Michigan State University

2 papers in the last 7 days · country: United States · web domain: msu.edu

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Key findings#

Michigan State University was involved in 9 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #162 of 3,809 institutions.
Most of them appeared in Resources Policy (1), Human Resource Management Review (1) and Utilities Policy (1).
Countries: United States (9), Iran (1) and China (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Michigan State University took part in 1,181 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (428), AI (185) and management (129).
111 of them were published in 2025, against 138 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Jinan University (13), International Food Policy Research Institute (11) and Colorado State University (10).
The journals publishing most of them were Food Policy (23), IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (19) and International Journal of Hospitality Management (16).
The most-cited of them is “Mirror, mirror on the wall: a comparative evaluation of composite-based structural equation modeling methods” (Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2017), with 2,577 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Michigan State University has 371,968 works with 21,168,029 citations (h-index 1,088).
The tracked journals hold 1,083 of its 92,626 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.2%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Nuclear physics research studies (7,269), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (7,246) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (5,877).

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
Economics	58	56	42	45	49	34	33	37	43	31
AI	23	16	18	10	23	14	32	20	15	14
Management	20	16	13	12	13	12	13	11	9	10
Operations Research	5	8	9	14	17	16	8	8	5	6
Marketing	6	9	7	11	8	8	11	7	9	8
Higher Education and Research	4	4	7	3	10	6	3	9	5	5
Statistics	7	6	9	4	6	7	3	0	3	6
Finance	7	3	8	3	8	4	3	3	7	4
Tourism and Hospitality	3	3	0	5	5	4	2	9	10	6
Accounting	3	1	0	2	1	3	3	8	2	1
Information Systems	2	2	0	2	3	3	1	1	0	2
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	2	3	5
All categories	138	124	113	112	146	112	112	115	111	98

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Food Policy	23
2	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	19
3	International Journal of Hospitality Management	16
4	Public Relations Review	16
5	Journal of Business and Psychology	12
6	Land Use Policy	11
7	World Development	11
8	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	10
9	Journal of Econometrics	9
10	Review of Accounting Studies	9

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Jinan University	13
2	International Food Policy Research Institute	11
3	Colorado State University	10
4	Texas A&M University	10
5	University of Michigan	10
6	Mansoura University	9
7	University of Minnesota	9
8	University of Central Florida	8
9	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	8

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	United States	436
2	China	77
3	United Kingdom	26
4	Canada	18
5	Italy	17
6	Hong Kong	13
7	South Korea	12
8	Australia	11
9	Brazil	9
10	Egypt	9

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	COVID-19 pandemic	14
2	multi-objective optimization	12
3	willingness to pay	8
4	service robots	7
5	symbolic regression	7
6	agricultural policy	6
7	corporate social responsibility	6
8	educational attainment	6
9	large language models	6
10	many-objective optimization	6

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,577	22.1	Mirror, mirror on the wall: a comparative evaluation of composite-based structural equation modeling methods	Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science	2017-02-16	Joseph F. Hair, G. Tomas M. Hult, Christian M. Ringle et al.
2	913	8.1	A Review on Bilevel Optimization: From Classical to Evolutionary Approaches and Applications	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	2017-06-07	Ankur Sinha, Pekka Malo, Kalyanmoy Deb
3	861	21.5	Transfer Learning in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2023-07-04	Zhuangdi Zhu, Kaixiang Lin, Anil K. Jain et al.
4	660	7.0	Correlated random effects models with unbalanced panels	Journal of Econometrics	2018-12-10	Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
5	635	5.8	Investor flows and fragility in corporate bond funds	Journal of Financial Economics	2017-09-07	Itay Goldstein B, Hao Jiang, David T. Ng
6	630	18.3	Crested Porcupine Optimizer: A new nature-inspired metaheuristic	Knowledge-Based Systems	2023-12-22	Mohamed Abdel‐Basset, Reda Mohamed, Mohamed Abouhawwash
7	611	14.0	Kepler optimization algorithm: A new metaheuristic algorithm inspired by Kepler’s laws of planetary motion	Knowledge-Based Systems	2023-03-11	Mohamed Abdel‐Basset, Reda Mohamed, Shaimaa A. Abdel Azeem et al.
8	490	4.3	Service encounters, experiences and the customer journey: Defining the field and a call to expand our lens	Journal of Business Research	2017-04-28	Clay M. Voorhees, Paul W. Fombelle, Yany Grégoire et al.
9	483	15.9	Recommender Systems in the Era of Large Language Models (LLMs)	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2024-04-22	Zihuai Zhao, Wenqi Fan, Jiatong Li et al.
10	450	9.8	Nutcracker optimizer: A novel nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for global optimization and engineering design problems	Knowledge-Based Systems	2023-01-02	Mohamed Abdel‐Basset, Reda Mohamed, Mohammed Jameel et al.

