---
title: "Concordia University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Concordia University: 795 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 504."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/concordia-university
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/concordia-university.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "Research profile of Concordia University: 795 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 504. (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)
---

# Concordia University

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: Canada
- web domain: concordia.ca

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

## Key findings

- Concordia University was involved in 9 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #163 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (2), Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (1) and Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research (1).
- Countries: Canada (9), Lebanon (1) and South Africa (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Concordia University took part in 795 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (223), operations research (133) and finance (130).
- 93 of them were published in 2025, against 73 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Khalifa University of Science and Technology (16), Université du Québec à Montréal (16) and Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les réseaux d'entreprise, la logistique et le transport (13).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (21), Applied Intelligence (11) and Finance research letters (11).
- The most-cited of them is “Normalizing Flows: An Introduction and Review of Current Methods” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 1,242 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Concordia University has 77,861 works with 3,482,867 citations (h-index 504).
- The tracked journals hold 733 of its 30,550 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.4%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (1,328), Software Engineering Research (1,055) and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (1,040).

## 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) | 10 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 29 | 22 | 28 | 24 | 32 | 22 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 12 | 15 | 13 | 19 | 16 | 6 | 18 | 10 | 12 | 12 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 15 | 13 | 7 | 15 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 20 | 16 | 7 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 14 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 5 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 7 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 5 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 6 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 73 | 73 | 73 | 84 | 91 | 77 | 82 | 87 | 93 | 62 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 21 |
| 2 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 11 |
| 3 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Khalifa University of Science and Technology | 16 |
| 2 | Université du Québec à Montréal | 16 |
| 3 | Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les réseaux d'entreprise, la logistique et le transport | 13 |
| 4 | Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University | 12 |
| 5 | [HEC Montréal](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hec-montreal.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [McGill University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/mcgill-university.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [University of Alberta](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-alberta.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [Corvinus University of Budapest](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/corvinus-university-of-budapest.md) | 8 |
| 9 | Istinye University | 8 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Canada | 324 |
| 2 | China | 58 |
| 3 | United States | 53 |
| 4 | France | 24 |
| 5 | United Arab Emirates | 20 |
| 6 | Germany | 19 |
| 7 | Poland | 16 |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 14 |
| 9 | Turkey | 14 |
| 10 | Iran | 11 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 13 |
| 2 | [reinforcement learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/reinforcement-learning.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [mixed-integer linear programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-linear-programming.md) | 9 |
| 6 | multi-agent systems | 7 |
| 7 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [ensemble learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/ensemble-learning.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [hyperparameter optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/hyperparameter-optimization.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [consumer behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/consumer-behavior.md) | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,242 | 15.9 | [Normalizing Flows: An Introduction and Review of Current Methods](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.2992934) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-05-07 | Ivan Kobyzev, Simon J. D. Prince, Marcus A. Brubaker |
| 2 | 602 | 13.4 | [SAITS: Self-attention-based imputation for time series](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.119619) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2023-02-07 | Wenjie Du, David Côté, Yan Liu |
| 3 | 546 | 5.0 | [Multi-tier sustainable global supplier selection using a fuzzy AHP-VIKOR based approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.10.013) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2017-10-14 | Anjali Awasthi, Kannan Govindan, Stefan Gold |
| 4 | 505 | 6.7 | [Predictive big data analytics for supply chain demand forecasting: methods, applications, and research opportunities](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-020-00329-2) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2020-07-25 | Mahya Seyedan, Fereshteh Mafakheri |
| 5 | 495 | 14.0 | [A comprehensive survey on applications of transformers for deep learning tasks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.122666) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2023-11-22 | Saidul Islam, Hanae Elmekki, Ahmed Elsebai et al. |
| 6 | 417 | 4.3 | [A review of the effectiveness of empowering leadership](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2018.08.005) | [The Leadership Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-leadership-quarterly.md) | 2018-09-08 | Minyoung Cheong, Francis J. Yammarino, Shelley D. Dionne et al. |
| 7 | 363 | 3.7 | [The effects of scarcity on consumer decision journeys](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-018-0604-7) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2018-09-20 | Rebecca W. Hamilton, Debora Viana Thompson, Sterling A. Bone et al. |
| 8 | 360 | 3.0 | [Policy Uncertainty and Corporate Credit Spreads](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2020.07.001) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2017-01-01 | Mahsa Kaviani, Lawrence Kryzanowski, Hosein Maleki et al. |
| 9 | 334 | 3.4 | [Finite-Time Convergence Adaptive Fuzzy Control for Dual-Arm Robot With Unknown Kinematics and Dynamics](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2018.2864940) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2018-08-10 | Chenguang Yang, Yiming Jiang, Jing Na et al. |
| 10 | 266 | 2.3 | [Revenue and promotional cost-sharing contract versus two-part tariff contract in coordinating sustainable supply chain systems with deteriorating items](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.02.012) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2017-02-24 | Qingguo Bai, Mingyuan Chen, Lei Xu |

