Leiden University
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Key findings#
- Leiden University was involved in 3 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #525 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Empirical Economics (1), European Journal of Political Economy (1) and Ecological Economics (1).
- Countries: Netherlands (3), Germany (1) and Austria (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, Leiden University ranks #6 in higher education and research.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Leiden University took part in 589 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (153), AI (145) and higher education and research (118).
- 72 of them were published in 2025, against 42 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Amsterdam (17), Delft University of Technology (14) and Utrecht University (14).
- The journals publishing most of them were Scientometrics (28), Energy Policy (10) and Machine Learning (9).
- The most-cited of them is “Citation-based clustering of publications using CitNetExplorer and VOSviewer” (Scientometrics, 2017), with 2,679 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Leiden University has 140,148 works with 11,129,313 citations (h-index 858).
- The tracked journals hold 545 of its 62,135 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.9%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (19,031), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (18,470) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (13,623).
In the rankings#
Top institutions, 2023–2025: #6 in higher education and research
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 12 | 17 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 21 | 12 | 18 | 15 | 11 |
| AI | 9 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 20 | 23 | 21 | 22 | 15 | 15 |
| Higher Education and Research | 15 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 24 | 6 |
| Management | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| Operations Research | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Statistics | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Finance | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Accounting | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 42 | 51 | 49 | 45 | 63 | 75 | 68 | 80 | 72 | 44 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scientometrics | 28 |
| 2 | Energy Policy | 10 |
| 3 | Machine Learning | 9 |
| 4 | Minerva | 8 |
| 5 | AI & Society | 8 |
| 6 | Artificial Intelligence Review | 7 |
| 7 | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 7 |
| 8 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 5 |
| 9 | Statistics & Probability Letters | 5 |
| 10 | Information Processing & Management | 5 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Amsterdam | 17 |
| 2 | Delft University of Technology | 14 |
| 3 | Utrecht University | 14 |
| 4 | Leiden University Medical Center | 12 |
| 5 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 11 |
| 6 | Eindhoven University of Technology | 9 |
| 7 | Tilburg University | 9 |
| 8 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 8 |
| 9 | Maastricht University | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netherlands | 264 |
| 2 | Germany | 33 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 31 |
| 4 | China | 30 |
| 5 | United States | 16 |
| 6 | Italy | 15 |
| 7 | France | 12 |
| 8 | Norway | 8 |
| 9 | Belgium | 7 |
| 10 | Spain | 7 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netherlands | 8 |
| 2 | hyperparameter optimization | 8 |
| 3 | research evaluation | 8 |
| 4 | gender differences | 5 |
| 5 | model selection | 5 |
| 6 | AI ethics | 4 |
| 7 | Web of Science | 4 |
| 8 | cross-national comparison | 4 |
| 9 | distributional effects | 4 |
| 10 | energy justice | 4 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands |
| Also known as | Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, Universiteit Leiden |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 140,148 |
| Citations | 11,129,313 |
| h-index | 858 |
| i10-index | 139,115 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.83 |
| Website | www.leiden.edu |
| ROR | ror.org/027bh9e22 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I121797337 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 19,031 |
| 2 | Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena | Physics and Astronomy | 18,470 |
| 3 | Astronomy and Astrophysical Research | Physics and Astronomy | 13,623 |
| 4 | Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies | Physics and Astronomy | 6,824 |
| 5 | Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations | Physics and Astronomy | 3,412 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 6,142 | 264,796 | 44 | 0.7% |
| 2025 | 6,664 | 349,694 | 72 | 1.1% |
| 2024 | 6,724 | 345,689 | 80 | 1.2% |
| 2023 | 6,062 | 318,513 | 68 | 1.1% |
| 2022 | 5,858 | 306,748 | 75 | 1.3% |
| 2021 | 5,791 | 306,666 | 63 | 1.1% |
| 2020 | 5,566 | 275,604 | 45 | 0.8% |
| 2019 | 5,058 | 233,144 | 49 | 1.0% |
| 2018 | 15,889 | 204,583 | 51 | 0.3% |
| 2017 | 4,523 | 185,493 | 42 | 0.9% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | Job insecurity and health: evidence from older European workers | Empirical Economics | Eduard Suari‐Andreu, Tim Schwartz, Max van Lent et al. | Leiden University; Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement; SEO Amsterdam Economics; … |
| 2026-10-15 | Block vote, open-list proportional representation, and women’s electoral outcomes. Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Polish local elections | European Journal of Political Economy | Michał Gulczyński, Monika Köppl–Turyna, Jarosław Kantorowicz | European University Institute; Seeburg Castle University; EcoAustria Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung; … |
| 2026-10-07 | Is Europe a laggard? Comparing the EU and the US using an interdisciplinary well-being framework | Ecological Economics | Annegeke Jansen, Ranran Wang, Jan-emmanuel De Neve A et al. | Leiden University; University of Oxford; State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse; … |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Leiden University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/leiden-university
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