986), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (263) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (206).
The France funders behind the most-cited links are Agence Nationale de la Recherche (11,877), Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (693) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (522).
In turn, papers with authors in France draw most on research funded from China (10,399), the United States (4,731) and the United Kingdom (2,855).

Citing countries#

Countries whose papers cite France-funded research, since 2023
#	Citing country	Links	Share
1	China	6,239	33%
2	United States	2,877	15%
3	France	2,623	14%
4	United Kingdom	2,011	11%
5	Italy	1,537	8%
6	Germany	1,492	8%
7	Australia	873	5%
8	Spain	852	5%
9	Canada	737	4%
10	Netherlands	728	4%
11	India	628	3%
12	Hong Kong	609	3%
13	Belgium	406	2%
14	Switzerland	386	2%
15	South Korea	371	2%
16	Japan	362	2%
17	Sweden	353	2%
18	Singapore	340	2%
19	Brazil	301	2%
20	Austria	287	2%
21	Turkey	282	1%
22	Poland	267	1%
23	Norway	257	1%
24	Denmark	243	1%
25	Finland	199	1%
26	Taiwan	193	1%
27	Vietnam	189	1%
28	Portugal	173	1%
29	Ireland	168	1%
30	Saudi Arabia	152	1%

Citing institutions#

Institutions whose papers cite France-funded research most, since 2023
#	Institution	Country	Links
1	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	France	986
2	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	263
3	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	206
4	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China	204
5	Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement	France	182
6	Beijing Jiaotong University	China	177
7	Tsinghua University	China	173
8	Wuhan University	China	170
9	Zhejiang University	China	170
10	National University of Singapore	Singapore	165
11	Peking University	China	162
12	Université Paris-Saclay	France	158
13	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics	China	157
14	Beihang University	China	150
15	Xi'an Jiaotong University	China	147

Funders#

France funders whose papers are cited most, since 2023
#	Funder	Links
1	Agence Nationale de la Recherche	11,877
2	Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers	693
3	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	522
4	CHIST-ERA	465
5	AXA Research Fund	447
6	Université de Montpellier	414
7	Université de Toulouse	371
8	Université de Lyon	233
9	Labex Ecodec	228
10	European Space Agency	224
11	Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires	206
12	Aix-Marseille Université	200
13	Université de Strasbourg	191
14	Fondation du Risque	181
15	Association Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie	170

What papers from France cite#

Research funded elsewhere that papers from France cite, since 2023
#	Funding country	Links
1	China	10,399
2	United States	4,731
3	United Kingdom	2,855
4	Germany	2,157
5	Spain	2,052
6	Canada	1,551
7	Italy	1,343
8	Australia	1,128
9	South Korea	1,006
10	Sweden	874
11	Netherlands	833
12	Japan	803
13	Brazil	745
14	Switzerland	727
15	Portugal	697

Cite this page

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

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