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title: "Microsoft Research (United Kingdom): research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) took part in 18 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (9), information systems (5) and operations research (2). 5 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017."
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# Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)

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Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Microsoft Research (United Kingdom): per year and category, where they are published, the institutions its researchers write with, and its most-cited papers. A paper counts as corporate when at least one of its authors is affiliated with an institution that OpenAlex classifies as a company; it counts once for each company among its authors' affiliations. Universities are the institutions OpenAlex classifies as education.

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## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) took part in 18 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (9), information systems (5) and operations research (2).
- 5 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Trinity College Dublin (2), University College Dublin (2) and University of Cambridge (2).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (3), Nature Machine Intelligence (2) and Journal of Vocational Behavior (1).
- The most-cited of them is “Advances in Variational Inference” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2018), with 673 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 11 of its papers 82 times; 99% of those links came from papers with a university author and 1% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 26 times, 12% of them papers with a company author.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) has 5,605 works with 917,185 citations (h-index 395).
- The tracked journals hold 17 of its 1,468 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.2%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Logic, programming, and type systems (902), Formal Methods in Verification (443) and Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (372).
- OpenAlex lists it under Microsoft (United States).

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Journal of Human-Computer Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-human-computer-studies.md) | 3 |
| 2 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2 |
| 3 | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | 1 |
| 4 | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/methodology-and-computing-in-applied-probability.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Trinity College Dublin](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/trinity-college-dublin.md) | 2 |
| 2 | [University College Dublin](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-dublin.md) | 2 |
| 3 | [University of Cambridge](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-cambridge.md) | 2 |
| 4 | Amsterdam University Medical Centers | 1 |
| 5 | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | 1 |
| 6 | Cambridge University Press | 1 |
| 7 | Daresbury Laboratory | 1 |
| 8 | Florida Institute of Technology | 1 |
| 9 | Goldsmiths University of London | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 12 |
| 2 | United States | 3 |
| 3 | Canada | 2 |
| 4 | Germany | 2 |
| 5 | Ireland | 2 |
| 6 | United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| 7 | Argentina | 1 |
| 8 | Brazil | 1 |
| 9 | China | 1 |
| 10 | Spain | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | chatbots | 2 |
| 2 | message passing neural networks | 2 |
| 3 | AI competencies | 1 |
| 4 | E(3) equivariance | 1 |
| 5 | HoloLens 2 | 1 |
| 6 | NequIP | 1 |
| 7 | Shapley value | 1 |
| 8 | ablation study | 1 |
| 9 | atomic cluster expansion | 1 |
| 10 | attachment | 1 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 673 | 7.1 | [Advances in Variational Inference](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2889774) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-12-25 | Cheng Zhang, Judith Bütepage, Hedvig Kjellström et al. |
| 2 | 204 | 9.4 | [The design space of E(3)-equivariant atom-centred interatomic potentials](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00956-x) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2025-01-15 | Ilyes Batatia, Simon Batzner, Dávid Péter Kovács et al. |
| 3 | 82 | 0.8 | [Depth-Based Hand Pose Estimation: Methods, Data, and Challenges](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-018-1081-7) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2018-04-12 | James Steven Supančič, Grégory Rogez, Yi Yang et al. |
| 4 | 54 | 1.2 | [Learning from multiple annotators for medical image segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2023.109400) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2023-02-11 | Le Zhang, Ryutaro Tanno, Moucheng Xu et al. |
| 5 | 51 | 1.4 | [Exploring how politeness impacts the user experience of chatbots for mental health support](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2023.103181) | [International Journal of Human-Computer Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-human-computer-studies.md) | 2023-11-10 | Robert Bowman, Orla Cooney, Joseph W. Newbold et al. |
| 6 | 50 | 0.9 | [Explanatory pragmatism: a context-sensitive framework for explainable medical AI](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-022-09632-3) | [Ethics and Information Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ethics-and-information-technology.md) | 2022-02-28 | Rune Nyrup, Diana A. Robinson |
| 7 | 29 | 0.8 | [Fair collaborative vehicle routing: A deep multi-agent reinforcement learning approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2023.104376) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2023-10-13 | Stephen Mak, Liming Xu, Tim Pearce et al. |
| 8 | 23 | 0.6 | [Mixed-precision quantization-aware training for photonic neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-023-08848-8) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2023-08-05 | Manos Kirtas, Nikolaos Passalis, Athina Oikonomou et al. |
| 9 | 22 | 0.8 | [Virtual voices: Exploring individual differences in chat and verbal participation in virtual meetings](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2024.104015) | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | 2024-06-27 | Liana M. Kreamer, Steven G. Rogelberg, Lev Tankelevitch et al. |
| 10 | 17 | 1.5 | [Effects of LLM use and note-taking on reading comprehension and memory: A randomised experiment in secondary schools](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2025.105514) | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | 2025-11-24 | Pia Kreijkes, Viktor Nikolaus Kewenig, Martina Kuvalja et al. |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | University | China | 5 |
| 2 | [Southwest Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-jiaotong-university.md) | University | China | 4 |
| 3 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | University | Australia | 3 |
| 4 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | University | China | 3 |
| 5 | [University of Cambridge](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-cambridge.md) | University | United Kingdom | 3 |
| 6 | [Monash University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/monash-university.md) | University | Australia | 3 |
| 7 | HEC Montréal | University | Canada | 2 |
| 8 | [University of Technology Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-technology-sydney.md) | University | Australia | 2 |
| 9 | [National University of Defense Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-defense-technology.md) | University | China | 2 |
| 10 | [Universidad de Granada](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universidad-de-granada.md) | University | Spain | 2 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Vienna](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-vienna.md) | University | Austria | 4 |
| 2 | [University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-hong-kong.md) | University | Hong Kong | 3 |
| 3 | University of Liège | University | Belgium | 2 |
| 4 | [City University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-hong-kong.md) | University | Hong Kong | 2 |
| 5 | Southern Methodist University | University | United States | 2 |
| 6 | King Abdulaziz University | University | Saudi Arabia | 2 |
| 7 | [University of Cambridge](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-cambridge.md) | University | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 8 | [Ghent University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ghent-university.md) | University | Belgium | 2 |
| 9 | Vlerick Business School | University | Belgium | 2 |
| 10 | [Delft University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/delft-university-of-technology.md) | University | Netherlands | 2 |