In OpenAlex#

Michigan State University in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Also known as	MSU, Université d'État du michigan
Units listed in OpenAlex	7
Works in OpenAlex	371,968
Citations	21,168,029
h-index	1,088
i10-index	270,502
2-year mean citedness	1.31
Website	msu.edu
ROR	ror.org/05hs6h993
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I87216513

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	Nuclear physics research studies	Physics and Astronomy	7,269
2	Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions	Physics and Astronomy	7,246
3	Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies	Physics and Astronomy	5,877
4	High-Energy Particle Collisions Research	Physics and Astronomy	3,568
5	Astronomical and nuclear sciences	Physics and Astronomy	3,243

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)	137,321	446,429	98	0.1%
2025	10,616	582,097	111	1.0%
2024	12,330	588,084	115	0.9%
2023	13,405	570,243	112	0.8%
2022	11,168	565,435	112	1.0%
2021	10,015	571,590	146	1.5%
2020	9,795	512,397	112	1.1%
2019	9,053	444,681	113	1.2%
2018	8,110	393,656	124	1.5%
2017	8,134	368,501	138	1.7%

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Papers, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-11-01	Diamond mining, environmental degradation and local livelihoods: The case of Kono District, Sierra Leone	Resources Policy	Sigismond A. Wilson, Leonard C. Johnson, Mingjie G. Wen G. Wen et al.	Rogers State University; Michigan State University
2026-10-30	Drawing more complete and valid interpretations of mediation in human resource management: Beyond the sole focus on indirect effects and their statistical significance	Human Resource Management Review	Rakoon Piyanontalee, Jie (Jasmine) Feng, Mevan M. Jayasinghe et al.	The College of New Jersey; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Michigan State University; …
2026-10-21	Defining the relationship between housing characteristics, household demographics, and time-of-use demand response participation	Utilities Policy	Patricia Guillante, Kristen Sara Cetin	Michigan State University
2026-10-21	FOS: a large-scale temporal graph benchmark for scientific interdisciplinary link prediction	Scientometrics	Kiyan Rezaee, Morteza Ziabakhsh, Niloofar Nikfarjam et al.	Michigan State University; University of Tehran; University of Guilan; …
2026-10-14	Green by association? Restaurant presence on food-waste reduction platforms as a hybrid sustainability signal for brand equity	International Journal of Hospitality Management	Chang Ma, Jieyu Shi, Lu Zhang et al.	University of South Carolina; Michigan State University; Purdue University West Lafayette
2026-10-13	Understanding human detection of algorithmic bias through drift-diffusion modeling	Computers in Human Behavior	Hannah E Overbye-Thompson, Kristy A. Hamilton, Jacob Fisher	Michigan State University; University of California, Santa Barbara
2026-10-10	Heterogeneous consumer responses to added sugar disclosures: Evidence from the U.S. nutrition facts panel update	Food Policy	YuXiang Zhang, Yizao Liu, James W. Sears	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou); Pennsylvania State University; Michigan State University
2026-10-05	Healing our intergenerational wounds: a praxis of community healing envisioned by refugee young adults engaging in participatory avatar-based community circles	International Journal for Equity in Health	Vivetha Thambinathan, Lloy Wylie, Deluxna Ganesh et al.	Michigan State University; Western University; Toronto General Hospital; …
2026-10-05	Organizational Factors Impacting Implementation of Evidence-based Practices for Autistic Youth: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of Virginia’s Community Mental Health System	Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research	Jennifer R. Bertollo, Jessica E. Tschida, Megan Fok et al.	Children's National; Virginia Tech; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; …

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Michigan State University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/michigan-state-university

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