Korea University

1 paper in the last 7 days · country: South Korea · web domain: korea.ac.kr

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Key findings#

Korea University was involved in 21 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #43 of 3,809 institutions.
Most of them appeared in International Journal for Equity in Health (2), Information Fusion (2) and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (1).
Countries: South Korea (21), United States (4) and Azerbaijan (3).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Korea University took part in 1,388 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (399), economics (344) and management (137).
266 of them were published in 2025, against 75 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Yuan Ze University (40), University of Belgrade (39) and Western Caspian University (36).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (65), Pattern Recognition (29) and Neural Networks (27).
The most-cited of them is “Metaverse beyond the hype: Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy” (International Journal of Information Management, 2022), with 2,754 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Korea University has 132,002 works with 10,239,124 citations (h-index 682).
The tracked journals hold 1,175 of its 62,623 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.9%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (3,552), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (3,253) and Particle Detector Development and Performance (2,550).

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	10	13	23	35	45	38	38	66	77	54
Economics	25	20	24	22	21	26	31	50	62	63
Management	20	14	11	9	11	18	10	13	18	13
Finance	2	9	5	5	10	5	12	21	37	29
Operations Research	6	9	6	5	5	11	8	17	19	16
Statistics	4	14	3	14	9	4	7	7	12	4
Information Systems	6	6	8	7	5	4	3	11	11	9
Marketing	2	2	1	1	2	5	8	5	14	6
Health Economics and Policy	0	2	2	2	3	3	0	3	5	8
Higher Education and Research	0	0	3	1	2	0	1	4	7	7
Tourism and Hospitality	0	1	0	2	1	0	2	4	3	4
Accounting	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	2	1	0
All categories	75	90	86	105	114	115	121	203	266	213

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	65
2	Pattern Recognition	29
3	Neural Networks	27
4	Telecommunications Policy	24
5	Knowledge-Based Systems	24
6	Finance research letters	24
7	Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services	19
8	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	17
9	Energy Economics	16
10	Economics Letters	16

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Yuan Ze University	40
2	University of Belgrade	39
3	Western Caspian University	36
4	Lebanese American University	32
5	Azerbaijan State University of Economics	31
6	Sungkyunkwan University	26
7	Seoul National University	24
8	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	22
9	Naval Academy	21

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	South Korea	803
2	United States	138
3	China	133
4	Turkey	88
5	Azerbaijan	65
6	United Kingdom	51
7	Taiwan	51
8	India	49
9	Serbia	44
10	Malaysia	42

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	South Korea	46
2	COVID-19 pandemic	30
3	multi-criteria decision making	27
4	moderating effect	18
5	CO2 emissions	15
6	economic growth	14
7	financial development	14
8	emerging markets	13
9	China	12
10	explainable AI	12

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,754	53.3	Metaverse beyond the hype: Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy	International Journal of Information Management	2022-07-15	Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Abdullah Mohammed Baabdullah et al.
2	544	5.8	Hierarchical Fully Convolutional Network for Joint Atrophy Localization and Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis Using Structural MRI	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2018-12-21	Chunfeng Lian, Mingxia Liu, Jun Zhang et al.
3	417	4.0	Are institutional investors with multiple blockholdings effective monitors?	Journal of Financial Economics	2018-03-20	Jun‐Koo Kang, Juan Luo, Hyun Seung Na
4	410	13.9	Do you have AI dependency? The roles of academic self-efficacy, academic stress, and performance expectations on problematic AI usage behavior	International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education	2024-05-16	Shunan Zhang, Xiangying Zhao, Tong Zhou et al.
5	351	4.2	Subject-Independent Brain–Computer Interfaces Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2019-11-13	Oyeon Kwon, Min-Ho Lee, Cuntai Guan et al.
6	327	3.5	Multiple Kernel k-means with Incomplete Kernels	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2019-01-01	Xinwang Liu, Wen Gao, Xinzhong Zhu et al.
7	322	4.3	Reinforcement Learning-Based Optimal Tracking Control of an Unknown Unmanned Surface Vehicle	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2020-08-03	Ning Wang, Ying Gao, Hong Chao Zhao et al.
8	317	2.9	Synergy effects of innovation on firm performance	Journal of Business Research	2017-09-08	Ryeo-Won Lee, Jong‐Ho Lee, Tony C. Garrett
9	286	4.1	Adaptive transfer learning for EEG motor imagery classification with deep Convolutional Neural Network	Neural Networks	2020-12-23	Kaishuo Zhang, Neethu Robinson, Seong–Whan Lee et al.
10	270	2.6	Impact of viewer engagement on gift-giving in live video streaming	Telematics and Informatics	2018-03-22	Eun Jung Yu, ChanYong Jung, Hyungjin Kim et al.

