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title: "ETH Zurich: research profile, papers and co-authors"
description: "Research profile of ETH Zurich: 1,700 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 1,288."
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share_text: "Research profile of ETH Zurich: 1,700 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 1,288. (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# ETH Zurich

- 3 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Switzerland
- web domain: ethz.ch

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

## Key findings

- ETH Zurich was involved in 11 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #124 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Public Economics (2), Research in Transportation Business & Management (2) and Artificial Intelligence Review (1).
- Countries: Switzerland (11), United Kingdom (3) and Germany (3).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at ETH Zurich took part in 1,700 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (663), AI (374) and operations research (342).
- 150 of them were published in 2025, against 180 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (63), University of Zurich (31) and Computer Vision Laboratory (26).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (56), Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (28) and International Journal of Computer Vision (24).
- The most-cited of them is “The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines” (Nature Machine Intelligence, 2019), with 6,181 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, ETH Zurich has 274,959 works with 33,524,011 citations (h-index 1,288).
- The tracked journals hold 1,563 of its 111,521 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.4%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Geological and Geochemical Analysis (5,039), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (4,993) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (4,581).
- OpenAlex lists it under Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology.

## 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) | 94 | 66 | 64 | 66 | 73 | 71 | 57 | 71 | 53 | 48 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 17 | 15 | 33 | 35 | 47 | 50 | 54 | 40 | 44 | 39 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 34 | 40 | 35 | 28 | 47 | 35 | 31 | 32 | 31 | 29 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 11 | 9 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 7 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 13 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 180 | 152 | 172 | 171 | 206 | 188 | 172 | 172 | 150 | 137 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 56 |
| 2 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 28 |
| 3 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 24 |
| 4 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 23 |
| 5 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 20 |
| 6 | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 18 |
| 7 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 18 |
| 8 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [Transportation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation.md) | 14 |
| 10 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 14 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Institute for Transport Planning and Systems | 63 |
| 2 | [University of Zurich](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-zurich.md) | 31 |
| 3 | Computer Vision Laboratory | 26 |
| 4 | [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/massachusetts-institute-of-technology.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [Technical University of Munich](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/technical-university-of-munich.md) | 18 |
| 6 | University of Bern | 17 |
| 7 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | 15 |
| 8 | [KU Leuven](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ku-leuven.md) | 14 |
| 9 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 13 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Switzerland | 631 |
| 2 | Germany | 140 |
| 3 | China | 109 |
| 4 | United States | 103 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 66 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 41 |
| 7 | Austria | 32 |
| 8 | Italy | 27 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 25 |
| 10 | Australia | 24 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Switzerland | 15 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [climate policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-policy.md) | 12 |
| 4 | agricultural policy | 10 |
| 5 | electric bicycles | 9 |
| 6 | [transformer models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transformer-models.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/innovation.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [semantic segmentation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/semantic-segmentation.md) | 8 |
| 9 | travel behavior | 8 |
| 10 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 7 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6,181 | 71.8 | [The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0088-2) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-09-02 | Anna Jobin, Marcello Ienca, Effy Vayena |
| 2 | 2,801 | 30.1 | [An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2019.01.004) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | 2019-01-31 | Jonathan Köhler, Frank Willem Geels, Florian Kern et al. |
| 3 | 2,558 | 33.8 | [Event-Based Vision: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3008413) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-07-10 | Guillermo Gallego, Tobi Delbrück, Garrick Orchard et al. |
| 4 | 1,788 | 24.1 | [Towards Robust Monocular Depth Estimation: Mixing Datasets for Zero-Shot Cross-Dataset Transfer](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3019967) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-08-27 | Rene Ranftl, Katrin Lasinger, David Hafner et al. |
| 5 | 1,356 | 13.1 | [Semantic Foggy Scene Understanding with Synthetic Data](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-018-1072-8) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2018-03-23 | Christos Sakaridis, Dengxin Dai, Luc Van Gool |
| 6 | 1,236 | 15.4 | [OSQP: an operator splitting solver for quadratic programs](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-020-00179-2) | [Mathematical Programming Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming-computation.md) | 2020-02-20 | Bartolomeo Stellato, Goran Banjac, Paul J. Goulart et al. |
| 7 | 1,140 | 17.6 | [Plug-and-Play Image Restoration With Deep Denoiser Prior](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3088914) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-06-14 | Kai Zhang, Yawei Li, Wangmeng Zuo et al. |
| 8 | 1,061 | 14.6 | [Drug discovery with explainable artificial intelligence](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-020-00236-4) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-10-13 | José Jiménez-Luna, Francesca Grisoni, Gisbert Schneider |
| 9 | 924 | 9.4 | [Temporal Segment Networks for Action Recognition in Videos](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2868668) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-09-03 | Limin Wang, Yuanjun Xiong, Zhe Wang et al. |
| 10 | 848 | 12.1 | [Multi-Task Learning for Dense Prediction Tasks: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3054719) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-01-01 | Simon Vandenhende, Stamatios Georgoulis, Wouter Van Gansbeke et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*ETH Zurich in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Zurich, Switzerland |
| Also known as | ETH Zürich, ETH di Zurigo, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich |
| Part of | [Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology](https://openalex.org/I2799323385) |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 105 |
| Also a research funder | [ETH Zurich](https://scholar4ai.com/funders/eidgenossische-technische-hochschule-zurich.md) |
| Works in OpenAlex | 274,959 |
| Citations | 33,524,011 |
| h-index | 1,288 |
| i10-index | 391,679 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.70 |
| Website | [ethz.ch](https://ethz.ch) |
| ROR | [ror.org/05a28rw58](https://ror.org/05a28rw58) |
| Wikidata | [Q11942](Q11942) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I35440088](https://openalex.org/I35440088) |

