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title: "Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: research profile"
description: "Research profile of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: 670 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 867."
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share_text: "Research profile of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: 670 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 867. (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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# Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: Germany
- web domain: kit.edu

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

## Key findings

- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology was involved in 9 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #163 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Mineral Economics (1), Games and Economic Behavior (1) and Artificial Intelligence Review (1).
- Countries: Germany (9), Egypt (1) and Kuwait (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology took part in 670 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (160), operations research (148) and information systems (132).
- 75 of them were published in 2025, against 64 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Goethe University Frankfurt (15), University of Bayreuth (12) and RWTH Aachen University (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Business & Information Systems Engineering (30), Electronic Markets (10) and Energy Economics (9).
- The most-cited of them is “Digitalization: Opportunity and Challenge for the Business and Information Systems Engineering Community” (Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2017), with 985 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has 167,816 works with 15,329,795 citations (h-index 867).
- The tracked journals hold 599 of its 71,445 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.8%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (8,514), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (6,848) and Particle Detector Development and Performance (4,939).
- OpenAlex lists it under Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.

## 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) | 19 | 15 | 19 | 15 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 11 | 15 | 14 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 17 | 17 | 9 | 11 | 21 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 20 | 11 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 9 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 16 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 3 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 17 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 6 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 64 | 62 | 62 | 61 | 67 | 75 | 61 | 72 | 75 | 71 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 30 |
| 2 | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 5 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Goethe University Frankfurt | 15 |
| 2 | [University of Bayreuth](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bayreuth.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [RWTH Aachen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/rwth-aachen-university.md) | 9 |
| 4 | University of Mannheim | 7 |
| 5 | Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research | 6 |
| 6 | University of Duisburg-Essen | 6 |
| 7 | [Utrecht University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/utrecht-university.md) | 6 |
| 8 | FZI Research Center for Information Technology | 5 |
| 9 | [Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg.md) | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 279 |
| 2 | United States | 23 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 20 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 16 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 15 |
| 6 | China | 12 |
| 7 | Austria | 11 |
| 8 | Denmark | 9 |
| 9 | France | 8 |
| 10 | Australia | 7 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [multi-objective optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-objective-optimization.md) | 8 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [artificial intelligence adoption](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence-adoption.md) | 5 |
| 4 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 5 |
| 5 | information systems research | 5 |
| 6 | [supply chain resilience](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/supply-chain-resilience.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Germany](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/germany.md) | 4 |
| 8 | agent-based modeling | 4 |
| 9 | [artificial neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-neural-networks.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [bi-level optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bi-level-optimization.md) | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 985 | 8.8 | [Digitalization: Opportunity and Challenge for the Business and Information Systems Engineering Community](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-017-0484-2) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 2017-07-04 | Christine Legner, Torsten Eymann, Thomas Heß et al. |
| 2 | 715 | 6.9 | [The limits of trust-free systems: A literature review on blockchain technology and trust in the sharing economy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2018.03.005) | [Electronic Commerce Research and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-commerce-research-and-applications.md) | 2018-03-18 | Florian Hawlitschek, Benedikt Notheisen, Timm Teubner |
| 3 | 594 | 8.1 | [Trustworthy artificial intelligence](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-020-00441-4) | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 2020-10-01 | Scott Thiebes, Sebastian Lins, Ali Sunyaev |
| 4 | 569 | 6.8 | [Corporate digital responsibility](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.10.006) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2019-11-28 | Lara Lobschat, Benjamin Mueller, Felix Eggers et al. |
| 5 | 546 | 6.0 | [How effective is nudging? A quantitative review on the effect sizes and limits of empirical nudging studies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2019.03.005) | [Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-behavioral-and-experimental-economics.md) | 2019-03-12 | Dennis Hummel, Alexander Maedche |
| 6 | 409 | 4.6 | [AI-Based Digital Assistants](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-019-00600-8) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 2019-06-11 | Alexander Maedche, Christine Legner, Alexander Benlian et al. |
| 7 | 405 | 4.3 | [Comprehensive Learning Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm With Local Search for Multimodal Functions](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2018.2885075) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2018-12-05 | Yulian Cao, Han Zhang, Wenfeng Li et al. |
| 8 | 384 | 8.8 | [Welcome to the Era of ChatGPT et al.](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-023-00795-x) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 2023-03-13 | Timm Teubner, Christoph M. Flath, Christof Weinhardt et al. |
| 9 | 256 | 2.3 | [Combining virtual reality and mobile eye tracking to provide a naturalistic experimental environment for shopper research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.09.028) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2017-09-24 | Martin Meißner, Jella Pfeiffer, Thies Pfeiffer et al. |
| 10 | 256 | 2.4 | [Robo-Advisory](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-018-0521-9) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 2018-01-22 | Dominik Jung, Verena Dorner, Florian Glaser et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany |
| Also known as | KIT, Das Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) – Die Forschungsuniversität in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Das Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) – Die Universität in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
| Part of | [Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres](https://openalex.org/I1305996414) |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 4 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 167,816 |
| Citations | 15,329,795 |
| h-index | 867 |
| i10-index | 230,443 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.97 |
| Website | [www.kit.edu](https://www.kit.edu) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04t3en479](https://ror.org/04t3en479) |
| Wikidata | [Q309988](Q309988) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I102335020](https://openalex.org/I102335020) |

