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title: "Massachusetts Institute of Technology: research profile"
description: "Research profile of Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1,527 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 2,544."
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share_text: "Research profile of Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1,527 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 2,544. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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# Massachusetts Institute of Technology

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: United States
- web domain: mit.edu

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

## Key findings

- Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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 Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (2), Journal of Public Economics (2) and Research in International Business and Finance (1).
- Countries: United States (11), China (2) and Canada (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology took part in 1,527 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (481), operations research (467) and AI (306).
- 124 of them were published in 2025, against 147 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Harvard University (56), MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (26) and Stanford University (24).
- The journals publishing most of them were Nature Machine Intelligence (32), Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (30) and Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (26).
- The most-cited of them is “Estimating dynamic treatment effects in event studies with heterogeneous treatment effects” (Journal of Econometrics, 2020), with 5,601 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology has 398,414 works with 79,772,456 citations (h-index 2,544).
- The tracked journals hold 1,408 of its 122,348 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.2%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (13,132), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (11,750) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (7,507).

## 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) | 50 | 34 | 55 | 65 | 65 | 40 | 54 | 45 | 41 | 32 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 42 | 53 | 47 | 52 | 45 | 50 | 55 | 46 | 35 | 42 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 21 | 17 | 27 | 32 | 33 | 35 | 49 | 39 | 28 | 25 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 17 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 6 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 147 | 127 | 162 | 185 | 173 | 147 | 184 | 159 | 124 | 119 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 32 |
| 2 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 30 |
| 3 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 26 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 21 |
| 5 | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 20 |
| 6 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 17 |
| 7 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 14 |
| 9 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 56 |
| 2 | MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | 26 |
| 3 | [Stanford University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/stanford-university.md) | 24 |
| 4 | [ETH Zurich](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/eth-zurich.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [Georgia Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/georgia-institute-of-technology.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [National Bureau of Economic Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-bureau-of-economic-research.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-hong-kong.md) | 14 |
| 9 | [University of Pennsylvania](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pennsylvania.md) | 12 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 586 |
| 2 | China | 87 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 60 |
| 4 | Switzerland | 41 |
| 5 | Germany | 37 |
| 6 | Canada | 31 |
| 7 | Singapore | 29 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 25 |
| 9 | Italy | 25 |
| 10 | Spain | 21 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 19 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [autonomous vehicles](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/autonomous-vehicles.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [robust optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/robust-optimization.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [autonomous driving](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/autonomous-driving.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [last-mile delivery](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/last-mile-delivery.md) | 9 |
| 7 | ride-hailing | 9 |
| 8 | facility location | 7 |
| 9 | [housing prices](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/housing-prices.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [machine learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/machine-learning.md) | 7 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,601 | 79.4 | [Estimating dynamic treatment effects in event studies with heterogeneous treatment effects](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.09.006) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2020-12-16 | Liyang Sun, Sarah Abraham |
| 2 | 3,983 | 35.6 | [Places: A 10 Million Image Database for Scene Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2723009) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-07-04 | Bolei Zhou, Àgata Lapedriza, Aditya Khosla et al. |
| 3 | 3,665 | 54.3 | [Learning nonlinear operators via DeepONet based on the universal approximation theorem of operators](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00302-5) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-03-18 | Lu Lu, Pengzhan Jin, Guofei Pang et al. |
| 4 | 1,830 | 19.3 | [Semantic Understanding of Scenes Through the ADE20K Dataset](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-018-1140-0) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2018-12-07 | Bolei Zhou, Hang Zhao, Xavier Puig et al. |
| 5 | 1,400 | 15.1 | [Video Enhancement with Task-Oriented Flow](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-018-01144-2) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2019-02-12 | Tianfan Xue, Baian Chen, Jiajun Wu et al. |
| 6 | 1,236 | 15.4 | [OSQP: an operator splitting solver for quadratic programs](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-020-00179-2) | [Mathematical Programming Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming-computation.md) | 2020-02-20 | Bartolomeo Stellato, Goran Banjac, Paul J. Goulart et al. |
| 7 | 911 | 11.3 | [On the road: Access to transportation infrastructure and economic growth in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102442) | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 2020-02-14 | Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Nancy Qian |
| 8 | 905 | 8.5 | [Trading and Arbitrage in Cryptocurrency Markets](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.07.001) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2018-01-01 | Igor Makarov, Antoinette Schoar B |
| 9 | 834 | 8.0 | [What Do Different Evaluation Metrics Tell Us About Saliency Models?](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2815601) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-03-13 | Zoya Bylinskii, Tilke Judd, Aude Oliva et al. |
| 10 | 793 | 6.8 | [Linking Economic Complexity, Institutions, and Income Inequality](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.12.020) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2017-01-24 | Dominik Hartmann, Miguel Guevara, Cristian Ignacio Jara-Figueroa et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Massachusetts Institute of Technology in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Also known as | MIT, Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 15 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 398,414 |
| Citations | 79,772,456 |
| h-index | 2,544 |
| i10-index | 559,224 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 8.42 |
| Website | [web.mit.edu](https://web.mit.edu) |
| ROR | [ror.org/042nb2s44](https://ror.org/042nb2s44) |
| Wikidata | [Q49108](Q49108) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I63966007](https://openalex.org/I63966007) |

