---
title: "Lancaster University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Lancaster University: 1,292 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 693."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lancaster-university
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share_text: "Research profile of Lancaster University: 1,292 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 693. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# Lancaster University

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

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

## Key findings

- Lancaster University was involved in 11 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #124 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Business Venturing (1), International Journal for Equity in Health (1) and Philosophy & Technology (1).
- Countries: United Kingdom (11), Canada (3) and China (3).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Lancaster University took part in 1,292 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (315), operations research (279) and management (204).
- 127 of them were published in 2025, against 107 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were International Institute for Management Development (28), Zhejiang University (28) and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (18).
- The journals publishing most of them were European Journal of Operational Research (24), Expert Systems with Applications (16) and Statistics and Computing (15).
- The most-cited of them is “Forecasting: theory and practice” (International Journal of Forecasting, 2022), with 947 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Lancaster University has 86,730 works with 6,745,091 citations (h-index 693).
- The tracked journals hold 1,189 of its 35,610 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (3.3%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (3,493), Particle Detector Development and Performance (2,550) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (2,461).

## 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) | 27 | 51 | 38 | 32 | 33 | 32 | 25 | 31 | 38 | 8 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 26 | 34 | 37 | 32 | 36 | 32 | 33 | 14 | 22 | 13 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 17 | 25 | 19 | 22 | 28 | 27 | 12 | 24 | 16 | 14 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 5 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 22 | 11 | 14 | 19 | 35 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 4 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 8 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 12 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 4 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| All categories | 107 | 159 | 130 | 140 | 143 | 156 | 108 | 119 | 127 | 103 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 24 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 8 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | International Institute for Management Development | 28 |
| 2 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 28 |
| 3 | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | 18 |
| 4 | MBS School of Business | 14 |
| 5 | Technical University of Denmark | 14 |
| 6 | [University of Manchester](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-manchester.md) | 13 |
| 7 | University of Chieti-Pescara | 12 |
| 8 | [University of Liverpool](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-liverpool.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Monash University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/monash-university.md) | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 457 |
| 2 | China | 106 |
| 3 | United States | 65 |
| 4 | Italy | 46 |
| 5 | France | 40 |
| 6 | Australia | 34 |
| 7 | Switzerland | 32 |
| 8 | Germany | 32 |
| 9 | Sweden | 25 |
| 10 | Spain | 21 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [family business](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/family-business.md) | 24 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [multi-objective optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-objective-optimization.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [combinatorial optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/combinatorial-optimization.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [firm performance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/firm-performance.md) | 7 |
| 6 | bank efficiency | 6 |
| 7 | [mixed integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-programming.md) | 6 |
| 8 | adaptive large neighborhood search | 5 |
| 9 | asset allocation | 5 |
| 10 | change point detection | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 947 | 16.5 | [Forecasting: theory and practice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2021.11.001) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2022-01-19 | Fotios Petropoulos, Daniele Apiletti, Vassilios Assimakopoulos et al. |
| 2 | 669 | 11.5 | [Human Action Recognition From Various Data Modalities: A Review](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3183112) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-01-01 | Zehua Sun, Qiuhong Ke, Hossein Rahmani et al. |
| 3 | 640 | 6.2 | [“Sponge City” in China—A breakthrough of planning and flood risk management in the urban context](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.03.005) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 2018-03-18 | Faith Ka Shun Chan, James Andrew Griffiths, David Laurence Higgitt et al. |
| 4 | 577 | 17.7 | [Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A manifesto of open challenges and interdisciplinary research directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2024.102301) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2024-02-15 | Luca Longo, Mario Brčić, Federico Cabitza et al. |
| 5 | 569 | 7.7 | [Academic engagement: A review of the literature 2011-2019](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2020.104114) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2020-08-29 | Markus Perkmann, Rossella Salandra, Valentina Tartari et al. |
| 6 | 501 | 4.4 | [Sparse representation based multi-sensor image fusion for multi-focus and multi-modality images: A review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2017.05.006) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2017-06-09 | Qiang Zhang, Yi Liu, Rick S. Blum et al. |
| 7 | 484 | 13.2 | [Generative artificial intelligence in marketing: Applications, opportunities, challenges, and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102716) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2023-10-18 | Nir Kshetri, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Thomas H. Davenport et al. |
| 8 | 426 | 5.8 | [Understanding the COVID-19 tourist psyche: The Evolutionary Tourism Paradigm](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2020.103053) | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 2020-09-09 | Florian Köck, Astrid Nørfelt, Alexander Josiassen et al. |
| 9 | 376 | 4.7 | [Absorptive capacity, strategic flexibility, and business model innovation: Empirical evidence from Italian SMEs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.02.015) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-02-17 | Ivan Miroshnychenko, Andreas Ströbl, Kurt Matzler et al. |
| 10 | 374 | 3.5 | [Bridging funding gaps for climate and sustainable development: Pitfalls, progress and potential of private finance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.12.013) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 2017-12-21 | Robyn A. Clark, JAMES F. REED, Trey Sunderland |