*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) | 8,612 | 260,143 | 71 | 0.8% |
| 2025 | 10,100 | 337,969 | 75 | 0.7% |
| 2024 | 9,512 | 334,711 | 72 | 0.8% |
| 2023 | 8,642 | 314,868 | 61 | 0.7% |
| 2022 | 8,232 | 306,991 | 75 | 0.9% |
| 2021 | 7,734 | 308,096 | 67 | 0.9% |
| 2020 | 7,396 | 255,854 | 61 | 0.8% |
| 2019 | 7,782 | 222,247 | 62 | 0.8% |
| 2018 | 6,209 | 196,847 | 62 | 1.0% |
| 2017 | 5,838 | 179,849 | 64 | 1.1% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 8,514 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 6,848 |
| 3 | Particle Detector Development and Performance | Physics and Astronomy | 4,939 |
| 4 | Crystal structures of chemical compounds | Chemistry | 4,213 |
| 5 | Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism | Physics and Astronomy | 3,541 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | [From global rare earth resources to the EU supply security: An overview on primary and alternative resources and strategic pathways](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13563-026-00720-0) | [Mineral Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mineral-economics.md) | Melike Yildirim Ayyildiz, Jasemin Ayse Ölmez, Christoph Hilgers | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-26 | [A Fenchel-Moreau conjugation-based approach for computing the pre-kernel/pre-nucleolus](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2026.104069) | [Games and Economic Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/games-and-economic-behavior.md) | Holger Ingmar Meinhardt | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-17 | [Seeing ahead through a state-of-the-art review of visual perception and predictive intelligence for collaborative robots](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11708-1) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | Mahmoud Salem, Markus Reischl, Veit Hagenmeyer et al. | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; British University in Egypt; Gulf University for Science & Technology |
| 2026-10-16 | [Comments on: CliPS: How to identify cluster distributions in Bayesian mixture models](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-026-01052-5) | [Test](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/test.md) | Nadja Klein | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-15 | [Automatic Data Dependence Analysis by Deductive Verification](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10817-026-09769-6) | [Journal of Automated Reasoning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-automated-reasoning.md) | Asmae Heydari Tabar, Richard Bubel, Reiner Hähnle | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Technische Universität Darmstadt |
| 2026-10-13 | [The automated valet parking problem for parking garage service provision](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-026-00894-z) | [Journal of Scheduling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-scheduling.md) | Marc Schmidt, Philipp Staudt | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-10 | [High to low: Price formation and bid placement at the extremes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115620) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | Jilles De Blauwe, Thorsten Weiskopf, Harshit Gaur et al. | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Technical University of Denmark |
| 2026-10-07 | [A multi-head network based on squeeze-and-excitation for reconstructing the handwriting trajectory of an IMU-based digital pen](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.004) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Florent Imbert, Yann Soullard, Éric Anquetil et al. | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Luleå University of Technology; Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires; … |
| 2026-10-06 | [Visions of quantum computing: An ethical assessment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2026.103941) | [Futures](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/futures.md) | Eline J. de Jong, Armin Grunwald | QuSoft; Institute of Physics; University of Amsterdam; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology

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