*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) | 14,652 | 1,216,774 | 119 | 0.8% |
| 2025 | 14,324 | 1,634,064 | 124 | 0.9% |
| 2024 | 14,912 | 1,656,314 | 159 | 1.1% |
| 2023 | 14,525 | 1,591,530 | 184 | 1.3% |
| 2022 | 13,100 | 1,569,405 | 147 | 1.1% |
| 2021 | 14,222 | 1,654,026 | 173 | 1.2% |
| 2020 | 14,423 | 1,485,036 | 185 | 1.3% |
| 2019 | 12,768 | 1,309,648 | 162 | 1.3% |
| 2018 | 12,244 | 1,183,782 | 127 | 1.0% |
| 2017 | 11,830 | 1,087,835 | 147 | 1.2% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 13,132 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 11,750 |
| 3 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 7,507 |
| 4 | Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations | Physics and Astronomy | 6,455 |
| 5 | Particle Detector Development and Performance | Physics and Astronomy | 6,012 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | [Pedestrians as obstacles in dense crowds: Local encounters and collective motion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106094) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Wenfeng Yi, Wenhan Wu | China University of Petroleum, Beijing; Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-23 | [Do media narratives shape foreign ownership? Evidence from African regions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2026.103681) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | Andrea Fronzetti Colladon, Roberto Vestrelli, Stefania Bait et al. | Roma Tre University; University of Perugia; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; … |
| 2026-10-22 | [Measuring the state of open science in transportation using large language models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106024) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Junyi Ji, Ruth Lu, Linda Belkessa et al. | Vanderbilt University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Université Gustave Eiffel; … |
| 2026-10-16 | [Reintroducing multinomial logit switching regression models: Examining the treatment effect of multiple teleworking frequency categories on vehicle-miles driven](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocm.2026.100632) | [Journal of Choice Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-choice-modelling.md) | Xinyi Wang, Patricia Lyon Mokhtarian | Georgia Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-16 | [Does the United States spend enough on public schools? Evidence from a market-based efficiency test](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2026.105802) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | Patrick J. Bayer, Peter Sinclair Blair, Kenneth A. Whaley | Duke University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Harvard University; … |
| 2026-10-16 | [The welfare effects of explicit and implicit subsidies on fossil fuels](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2026.105804) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | Tim Kalmey, Sebastian Rausch, Jan Schneider | Centre for European Economic Research; Heidelberg University; ETH Zurich; … |
| 2026-10-12 | [Production scheduling with feature-dependent setups and precedence constraints](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2026.112445) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | Geoffrey A. Chua, Ashwin Ravindran, Juan Ramon L. Senga et al. | Nanyang Technological University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-12 | [Robots Are Us](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41549-026-00144-3) | [Journal of Business Cycle Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-cycle-research.md) | Seth  G. Benzell, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Guillermo Lagarda | Chapman University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stanford University; … |
| 2026-10-10 | [Decorated stable p-adic self-similar processes with stationary increments](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spa.2026.105117) | [Stochastic Processes and their Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/stochastic-processes-and-their-applications.md) | Yi Shen, Zhenyuan Zhang | University of Waterloo; Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-08 | [Phosphate fertilizer trade policy scenarios and their implications using the partial equilibrium Global Simulation Analysis Model (GSIM)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2026.106075) | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | Eihab Fathelrahman, Raeda Osman, Stephen Davies et al. | United Arab Emirates University; International Food Policy Research Institute; Colorado State University; … |
| 2026-10-07 | [Adaptive large language model reasoning for autonomous driving decision-making](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2026.104640) | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | Haicheng Liao, Chengyue Wang, Hanlin Kong et al. | University of Macau; Zhejiang University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/massachusetts-institute-of-technology

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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).