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title: "King's College London: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of King's College London: 1,225 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 1,355."
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share_text: "Research profile of King's College London: 1,225 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 1,355. (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# King's College London

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: United Kingdom
- web domain: kcl.ac.uk

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

## Key findings

- King's College London was involved in 19 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #51 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in European Journal of Political Economy (2), Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (1) and Social Science & Medicine (1).
- Countries: United Kingdom (19), China (4) and Ireland (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at King's College London took part in 1,225 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (327), AI (301) and management (160).
- 160 of them were published in 2025, against 67 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Imperial College London (24), University College London (22) and London School of Economics and Political Science (16).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (31), World Development (15) and Health Research Policy and Systems (14).
- The most-cited of them is “Greenwashing in environmental, social and governance disclosures” (Research in International Business and Finance, 2020), with 1,138 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, King's College London has 264,869 works with 26,670,772 citations (h-index 1,355).
- The tracked journals hold 1,084 of its 121,771 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.9%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Schizophrenia research and treatment (9,094), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (6,222) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (6,005).
- OpenAlex lists it under University of London.

## 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) | 13 | 29 | 23 | 39 | 35 | 31 | 30 | 41 | 51 | 35 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 12 | 15 | 29 | 28 | 35 | 34 | 35 | 39 | 38 | 36 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 9 | 13 | 19 | 15 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 28 | 14 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 13 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 16 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 9 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 14 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 67 | 100 | 115 | 121 | 144 | 129 | 112 | 136 | 160 | 141 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 31 |
| 2 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 15 |
| 3 | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Public Choice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-choice.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Imperial College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/imperial-college-london.md) | 24 |
| 2 | [University College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-london.md) | 22 |
| 3 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [University of Cambridge](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-cambridge.md) | 16 |
| 5 | [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [Queen Mary University of London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/queen-mary-university-of-london.md) | 13 |
| 7 | University of London | 11 |
| 8 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 11 |
| 9 | City St George's, University of London | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 549 |
| 2 | China | 113 |
| 3 | United States | 84 |
| 4 | Germany | 43 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 35 |
| 6 | Australia | 29 |
| 7 | Italy | 26 |
| 8 | France | 25 |
| 9 | Canada | 24 |
| 10 | Austria | 16 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [multinational corporations](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multinational-corporations.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [India](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/india.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [cost-effectiveness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cost-effectiveness.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 6 |
| 10 | event-triggered control | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,138 | 14.0 | [Greenwashing in environmental, social and governance disclosures](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2020.101192) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 2020-01-27 | Ellen Pei‐yi Yu, Bac Van Luu, Catherine Huirong Chen |
| 2 | 516 | 9.3 | [A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105898) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2022-03-28 | Nithya Natarajan, Andrew Newsham, Jonathan D. Rigg et al. |
| 3 | 477 | 8.4 | [Security-Based Fuzzy Control for Nonlinear Networked Control Systems With DoS Attacks via a Resilient Event-Triggered Scheme](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2022.3148875) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2022-02-07 | Yingnan Pan, Yanmin Wu, Hak‐Keung Lam |
| 4 | 460 | 6.6 | [Exploring the theory, barriers and enablers for patient and public involvement across health, social care and patient safety: a systematic review of reviews](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-00644-3) | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 2021-01-20 | Josephine Enyonam Ocloo, Sara Garfield, Bryony Dean Franklin et al. |
| 5 | 458 | 4.3 | [Finite-Time Event-Triggered $\\mathcal{H}_{\\infty }$ Control for T–S Fuzzy Markov Jump Systems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2017.2788891) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2018-01-05 | Hao Shen, Feng Li, Huaicheng Yan et al. |
| 6 | 441 | 8.5 | [Artificial empathy in marketing interactions: Bridging the human-AI gap in affective and social customer experience](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-022-00892-5) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2022-07-08 | Yuping Liu–Thompkins, Shintaro Okazaki, Hairong Li |
| 7 | 425 | 4.5 | [Antecedents of trust and continuance intention in mobile payment platforms: The moderating effect of gender](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2018.100823) | [Electronic Commerce Research and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-commerce-research-and-applications.md) | 2018-12-27 | Zhen Shao, Lin Zhang, Xiaotong Li et al. |
| 8 | 422 | 7.4 | [Cryptocurrency trading: a comprehensive survey](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854-021-00321-6) | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | 2022-02-06 | Fan Fang, Carmine Ventre, Michail Basios et al. |
| 9 | 399 | 4.3 | [It’s real, trust me! Establishing supply chain provenance using blockchain](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2019.01.008) | [Business Horizons](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-horizons.md) | 2019-02-13 | Matteo Montecchi, Kirk A. Plangger, Michael Andreas Etter |
| 10 | 362 | 4.6 | [Lost in the shadows: reflections on the dark side of co-production](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-00558-0) | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 2020-05-07 | Oli Williams, Sophie Sarre, Constantina Papoulias et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*King's College London in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Also known as | KCL, Coleg y Brenin, Llundain |
| Part of | [University of London](https://openalex.org/I124357947) |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 3 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 264,869 |
| Citations | 26,670,772 |
| h-index | 1,355 |
| i10-index | 282,085 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.26 |
| Website | [www.kcl.ac.uk](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/0220mzb33](https://ror.org/0220mzb33) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I183935753](https://openalex.org/I183935753) |

