---
title: "Columbia University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Columbia University: 1,248 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and finance; h-index 1,801."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/columbia-university
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share_text: "Research profile of Columbia University: 1,248 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and finance; h-index 1,801. (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-04T00:03:46+09:00
window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Columbia University

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: United States
- web domain: columbia.edu

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

## Key findings

- Columbia University was involved in 12 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #104 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Postdigital Science and Education (1), Statistics and Computing (1) and Operations Research Letters (1).
- Countries: United States (12), China (2) and Italy (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Columbia University took part in 1,248 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (507), finance (174) and operations research (144).
- 110 of them were published in 2025, against 127 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were National Bureau of Economic Research (21), Stanford University (21) and Harvard University (20).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Financial Economics (24), Mathematical Programming (17) and Journal of Econometrics (15).
- The most-cited of them is “Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk?” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2019), with 3,369 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Columbia University has 409,782 works with 54,877,175 citations (h-index 1,801).
- The tracked journals hold 1,145 of its 134,293 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.9%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (6,408), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (6,000) and Climate variability and models (5,876).

## 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) | 68 | 60 | 48 | 62 | 57 | 49 | 52 | 43 | 37 | 31 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 17 | 19 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 24 | 14 | 14 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 10 | 13 | 11 | 23 | 12 | 22 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 13 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 8 | 5 | 11 | 21 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 21 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 9 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 5 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 8 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 127 | 130 | 113 | 168 | 134 | 124 | 123 | 116 | 110 | 103 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 24 |
| 2 | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 17 |
| 3 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [National Bureau of Economic Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-bureau-of-economic-research.md) | 21 |
| 2 | [Stanford University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/stanford-university.md) | 21 |
| 3 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 20 |
| 4 | [New York University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/new-york-university.md) | 20 |
| 5 | Barnard College | 14 |
| 6 | [University of Pennsylvania](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pennsylvania.md) | 13 |
| 7 | Northwestern University | 12 |
| 8 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Cornell University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/cornell-university.md) | 11 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 452 |
| 2 | China | 80 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 49 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 27 |
| 5 | Canada | 16 |
| 6 | Spain | 16 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 16 |
| 8 | Germany | 15 |
| 9 | Singapore | 15 |
| 10 | Australia | 13 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 13 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [India](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/india.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [monetary policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/monetary-policy.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [2008 financial crisis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/2008-financial-crisis.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [climate policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-policy.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,369 | 35.8 | [Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.05.008) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-01-01 | Patrick G M Bolton, Marcin T. Kacperczyk |
| 2 | 1,807 | 18.4 | [Fintech, regulatory arbitrage, and the rise of shadow banks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2018.03.011) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2018-09-04 | Greg Buchak, Gregor Matvos, Tomasz Piskorski et al. |
| 3 | 1,463 | 41.4 | [Artificial intelligence, firm growth, and product innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2023.103745) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2023-11-23 | Tania Babina, Anastassia Fedyk, Alex Xi He et al. |
| 4 | 964 | 10.0 | [Climate risks and market efficiency](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2018.09.015) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2018-10-16 | Harrison G. Hong, Frank Weikai Li, Jiangmin Xu |
| 5 | 607 | 6.1 | [How does hedge fund activism reshape corporate innovation?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2018.06.012) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2018-06-30 | Alon P. Brav, Wei Jiang, Song Ma et al. |
| 6 | 541 | 5.9 | [Moments in Time Dataset: One Million Videos for Event Understanding](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2901464) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-02-25 | Mathew Monfort, Carl Vondrick, Aude Oliva et al. |
| 7 | 498 | 5.4 | [Eliza in the uncanny valley: anthropomorphizing consumer robots increases their perceived warmth but decreases liking](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11002-019-09485-9) | [Marketing Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/marketing-letters.md) | 2019-03-01 | Seo Young Kim, Bernd H. Schmitt, Nadia Magnenat‐Thalmann |
| 8 | 493 | 5.5 | [Gender gap in entrepreneurship](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.03.012) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2019-04-30 | Jorge Guzmán, Aleksandra Joanna Kacperczyk |
| 9 | 476 | 5.4 | [Monetary policy uncertainty](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2019.07.009) | [Journal of Monetary Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-monetary-economics.md) | 2019-07-18 | Lucas F. Husted, John Harold Rogers, Bo Sun |
| 10 | 456 | 6.0 | [Advances in multimodal data fusion in neuroimaging: Overview, challenges, and novel orientation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2020.07.006) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2020-07-17 | Yudong Zhang, Zhengchao Dong, Shuihua Wang‎ et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Columbia University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | New York, United States |
| Also known as | CU, Columbia College, Columbia University in the City of New York, King's College |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 4 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 409,782 |
| Citations | 54,877,175 |
| h-index | 1,801 |
| i10-index | 497,659 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.71 |
| Website | [www.columbia.edu](https://www.columbia.edu) |
| ROR | [ror.org/00hj8s172](https://ror.org/00hj8s172) |
| Wikidata | [Q49088](Q49088) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I78577930](https://openalex.org/I78577930) |

