Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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Key findings#
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München was involved in 10 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #149 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Japanese Economic Review (1), Digital Finance (1) and Quality & Quantity (1).
- Countries: Germany (10), Japan (1) and United Arab Emirates (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München took part in 981 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (441), AI (116) and management (101).
- 79 of them were published in 2025, against 90 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Ifo Institute for Economic Research (63), Munich Center for Machine Learning (41) and Technical University of Munich (29).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Public Economics (17), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (14) and Machine Learning (12).
- The most-cited of them is “Generative AI” (Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2023), with 1,488 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München has 327,821 works with 33,981,575 citations (h-index 1,222).
- The tracked journals hold 885 of its 125,892 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.7%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (4,723), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (4,314) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (4,059).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 49 | 48 | 46 | 49 | 68 | 43 | 37 | 38 | 32 | 31 |
| AI | 11 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 21 | 13 | 20 |
| Management | 4 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 7 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 3 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 5 |
| Finance | 5 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8 |
| Statistics | 8 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| Information Systems | 6 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| Marketing | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 8 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 90 | 89 | 104 | 105 | 131 | 92 | 90 | 105 | 79 | 96 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Public Economics | 17 |
| 2 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 14 |
| 3 | Machine Learning | 12 |
| 4 | European Journal of Political Economy | 9 |
| 5 | Journal of Business Research | 8 |
| 6 | International Journal of Research in Marketing | 8 |
| 7 | Health Research Policy and Systems | 8 |
| 8 | European Economic Review | 7 |
| 9 | Economics Letters | 7 |
| 10 | International Journal of Approximate Reasoning | 7 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ifo Institute for Economic Research | 63 |
| 2 | Munich Center for Machine Learning | 41 |
| 3 | Technical University of Munich | 29 |
| 4 | Babeș-Bolyai University | 21 |
| 5 | Institut für Medizinische Informationsverarbeitung, Biometrie und Epidemiologie | 15 |
| 6 | Centre for Economic Policy Research | 11 |
| 7 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 10 |
| 8 | LMU Klinikum | 9 |
| 9 | University of Mannheim | 9 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 370 |
| 2 | United States | 66 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 46 |
| 4 | Austria | 27 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 24 |
| 6 | Switzerland | 22 |
| 7 | Romania | 21 |
| 8 | France | 20 |
| 9 | Italy | 15 |
| 10 | Australia | 14 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 14 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 10 |
| 3 | large language models | 9 |
| 4 | generative AI | 8 |
| 5 | research transparency | 6 |
| 6 | accountability | 5 |
| 7 | gender differences | 5 |
| 8 | market analysis | 5 |
| 9 | partial least squares structural equation modeling | 5 |
| 10 | publication bias | 5 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| Also known as | LMU, LMU Munich, LMU München, Ludwig Maximilian University |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 28 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 327,821 |
| Citations | 33,981,575 |
| h-index | 1,222 |
| i10-index | 417,180 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.50 |
| Website | www.lmu.de |
| ROR | ror.org/05591te55 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I8204097 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 4,723 |
| 2 | Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena | Physics and Astronomy | 4,314 |
| 3 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 4,059 |
| 4 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 3,871 |
| 5 | Genetic Associations and Epidemiology | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3,375 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 13,748 | 552,944 | 96 | 0.7% |
| 2025 | 18,659 | 713,279 | 79 | 0.4% |
| 2024 | 15,443 | 715,391 | 105 | 0.7% |
| 2023 | 15,717 | 673,998 | 90 | 0.6% |
| 2022 | 14,526 | 656,671 | 92 | 0.6% |
| 2021 | 14,348 | 669,754 | 131 | 0.9% |
| 2020 | 13,159 | 585,203 | 105 | 0.8% |
| 2019 | 12,159 | 484,513 | 104 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 11,640 | 432,304 | 89 | 0.8% |
| 2017 | 10,241 | 400,654 | 90 | 0.9% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | The personnel inquiry records: a historical microdatabase of elites and families in prewar Japan | Japanese Economic Review | Hiroshi Kumanomido, Suguru Otani, Yutaro Takayasu | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; The University of Tokyo; Hitotsubashi University |
| 2026-10-26 | Regime-dependent bitcoin volatility forecasting under alternative information sets: evidence from econometric, deep learning, and hybrid models | Digital Finance | Ahmed Soliman Wafi, Sherif Ismail El-Halaby, Sameh Abd-el Maksoud Mohamed Aboul-Dahab | Cairo University; EU Business School, Munich; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; … |
| 2026-10-23 | Question characteristics and their effect on measurement quality: Lessons learned from the European Social Survey | Quality & Quantity | Wiebke Weber, Barbara Felderer, Aida Kreider | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences |
| 2026-10-23 | Rising inequality, declining mobility: The evolution of intergenerational mobility in Germany | Journal of Public Economics | Julia Baarck, Moritz Bode, Andreas Peichl | Ifo Institute for Economic Research; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; University of Copenhagen |
| 2026-10-22 | Introduction to theory and practice: The future of robots in customer services | AMS Review | Martin Paul Fritze | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| 2026-10-22 | ‘Interface Fictions’ and ‘Cyborg Sense-Making’: Troubling Literacy for Language Education Under Postdigital Cultural Conditions | Postdigital Science and Education | Michelle Stannard | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| 2026-10-15 | Citation accuracy, citation noise, and citation bias: a foundation of citation analysis | Scientometrics | Lutz Bornmann, Christian Leibel | Max Planck Society; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| 2026-10-08 | Exclusion Experiences of Highly Qualified Migrants: From Overt Discrimination to Subtle Microaggressions | Journal of Business Ethics | Markus Pudelko, Cristina Popescu, Helene Tenzer | University of Tübingen; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| 2026-10-08 | Balancing hierarchical representation and quantization: A performance trade-off in text embeddings | Information Sciences | Kai Ponel, Marco Polignano, Erasmo Purificato et al. | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; European Commission; Joint Research Centre; … |
| 2026-10-08 | Physiological and behavioral modeling of stress and cognitive load in web-based question answering | International Journal of Human-Computer Studies | Ailin Liu, Francesco Chiossi, Felix Henninger et al. | Munich Center for Machine Learning; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; … |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen
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