## In OpenAlex

*Lancaster University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Lancaster, England, United Kingdom |
| Also known as | Prifysgol Caerhirfryn |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 86,730 |
| Citations | 6,745,091 |
| h-index | 693 |
| i10-index | 85,152 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.39 |
| Website | [www.lancaster.ac.uk](https://www.lancaster.ac.uk) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04f2nsd36](https://ror.org/04f2nsd36) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I67415387](https://openalex.org/I67415387) |

*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) | 3,936 | 166,591 | 103 | 2.6% |
| 2025 | 4,700 | 222,151 | 127 | 2.7% |
| 2024 | 4,324 | 223,480 | 119 | 2.8% |
| 2023 | 3,843 | 213,409 | 108 | 2.8% |
| 2022 | 4,059 | 211,782 | 156 | 3.8% |
| 2021 | 4,026 | 216,064 | 143 | 3.6% |
| 2020 | 4,118 | 189,253 | 140 | 3.4% |
| 2019 | 3,498 | 157,305 | 130 | 3.7% |
| 2018 | 3,668 | 137,140 | 159 | 4.3% |
| 2017 | 3,374 | 119,958 | 107 | 3.2% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 3,493 |
| 2 | Particle Detector Development and Performance | Physics and Astronomy | 2,550 |
| 3 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 2,461 |
| 4 | Innovative Human-Technology Interaction | Computer Science | 1,209 |
| 5 | Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies | Environmental Science | 1,105 |

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 | [Actualizing entrepreneurial futures: Imaginaries, Visions, and the Olivetti Corporation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2026.106661) | [Journal of Business Venturing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing.md) | Vittoria Magrelli, Roy Suddaby, Trevor Lyle Israelsen et al. | University of Chieti-Pescara; University of Victoria; Pennsylvania State University; … |
| 2026-10-27 | [Structural inequities in uniform policy implementation and mental health impacts among Muslim female healthcare professionals in England: a national mixed-methods study](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-026-03096-3) | [International Journal for Equity in Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-for-equity-in-health.md) | Ushna Qureshi Javed, Fathima Mohamed Rila, Munazzah Vohra et al. | Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Lancaster University; Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust; … |
| 2026-10-26 | [The Precautionary Principle and the Innovation Principle: Incompatible Guides?](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-026-01208-z) | [Philosophy & Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/philosophy-technology.md) | Kim Kaivanto | Lancaster University |
| 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 | [Examining the conceptual and instrumental use of the knowledge-to-action framework: a citation analysis and scoping review](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-026-01547-7) | [Implementation Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/implementation-science.md) | Christine E. Cassidy, Erin McConnell, Laura Kennedy et al. | Dalhousie University; Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre; University College Cork; … |
| 2026-10-20 | [Scaffolding the void: Digital platforms as intermediaries in supply chain traceability](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2026.110250) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | Quynh Do, Claudia Colicchia, Alessandro Creazza et al. | Lancaster University; Politecnico di Milano; University Carlo Cattaneo |
| 2026-10-17 | [SMWPF: a cloud-edge collaborative network enabled by large-small model collaboration for wind speed prediction](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-026-01570-x) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | Chenyu Jing, Xin Liu, Xiaolong Xu et al. | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology; China Meteorological Administration; Lancaster University |
| 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; … |
| 2026-10-07 | [Budget impact analysis of implementing point-of-care molecular testing for influenza A&B and RSV in Saudi older adult patients across hospital and home-care settings](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-026-00872-3) | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | Walid Ahmed Alkeridy, Khulud Alharbi, Amal Abuhamar et al. | University of British Columbia; King Saud University; Ministry of Health; … |
| 2026-10-07 | [Mind the Gap: A survey of chronic wound datasets, methods, and clinical translation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104344) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Anum Fatima, Moi Hoon Yap, Neil D. Reeves et al. | Manchester Metropolitan University; Lancaster University |
| 2026-10-06 | [Correction: Sedimenting Death Literacy Through Affective Practice: A Cooperative Inquiry in a Hong Kong Compassionate Community](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-026-09783-0) | [Systemic Practice and Action Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/systemic-practice-and-action-research.md) | Wing-Sun Chan | Lancaster University |

## Cite this page

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

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).