---
title: "Harvard University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Harvard University: 1,757 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 3,188."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university
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share_text: "Research profile of Harvard University: 1,757 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 3,188. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# Harvard University

- 3 papers in the last 7 days
- country: United States
- web domain: harvard.edu

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

## Key findings

- Harvard University was involved in 12 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #98 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Medical Image Analysis (2), Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research (1) and Expert Systems with Applications (1).
- Countries: United States (12), United Kingdom (2) and Italy (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Harvard University took part in 1,757 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (785), AI (282) and health economics and policy (240).
- 174 of them were published in 2025, against 154 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Massachusetts Institute of Technology (56), Massachusetts General Hospital (45) and Brigham and Women's Hospital (36).
- The journals publishing most of them were Nature Machine Intelligence (40), World Development (19) and Expert Systems with Applications (18).
- The most-cited of them is “How much should we trust staggered difference-in-differences estimates?” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2022), with 3,153 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Harvard University has 971,901 works with 190,728,657 citations (h-index 3,188).
- The tracked journals hold 1,611 of its 394,170 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.4%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are T-cell and B-cell Immunology (16,586), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (14,772) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (12,467).

## 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) | 83 | 83 | 89 | 99 | 80 | 81 | 85 | 67 | 63 | 55 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 7 | 11 | 15 | 15 | 31 | 42 | 50 | 43 | 38 | 30 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 25 | 26 | 28 | 34 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 23 | 18 | 22 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 12 | 12 | 5 | 19 | 17 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 23 | 10 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 8 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 8 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 5 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 154 | 162 | 166 | 196 | 189 | 202 | 198 | 170 | 174 | 146 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 40 |
| 2 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 19 |
| 3 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 16 |
| 5 | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 16 |
| 7 | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 14 |
| 9 | [Journal of International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-economics.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 13 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/massachusetts-institute-of-technology.md) | 56 |
| 2 | Massachusetts General Hospital | 45 |
| 3 | Brigham and Women's Hospital | 36 |
| 4 | [University of Pennsylvania](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pennsylvania.md) | 24 |
| 5 | [National Bureau of Economic Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-bureau-of-economic-research.md) | 23 |
| 6 | [Stanford University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/stanford-university.md) | 23 |
| 7 | [Columbia University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/columbia-university.md) | 20 |
| 8 | [New York University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/new-york-university.md) | 18 |
| 9 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 18 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 688 |
| 2 | China | 110 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 104 |
| 4 | Germany | 51 |
| 5 | Canada | 38 |
| 6 | Switzerland | 35 |
| 7 | Australia | 30 |
| 8 | Italy | 29 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 28 |
| 10 | France | 27 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 35 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 14 |
| 3 | [cost-effectiveness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cost-effectiveness.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [health care costs](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-care-costs.md) | 8 |
| 9 | low- and middle-income countries | 8 |
| 10 | [public debt](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/public-debt.md) | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,153 | 56.0 | [How much should we trust staggered difference-in-differences estimates?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2022.01.004) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2022-02-22 | Andrew C. Baker, David F. Larcker, Charles C. Y. Wang |
| 2 | 2,052 | 22.1 | [Algorithm appreciation: People prefer algorithmic to human judgment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2018.12.005) | [Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/organizational-behavior-and-human-decision-processes.md) | 2019-02-05 | Jennifer Marie Logg, Julia Alexandra Minson, Don A. Moore |
| 3 | 1,423 | 13.6 | [Populism and the economics of globalization](https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-018-0001-4) | [Journal of International Business Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-policy.md) | 2018-02-22 | Dani Rodrik |
| 4 | 1,400 | 15.1 | [Video Enhancement with Task-Oriented Flow](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-018-01144-2) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2019-02-12 | Tianfan Xue, Baian Chen, Jiajun Wu et al. |
| 5 | 999 | 13.3 | [Polarization and public health: Partisan differences in social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104254) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2020-08-06 | Hunt Allcott, Levi Boxell, Jacob Conway et al. |
| 6 | 907 | 10.3 | [How do venture capitalists make decisions?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.06.011) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-06-25 | Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven Neil Kaplan et al. |
| 7 | 903 | 10.4 | [Interpolation Consistency Training for Semi-supervised Learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2021.10.008) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2019-07-28 | Vikas Verma, Kenji Kawaguchi, Alex Lamb et al. |
| 8 | 869 | 9.7 | [Towards a green world: How do green technology innovations affect total-factor carbon productivity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.04.033) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2019-05-14 | Kerui Du, Jianglong Li |
| 9 | 839 | 12.7 | [The Economic Burden of Adults with Major Depressive Disorder in the United States (2010 and 2018)](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-021-01019-4) | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 2021-05-05 | Paul E. Greenberg, Andrée-Anne Fournier, Tammy Sisitsky et al. |
| 10 | 820 | 9.8 | [Support vector regression](https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-815739-8.00007-9) | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 2019-11-15 | Fan Zhang, Lauren J. O’Donnell |