*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) | 14,899 | 658,676 | 141 | 0.9% |
| 2025 | 16,380 | 831,072 | 160 | 1.0% |
| 2024 | 15,613 | 836,873 | 136 | 0.9% |
| 2023 | 15,040 | 786,270 | 112 | 0.7% |
| 2022 | 14,030 | 773,132 | 129 | 0.9% |
| 2021 | 14,398 | 773,917 | 144 | 1.0% |
| 2020 | 13,484 | 662,501 | 121 | 0.9% |
| 2019 | 11,880 | 515,915 | 115 | 1.0% |
| 2018 | 10,860 | 444,136 | 100 | 0.9% |
| 2017 | 10,086 | 398,214 | 67 | 0.7% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Schizophrenia research and treatment | Medicine | 9,094 |
| 2 | Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research | Medicine | 6,222 |
| 3 | Genetic Associations and Epidemiology | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6,005 |
| 4 | Mental Health Treatment and Access | Psychology | 5,147 |
| 5 | Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes | Medicine | 3,521 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | [Learning safe behaviour via justified human preferences and hypothetical queries](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-026-09770-8) | [Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/autonomous-agents-and-multi-agent-systems.md) | Ilias Kazantzidis, Timothy J. Norman, Yali Du et al. | University of Southampton; King's College London |
| 2026-10-27 | [Recovering from stigmatised loss following child removal into state care: a realist synthesis of institutional mechanisms shaping maternal health and inequality](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119986) | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | Ruth McGovern, C. Smiles, C. Grant et al. | Newcastle University; Teesside University; King's College London; … |
| 2026-10-26 | [Meritocracy as Bureaucratic Conversion: Hukou, Provincial Quotas, and Elite University Access Through China’s Gaokao](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-026-00496-6) | [Higher Education Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education-policy.md) | Zhen Wei, Shiming Zhang, Ziyu Lin | King's College London; Hainan University; Technological University Dublin; … |
| 2026-10-24 | [Revisiting Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) development for the age of generative AI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2026.100428) | [Computers and Education Open](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-open.md) | Mary Webb, Kathryn MacCallum, Jodie Torrington et al. | King's College London; University of Canterbury; Macquarie University; … |
| 2026-10-24 | [Contested elections and the power of new voters: The impact of extending voting rights to non-citizens](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2026.102913) | [European Journal of Political Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-political-economy.md) | Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe, Santiago Sánchez-Pagés, Ángel Solano García | University of Alicante; King's College London; Universidad de Granada |
| 2026-10-23 | [Deep Scattering Spectrum for dysarthric speech recognition, detection and classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2026.102061) | [Computer Speech & Language](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-speech-language.md) | Erfan Loweimi, Zhengjun Yue, Zoran Cvetković | University of Edinburgh; King's College London; Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
| 2026-10-23 | [An infinite BART model](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-11006-4) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | Marco Battiston, Yu Luo | Lancaster University; King's College London |
| 2026-10-21 | [Buffering institutional erosion: organizational ties and SME exports under populism](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-026-00911-5) | [Journal of International Business Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-studies.md) | Xiaolong Shui, Luyang Chen, Michael Witt | University of Bristol; University of Westminster; King's College London |
| 2026-10-18 | [Robust stability analysis and finite-time stabilization for discrete-time fuzzy stochastic neural networks with network induced delay under stochastic state-based controller design](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117228) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Wei Zheng, Zhiming Zhang, Hak-Keung Lam et al. | University of Victoria; Yanshan University; King's College London; … |
