Who uses research funded from South Korea

Where the papers funded from South Korea are cited inside the 400 tracked journals: by country, by institution and by funder, and whose research the papers from South Korea 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 4,469 papers funded from South Korea 27,120 times (counting each citing country), #8 of 128 funding countries.
14% of the links come from papers with authors in South Korea; abroad, the largest users are China (12,834), the United States (3,030) and the United Kingdom (2,233).
The institutions citing this research most are Sungkyunkwan University (533), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (483) and Pusan National University (483).
The South Korea funders behind the most-cited links are National Research Foundation of Korea (15,886), Ministry of Education (7,323) and Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (3,661).
In turn, papers with authors in South Korea draw most on research funded from China (11,399), the United States (2,734) and the United Kingdom (1,135).

Citing countries#

Countries whose papers cite South Korea-funded research, since 2023
#	Citing country	Links	Share
1	China	12,834	47%
2	South Korea	3,912	14%
3	United States	3,030	11%
4	United Kingdom	2,233	8%
5	India	1,617	6%
6	Australia	1,428	5%
7	Hong Kong	1,008	4%
8	France	1,006	4%
9	Italy	811	3%
10	Germany	781	3%
11	Spain	776	3%
12	Canada	720	3%
13	Turkey	698	3%
14	Taiwan	671	2%
15	Vietnam	565	2%
16	Malaysia	485	2%
17	Saudi Arabia	467	2%
18	Macao	466	2%
19	Singapore	463	2%
20	Pakistan	456	2%
21	United Arab Emirates	454	2%
22	Japan	437	2%
23	Tunisia	394	1%
24	Oman	364	1%
25	Iran	357	1%
26	Netherlands	354	1%
27	Lebanon	337	1%
28	Poland	332	1%
29	Portugal	331	1%
30	New Zealand	269	1%

Citing institutions#

Institutions whose papers cite South Korea-funded research most, since 2023
#	Institution	Country	Links
1	Sungkyunkwan University	South Korea	533
2	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	483
3	Pusan National University	South Korea	483
4	Korea University	South Korea	472
5	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	428
6	Yonsei University	South Korea	428
7	Sun Yat-sen University	China	321
8	Seoul National University	South Korea	319
9	Hanyang University	South Korea	312
10	Nankai University	China	310
11	Sultan Qaboos University	Oman	307
12	Lebanese American University	Lebanon	301
13	Wuhan University	China	298
14	Zhejiang University	China	294
15	Southeast University	China	293

Funders#

South Korea funders whose papers are cited most, since 2023
#	Funder	Links
1	National Research Foundation of Korea	15,886
2	Ministry of Education	7,323
3	Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning	3,661
4	Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea	3,133
5	Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion	2,563
6	Yonsei University	772
7	Seoul National University	742
8	Korea University	716
9	Samsung	590
10	Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy	569
11	Ministry of Education, Science and Technology	564
12	Ministry of Science and Technology	458
13	Hankuk University of Foreign Studies	455
14	Hanyang University	447
15	Sungkyunkwan University	320

What papers from South Korea cite#

Research funded elsewhere that papers from South Korea cite, since 2023
#	Funding country	Links
1	China	11,399
2	United States	2,734
3	United Kingdom	1,135
4	Spain	1,039
5	Australia	845
6	Germany	802
7	Canada	649
8	Hong Kong	627
9	Japan	571
10	South Africa	488
11	Taiwan	442
12	Italy	403
13	Singapore	372
14	France	371
15	Portugal	346

Cite this page

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

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