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title: "Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg"
description: "Research profile of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg: 697 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 912."
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# Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Germany
- web domain: fau.de

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## Key findings

- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg was involved in 5 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #377 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in European Economic Review (1), European Journal of Law and Economics (1) and Labour Economics (1).
- Countries: Germany (5), Denmark (1) and United Kingdom (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg took part in 697 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (193), operations research (135) and management (118).
- 88 of them were published in 2025, against 57 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung (18), Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (10) and Centre for European Economic Research (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal for Labour Market Research (11), Business & Information Systems Engineering (11) and European Economic Review (9).
- The most-cited of them is “Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy” (International Journal of Information Management, 2023), with 4,592 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg has 164,230 works with 14,274,985 citations (h-index 912).
- The tracked journals hold 646 of its 61,993 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.0%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds (1,882), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (1,857) and Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (1,856).

## 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) | 14 | 16 | 13 | 24 | 17 | 23 | 29 | 16 | 25 | 16 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 9 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 24 | 18 | 20 | 12 | 11 | 7 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 11 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 10 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 8 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 8 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 5 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 5 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| All categories | 57 | 58 | 48 | 69 | 83 | 81 | 94 | 68 | 88 | 51 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal for Labour Market Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-for-labour-market-research.md) | 11 |
| 2 | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 11 |
| 3 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Management Review Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/management-review-quarterly.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung | 18 |
| 2 | Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits | 10 |
| 3 | Centre for European Economic Research | 8 |
| 4 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 8 |
| 5 | Technische Universität Dresden | 8 |
| 6 | [ETH Zurich](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/eth-zurich.md) | 7 |
| 7 | University of Bamberg | 7 |
| 8 | Universitätsklinikum Erlangen | 7 |
| 9 | Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 301 |
| 2 | United States | 29 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 28 |
| 4 | Switzerland | 22 |
| 5 | Austria | 18 |
| 6 | France | 14 |
| 7 | Italy | 14 |
| 8 | China | 9 |
| 9 | Spain | 8 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 8 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Germany](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/germany.md) | 12 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 11 |
| 3 | [model interpretability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/model-interpretability.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [machine learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/machine-learning.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [mixed integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-programming.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [corporate social responsibility](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-social-responsibility.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [firm performance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/firm-performance.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [multinational corporations](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multinational-corporations.md) | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,592 | 104.9 | [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. |
| 2 | 2,962 | 44.3 | [Machine learning and deep learning](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-021-00475-2) | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 2021-04-08 | Christian Janiesch, Patrick Zschech, Kai Heinrich |
| 3 | 2,828 | 26.4 | [Deep learning with long short-term memory networks for financial market predictions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.11.054) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2017-12-05 | Thomas Günter Fischer, Christopher Krauß |
| 4 | 1,488 | 39.5 | [Generative AI](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-023-00834-7) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 2023-09-12 | Stefan Feuerriegel, Jochen Hartmann, Christian Janiesch et al. |
| 5 | 1,232 | 11.6 | [Fortune favors the prepared: How SMEs approach business model innovations in Industry 4.0](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.12.019) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2018-01-05 | Julian Marius Müller, Oana Buliga, Kai‐Ingo Voigt |
| 6 | 527 | 8.5 | [Emergency remote teaching in higher education: mapping the first global online semester](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-021-00282-x) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2021-08-29 | Melissa Bond, Svenja Bedenlier, Victoria I. Marín et al. |
| 7 | 525 | 6.5 | [The role of absorptive capacity and innovation strategy in the design of industry 4.0 business Models - A comparison between SMEs and large enterprises](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2020.01.002) | [European Management Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-management-journal.md) | 2020-01-31 | Julian Marius Müller, Oana Buliga, Kai‐Ingo Voigt |
| 8 | 506 | 7.8 | [Improving supply chain resilience through industry 4.0: A systematic literature review under the impressions of the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2021.107452) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2021-06-07 | Alexander Spieske, Hendrik Sebastian Birkel |
| 9 | 504 | 5.1 | [Social media? It's serious! Understanding the dark side of social media](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2018.07.002) | [European Management Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-management-journal.md) | 2018-07-24 | Christian V. Baccarella, Timm F. Wagner, Jan Kietzmann et al. |
| 10 | 430 | 4.0 | [The influence of the Industrial Internet of Things on business models of established manufacturing companies – A business level perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2017.09.003) | [Technovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technovation.md) | 2017-10-12 | Daniel Kiel, Christian Arnold, Kai‐Ingo Voigt |

## In OpenAlex

*Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany |
| Also known as | FAU, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 164,230 |
| Citations | 14,274,985 |
| h-index | 912 |
| i10-index | 206,941 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.30 |
| Website | [www.fau.de](https://www.fau.de/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/00f7hpc57](https://ror.org/00f7hpc57) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I181369854](https://openalex.org/I181369854) |

*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) | 6,809 | 274,215 | 51 | 0.7% |
| 2025 | 7,943 | 358,666 | 88 | 1.1% |
| 2024 | 7,783 | 352,750 | 68 | 0.9% |
| 2023 | 7,438 | 335,654 | 94 | 1.3% |
| 2022 | 7,199 | 326,882 | 81 | 1.1% |
| 2021 | 7,408 | 327,301 | 83 | 1.1% |
| 2020 | 6,552 | 288,372 | 69 | 1.1% |
| 2019 | 5,953 | 244,456 | 48 | 0.8% |
| 2018 | 5,838 | 217,000 | 58 | 1.0% |
| 2017 | 5,879 | 199,751 | 57 | 1.0% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds | Chemistry | 1,882 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 1,857 |
| 3 | Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis | Chemistry | 1,856 |
| 4 | Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena | Physics and Astronomy | 1,819 |
| 5 | Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies | Medicine | 1,737 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | [Incomplete insurance and open-economy spillovers of labor market reforms](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2026.105497) | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | Brigitte Hochmuth, Christian Merkl, Heiko Stüber | University of Copenhagen; Centre for Economic Policy Research; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; … |
| 2026-10-13 | [Tax planning of spouses: a comparison of same-sex and different-sex couples](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10657-026-09887-x) | [European Journal of Law and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-law-and-economics.md) | Johannes Köckeis | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology |
| 2026-10-07 | [Artificial intelligence technologies, skills demand and employment: Evidence from linked job ads](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2026.102974) | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | Lennert Peede, Michael Stops | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung |
| 2026-10-06 | [Navigating the paradox: Empowerment and power dynamics in international social entrepreneurship](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2026.101786) | [Journal of World Business](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-world-business.md) | YUE XIAO, Francisco Layrisse, Markus Beckmann | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 2026-10-05 | [Value Co-creation in Service Ecosystems—Investigating the Role of Mediating Modalities Between Structure and Agency in Business-to-business Relations](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41471-026-00253-w) | [Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/schmalenbach-journal-of-business-research.md) | Felix Volz, Christopher Münch | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg

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  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
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