## In OpenAlex

*Harvard University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Also known as | Universidad de Harvard |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 18 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 971,901 |
| Citations | 190,728,657 |
| h-index | 3,188 |
| i10-index | 1,417,555 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 6.68 |
| Website | [www.harvard.edu](https://www.harvard.edu) |
| ROR | [ror.org/03vek6s52](https://ror.org/03vek6s52) |
| Wikidata | [Q13371](Q13371) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I136199984](https://openalex.org/I136199984) |

*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) | 39,284 | 2,940,049 | 146 | 0.4% |
| 2025 | 50,040 | 3,789,453 | 174 | 0.3% |
| 2024 | 44,279 | 3,847,371 | 170 | 0.4% |
| 2023 | 43,962 | 3,704,942 | 198 | 0.5% |
| 2022 | 47,692 | 3,670,263 | 202 | 0.4% |
| 2021 | 63,949 | 3,770,562 | 189 | 0.3% |
| 2020 | 44,107 | 3,356,083 | 196 | 0.4% |
| 2019 | 35,110 | 2,823,500 | 166 | 0.5% |
| 2018 | 33,038 | 2,549,160 | 162 | 0.5% |
| 2017 | 31,993 | 2,392,794 | 154 | 0.5% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | T-cell and B-cell Immunology | Immunology and Microbiology | 16,586 |
| 2 | Genetic Associations and Epidemiology | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 14,772 |
| 3 | Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12,467 |
| 4 | Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research | Medicine | 11,794 |
| 5 | Healthcare Policy and Management | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 9,859 |

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 | [A Primer on Economic Evaluation of Vocational Rehabilitation Programs](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-026-01536-4) | [Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/administration-and-policy-in-mental-health-and-mental-health-services-research.md) | Jean Yoon, Richard Nelson, Jack Tsai et al. | University of California, San Francisco; VA Palo Alto Health Care System; University of Utah; … |
| 2026-10-29 | [Leakage-aware calibrated decision-level fusion for mental-health text classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134883) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Wadii Boulila, Giuseppe Varone, Bilel Benjdira et al. | Prince Sultan University; Harvard University; Alfaisal University |
| 2026-10-28 | [Fighting the same fights: Deep-structure misalignment, masked conflict, and the illusion of resolution in start-up teams](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2026.e00683) | [Journal of Business Venturing Insights](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing-insights.md) | Amanda Weirup, Alisa Boguslavskaya Jno-Charles, Melissa Manwaring et al. | Babson College; Harvard University |
| 2026-10-27 | [Methodological Divergence in Oncology HTA: Implications for International Harmonization and the Handling of Uncertainty](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41669-026-00696-1) | [PharmacoEconomics - Open](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics-open.md) | Nai-Chia Chen, Ash Bullement, Antal Tamás Zemplenyi et al. | University of Colorado Anschutz; University of York; Brigham and Women's Hospital; … |
| 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 | [The evolution of tool use in LLM agents: from single-tool call to multi-tool orchestration](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11700-9) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | Haoyuan Xu, Chang Li, Xinyan Ma et al. | Harbin Institute of Technology; Harvard University; Huawei Technologies (China) |
| 2026-10-25 | [Matching-based estimation of causal quantile exposure response functions for continuous treatments](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-11016-2) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | Luca Merlo, Francesca Dominici, Lea Petrella et al. | Link Campus University; Harvard University; Sapienza University of Rome; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [The rise of post-pandemic bullying and its association with student achievement and school attachment: Evidence from Chile](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2026.103677) | [International Journal of Educational Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-development.md) | Alvaro Hofflinger, Rony Rodrigo Maximiliano Rodriguez-Ramirez, Emiliana Vegas | Universidad de La Frontera; Arizona State University; Harvard University |
| 2026-10-16 | [Does the United States spend enough on public schools? Evidence from a market-based efficiency test](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2026.105802) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | Patrick J. Bayer, Peter Sinclair Blair, Kenneth A. Whaley | Duke University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Harvard University; … |
| 2026-10-08 | [Small farms and income generating activities in developing countries: Empirical insights from agricultural development projects](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.108364) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | Sarah K. Lowder, Athur Mabiso, Sara Savastano et al. | International Fund for Agricultural Development; University of Rome Tor Vergata; Texas Tech University; … |
| 2026-10-06 | [A self-navigated framework for motion detection and spoke-reordering musculoskeletal dynamic reconstruction in 3D radial MRI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104345) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Enping Lin, Fatih Calakli, Musa Tunç Arslan et al. | Boston Children's Hospital; Harvard University |
| 2026-10-05 | [Towards mission theory: A systematic literature review of its critiques and avenues for progress (2010–2025)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2026.105634) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | Iacopo Gronchi, Josh Entsminger | Demos Helsinki; University College London; Harvard University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Harvard University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-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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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).