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title: "Lebanese American University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Lebanese American University: 1,006 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly finance and economics; h-index 206."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lebanese-american-university
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share_text: "Research profile of Lebanese American University: 1,006 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly finance and economics; h-index 206. (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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---

# Lebanese American University

- 2 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Lebanon
- web domain: lau.edu.lb

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

## Key findings

- Lebanese American University was involved in 8 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #195 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (1), Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (1) and International Journal of Mental Health Systems (1).
- Countries: Lebanon (8), South Korea (2) and Oman (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Lebanese American University took part in 1,006 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (316), economics (306) and AI (131).
- 82 of them were published in 2025, against 17 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Qingdao University (66), Milli Savunma Üniversitesi (63) and Naval Academy (63).
- The journals publishing most of them were Resources Policy (88), Energy Economics (84) and Expert Systems with Applications (41).
- The most-cited of them is “Green innovation and organizational performance: The influence of big data and the moderating role of management commitment and HR practices” (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2018), with 1,280 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Lebanese American University has 15,158 works with 479,478 citations (h-index 206).
- The tracked journals hold 943 of its 11,715 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (8.0%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Fractional Differential Equations Solutions (781), Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (649) and Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer (609).

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 35 | 77 | 94 | 42 | 27 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 25 | 129 | 101 | 19 | 10 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 60 | 45 | 9 | 2 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 38 | 40 | 7 | 15 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 30 | 23 | 2 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 17 | 14 | 24 | 22 | 39 | 85 | 343 | 317 | 82 | 63 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 88 |
| 2 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 84 |
| 3 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 41 |
| 4 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 38 |
| 5 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 38 |
| 6 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 37 |
| 7 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 30 |
| 8 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 30 |
| 9 | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | 27 |
| 10 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 22 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Qingdao University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/qingdao-university.md) | 66 |
| 2 | Milli Savunma Üniversitesi | 63 |
| 3 | Naval Academy | 63 |
| 4 | [Sunway University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sunway-university.md) | 48 |
| 5 | Excelia Business School | 47 |
| 6 | Yuan Ze University | 43 |
| 7 | [Kyung Hee University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/kyung-hee-university.md) | 37 |
| 8 | [Korea University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/korea-university.md) | 32 |
| 9 | Middle East University | 31 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Lebanon | 805 |
| 2 | China | 355 |
| 3 | Turkey | 220 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 154 |
| 5 | India | 141 |
| 6 | Pakistan | 113 |
| 7 | France | 106 |
| 8 | South Korea | 100 |
| 9 | United States | 97 |
| 10 | United Arab Emirates | 88 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 99 |
| 2 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 56 |
| 3 | [Russian invasion of Ukraine](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/russian-invasion-of-ukraine.md) | 53 |
| 4 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 48 |
| 5 | [volatility spillovers](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/volatility-spillovers.md) | 44 |
| 6 | [sustainable development](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/sustainable-development.md) | 41 |
| 7 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 37 |
| 8 | [geopolitical risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/geopolitical-risk.md) | 37 |
| 9 | [portfolio diversification](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/portfolio-diversification.md) | 37 |
| 10 | [green finance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/green-finance.md) | 30 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,280 | 12.1 | [Green innovation and organizational performance: The influence of big data and the moderating role of management commitment and HR practices](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.12.016) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2018-01-03 | Abdul-Nasser El-Kassar, Sanjay Kumar Singh |
| 2 | 1,187 | 37.8 | [A review of convolutional neural networks in computer vision](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10721-6) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2024-03-23 | Xia Zhao, Limin Wang, Yufei Zhang et al. |
| 3 | 1,045 | 17.7 | [The digital divide: A review and future research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121359) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2021-11-27 | Sophie Lythreatis, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Abdul-Nasser El-Kassar |
| 4 | 632 | 8.8 | [Return connectedness across asset classes around the COVID-19 outbreak](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101646) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2020-11-20 | Elie I. Bouri, Oğuzhan Çepni, David Gabauer et al. |
| 5 | 584 | 11.4 | [Climate policy uncertainty and firm-level total factor productivity: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106209) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2022-07-27 | Xiaohang Ren, Xiao Zhang, Cheng Yan et al. |
| 6 | 463 | 5.2 | [Environmental ethics, environmental performance, and competitive advantage: Role of environmental training](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.05.032) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2019-06-08 | Sanjay Kumar Singh, Jin Chen, Manlio Del Giudice et al. |
| 7 | 452 | 6.3 | [Extreme return connectedness and its determinants between clean/green and dirty energy investments](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.105017) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2020-11-11 | Tareq Saeed, Elie I. Bouri, Hamed Hamdan Alsulami |
| 8 | 444 | 12.1 | [Incremental learning-based cascaded model for detection and localization of tuberculosis from chest x-ray images](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.122129) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2023-10-14 | Satvik Vats, Vikrant Sharma, Karan Singh et al. |
| 9 | 417 | 7.4 | [Climate policy uncertainty and the price dynamics of green and brown energy stocks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.102740) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2022-03-04 | Elie I. Bouri, Najaf Iqbal, Tony Klein |
| 10 | 394 | 3.7 | [The role of ICT and innovation in enhancing organizational performance: The catalysing effect of corporate entrepreneurship](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.12.030) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2017-12-28 | Manal M. Yunis, Abbas A. Tarhini, Abdul-Nasser El-Kassar |