*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) | 14,812 | 748,438 | 137 | 0.9% |
| 2025 | 14,909 | 970,430 | 150 | 1.0% |
| 2024 | 14,162 | 956,790 | 172 | 1.2% |
| 2023 | 13,744 | 893,508 | 172 | 1.3% |
| 2022 | 13,185 | 863,497 | 188 | 1.4% |
| 2021 | 13,436 | 872,119 | 206 | 1.5% |
| 2020 | 12,211 | 732,183 | 171 | 1.4% |
| 2019 | 10,122 | 624,424 | 172 | 1.7% |
| 2018 | 10,082 | 548,267 | 152 | 1.5% |
| 2017 | 9,670 | 489,687 | 180 | 1.9% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Geological and Geochemical Analysis | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 5,039 |
| 2 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 4,993 |
| 3 | Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism | Physics and Astronomy | 4,581 |
| 4 | Climate variability and models | Environmental Science | 4,458 |
| 5 | Geology and Paleoclimatology Research | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3,955 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | [Investigating explainable artificial intelligence in financial time series modeling](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11745-w) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | Jens Reil, Branka Hadji Misheva, Lucía Gómez et al. | University of Twente; ETH Zurich |
| 2026-10-30 | [Asylum granted: The integration and well-being benefits of obtaining refugee status](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107603) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Marine Casalis, Dominik Hangartner, Alexandra Hartman et al. | ETH Zurich; University College London; London School of Economics and Political Science |
| 2026-10-29 | [A stability result for quadratic BSDEs with BMO growth at the origin](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spa.2026.105127) | [Stochastic Processes and their Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/stochastic-processes-and-their-applications.md) | Nikolaos Constantinou, Christoph Czichowsky, Martin Herdegen et al. | University of Stuttgart; London School of Economics and Political Science; ETH Zurich |
| 2026-10-27 | [A latent ODE approach to full-cycle biventricular cardiac motion modeling from cine MRI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104376) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | David Brüggemann, Ekaterina Krymova, Fırat Özdemir et al. | ETH Zurich; Swiss Data Science Center; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; … |
| 2026-10-27 | [Pricing climate risks: Evidence from wildfires and municipal bonds](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2026.105810) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | Woongchan Jeon, Lint Barrage, Kieran James Walsh | ETH Zurich |
| 2026-10-16 | [The welfare effects of explicit and implicit subsidies on fossil fuels](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2026.105804) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | Tim Kalmey, Sebastian Rausch, Jan Schneider | Centre for European Economic Research; Heidelberg University; ETH Zurich; … |
| 2026-10-15 | [Metropolis-scale resilient and trustworthy traffic flow inference using multi-source data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106083) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Qishen Zhou, Yifan Zhang, Michail Makridis et al. | Jilin University; City University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan); … |
| 2026-10-14 | [Consumer acceptance of packaging return mechanisms in e-commerce deliveries: Mechanisms and drivers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2026.101909) | [Research in Transportation Business & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-business-management.md) | Furqan A. Bhat, Anna Reiffer, Eva Heinen | TU Dortmund University; ETH Zurich; Institute for Transport Planning and Systems |
| 2026-10-13 | [What is fair? Balancing performance metrics for multiple stakeholders in disruptions and reduced service capacity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2026.101891) | [Research in Transportation Business & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-business-management.md) | Stefano Gioia | ETH Zurich |
| 2026-10-08 | [A minimal-access security architecture for processing sensitive health data on shared supercomputing infrastructure](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2026.105195) | [Computers & Security](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-security.md) | Pim Witlox, Gwangmu Lee, Lukas Drescher et al. | ETH Zurich; CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre |
| 2026-10-06 | [AURORA-KITTI: Any-weather depth completion and denoising](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104830) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Yiting Wang, Tim Brödermann, Hamed Haghighi et al. | Queen Mary University of London; ETH Zurich; University of Warwick; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). ETH Zurich. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/eth-zurich

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  title = {ETH Zurich},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/eth-zurich}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  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/).