Ghent University
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Key findings#
- Ghent University was involved in 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #284 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Telecommunications Policy (1), Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation (1) and Evaluation and Program Planning (1).
- Countries: Belgium (6), DR Congo (1) and Spain (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Ghent University took part in 1,356 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (344), economics (333) and AI (230).
- 120 of them were published in 2025, against 126 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Vlerick Business School (42), University of Antwerp (38) and KU Leuven (35).
- The journals publishing most of them were European Journal of Operational Research (27), Annals of Operations Research (13) and Expert Systems with Applications (13).
- The most-cited of them is “Aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty in machine learning: an introduction to concepts and methods” (Machine Learning, 2021), with 1,833 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Ghent University has 213,501 works with 21,215,737 citations (h-index 1,022).
- The tracked journals hold 1,252 of its 95,558 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.3%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Marine Biology and Ecology Research (2,931), Photonic and Optical Devices (2,743) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (2,675).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 31 | 39 | 27 | 41 | 37 | 41 | 41 | 32 | 34 | 21 |
| Economics | 35 | 21 | 39 | 48 | 30 | 29 | 37 | 38 | 24 | 32 |
| AI | 21 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 30 | 35 | 30 | 25 | 21 | 14 |
| Management | 15 | 19 | 20 | 11 | 22 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 14 |
| Finance | 4 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 6 |
| Information Systems | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
| Higher Education and Research | 4 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Marketing | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 |
| Statistics | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Accounting | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 126 | 119 | 125 | 157 | 164 | 145 | 150 | 146 | 120 | 104 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | European Journal of Operational Research | 27 |
| 2 | Annals of Operations Research | 13 |
| 3 | Expert Systems with Applications | 13 |
| 4 | Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice | 12 |
| 5 | Journal of Business Research | 11 |
| 6 | Land Use Policy | 11 |
| 7 | Computers & Operations Research | 11 |
| 8 | International Journal of Approximate Reasoning | 11 |
| 9 | Machine Learning | 9 |
| 10 | Finance research letters | 9 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vlerick Business School | 42 |
| 2 | University of Antwerp | 38 |
| 3 | KU Leuven | 35 |
| 4 | University College London | 35 |
| 5 | IMEC | 33 |
| 6 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 24 |
| 7 | University of Tartu | 18 |
| 8 | Université de Lille | 18 |
| 9 | Lille Économie Management | 16 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belgium | 520 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 83 |
| 3 | China | 72 |
| 4 | United States | 57 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 46 |
| 6 | France | 44 |
| 7 | Germany | 40 |
| 8 | Italy | 26 |
| 9 | Spain | 23 |
| 10 | Estonia | 18 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | project scheduling | 14 |
| 2 | resource-constrained project scheduling | 14 |
| 3 | COVID-19 pandemic | 12 |
| 4 | Flanders | 11 |
| 5 | genetic algorithm | 10 |
| 6 | explainable AI | 9 |
| 7 | gender differences | 9 |
| 8 | large language models | 9 |
| 9 | CO2 emissions | 7 |
| 10 | China | 7 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Ghent, Flanders, Belgium |
| Also known as | UGent, Universiteit Gent, Université de Gand |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 8 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 213,501 |
| Citations | 21,215,737 |
| h-index | 1,022 |
| i10-index | 294,891 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.34 |
| Website | www.ugent.be |
| ROR | ror.org/00cv9y106 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I32597200 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marine Biology and Ecology Research | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2,931 |
| 2 | Photonic and Optical Devices | Engineering | 2,743 |
| 3 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 2,675 |
| 4 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 2,653 |
| 5 | Plant Molecular Biology Research | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2,411 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 11,197 | 464,225 | 104 | 0.9% |
| 2025 | 11,909 | 590,371 | 120 | 1.0% |
| 2024 | 12,648 | 588,587 | 146 | 1.2% |
| 2023 | 11,580 | 563,308 | 150 | 1.3% |
| 2022 | 11,146 | 547,775 | 145 | 1.3% |
| 2021 | 11,010 | 541,677 | 164 | 1.5% |
| 2020 | 10,218 | 471,253 | 157 | 1.5% |
| 2019 | 9,361 | 388,388 | 125 | 1.3% |
| 2018 | 9,263 | 338,554 | 119 | 1.3% |
| 2017 | 8,423 | 303,186 | 126 | 1.5% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Ghent University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ghent-university
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title = {Ghent University},
year = {2026},
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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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