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title: "Cardiff University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Cardiff University: 969 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 1,264."
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share_text: "Research profile of Cardiff University: 969 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 1,264. (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
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# Cardiff University

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: United Kingdom
- web domain: cardiff.ac.uk

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions.md

## Key findings

- Cardiff University was involved in 2 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #957 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in International Journal of Computer Vision (1) and Pattern Recognition (1).
- Countries: China (2) and United Kingdom (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Cardiff University took part in 969 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (212), operations research (174) and finance (137).
- 98 of them were published in 2025, against 87 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (12), Sun Yat-sen University (12) and Swansea University (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (15), International Journal of Production Economics (15) and Energy Economics (14).
- The most-cited of them is “An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions” (Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2019), with 2,801 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Cardiff University has 139,746 works with 14,946,249 citations (h-index 1,264).
- The tracked journals hold 914 of its 56,155 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (2,884), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (2,539) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (2,492).

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 19 | 14 | 13 | 32 | 24 | 16 | 29 | 32 | 22 | 11 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 24 | 17 | 22 | 15 | 20 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 22 | 6 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 14 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 16 | 23 | 20 | 14 | 13 | 4 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 6 | 9 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 10 | 9 | 18 | 8 | 18 | 18 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 8 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 87 | 88 | 95 | 97 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 110 | 98 | 55 |

## Where the papers come from and its co-authors

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 15 |
| 2 | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 15 |
| 3 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [Open Economies Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/open-economies-review.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 12 |
| 2 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [Swansea University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/swansea-university.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 10 |
| 5 | Masaryk University | 10 |
| 6 | [University of Exeter](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-exeter.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [University of Nottingham](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-nottingham.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [University of Southampton](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-southampton.md) | 8 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 377 |
| 2 | China | 128 |
| 3 | United States | 31 |
| 4 | Italy | 28 |
| 5 | Germany | 21 |
| 6 | Australia | 18 |
| 7 | France | 15 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 15 |
| 9 | Canada | 13 |
| 10 | Czechia | 11 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 12 |
| 2 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 11 |
| 4 | indirect inference | 8 |
| 5 | [Bitcoin](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bitcoin.md) | 7 |
| 6 | bullwhip effect | 7 |
| 7 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [circular economy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/circular-economy.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,801 | 30.1 | [An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2019.01.004) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | 2019-01-31 | Jonathan Köhler, Frank Willem Geels, Florian Kern et al. |
| 2 | 1,524 | 20.7 | [A review of applications in federated learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2020.106854) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2020-09-17 | Li Li, Yuxi Fan, Ying Kei Tse et al. |
| 3 | 813 | 8.8 | [Making sense of blockchain technology: How will it transform supply chains?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.02.002) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-02-05 | Yingli Wang, Meita Singgih, Jingyao Wang et al. |
| 4 | 551 | 11.3 | [AI-big data analytics for building automation and management systems: a survey, actual challenges and future perspectives](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10286-2) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2022-10-15 | Yassine Himeur, Mariam Elnour, Fodil Fadli et al. |
| 5 | 450 | 3.8 | [The impact of board gender composition on dividend payouts](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.01.001) | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 2017-01-06 | Jie Chen, Woon Sau Leung, Marc Goergen A |
| 6 | 424 | 5.0 | [A review of learning in biologically plausible spiking neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2019.09.036) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2019-10-11 | Aboozar Taherkhani, Ammar Belatreche, Yuhua Li et al. |
| 7 | 359 | 3.2 | [Innovation and regional economic resilience: an exploratory analysis](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-017-0841-6) | [The Annals of Regional Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-annals-of-regional-science.md) | 2017-07-26 | Gillian Bristow, Adrian Healy |
| 8 | 349 | 5.0 | [Fast and Robust Iterative Closest Point](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3054619) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-01-01 | Juyong Zhang, Yuxin Yao, Bailin Deng |
| 9 | 346 | 15.3 | [Starfish optimization algorithm (SFOA): a bio-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for global optimization compared with 100 optimizers](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-024-10694-1) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2024-12-16 | Changting Zhong, Gang Li, Zeng Meng et al. |
| 10 | 339 | 3.2 | [A comparison of social media marketing between B2B, B2C and mixed business models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2018.01.001) | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 2018-01-20 | Severina Iankova, Iain Andrew Davies, Chris Archer‐Brown et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Cardiff University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Also known as | UCC, UWC, UWCC, Prifysgol Caerdydd, University College Cardiff, University College, Cardiff |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 3 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 139,746 |
| Citations | 14,946,249 |
| h-index | 1,264 |
| i10-index | 147,978 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.77 |
| Website | [www.cardiff.ac.uk](http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/03kk7td41](https://ror.org/03kk7td41) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I79510175](https://openalex.org/I79510175) |

*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) | 5,623 | 304,385 | 55 | 1.0% |
| 2025 | 6,490 | 397,057 | 98 | 1.5% |
| 2024 | 7,035 | 403,161 | 110 | 1.6% |
| 2023 | 6,481 | 378,348 | 114 | 1.8% |
| 2022 | 6,367 | 375,556 | 113 | 1.8% |
| 2021 | 6,466 | 382,321 | 112 | 1.7% |
| 2020 | 6,272 | 331,970 | 97 | 1.5% |
| 2019 | 5,801 | 281,961 | 95 | 1.6% |
| 2018 | 5,842 | 252,838 | 88 | 1.5% |
| 2017 | 5,401 | 219,509 | 87 | 1.6% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena | Physics and Astronomy | 2,884 |
| 2 | Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies | Physics and Astronomy | 2,539 |
| 3 | Genetic Associations and Epidemiology | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2,492 |
| 4 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 2,274 |
| 5 | Schizophrenia research and treatment | Medicine | 1,938 |

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.

*Papers, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | [SuperSVG++: Semantic-Driven Layer-Wise Scalable Vector Graphics Synthesis with Semantic Layer Decomposition](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03099-1) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Teng Hu, Ran Yi, Hongrui Huang et al. | Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Cardiff University |
| 2026-10-09 | [Training-free video editing via optical flow-enhanced score distillation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115077) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Lianghan Zhu, Yanqi Bao, Jing Huo et al. | Nanjing University; Cardiff University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Cardiff University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/cardiff-university

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Cardiff University},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/cardiff-university}},
  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).