Imperial College London
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Key findings#
- Imperial College London was involved in 13 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #86 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in International Journal for Equity in Health (2), PharmacoEconomics - Open (2) and Statistics and Computing (1).
- Countries: United Kingdom (13), United States (5) and Australia (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Imperial College London took part in 1,517 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (519), economics (279) and operations research (268).
- 160 of them were published in 2025, against 132 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Milli Savunma Üniversitesi (55), Naval Academy (55) and University College London (36).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (39), Information Fusion (28) and Nature Machine Intelligence (25).
- The most-cited of them is “Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk?” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2019), with 3,369 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Imperial College London has 401,231 works with 50,535,659 citations (h-index 1,772).
- The tracked journals hold 1,374 of its 175,084 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.8%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (11,553), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (8,584) and Asthma and respiratory diseases (7,881).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 30 | 29 | 40 | 38 | 68 | 66 | 65 | 69 | 60 | 54 |
| Economics | 33 | 35 | 22 | 36 | 21 | 33 | 22 | 31 | 24 | 22 |
| Operations Research | 30 | 26 | 29 | 21 | 27 | 30 | 27 | 34 | 23 | 21 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 10 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 20 |
| Finance | 10 | 17 | 13 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 15 | 5 |
| Management | 8 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 12 |
| Statistics | 7 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 5 |
| Marketing | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 132 | 142 | 136 | 134 | 170 | 174 | 146 | 180 | 160 | 143 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 39 |
| 2 | Information Fusion | 28 |
| 3 | Nature Machine Intelligence | 25 |
| 4 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 22 |
| 5 | Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice | 21 |
| 6 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 17 |
| 7 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 16 |
| 8 | Neural Networks | 13 |
| 9 | Pattern Recognition | 12 |
| 10 | Statistics and Computing | 12 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Milli Savunma Üniversitesi | 55 |
| 2 | Naval Academy | 55 |
| 3 | University College London | 36 |
| 4 | King's College London | 24 |
| 5 | Western Caspian University | 22 |
| 6 | Lebanese American University | 21 |
| 7 | University of Cambridge | 21 |
| 8 | University of Oxford | 17 |
| 9 | National University of Singapore | 16 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 629 |
| 2 | China | 172 |
| 3 | United States | 107 |
| 4 | Turkey | 59 |
| 5 | Australia | 48 |
| 6 | Germany | 48 |
| 7 | Canada | 34 |
| 8 | Spain | 32 |
| 9 | Italy | 31 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 30 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 14 |
| 2 | multi-criteria decision making | 14 |
| 3 | deep learning | 12 |
| 4 | federated learning | 10 |
| 5 | class imbalance | 8 |
| 6 | computational efficiency | 8 |
| 7 | graph neural networks | 8 |
| 8 | attention mechanism | 7 |
| 9 | cost-effectiveness | 7 |
| 10 | criteria weighting | 7 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Also known as | Coleg Imperial Llundain, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 8 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 401,231 |
| Citations | 50,535,659 |
| h-index | 1,772 |
| i10-index | 522,421 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 7.90 |
| Website | www.imperial.ac.uk |
| ROR | ror.org/041kmwe10 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I47508984 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Advanced Chemical Physics Studies | Physics and Astronomy | 11,553 |
| 2 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 8,584 |
| 3 | Asthma and respiratory diseases | Medicine | 7,881 |
| 4 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 6,478 |
| 5 | Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research | Medicine | 6,429 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 19,290 | 1,000,918 | 143 | 0.7% |
| 2025 | 21,809 | 1,285,804 | 160 | 0.7% |
| 2024 | 21,614 | 1,286,789 | 180 | 0.8% |
| 2023 | 20,677 | 1,224,322 | 146 | 0.7% |
| 2022 | 20,474 | 1,197,814 | 174 | 0.8% |
| 2021 | 21,731 | 1,208,942 | 170 | 0.8% |
| 2020 | 19,021 | 1,028,721 | 134 | 0.7% |
| 2019 | 17,242 | 846,385 | 136 | 0.8% |
| 2018 | 16,381 | 751,181 | 142 | 0.9% |
| 2017 | 16,135 | 690,392 | 132 | 0.8% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | Data assimilation using a global Girsanov nudged particle filter | Statistics and Computing | Maneesh Kumar Singh, Josh Hope-Collins, Colin J. Cotter et al. | SRM Institute of Science and Technology; Imperial College London |
| 2026-10-31 | The work of obtaining breast cancer care and support: a realist-informed qualitative study of equity in access | International Journal for Equity in Health | Patrick Kierkegaard, Bowen Su, Hilary Stobart et al. | Institute of Cancer Research; Cancer Research UK; Imperial College London; … |
| 2026-10-30 | Computational aspects of distortion | Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems | Soroush Ebadian, Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Mohamad Latifian et al. | University of Toronto; Imperial College London; University of Edinburgh |
| 2026-10-26 | Economic Evaluation of an E-Dengue Early Warning System for Proactive Dengue Prevention in the Mekong Delta Region, Vietnam: A Protocol | PharmacoEconomics - Open | Trinh Manh Hung, Kim-Huong Nguyen, Hugo C. Turner et al. | The University of Queensland; Trinity College Dublin; Imperial College London; … |
| 2026-10-26 | Structural failure of marginal scarcity pricing: a common architectural root of retailer insolvency, risk–volume separation instability, and VoLL-dependent investment signals | Journal of Regulatory Economics | Shaun Sweeney | Imperial College London |
| 2026-10-26 | Quality-Adjusted and Disability-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs and DALYs): An Overview and Guide to Calculations | PharmacoEconomics - Open | Hugo Turner, Brandon Wen Bing Chua, Panupong Chaowanasawat et al. | Imperial College London; Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program; The University of Queensland; … |
| 2026-10-25 | Shared autonomous mobility services: Configurational roles of perceived government support in adoption intention across pilot and non-pilot cities | Transport Policy | C.H. Yang, Miaomiao Liu, Lixian Qian et al. | Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; Imperial College London |
| 2026-10-24 | Health-system fragmentation and maternal mortality in Mexico, 2008–2022: a spatio-temporal spillover analysis | International Journal for Equity in Health | Carlos Pineda‐Antúnez, Miguel Ángel Mendoza-González, Diego Cerecero-García et al. | University of Washington; Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; … |
| 2026-10-23 | Guidelines for evaluating structure-based methods for protein–ligand binding prediction | Nature Machine Intelligence | Viet-Khoa Tran-Nguyen, Pedro Ballester | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Inserm; Université Paris Cité; … |
| 2026-10-14 | A blockchain and geospatial AI-enabled governance system for illegal gold mining detection and supply chain traceability | Resources Policy | Pratyush Kumar Patro, Adolf Akwei Acquaye, Malick NDIAYE et al. | Khalifa University of Science and Technology; American University of Sharjah; Imperial College London |
| 2026-10-10 | Too little too late? Nationwide carbon trading in China | Journal of Public Economics | Shuang Zhang, Douglas Almond | Centre for Economic Policy Research; Imperial College London; National Bureau of Economic Research; … |
| 2026-10-07 | Optimal metric distortion for matching on the line | Artificial Intelligence | Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Mohamad Latifian et al. | Imperial College London; Drexel University; University of Edinburgh; … |
| 2026-10-06 | Challenges in the decarbonization of the UK electrical power system by 2030: A techno-economic analysis of current and alternative policies | Energy Policy | Hui Yau Or, Salvador Acha, Nilay Shah et al. | Imperial College London; National Grid (United Kingdom) |
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Scholar4AI. (2026). Imperial College London. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/imperial-college-london
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