## In OpenAlex

*Lebanese American University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon |
| Also known as | الجامعة اللبنانية الأمريكية |
| Works in OpenAlex | 15,158 |
| Citations | 479,478 |
| h-index | 206 |
| i10-index | 10,206 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 9.80 |
| Website | [www.lau.edu.lb](https://www.lau.edu.lb) |
| ROR | [ror.org/00hqkan37](https://ror.org/00hqkan37) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I56306041](https://openalex.org/I56306041) |

*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) | 1,272 | 60,473 | 63 | 5.0% |
| 2025 | 1,401 | 85,464 | 82 | 5.9% |
| 2024 | 3,541 | 68,038 | 317 | 9.0% |
| 2023 | 3,326 | 36,045 | 343 | 10.3% |
| 2022 | 1,158 | 18,560 | 85 | 7.3% |
| 2021 | 656 | 14,174 | 39 | 5.9% |
| 2020 | 514 | 10,920 | 22 | 4.3% |
| 2019 | 419 | 7,597 | 24 | 5.7% |
| 2018 | 373 | 6,222 | 14 | 3.8% |
| 2017 | 327 | 4,924 | 17 | 5.2% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Fractional Differential Equations Solutions | Mathematics | 781 |
| 2 | Energy, Environment, Economic Growth | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 649 |
| 3 | Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer | Engineering | 609 |
| 4 | Market Dynamics and Volatility | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 590 |
| 5 | Heat Transfer and Numerical Methods | Engineering | 430 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | [Tail-Dependent Volatility Spillovers Across Bitcoin, Precious Metals, and Foreign Exchange Markets](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10690-026-09648-5) | [Asia-Pacific Financial Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/asia-pacific-financial-markets.md) | Walid Mensi, Rim M. El Khoury, Salem Adel Ziadat et al. | Sultan Qaboos University; Lebanese American University; University of Jordan; … |
| 2026-10-29 | [Human resources governance and human capital management disclosure following the SEC mandate](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2026.107484) | [Journal of Accounting and Public Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-public-policy.md) | Cynthia Melhem, MICHEL L. MAGNAN, Rucsandra Moldovan | Lebanese American University; Concordia University |
| 2026-10-25 | [Validation of the Arabic version of the schizophrenia quality of life short-version questionnaire (S-QOL 18) among Lebanese patients with schizophrenia](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-026-00747-4) | [International Journal of Mental Health Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-mental-health-systems.md) | Angela Dahdouh, Chadia Haddad, Hala Sacre et al. | Université de Sherbrooke; Inserm; Lebanese University; … |
| 2026-10-19 | [Do sustainable firms carry less tail risk? Distributional asymmetries between HVA and Non-HVA equities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeca.2026.e00482) | [The Journal of Economic Asymmetries](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-economic-asymmetries.md) | Dhairya Dev, Gagan Deep Sharma, Amar Rao et al. | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University; AGH University of Krakow; Széchenyi István University; … |
| 2026-10-14 | [Traumatic brain injury metaheuristic optimization: harnessing memory and learning for enhanced problem solving](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-026-07446-w) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | Kassem Danach, Abbas A. Tarhini, Hussin Jose Hejase et al. | Lebanese International University; Lebanese American University; Al Maaref University; … |
| 2026-10-07 | [Bridging skills gaps: how micro-credentials reshape sustainable development learning in higher education](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40561-026-00471-z) | [Smart Learning Environments](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/smart-learning-environments.md) | Walter Leal Filho, Eundeok Kim, Mahsa Mapar et al. | Manchester Metropolitan University; HAW Hamburg; Florida State University; … |
| 2026-10-05 | [Dynamics of regime and quantile connectedness across new economy markets](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2026.105940) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | Sami Al Kharusi, Rim M. El Khoury, Walid Mensi et al. | Sultan Qaboos University; Lebanese American University; Pusan National University |
| 2026-10-05 | [Corrigendum to “Equity markets and ESG dynamics: Assessing spillovers and portfolio strategies through time-varying parameters” \[Energy Econ., 134 (2024), 107548\]](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2026.109622) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | Yi Wang, Shoaib Ali, Muhammad Ayaz | Xihua University; Jiangsu University; Lebanese American University; … |

## Cite this page

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

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