Maastricht University
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Key findings#
- Maastricht University was involved in 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #284 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in The Leadership Quarterly (1), Italian Economic Journal (1) and Computers & Education (1).
- Countries: Netherlands (6), China (2) and United States (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Maastricht University took part in 1,122 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (505), health economics and policy (148) and management (134).
- 123 of them were published in 2025, against 98 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (79), Care and Public Health Research Institute (47) and KU Leuven (34).
- The journals publishing most of them were Health Policy (20), PharmacoEconomics (18) and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (13).
- The most-cited of them is “How artificial intelligence will change the future of marketing” (Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2019), with 2,863 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Maastricht University has 112,158 works with 11,081,457 citations (h-index 864).
- The tracked journals hold 1,024 of its 57,377 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.8%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (2,895), Innovations in Medical Education (2,842) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (1,863).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 41 | 52 | 51 | 60 | 52 | 57 | 51 | 52 | 46 | 43 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 13 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 16 | 17 | 21 | 12 |
| Management | 10 | 8 | 12 | 17 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 16 |
| Operations Research | 12 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 4 |
| Finance | 10 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| AI | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 6 |
| Higher Education and Research | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 7 | 7 |
| Marketing | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 |
| Statistics | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Accounting | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| All categories | 98 | 90 | 103 | 122 | 113 | 124 | 133 | 118 | 123 | 98 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Health Policy | 20 |
| 2 | PharmacoEconomics | 18 |
| 3 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 13 |
| 4 | International Journal of Game Theory | 10 |
| 5 | Higher Education | 9 |
| 6 | World Development | 9 |
| 7 | Games and Economic Behavior | 9 |
| 8 | Labour Economics | 9 |
| 9 | AI & Society | 9 |
| 10 | Health Research Policy and Systems | 9 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology | 79 |
| 2 | Care and Public Health Research Institute | 47 |
| 3 | KU Leuven | 34 |
| 4 | Maastricht University Medical Centre | 28 |
| 5 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 23 |
| 6 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 21 |
| 7 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 16 |
| 8 | University of Groningen | 16 |
| 9 | Open University of the Netherlands | 14 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netherlands | 472 |
| 2 | Germany | 95 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 73 |
| 4 | Belgium | 71 |
| 5 | United States | 62 |
| 6 | France | 36 |
| 7 | Italy | 36 |
| 8 | China | 34 |
| 9 | Australia | 26 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 19 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost-effectiveness | 19 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 17 |
| 3 | quality-adjusted life years | 10 |
| 4 | axiomatization | 8 |
| 5 | cross-national comparison | 8 |
| 6 | gender differences | 8 |
| 7 | multinational corporations | 8 |
| 8 | economic evaluation | 7 |
| 9 | willingness to pay | 7 |
| 10 | Germany | 6 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands |
| Also known as | UM, Universiteit Maastricht |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 3 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 112,158 |
| Citations | 11,081,457 |
| h-index | 864 |
| i10-index | 134,159 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.70 |
| Website | www.maastrichtuniversity.nl |
| ROR | ror.org/02jz4aj89 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I34352273 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research | Medicine | 2,895 |
| 2 | Innovations in Medical Education | Medicine | 2,842 |
| 3 | Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias | Medicine | 1,863 |
| 4 | Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis Mechanisms | Medicine | 1,800 |
| 5 | Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 1,798 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 6,224 | 289,912 | 98 | 1.6% |
| 2025 | 7,121 | 355,141 | 123 | 1.7% |
| 2024 | 7,626 | 356,692 | 118 | 1.5% |
| 2023 | 7,405 | 338,533 | 133 | 1.8% |
| 2022 | 6,850 | 329,142 | 124 | 1.8% |
| 2021 | 6,825 | 324,936 | 113 | 1.7% |
| 2020 | 6,234 | 277,390 | 122 | 2.0% |
| 2019 | 5,320 | 218,262 | 103 | 1.9% |
| 2018 | 5,093 | 193,257 | 90 | 1.8% |
| 2017 | 4,903 | 177,131 | 98 | 2.0% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | A systematic and causal review of the link between leader-driven psychological safety and work outcomes | The Leadership Quarterly | Geshwaree Huzooree, Melina Seedoyal Doargajudhur, Corine de Ruiter et al. | Edinburgh Napier University; Maastricht University; EM Normandie Business School; … |
| 2026-10-23 | Time to Build in Agent-Based Models: Emerging Business Cycle Trends Through Time-Sensitive Production Processes | Italian Economic Journal | Eleonora Priori, Pietro Terna, Jack Birner et al. | University of Turin; Maastricht University; University of Genoa |
| 2026-10-17 | GenAI-supported internal feedback intervention for writing improvement: The roles of evaluative judgment and student-AI interaction in a cluster-randomized experimental study | Computers & Education | Shijun Cindy Chen, Christian Dieter Schunn, Jie Cao et al. | University of Hong Kong; University of Pittsburgh; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; … |
| 2026-10-15 | Home-based geriatric rehabilitation after shortened inpatient rehabilitation: cost-effectiveness analysis of the “Better@Home” multicentre prospective cohort study with a matched historical control group | The European Journal of Health Economics | Chris J. Gamble, Wim G Groen, M. Vaz et al. | Maastricht University; Care and Public Health Research Institute; Amsterdam Public Health; … |
| 2026-10-14 | Cardiovascular medicine preprints: publication rates, citation rates, and time to publication | Scientometrics | Bryan Nicolalde, Jose Camacho, Kevin Zambrano et al. | University of Vermont; Norwalk Hospital; Universidad San Francisco de Quito; … |
| 2026-10-12 | Digitalisation, Use of Scientific Publications, and Research Output: Cross-Country Evidence | Science and Engineering Ethics | Guangyao Zhang, Lili Wang, Yu Geng et al. | Nanjing University; United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology; Maastricht University; … |
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Scholar4AI. (2026). Maastricht University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/maastricht-university
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