## In OpenAlex

*Concordia University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Also known as | Concordia, Université Concordia |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 77,861 |
| Citations | 3,482,867 |
| h-index | 504 |
| i10-index | 51,915 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.02 |
| Website | [www.concordia.ca](https://www.concordia.ca/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/0420zvk78](https://ror.org/0420zvk78) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I60158472](https://openalex.org/I60158472) |

*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) | 7,667 | 108,376 | 62 | 0.8% |
| 2025 | 3,917 | 149,349 | 93 | 2.4% |
| 2024 | 3,925 | 146,915 | 87 | 2.2% |
| 2023 | 4,000 | 141,616 | 82 | 2.0% |
| 2022 | 3,330 | 135,122 | 77 | 2.3% |
| 2021 | 3,690 | 134,290 | 91 | 2.5% |
| 2020 | 3,371 | 116,503 | 84 | 2.5% |
| 2019 | 3,006 | 99,822 | 73 | 2.4% |
| 2018 | 2,756 | 88,384 | 73 | 2.6% |
| 2017 | 2,555 | 77,271 | 73 | 2.9% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Building Energy and Comfort Optimization | Engineering | 1,328 |
| 2 | Software Engineering Research | Computer Science | 1,055 |
| 3 | Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior | Neuroscience | 1,040 |
| 4 | Antenna Design and Analysis | Engineering | 1,032 |
| 5 | Microwave Engineering and Waveguides | Engineering | 918 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | [Human resources governance and human capital management disclosure following the SEC mandate](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2026.107484) | [Journal of Accounting and Public Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-public-policy.md) | Cynthia Melhem, MICHEL L. MAGNAN, Rucsandra Moldovan | Lebanese American University; Concordia University |
| 2026-10-27 | [Three Years of Care Trajectories Among Patients with Gambling Disorder](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-026-01533-7) | [Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/administration-and-policy-in-mental-health-and-mental-health-services-research.md) | Marie‐Josée Fleury, Zhirong Cao, Guy Grenier et al. | Douglas Mental Health University Institute; McGill University; Université de Sherbrooke; … |
| 2026-10-24 | [Unbounded stick-breaking-assisted generalized Dirichlet variational autoencoder](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115130) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Akinlolu Oluwabusayo Ojo, Nizar Bouguila | Concordia University |
| 2026-10-24 | [Socialization pathways: A longitudinal investigation of newcomers' onboarding profiles](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2026.104309) | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | Kelly Carciente, Simon A. Houle, Joon J. Lee et al. | Concordia University; Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières; North-West University |
| 2026-10-24 | [Decoding funded research: comparative analysis of topic models and uncovering the effect of gender and geographic location](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05856-y) | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | Shirin Tavakoli Kafiabad, Andrea Schiffauerova, Ashkan Ebadi | Concordia University; National Research Council Canada |
| 2026-10-22 | [Short-term demand forecasting in mobility-on-demand systems: A systematic literature review and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106087) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Xiaoming Li, Tho V. Le | Concordia University; Purdue University West Lafayette |
| 2026-10-18 | [Two-Echelon Electric Vehicle Routing with Mobile Parcel Lockers: A Three-Stage Adaptive Matheuristic with Exact Replenishment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2026.107706) | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | Nima Moradi, Fereshteh Mafakheri, Chun Wang | Concordia University; Université du Québec à Montréal; École Nationale d'Administration Publique |
| 2026-10-14 | [Demand-driven urban rail transit timetabling: Research perspectives](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106070) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Tommaso Schettini, Ola Jabali, Gilbert Laporte et al. | Concordia University; HEC Montréal; Politecnico di Milano; … |
| 2026-10-10 | [Toning it down: How competition shapes CSR communication positivity amid external stakeholder pressures](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116598) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | Debdeep Chatterjee, Arka Mukherjee, Etayankara Katangote Muralidharan | Concordia University; MacEwan University |

## Cite this page

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

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-institutions-concordia-university,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Concordia University},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/concordia-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/).