George Mason University
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Key findings#
- George Mason 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 World Development (1), Transport Policy (1) and Journal of Multivariate Analysis (1).
- Countries: United States (7), Australia (2) and China (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at George Mason University took part in 932 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (534), AI (88) and operations research (70).
- 96 of them were published in 2025, against 94 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were National Bureau of Economic Research (9), IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (8) and San Diego State University (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were The Review of Austrian Economics (48), Public Choice (29) and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (17).
- The most-cited of them is “The lineages of the entrepreneurial ecosystem approach” (Small Business Economics, 2017), with 1,033 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, George Mason University has 75,741 works with 3,520,571 citations (h-index 569).
- The tracked journals hold 849 of its 32,178 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Economic Theory and Institutions (1,794), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (1,431) and Legal and Constitutional Studies (1,387).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 54 | 59 | 45 | 60 | 49 | 52 | 61 | 58 | 51 | 45 |
| AI | 4 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 7 |
| Operations Research | 13 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 4 |
| Management | 9 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| Finance | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| Statistics | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| Marketing | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Accounting | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| All categories | 94 | 89 | 81 | 100 | 86 | 92 | 107 | 104 | 96 | 83 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Review of Austrian Economics | 48 |
| 2 | Public Choice | 29 |
| 3 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 17 |
| 4 | European Economic Review | 12 |
| 5 | European Journal of Law and Economics | 11 |
| 6 | Journal of Health Economics | 10 |
| 7 | Journal of Business and Psychology | 9 |
| 8 | Constitutional Political Economy | 7 |
| 9 | Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism | 7 |
| 10 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 5 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research | 9 |
| 2 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 8 |
| 3 | San Diego State University | 8 |
| 4 | Shandong University | 7 |
| 5 | Research Institute of Industrial Economics | 6 |
| 6 | University of Johannesburg | 6 |
| 7 | University of Tampa | 6 |
| 8 | University of Turin | 6 |
| 9 | Virginia Tech | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 390 |
| 2 | China | 33 |
| 3 | Germany | 19 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 19 |
| 5 | Australia | 11 |
| 6 | Canada | 9 |
| 7 | Italy | 8 |
| 8 | Sweden | 8 |
| 9 | South Africa | 8 |
| 10 | Spain | 7 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Austrian economics | 18 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 10 |
| 3 | history of economic thought | 9 |
| 4 | large language models | 9 |
| 5 | political economy | 8 |
| 6 | Kenneth Boulding | 7 |
| 7 | economic freedom | 7 |
| 8 | entrepreneurship | 7 |
| 9 | gender differences | 7 |
| 10 | rent-seeking | 7 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Fairfax, Virginia, United States |
| Also known as | Universidad George Mason |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 75,741 |
| Citations | 3,520,571 |
| h-index | 569 |
| i10-index | 48,823 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.21 |
| Website | www.gmu.edu |
| ROR | ror.org/02jqj7156 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I162714631 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Economic Theory and Institutions | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 1,794 |
| 2 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 1,431 |
| 3 | Legal and Constitutional Studies | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 1,387 |
| 4 | Climate variability and models | Environmental Science | 1,222 |
| 5 | Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics | Physics and Astronomy | 1,191 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 3,846 | 118,879 | 83 | 2.2% |
| 2025 | 4,235 | 158,635 | 96 | 2.3% |
| 2024 | 4,096 | 158,851 | 104 | 2.5% |
| 2023 | 3,813 | 154,386 | 107 | 2.8% |
| 2022 | 3,649 | 148,866 | 92 | 2.5% |
| 2021 | 3,584 | 149,504 | 86 | 2.4% |
| 2020 | 3,553 | 134,749 | 100 | 2.8% |
| 2019 | 3,152 | 115,890 | 81 | 2.6% |
| 2018 | 3,135 | 102,158 | 89 | 2.8% |
| 2017 | 2,961 | 93,054 | 94 | 3.2% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). George Mason University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/george-mason-university
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title = {George Mason University},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/george-mason-university}},
urldate = {2026-11-03},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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