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title: "King Abdullah University of Science and Technology"
description: "Research profile of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology: 307 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and statistics; h-index 689."
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# King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Saudi Arabia
- web domain: kaust.edu.sa

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

## Key findings

- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology was involved in 4 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #507 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Energy Economics (1), Nature Machine Intelligence (1) and Journal of Multivariate Analysis (1).
- Countries: Saudi Arabia (4), Georgia (1) and Sweden (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology ranks #8 in statistics.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology took part in 307 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (155), statistics (116) and operations research (24).
- 37 of them were published in 2025, against 23 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were RWTH Aachen University (9), Peking University (8) and Shandong University (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Statistics and Computing (23), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (21) and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (10).
- The most-cited of them is “An up-to-date comparison of state-of-the-art classification algorithms” (Expert Systems with Applications, 2017), with 439 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology has 47,728 works with 5,133,555 citations (h-index 689).
- The tracked journals hold 272 of its 32,439 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.8%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies (1,918), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (1,510) and Membrane Separation Technologies (1,495).

## In the rankings

Top institutions, 2023–2025: [#8 in statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/statistics.md)

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 9 | 12 | 3 | 15 | 16 | 12 | 20 | 19 | 26 | 23 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 9 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 18 | 9 | 6 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 23 | 25 | 11 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 35 | 39 | 37 | 35 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 23 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 21 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 10 |
| 4 | [Spatial Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/spatial-statistics.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | 5 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [RWTH Aachen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/rwth-aachen-university.md) | 9 |
| 2 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [Shandong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shandong-university.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [University of Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 8 |
| 5 | Qingdao University of Science and Technology | 7 |
| 6 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Shenzhen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shenzhen-university.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Carnegie Mellon University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/carnegie-mellon-university.md) | 5 |
| 9 | Karolinska Institutet | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 146 |
| 2 | China | 56 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 24 |
| 4 | United States | 23 |
| 5 | France | 11 |
| 6 | Germany | 10 |
| 7 | Singapore | 10 |
| 8 | Australia | 9 |
| 9 | Spain | 7 |
| 10 | Italy | 7 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 8 |
| 2 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 5 |
| 3 | [graph convolutional networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-convolutional-networks.md) | 5 |
| 4 | importance sampling | 5 |
| 5 | [model interpretability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/model-interpretability.md) | 5 |
| 6 | stochastic optimal control | 5 |
| 7 | [uncertainty quantification](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/uncertainty-quantification.md) | 5 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 4 |
| 9 | [convolutional neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convolutional-neural-networks.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [dimensionality reduction](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/dimensionality-reduction.md) | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 439 | 3.8 | [An up-to-date comparison of state-of-the-art classification algorithms](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.04.003) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2017-04-05 | Chongsheng Zhang, Changchang Liu, Xiangliang Zhang et al. |
| 2 | 429 | 6.8 | [AbdomenCT-1K: Is Abdominal Organ Segmentation a Solved Problem?](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3100536) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-07-27 | Jun Ma, Yao Zhang, Song Gu et al. |
| 3 | 215 | 3.2 | [DeepGCNs: Making GCNs Go as Deep as CNNs](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3074057) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-04-19 | Guohao Li, Matthias F. Mueller, Guocheng Qian et al. |
| 4 | 178 | 1.7 | [Sim4CV: A Photo-Realistic Simulator for Computer Vision Applications](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-018-1073-7) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2018-03-24 | Matthias Müller, Vincent Casser, Jean Lahoud et al. |
| 5 | 172 | 5.2 | [Towards Open Vocabulary Learning: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3361862) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-02-05 | Jianzong Wu, Xiangtai Li, Shilin Xu et al. |
| 6 | 132 | 1.4 | [Non-stationary Gaussian models with physical barriers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2019.01.002) | [Spatial Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/spatial-statistics.md) | 2019-01-18 | Haakon Christopher Bakka, Jarno P. Vanhatalo, Janine Illian et al. |
| 7 | 129 | 4.0 | [Protein function prediction as approximate semantic entailment](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00795-w) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-02-14 | Maxat Kulmanov, Francisco J. Guzmán‐Vega, Paula D Duek et al. |
| 8 | 125 | 1.2 | [p-Box ADMM: A Versatile Framework for Integer Programming](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2845842) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-06-11 | Baoyuan Wu, Bernard Ghanem |
| 9 | 113 | 1.0 | [Searching Trajectories by Regions of Interest](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2017.2685504) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2017-03-22 | Shuo Shang, Lisi Chen, Christian S. Jensen et al. |
| 10 | 94 | 0.9 | [Parallel Trajectory-to-Location Join](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2018.2854705) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2018-07-10 | Shuo Shang, Lisi Chen, Kai Zheng et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Jeddah, Mecca Region, Saudi Arabia |
| Also known as | KAUST, جامعة الملك عبد الله للعلوم والتقنية |
| Works in OpenAlex | 47,728 |
| Citations | 5,133,555 |
| h-index | 689 |
| i10-index | 63,007 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 8.69 |
| Website | [www.kaust.edu.sa](https://www.kaust.edu.sa) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01q3tbs38](https://ror.org/01q3tbs38) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I71920554](https://openalex.org/I71920554) |

*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) | 3,802 | 179,462 | 35 | 0.9% |
| 2025 | 4,520 | 229,843 | 37 | 0.8% |
| 2024 | 4,639 | 215,161 | 39 | 0.8% |
| 2023 | 4,218 | 190,314 | 35 | 0.8% |
| 2022 | 3,807 | 175,436 | 33 | 0.9% |
| 2021 | 3,578 | 160,590 | 34 | 1.0% |
| 2020 | 3,442 | 130,090 | 35 | 1.0% |
| 2019 | 2,966 | 101,314 | 11 | 0.4% |
| 2018 | 2,751 | 79,337 | 25 | 0.9% |
| 2017 | 2,518 | 61,213 | 23 | 0.9% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies | Chemical Engineering | 1,918 |
| 2 | Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics | Engineering | 1,510 |
| 3 | Membrane Separation Technologies | Environmental Science | 1,495 |
| 4 | Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies | Environmental Science | 1,489 |
| 5 | Combustion and flame dynamics | Engineering | 1,466 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | [Long-term impacts of climate change on electricity demand and household expenditure in Saudi Arabia](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2026.109648) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | Ansir Ilyas, Puneet Kamboj, Fahad Alswaina et al. | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center |
| 2026-10-19 | [Reusability report: multi-sample omics network inference operates in distinct robustness regimes defined by prior knowledge and data availability](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-026-01311-y) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | Xabier Martinez‐de‐Morentin, Sameer Ahmad Khan, Itziar Cenzano et al. | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Ilia State University; Karolinska University Hospital; … |
| 2026-10-09 | [Voronoi Depth for functional data over non-convex multidimensional supports](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2026.105727) | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | Michele Cavazzutti, Alessando Palummo, Eleonora Arnone et al. | Politecnico di Milano; University of Turin; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-09 | [Bayesian spatio-temporal disaggregation modeling using a diffusion-SPDE approach: A case study of Aerosol Optical Depth in India](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2026.101058) | [Spatial Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/spatial-statistics.md) | Fernando Rodriguez Avellaneda, Paula Moraga | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/king-abdullah-university-of-science-and-technology

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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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