In OpenAlex#

Korea University in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	Seoul, South Korea
Also known as	Bosung College, Bosung Professional College, 고려대학교
Units listed in OpenAlex	1
Works in OpenAlex	132,002
Citations	10,239,124
h-index	682
i10-index	177,972
2-year mean citedness	5.70
Website	www.korea.ac.kr
ROR	ror.org/047dqcg40
Wikidata	Q39997
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I197347611

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies	Physics and Astronomy	3,552
2	Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions	Physics and Astronomy	3,253
3	Particle Detector Development and Performance	Physics and Astronomy	2,550
4	Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics	Engineering	2,128
5	Advancements in Battery Materials	Engineering	1,704

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)	9,781	291,580	213	2.2%
2025	10,570	366,278	266	2.5%
2024	8,262	339,926	203	2.5%
2023	6,917	312,155	121	1.7%
2022	6,676	295,441	115	1.7%
2021	6,762	277,812	114	1.7%
2020	6,560	236,669	105	1.6%
2019	5,879	193,553	86	1.5%
2018	5,557	166,252	90	1.6%
2017	5,440	146,579	75	1.4%

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
2026-10-28	Sex-specific long-term mortality inequities among North Korean refugees resettled in South Korea: a nationwide matched cohort study	International Journal for Equity in Health	Kyoung Jin Kim, Jimi Choi, Jung A. Kim et al.	Korea University Anam Hospital; Korea University; Johns Hopkins University
2026-10-27	Spoiler alert! Watch movies before they are spoiled	Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science	Byungwan Koh, Sohyun Bang	Korea University
2026-10-27	Income-related inequities in cancer burden and patient-level years of life lost across age groups in South Korea	International Journal for Equity in Health	Chung-Nyun Kim, 최용석, Seok-Jun Yoon	Korea University
2026-10-27	Governance Complexity Index (GCI) Pakistan: Quantifying Organizational Structure Capacity	Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity	Asif Iqbal, Rafia Haider, Imran Ali Sultan et al.	Urban Unit; Government of Punjab; Government of Pakistan; …
2026-10-27	Towards real-time 3D object detection in LiDAR-only scenario: Semi-supervised learning, point cloud density augmentation and knowledge distillation	Computer Vision and Image Understanding	Jisu Kang, Wooseok Shin, Sung Won Han	Korea University
2026-10-26	Behind and Beyond ‘Give and Take’: Associations between Citizens’ Identity Frames and Their Dis-/Trust in Government	Public Organization Review	Junesoo Lee, Choi HeungSuk	KDI School of Public Policy and Management; Korea University
2026-10-26	Exploiting CPython’s just-in-time optimization: StencilLeak attack	Computers & Security	Seehwan Yoo, Youngpil Kim, Chuck Yoo	Korea University; Incheon National University
2026-10-23	A survey on information cascade prediction based on deep learning	Information Fusion	Yanchao Liu, Qinling Lei, Muhammet Deveci et al.	Hubei Engineering University; Hubei Huanggang Polytechnic of Emergency Management; Naval Academy; …
2026-10-23	Social inclusiveness and COVID-19 outcomes: evidence from local districts and provinces in South Korea	The Annals of Regional Science	Kee Hoon Chung, Dong Chul Shim, DaEun Kim et al.	Kyung Hee University; Korea University; Korea National University of Transportation
2026-10-23	Present bias, innovation and inequality	Economic Modelling	Zhangchi Ding	Korea University
2026-10-22	Who plans and who sticks to it? The travel plan-generation gap and forecasting long-holiday trip generation	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	Ui Hyeon Jeong, Sung Hoo Kim, F. Atiyya Shaw	Hanyang University; Korea University; University of Michigan
2026-10-20	Social distancing under strategic uncertainty: The role of strategic sophistication in the COVID-19 pandemic	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	Mimi Jeon, Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh et al.	Korea Fair Trade Commission; Singapore Management University; Korea University; …
2026-10-16	Penalized principal machines for sufficient dimension reduction and its efficient computation	Computational Statistics & Data Analysis	Jungmin Shin, Seung Jun Shin	Korea University
2026-10-15	Consumer support for minority entrepreneur farmers	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	Michelle S. Segovia, Shuoli Zhao, Marco A. Palma et al.	University of Delaware; University of Kentucky; Texas A&M University; …
2026-10-15	Innovation adoption across regions: psychological openness and the early diffusion of digital platforms	Research Policy	Tobias Ebert, Martin Obschonka, Luca Aiello et al.	University of St.Gallen; University of Amsterdam; IT University of Copenhagen; …
2026-10-14	From resources to results: how interim outputs improve and mediate R&D output prediction	Scientometrics	Hoon Ah Jang	Korea University
2026-10-14	Does the widespread of mobile internet narrow the urban–rural labor income gap? Evidence from China	Economic Analysis and Policy	Yunshu Shao	Korea University
2026-10-13	The Two Faces of Janus: Dual-Path Moderated Mediation of Observer Responses to Abusive Supervision	Journal of Business Ethics	Jeeyoon Jeong, Jae Uk Chun, Ji Hoon Lee	Nagoya University of Commerce and Business; Korea University; Wonkwang University
2026-10-12	A long-term time series prediction model based on dynamic-order polynomial fuzzy information granules	Information Fusion	Shiying Hu, Weiping Ding, Dragan Pamučar et al.	Hubei University for Nationalities; Nantong University; Doğuş University; …
2026-10-07	Financial stability, R&D, and AI activity in high-tech exports: Evidence from panel data	Technology in Society	Peter Wänke, Yong Tan, Rachita Gulati et al.	Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas; Fundação Getulio Vargas; University of Bradford; …
2026-10-07	ROI-informed cross-modal supervised contrastive learning for multimodal depression classification using rs-fMRI and T1-weighted MRI	Medical Image Analysis	Jinmo Byeon, Hakjin Lee, MyeongGyun Jang et al.	Korea University; Ewha Womans University

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Korea University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/korea-university

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