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title: "Delft University of Technology: research profile"
description: "Research profile of Delft University of Technology: 1,531 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly operations research and economics; h-index 811."
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share_text: "Research profile of Delft University of Technology: 1,531 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly operations research and economics; h-index 811. (as of 2026-11-02)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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# Delft University of Technology

- 3 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Netherlands
- web domain: tudelft.nl

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

## Key findings

- Delft University of Technology was involved in 8 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #139 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (2), Journal of Asset Management (1) and Energy Policy (1).
- Countries: Netherlands (8), United States (2) and Belgium (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, Delft University of Technology ranks #8 in information systems.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Delft University of Technology took part in 1,531 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (657), economics (281) and AI (226).
- 166 of them were published in 2025, against 124 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Beijing Jiaotong University (25), University of Twente (25) and Utrecht University (24).
- The journals publishing most of them were Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (68), Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (47) and Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (27).
- The most-cited of them is “Artificial Intelligence (AI): Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy” (International Journal of Information Management, 2019), with 4,594 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Delft University of Technology has 171,375 works with 11,466,866 citations (h-index 811).
- The tracked journals hold 1,398 of its 71,918 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.9%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Coastal and Marine Dynamics (3,315), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (3,100) and Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics (2,444).

## In the rankings

Top institutions, 2023–2025: [#8 in information systems](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/information-systems.md)

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 59 | 70 | 65 | 70 | 65 | 65 | 71 | 57 | 67 | 68 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 26 | 31 | 25 | 41 | 32 | 23 | 29 | 26 | 29 | 19 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 17 | 10 | 14 | 20 | 26 | 30 | 39 | 26 | 27 | 17 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 8 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 22 | 16 | 12 | 8 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 8 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 17 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 124 | 138 | 138 | 171 | 164 | 153 | 191 | 153 | 166 | 133 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 68 |
| 2 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 47 |
| 3 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 27 |
| 4 | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 22 |
| 5 | [Ethics and Information Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ethics-and-information-technology.md) | 20 |
| 6 | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | 20 |
| 7 | [International Journal of Project Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-project-management.md) | 18 |
| 8 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 18 |
| 9 | [Research in Transportation Business & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-business-management.md) | 18 |
| 10 | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 16 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Beijing Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-jiaotong-university.md) | 25 |
| 2 | University of Twente | 25 |
| 3 | Utrecht University | 24 |
| 4 | Eindhoven University of Technology | 23 |
| 5 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 21 |
| 6 | [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [Leiden University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/leiden-university.md) | 14 |
| 8 | Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research | 13 |
| 9 | [Southwest Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-jiaotong-university.md) | 13 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Netherlands | 643 |
| 2 | China | 105 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 58 |
| 4 | United States | 51 |
| 5 | Sweden | 35 |
| 6 | Germany | 34 |
| 7 | Italy | 31 |
| 8 | Australia | 30 |
| 9 | France | 28 |
| 10 | Canada | 21 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [mixed-integer linear programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-linear-programming.md) | 17 |
| 2 | mode choice | 16 |
| 3 | adaptive large neighborhood search | 15 |
| 4 | travel behavior | 13 |
| 5 | vehicle routing | 13 |
| 6 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 12 |
| 7 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 12 |
| 8 | sustainability transitions | 12 |
| 9 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 11 |
| 10 | autonomous vehicles | 11 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,594 | 53.3 | [Artificial Intelligence (AI): Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.08.002) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-08-27 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Elvira Ismagilova et al. |
| 2 | 4,564 | 104.3 | [Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102642) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2023-03-11 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Nir Kshetri, Laurie Hughes et al. |
| 3 | 2,751 | 53.3 | [Metaverse beyond the hype: Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2022.102542) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2022-07-15 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Abdullah Mohammed Baabdullah et al. |
| 4 | 1,109 | 10.1 | [Blockchain in government: Benefits and implications of distributed ledger technology for information sharing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2017.09.007) | [Government Information Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/government-information-quarterly.md) | 2017-09-01 | Svein Ølnes, Jolien Ubacht, Marijn Janssen |
| 5 | 1,023 | 21.9 | [What factors contribute to the acceptance of artificial intelligence? A systematic review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2022.101925) | [Telematics and Informatics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics.md) | 2022-12-14 | Sage Kelly, Sherrie-Anne Kaye, Óscar Oviedo-Trespalacios |
| 6 | 806 | 10.6 | [Data governance: Organizing data for trustworthy Artificial Intelligence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2020.101493) | [Government Information Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/government-information-quarterly.md) | 2020-06-21 | Marijn Janssen, Paul Brous, Elsa Estévez et al. |
| 7 | 791 | 11.7 | [Implications of the use of artificial intelligence in public governance: A systematic literature review and a research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2021.101577) | [Government Information Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/government-information-quarterly.md) | 2021-03-23 | Anneke Zuiderwijk, Yu‐Che Chen, Fadi Salem |
| 8 | 674 | 10.1 | [Machine learning pipeline for battery state-of-health estimation](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00312-3) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-04-05 | Darius Roman, Saurabh Saxena, Valentin Robu et al. |
| 9 | 672 | 7.6 | [Boundary conditions for traceability in food supply chains using blockchain technology](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.05.025) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-06-13 | Kay Behnke, Marijn Janssen |
| 10 | 652 | 7.3 | [Digitalization, business models, and SMEs: How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2019.101828) | [Telecommunications Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telecommunications-policy.md) | 2019-05-24 | Harry Bouwman, Shahrokh Nikou, Mark de Reuver |

