Kyung Hee University
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Key findings#
- Kyung Hee University was involved in 8 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #139 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in International Journal of Hospitality Management (2), Journal of Destination Marketing & Management (1) and The Annals of Regional Science (1).
- Countries: South Korea (8), United Arab Emirates (2) and Cyprus (2).
- From 2023 to 2025, Kyung Hee University ranks #3 in tourism and hospitality.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Kyung Hee University took part in 768 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in tourism and hospitality (251), AI (107) and economics (90).
- 120 of them were published in 2025, against 42 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lebanese American University (37), Eastern Mediterranean University (28) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (27).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Hospitality Management (73), Tourism Management (23) and Finance research letters (18).
- The most-cited of them is “Technology acceptance theories and factors influencing artificial Intelligence-based intelligent products” (Telematics and Informatics, 2019), with 646 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Kyung Hee University has 80,568 works with 5,092,275 citations (h-index 467).
- The tracked journals hold 664 of its 40,540 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies (1,541), Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies (1,513) and Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (1,411).
In the rankings#
Top institutions, 2023–2025: #3 in tourism and hospitality
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tourism and Hospitality | 5 | 15 | 12 | 24 | 22 | 14 | 33 | 42 | 45 | 39 |
| AI | 7 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 22 | 15 |
| Economics | 5 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 13 |
| Finance | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 13 | 12 |
| Information Systems | 10 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 7 |
| Management | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 6 |
| Operations Research | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 3 |
| Marketing | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 42 | 47 | 58 | 56 | 75 | 63 | 94 | 109 | 120 | 104 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | International Journal of Hospitality Management | 73 |
| 2 | Tourism Management | 23 |
| 3 | Finance research letters | 18 |
| 4 | Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services | 14 |
| 5 | Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management | 14 |
| 6 | Journal of Destination Marketing & Management | 14 |
| 7 | Annals of Tourism Research | 13 |
| 8 | Tourism Management Perspectives | 12 |
| 9 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 11 |
| 10 | Expert Systems with Applications | 11 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lebanese American University | 37 |
| 2 | Eastern Mediterranean University | 28 |
| 3 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 27 |
| 4 | WSB Merito University in Wroclaw | 20 |
| 5 | University of Johannesburg | 17 |
| 6 | Taylor's University | 15 |
| 7 | Universidad de Granada | 15 |
| 8 | Korea University | 14 |
| 9 | Sejong University | 13 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Korea | 427 |
| 2 | United States | 98 |
| 3 | China | 66 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 40 |
| 5 | Lebanon | 37 |
| 6 | Cyprus | 33 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 31 |
| 8 | India | 26 |
| 9 | South Africa | 24 |
| 10 | Poland | 21 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 31 |
| 2 | South Korea | 19 |
| 3 | hospitality industry | 15 |
| 4 | hotel employees | 14 |
| 5 | generative AI | 10 |
| 6 | moderated mediation | 10 |
| 7 | willingness to pay | 10 |
| 8 | metaverse | 9 |
| 9 | ChatGPT | 8 |
| 10 | Chinese listed companies | 8 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Seoul, South Korea |
| Also known as | 경희대학교 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 80,568 |
| Citations | 5,092,275 |
| h-index | 467 |
| i10-index | 103,134 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.82 |
| Website | www.kyunghee.edu |
| ROR | ror.org/01zqcg218 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I35928602 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies | Medicine | 1,541 |
| 2 | Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies | Medicine | 1,513 |
| 3 | Thin-Film Transistor Technologies | Engineering | 1,411 |
| 4 | Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics | Engineering | 1,392 |
| 5 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 1,337 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 5,221 | 172,352 | 104 | 2.0% |
| 2025 | 5,614 | 222,016 | 120 | 2.1% |
| 2024 | 5,402 | 211,400 | 109 | 2.0% |
| 2023 | 4,812 | 190,406 | 94 | 2.0% |
| 2022 | 4,340 | 184,079 | 63 | 1.5% |
| 2021 | 4,510 | 175,084 | 75 | 1.7% |
| 2020 | 4,290 | 145,282 | 56 | 1.3% |
| 2019 | 3,979 | 116,144 | 58 | 1.5% |
| 2018 | 3,874 | 95,298 | 47 | 1.2% |
| 2017 | 3,719 | 84,217 | 42 | 1.1% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | Tourism recommendation integrating subjective distance and place preferences based on travel context | Journal of Destination Marketing & Management | Changkyu Lee, Subin Kim, Yerin Yhee et al. | Kyung Hee University; American University of Sharjah |
| 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 |
| 2026-10-21 | An investigation of the neglected serial mediators and moderators of green inclusive leadership in the hospitality industry | International Journal of Hospitality Management | Hajar Boutmaghzoute, Fedwa Jebli, Elisa Rescalvo‐Martin et al. | International University of Rabat; Universidad de Granada; Doha Institute for Graduate Studies; … |
| 2026-10-17 | An adaptive structured memory system for large language models | Expert Systems with Applications | Shuxu Chen, Zhenzhen Huang, Jiaquan Zhang et al. | Kyung Hee University; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; Harbin Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-17 | Persuasive triggers and psychological pathways: Unplanned purchase behavior in live-streaming blind box commerce | Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services | Inwon Kang, Shuai Wei | Kyung Hee University |
| 2026-10-17 | How does empowering leadership shape employee service innovation behavior? The roles of employee adaptability and job crafting | International Journal of Hospitality Management | Rana Muhammad Naeem, Zahid Hameed, Qingxiong (Derek) Weng et al. | King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals; Ajman University; University of Science and Technology of China; … |
| 2026-10-14 | Mitigating domain shift in federated learning via intra- and inter-domain prototypes | Pattern Recognition | Huy Q. Le, Ye Lin Tun, Yu Qiao et al. | Kyung Hee University; University of Da Nang; Viện Khoa học và Công nghệ số |
| 2026-10-05 | Beyond targeting women: Intrahousehold contexts and the effectiveness of food vouchers | Journal of Health Economics | Seollee Park, Yaeeun Han, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim | Washington State University; Kyung Hee University; Yonsei University; … |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Kyung Hee University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/kyung-hee-university
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