McMaster University
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Key findings#
- McMaster University was involved in 9 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #121 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in International Review of Financial Analysis (1), Journal of Business Research (1) and Omega (1).
- Countries: Canada (9), China (3) and United States (3).
- From 2023 to 2025, McMaster University ranks #9 in health economics and policy.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at McMaster University took part in 841 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (212), operations research (171) and economics (114).
- 98 of them were published in 2025, against 74 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Toronto (33), Toronto Metropolitan University (10) and University of Alberta (10).
- The journals publishing most of them were Health Research Policy and Systems (31), Health Policy (22) and Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability (12).
- The most-cited of them is “Financial Fraud: A Review of Anomaly Detection Techniques and Recent Advances” (Expert Systems with Applications, 2021), with 619 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, McMaster University has 185,094 works with 21,727,166 citations (h-index 1,336).
- The tracked journals hold 770 of its 74,664 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.0%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis Mechanisms (3,776), Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management (3,642) and Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (3,354).
In the rankings#
Top institutions, 2023–2025: #9 in health economics and policy
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health Economics and Policy | 21 | 21 | 19 | 25 | 14 | 24 | 22 | 26 | 26 | 14 |
| Operations Research | 13 | 21 | 12 | 11 | 19 | 21 | 16 | 16 | 25 | 17 |
| Economics | 14 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 12 |
| Statistics | 13 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| AI | 2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 7 |
| Finance | 5 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 5 |
| Management | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| Information Systems | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Marketing | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 74 | 90 | 67 | 84 | 74 | 101 | 98 | 84 | 98 | 71 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Health Research Policy and Systems | 31 |
| 2 | Health Policy | 22 |
| 3 | Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability | 12 |
| 4 | The European Journal of Health Economics | 9 |
| 5 | European Journal of Operational Research | 8 |
| 6 | Health Care Management Science | 8 |
| 7 | Statistics & Probability Letters | 7 |
| 8 | Journal of Business Research | 6 |
| 9 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 6 |
| 10 | Information & Management | 6 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Toronto | 33 |
| 2 | Toronto Metropolitan University | 10 |
| 3 | University of Alberta | 10 |
| 4 | University of Ottawa | 10 |
| 5 | Tianjin University | 8 |
| 6 | Western University | 8 |
| 7 | American University of Beirut | 7 |
| 8 | St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton | 7 |
| 9 | Universidad San Sebastián | 7 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | 351 |
| 2 | United States | 78 |
| 3 | China | 65 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 28 |
| 5 | Australia | 17 |
| 6 | India | 13 |
| 7 | Germany | 12 |
| 8 | Iran | 12 |
| 9 | Chile | 11 |
| 10 | Brazil | 8 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 17 |
| 2 | stakeholder engagement | 13 |
| 3 | Canada | 11 |
| 4 | corporate social responsibility | 9 |
| 5 | health equity | 9 |
| 6 | priority setting | 9 |
| 7 | Ontario | 7 |
| 8 | cost-effectiveness | 7 |
| 9 | evidence-informed policy | 7 |
| 10 | quality-adjusted life years | 7 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 5 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 185,094 |
| Citations | 21,727,166 |
| h-index | 1,336 |
| i10-index | 222,870 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.85 |
| Website | www.mcmaster.ca |
| ROR | ror.org/02fa3aq29 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I98251732 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis Mechanisms | Medicine | 3,776 |
| 2 | Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management | Medicine | 3,642 |
| 3 | Meta-analysis and systematic reviews | Decision Sciences | 3,354 |
| 4 | Asthma and respiratory diseases | Medicine | 3,298 |
| 5 | Innovations in Medical Education | Medicine | 3,138 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 7,694 | 476,328 | 71 | 0.9% |
| 2025 | 9,348 | 581,921 | 98 | 1.0% |
| 2024 | 9,625 | 582,971 | 84 | 0.9% |
| 2023 | 8,846 | 543,595 | 98 | 1.1% |
| 2022 | 9,074 | 529,949 | 101 | 1.1% |
| 2021 | 9,069 | 528,851 | 74 | 0.8% |
| 2020 | 8,517 | 465,816 | 84 | 1.0% |
| 2019 | 7,141 | 376,802 | 67 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 6,740 | 337,909 | 90 | 1.3% |
| 2017 | 6,304 | 314,423 | 74 | 1.2% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | Investor attention and commodity price volatility: A cross-market, multidimensional analysis | International Review of Financial Analysis | Ningli Wang, 赵惠, Tiancheng Zhu et al. | Shanghai University; Guangxi University; McMaster University |
| 2026-10-21 | Policy persistence without performance: compensatory legitimacy and the expansion of entrepreneurship education in Sub-Saharan Africa | Journal of Business Research | Benson Honig, Olu Aluko, Juliana Siwale et al. | McMaster University; Nottingham Trent University; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; … |
| 2026-10-21 | Responsible AI-driven decision-making for fair and efficient continuity of care among older adults | Omega | Somayeh Ghazalbash, Manaf Zargoush, Vedat Verter et al. | McMaster University; Queen's University; Northeastern University |
| 2026-10-15 | Non-pharmacological interventions: nomenclature, taxonomy, and working definitions | Journal of Public Health Policy | John Conly, Jeffrey K Aronson, Annette Pluddemann et al. | Alberta Health Services; University of Calgary; University of Oxford; … |
| 2026-10-10 | Corrigendum to “Cooling under fire: Can nuclear power remain thermodynamically resilient in a warming, water-constrained world?” [Energy Pol. 217, (2026), 115412] | Energy Policy | Michael Tadrous, David Novog, Goran Calic | McMaster University |
| 2026-10-10 | Estimation of Tsallis entropy and its applications to goodness-of-fit tests | Statistics and Computing | Siddhartha Chakraborty, Asok K. Nanda, Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan | University of Kalyani; Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata; Atilim University; … |
| 2026-10-09 | Deterrence or self-protection: Effects of anti-mafia campaign on corporate fraud | Journal of Financial Stability | Zhenjun Li, Qu Yang, Justin Yiqiang Jin et al. | Wuhan University of Technology; Xi'an Jiaotong University; McMaster University; … |
| 2026-10-08 | More than words: how discrete emotions and image colorfulness influence the helpfulness of online reviews | Electronic Commerce Research | Junyi Yang, Xuecong Lu, Mei Yang et al. | McMaster University; State University of New York; University at Albany, State University of New York; … |
| 2026-10-06 | The impact of comprehensive student support on crime: Evidence from the pathways to education program | Journal of Urban Economics | Adam Lavecchia, Philip Oreopoulos, Noah Spencer | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics; McMaster University; University of Toronto |
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Scholar4AI. (2026). McMaster University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/mcmaster-university
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