More: https://scholar4ai.com/corporate-citations.md · https://scholar4ai.com/industry-university.md

## In OpenAlex

*Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Company |
| Location | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Part of | [Microsoft (United States)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/microsoft-united-states.md) |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 5,605 |
| Citations | 917,185 |
| h-index | 395 |
| i10-index | 6,229 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 27.79 |
| Website | [research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/cambridge/default.aspx](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/cambridge/default.aspx) |
| ROR | [ror.org/05k87vq12](https://ror.org/05k87vq12) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I4210164937](https://openalex.org/I4210164937) |

*Works and citations per year in OpenAlex, and its papers in the tracked journals*

| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 2026 (so far) | 177 | 21,831 | 1 | 0.6% |
| 2025 | 162 | 27,502 | 5 | 3.1% |
| 2024 | 125 | 27,244 | 1 | 0.8% |
| 2023 | 165 | 26,846 | 5 | 3.0% |
| 2022 | 151 | 26,587 | 2 | 1.3% |
| 2021 | 180 | 32,005 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2020 | 162 | 30,174 | 1 | 0.6% |
| 2019 | 160 | 29,555 | 1 | 0.6% |
| 2018 | 181 | 26,316 | 2 | 1.1% |
| 2017 | 182 | 25,228 | 0 | 0.0% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Logic, programming, and type systems | Computer Science | 902 |
| 2 | Formal Methods in Verification | Computer Science | 443 |
| 3 | Information Retrieval and Search Behavior | Computer Science | 372 |
| 4 | Distributed systems and fault tolerance | Computer Science | 337 |
| 5 | Innovative Human-Technology Interaction | Computer Science | 328 |

From OpenAlex's own record of the institution (CC0), read again monthly. Works and citations count everything OpenAlex indexes, not only the tracked journals; topics are OpenAlex's classification of those works.

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Microsoft Research (United Kingdom). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/microsoft-research-united-kingdom

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  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).