| 2026-10-16 | [Economic sanctions’ ‘blind spot’: the power of internalized markets of MNEs](https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-026-00261-x) | [Journal of International Business Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-policy.md) | Igor V. Filatotchev, Jan Hendrik Fisch, Jelena Graneros et al. | King's College London; Vienna University of Economics and Business; James Cook University; … |
| 2026-10-16 | [The Euro at a quarter of a century: economic policy and governance. Introduction to the special issue](https://doi.org/10.1007/s43253-026-00187-3) | [Review of Evolutionary Political Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-evolutionary-political-economy.md) | Magnus Ryner, Engelbert Stockhammer, Johannes Jäger | King's College London; University of Applied Sciences for Business & Society BFI Vienna |
| 2026-10-15 | [Benefit take-up in the last year of life: a population-based study using linked data for England and Wales](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101986) | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | Joanna M. Davies, Amie Fairs, Daniel Ayoubkhani et al. | King's College London; Office for National Statistics; Loughborough University; … |
| 2026-10-13 | [Can crises affect citizen activism? Evidence from a pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2026.102908) | [European Journal of Political Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-political-economy.md) | Farzana Afridi, Ahana Basistha, Amrita Dhillon et al. | Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre; Technical University of Munich; King's College London; … |
| 2026-10-13 | [Racially minoritised black women’s experiences of depression and barriers and facilitators to utilising healthcare services in high-income countries: a systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis co-analysed and co-written with experts by experience](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-026-03066-9) | [International Journal for Equity in Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-for-equity-in-health.md) | Anna-Theresa Jieman, Farida Soliman, Keisha York et al. | Queen Mary University of London; University of St.Gallen; King's College London; … |
| 2026-10-12 | [Multisectoral framework for responding to the needs of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families in Ethiopia: a scoping review with implications for policy](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-026-00743-8) | [International Journal of Mental Health Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-mental-health-systems.md) | Munit Abdulreshid Abdullahi, Rosa Anna Hoekstra, Charlotte Hanlon | St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College; King's College London; Addis Ababa University; … |
| 2026-10-12 | [Performance uncertainty in medical image analysis: A large-scale investigation of confidence intervals](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104349) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Pascaline André, Charles Heitz, Evangelia Christodoulou et al. | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Inserm; Sorbonne Université; … |
| 2026-10-09 | [Modelling behavioural responses to infrastructure development in megacity regions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2026.105291) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | Bowen Zhang, Chen Zhong, Zahratu Shabrina | University College London; King's College London |
| 2026-10-08 | [Inflation component spillovers and the limits of monetary sovereignty in inflation-targeting Europe](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2026.107125) | [Journal of Policy Modeling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-policy-modeling.md) | Alexis Stenfors, David Gabauer, Mimoza Shabani et al. | University of Portsmouth; Lincoln University; Audencia Business School; … |
| 2026-10-06 | [Overweight and obesity in China: a growing economic burden](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-026-00867-0) | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | Jialong Tan, Xing Huang, Nuo Chen et al. | Wuhan University; King's College London |

## Cite this page

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