Duke University
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Key findings#
- Duke University was involved in 11 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #123 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Public Economics (2), PharmacoEconomics (1) and Journal of Banking & Finance (1).
- Countries: United States (11), United Kingdom (2) and Singapore (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Duke University took part in 853 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (454), AI (91) and statistics (71).
- 80 of them were published in 2025, against 79 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were National Bureau of Economic Research (16), National University of Singapore (13) and Columbia University (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Econometrics (13), Journal of Public Economics (11) and Research Policy (9).
- The most-cited of them is “Stop explaining black box machine learning models for high stakes decisions and use interpretable models instead” (Nature Machine Intelligence, 2019), with 10,516 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Duke University has 290,126 works with 36,120,956 citations (h-index 1,531).
- The tracked journals hold 779 of its 121,248 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (4,507), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (4,458) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (3,110).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 51 | 49 | 46 | 40 | 55 | 46 | 41 | 51 | 38 | 37 |
| AI | 5 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 8 |
| Statistics | 6 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 7 |
| Management | 6 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 2 |
| Finance | 3 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 6 |
| Accounting | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Operations Research | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Marketing | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 79 | 86 | 84 | 92 | 96 | 88 | 74 | 100 | 80 | 74 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Econometrics | 13 |
| 2 | Journal of Public Economics | 11 |
| 3 | Research Policy | 9 |
| 4 | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 9 |
| 5 | Journal of Development Economics | 9 |
| 6 | Journal of Financial Economics | 9 |
| 7 | Energy Economics | 8 |
| 8 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 7 |
| 9 | World Development | 7 |
| 10 | Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes | 7 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research | 16 |
| 2 | National University of Singapore | 13 |
| 3 | Columbia University | 9 |
| 4 | Duke Medical Center | 9 |
| 5 | Stanford University | 9 |
| 6 | Harvard University | 8 |
| 7 | University of Chicago | 7 |
| 8 | Auburn University | 6 |
| 9 | Federal Reserve Board of Governors | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 328 |
| 2 | China | 34 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 21 |
| 4 | Germany | 15 |
| 5 | Singapore | 15 |
| 6 | Australia | 13 |
| 7 | Canada | 13 |
| 8 | Italy | 13 |
| 9 | Spain | 8 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 8 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 8 |
| 2 | quality-adjusted life years | 7 |
| 3 | cost-effectiveness | 6 |
| 4 | China | 5 |
| 5 | employment effects | 5 |
| 6 | income inequality | 5 |
| 7 | information asymmetry | 5 |
| 8 | out-of-pocket costs | 5 |
| 9 | asset pricing | 4 |
| 10 | discrete choice experiment | 4 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Durham, North Carolina, United States |
| Also known as | Universidad de Duke |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 7 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 290,126 |
| Citations | 36,120,956 |
| h-index | 1,531 |
| i10-index | 352,887 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.15 |
| Website | duke.edu |
| ROR | ror.org/00py81415 |
| Wikidata | Q168751 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I170897317 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 4,507 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 4,458 |
| 3 | Genetic Associations and Epidemiology | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3,110 |
| 4 | Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research | Medicine | 3,047 |
| 5 | Heart Failure Treatment and Management | Medicine | 2,920 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 16,063 | 684,711 | 74 | 0.5% |
| 2025 | 14,610 | 877,200 | 80 | 0.5% |
| 2024 | 15,124 | 879,479 | 100 | 0.7% |
| 2023 | 14,326 | 846,609 | 74 | 0.5% |
| 2022 | 13,606 | 838,545 | 88 | 0.6% |
| 2021 | 14,135 | 860,723 | 96 | 0.7% |
| 2020 | 16,965 | 770,662 | 92 | 0.5% |
| 2019 | 11,528 | 652,853 | 84 | 0.7% |
| 2018 | 10,881 | 582,259 | 86 | 0.8% |
| 2017 | 10,073 | 549,284 | 79 | 0.8% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | A Systematic Literature Review on the Economic Burden of Sjögren’s Disease | PharmacoEconomics | Nora Sandorfi, Lisa M. Shea, Alexander Keenan et al. | University of Pennsylvania; Johnson & Johnson (United States); Drexel University; … |
| 2026-11-01 | Inside the Boardroom: Evidence from the Board Structure and Meeting Minutes of Community Banks | Journal of Banking & Finance | Rosalind L. Bennett, Manju Puri, Paul E. Soto | National Bureau of Economic Research; Duke University; Federal Reserve Board of Governors |
| 2026-10-22 | Asymmetric decentralization and inequality | The Annals of Regional Science | Melissa Ziegler Rogers, Melissa Ziegler Rogers | Duke University; Claremont Graduate University |
| 2026-10-21 | Assessing the content validity of EQ-5D-5L in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors: cognitive interviewing and comparative concept mapping with HUI3 and SF-36 | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes | Pin Pin Pek, Phyo Thet Naing Win, Rahul Malhotra et al. | SingHealth; National University of Singapore; Singapore General Hospital; … |
| 2026-10-19 | In the streets “you must be hardened”: Gendered and structural drivers of violence against women and children among families in street situations in Kenya | Social Science & Medicine | Kathleen Murphy, Jamie M. Lachman, Sheila Kirwa et al. | University of Toronto; University of Oxford; University of Cape Town; … |
| 2026-10-16 | Does the United States spend enough on public schools? Evidence from a market-based efficiency test | Journal of Public Economics | Patrick J. Bayer, Peter Sinclair Blair, Kenneth A. Whaley | Duke University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Harvard University; … |
| 2026-10-14 | Disagreement of disagreement | Journal of Financial Economics | Christian L. Goulding, Campbell R. Harvey, Hrvoje Kurtović | Auburn University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Duke University; … |
| 2026-10-13 | Investment-goods market power and capital accumulation | Journal of Monetary Economics | Fabio Bertolotti, Andrea Lanteri, Alessandro T. Villa | Bank of Italy; Duke University; Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
| 2026-10-07 | Entangling humans and AI | AI & Society | N. Katherine Hayles | University of California, Los Angeles; Duke University |
| 2026-10-07 | Future in- and out-of-state air pollutant emissions under decarbonization pathways for Massachusetts | Energy Policy | Kaixin Huang, Emma K Walter, Daniel H. Loughlin et al. | Northeastern University; Environmental Protection Agency; Duke University |
| 2026-10-06 | Identity politics, partisan sentiment and household spending | Journal of Public Economics | Arkadev Ghosh, Aruni Mitra, Ronit Mukherji | National Bureau of Economic Research; Duke University; University of Manchester; … |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Duke University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/duke-university
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note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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