*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) | 15,371 | 922,307 | 103 | 0.7% |
| 2025 | 16,255 | 1,238,370 | 110 | 0.7% |
| 2024 | 15,966 | 1,269,174 | 116 | 0.7% |
| 2023 | 15,656 | 1,238,660 | 123 | 0.8% |
| 2022 | 15,229 | 1,235,529 | 124 | 0.8% |
| 2021 | 16,667 | 1,291,229 | 134 | 0.8% |
| 2020 | 15,218 | 1,162,660 | 168 | 1.1% |
| 2019 | 13,669 | 1,002,156 | 113 | 0.8% |
| 2018 | 13,096 | 902,162 | 130 | 1.0% |
| 2017 | 12,537 | 844,112 | 127 | 1.0% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 6,408 |
| 2 | HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions | Medicine | 6,000 |
| 3 | Climate variability and models | Environmental Science | 5,876 |
| 4 | Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research | Neuroscience | 5,783 |
| 5 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 5,159 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | [Aesthetic Literacy Toward Perceptual Transformation: Designing for Embodied Self-Formation in Postdigital Education](https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-026-00719-4) | [Postdigital Science and Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/postdigital-science-and-education.md) | Rebecca D. Taylor | Columbia University |
| 2026-10-25 | [Matching-based estimation of causal quantile exposure response functions for continuous treatments](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-11016-2) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | Luca Merlo, Francesca Dominici, Lea Petrella et al. | Link Campus University; Harvard University; Sapienza University of Rome; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [Improved rounding algorithms for set cover via exponential clocks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107553) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | Kishen N. Gowda, Will Ma, Aravind Srinivasan et al. | University of Maryland, College Park; Columbia University |
| 2026-10-22 | [Research on the spatiotemporal prediction of supply chain finance risk contagion based on a dynamic graph attention diffusion mechanism](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854-026-00980-3) | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | Yulong Zhang, Yaqing Zhang | Hengshui University; Columbia University |
| 2026-10-21 | [How do hospitals respond to payment incentives?](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11149-026-09529-9) | [Journal of Regulatory Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-regulatory-economics.md) | Gautam Gowrisankaran, Keith A. Joiner, Juyi Lin | National Bureau of Economic Research; Columbia University; University of Arizona; … |
| 2026-10-17 | [The long-term and spillover effects of a radio drama on HIV knowledge, expressed stigma, willingness to disclose, and political priorities: Evidence from a cluster-randomized trial in Tanzania](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119940) | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | Dylan W. Groves, Alphoncina Kagaigai, Constantine Manda et al. | Lafayette College; Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences; University of California, Irvine; … |
| 2026-10-15 | [Economic impacts of subsea cable deployment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2026.103337) | [Telecommunications Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telecommunications-policy.md) | Wolfgang Briglauer, Raúl Katz, Monika Köppl-Turyna et al. | Vienna University of Economics and Business; EcoAustria Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung; Columbia University; … |
| 2026-10-10 | [Too little too late? Nationwide carbon trading in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2026.105798) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | Shuang Zhang, Douglas Almond | Centre for Economic Policy Research; Imperial College London; National Bureau of Economic Research; … |
| 2026-10-08 | [Cognitively healthy life expectancy of older women and men in India](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101981) | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | Sneha Sarah Mani, Yuan S Zhang, Lindsay C. Kobayashi et al. | Johns Hopkins University; Columbia University; University of Michigan; … |
| 2026-10-08 | [Diversified but crowded: Evidence from 13F holdings](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.110885) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | Liang Hu, Yinru Shen | Columbia University; Florida State University |
| 2026-10-07 | [Network-based decision support for cold-start user prioritization in P2P platforms: The value of entry-community information](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2026.114780) | [Decision Support Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-support-systems.md) | Pantelis Loupos, Moran Cerf | University of California, Davis; Columbia University |
| 2026-10-07 | [Harnessing the power of AI in qualitative research: Role assignment, engagement, and user perceptions of AI-generated follow-up questions in semi-structured interviews](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2026.103950) | [International Journal of Human-Computer Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-human-computer-studies.md) | H. Zhang, Yueyan Liu, Xin Guan et al. | Tsinghua University; Columbia University; Nankai University; … |

## Cite this page

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

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  title = {Columbia University},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  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/).