## In OpenAlex

*Delft University of Technology in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Delft, South Holland, Netherlands |
| Also known as | TU Delft, Technische Universiteit Delft |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 171,375 |
| Citations | 11,466,866 |
| h-index | 811 |
| i10-index | 169,995 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.39 |
| Website | [www.tudelft.nl](https://www.tudelft.nl) |
| ROR | [ror.org/02e2c7k09](https://ror.org/02e2c7k09) |
| Wikidata | [Q752663](Q752663) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I98358874](https://openalex.org/I98358874) |

*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) | 8,709 | 339,769 | 133 | 1.5% |
| 2025 | 9,140 | 423,717 | 166 | 1.8% |
| 2024 | 9,359 | 412,335 | 153 | 1.6% |
| 2023 | 9,038 | 382,302 | 191 | 2.1% |
| 2022 | 8,420 | 364,236 | 153 | 1.8% |
| 2021 | 8,184 | 357,137 | 164 | 2.0% |
| 2020 | 7,584 | 307,537 | 171 | 2.3% |
| 2019 | 7,056 | 264,460 | 138 | 2.0% |
| 2018 | 7,033 | 231,980 | 138 | 2.0% |
| 2017 | 6,104 | 201,249 | 124 | 2.0% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Coastal and Marine Dynamics | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3,315 |
| 2 | Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows | Engineering | 3,100 |
| 3 | Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics | Engineering | 2,444 |
| 4 | Transportation Planning and Optimization | Social Sciences | 2,434 |
| 5 | Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design | Engineering | 2,321 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | [The Co-evolution of sustainability signals under SFDR: evidence across asset classes in the Belgian UCITS fund market](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41260-026-00479-7) | [Journal of Asset Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-asset-management.md) | Bart Depaemelaere, Michaël Peeters | University of Antwerp; Antwerp Management School; Delft University of Technology |
| 2026-10-29 | [Understanding demand-side flexibility characterisation and barriers to effective deployment: A Dutch case study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115670) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | Sugandha Chauhan, Wessel Donkervoort, Sebastiaan Hers et al. | Delft University of Technology; Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research |
| 2026-10-29 | [Performance Evaluation of Embedded AI Inference on Zynq Ultrascale+ and Versal SoCs for Onboard Space Applications](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03087-5) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Arthur de Freitas Precht, Edoardo Caroselli, Bharadwaj Chintalapati et al. | Luleå University of Technology; Delft University of Technology |
| 2026-10-22 | [Hybrid predictive rebalancing control of perceived usability in shared e-scooter systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106093) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Sara Momen, Yousef Maknoon, Bart van Arem et al. | Delft University of Technology |
| 2026-10-22 | [Measuring the state of open science in transportation using large language models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106024) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Junyi Ji, Ruth Lu, Linda Belkessa et al. | Vanderbilt University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Université Gustave Eiffel; … |
| 2026-10-16 | [Transit-MP: Transit-prioritized max-pressure control in sparse connected vehicle environments](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2026.103622) | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | Chaopeng Tan, Hao Liu, Dingshan Sun et al. | Technische Universität Dresden; Delft University of Technology; University of Maine; … |
| 2026-10-10 | [Developing a resource-based analysis of technological innovation systems: The case of digital innovation in Dutch processing industries](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101206) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | Nikhil John, Joeri Hendrik Wesseling, Koen Frenken | Utrecht University; Delft University of Technology |
| 2026-10-08 | [Optimal any-angle path planning in static and dynamic environments](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2026.104642) | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | Yiyuan Zou, Clark Borst | Delft University of Technology |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Delft University of Technology. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/delft-university-of-technology

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