Durham University
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Key findings#
- Durham University was involved in 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #234 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in International Journal for Educational Integrity (1), International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (1) and Higher Education (1).
- Countries: United Kingdom (7), Canada (2) and Australia (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, Durham University ranks #7 in accounting.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Durham University took part in 1,028 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (242), management (237) and finance (157).
- 127 of them were published in 2025, against 74 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Newcastle University (26), Tsinghua University (15) and Manchester Metropolitan University (13).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Business Research (18), Pattern Recognition (15) and Higher Education (14).
- The most-cited of them is “The art of crafting a systematic literature review in entrepreneurship research” (International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2020), with 1,317 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Durham University has 110,511 works with 7,018,674 citations (h-index 718).
- The tracked journals hold 925 of its 41,267 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.2%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (7,227), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (5,491) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (4,749).
In the rankings#
Top institutions, 2023–2025: #7 in accounting
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 25 | 29 | 28 | 20 | 23 | 20 | 30 | 25 | 24 | 18 |
| Management | 16 | 12 | 23 | 34 | 23 | 30 | 17 | 35 | 24 | 23 |
| Finance | 13 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 20 | 17 | 19 | 23 | 14 | 15 |
| AI | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 26 | 18 |
| Operations Research | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 8 |
| Accounting | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 2 |
| Statistics | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 5 |
| Marketing | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| All categories | 74 | 78 | 83 | 107 | 100 | 107 | 113 | 136 | 127 | 103 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Business Research | 18 |
| 2 | Pattern Recognition | 15 |
| 3 | Higher Education | 14 |
| 4 | Journal of Business Ethics | 12 |
| 5 | Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice | 12 |
| 6 | The British Accounting Review | 11 |
| 7 | European Journal of Operational Research | 9 |
| 8 | Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money | 9 |
| 9 | Finance research letters | 9 |
| 10 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 8 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newcastle University | 26 |
| 2 | Tsinghua University | 15 |
| 3 | Manchester Metropolitan University | 13 |
| 4 | University of Manchester | 13 |
| 5 | University of Birmingham | 11 |
| 6 | University of Glasgow | 11 |
| 7 | University of Cyprus | 10 |
| 8 | University of Reading | 10 |
| 9 | University of Edinburgh | 9 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 479 |
| 2 | China | 111 |
| 3 | United States | 60 |
| 4 | Australia | 25 |
| 5 | Germany | 23 |
| 6 | France | 21 |
| 7 | Cyprus | 18 |
| 8 | Finland | 18 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 15 |
| 10 | United Arab Emirates | 14 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 25 |
| 2 | China | 13 |
| 3 | Chinese listed companies | 12 |
| 4 | corporate governance | 11 |
| 5 | image classification | 9 |
| 6 | corporate social responsibility | 8 |
| 7 | nonparametric predictive inference | 8 |
| 8 | accountability | 7 |
| 9 | developing countries | 7 |
| 10 | financial constraints | 7 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Durham, England, United Kingdom |
| Also known as | University of Durham |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 110,511 |
| Citations | 7,018,674 |
| h-index | 718 |
| i10-index | 86,674 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.44 |
| Website | www.dur.ac.uk |
| ROR | ror.org/01v29qb04 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I190082696 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena | Physics and Astronomy | 7,227 |
| 2 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 5,491 |
| 3 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 4,749 |
| 4 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 4,111 |
| 5 | Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations | Physics and Astronomy | 3,338 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 5,029 | 186,028 | 103 | 2.0% |
| 2025 | 5,324 | 250,869 | 127 | 2.4% |
| 2024 | 5,269 | 250,226 | 136 | 2.6% |
| 2023 | 5,111 | 236,515 | 113 | 2.2% |
| 2022 | 4,690 | 230,017 | 107 | 2.3% |
| 2021 | 4,500 | 232,933 | 100 | 2.2% |
| 2020 | 4,331 | 212,314 | 107 | 2.5% |
| 2019 | 4,089 | 190,815 | 83 | 2.0% |
| 2018 | 4,110 | 167,196 | 78 | 1.9% |
| 2017 | 3,843 | 152,937 | 74 | 1.9% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Durham University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/durham-university
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title = {Durham University},
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urldate = {2026-11-03},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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