---
title: "Michigan State University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Michigan State University: 1,181 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 1,088."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/michigan-state-university
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share_text: "Research profile of Michigan State University: 1,181 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 1,088. (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-04T00:03:46+09:00
window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Michigan State University

- 3 papers in the last 7 days
- country: United States
- web domain: msu.edu

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

## Key findings

- Michigan State University was involved in 8 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #192 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Artificial Intelligence (1), Resources Policy (1) and Human Resource Management Review (1).
- Countries: United States (8), China (2) and Iran (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

*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) | 58 | 56 | 42 | 45 | 49 | 34 | 33 | 37 | 43 | 31 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 23 | 16 | 18 | 10 | 23 | 14 | 32 | 20 | 15 | 14 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 20 | 16 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 10 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 5 | 8 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 6 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 6 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 8 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 5 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 7 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 7 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 6 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | 23 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 19 |
| 3 | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [Public Relations Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-relations-review.md) | 16 |
| 5 | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Jinan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/jinan-university.md) | 13 |
| 2 | International Food Policy Research Institute | 11 |
| 3 | Colorado State University | 10 |
| 4 | [Texas A&M University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/texas-a-m-university.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [University of Michigan](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-michigan.md) | 10 |
| 6 | Mansoura University | 9 |
| 7 | [University of Minnesota](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-minnesota.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [University of Central Florida](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-central-florida.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 14 |
| 2 | [multi-objective optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-objective-optimization.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [willingness to pay](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/willingness-to-pay.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [service robots](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/service-robots.md) | 7 |
| 5 | symbolic regression | 7 |
| 6 | agricultural policy | 6 |
| 7 | [corporate social responsibility](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-social-responsibility.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [educational attainment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/educational-attainment.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-017-0517-x) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2017.2712906) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2017-06-07 | Ankur Sinha, Pekka Malo, Kalyanmoy Deb |
| 3 | 861 | 21.5 | [Transfer Learning in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3292075) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-07-04 | Zhuangdi Zhu, Kaixiang Lin, Anil K. Jain et al. |
| 4 | 660 | 7.0 | [Correlated random effects models with unbalanced panels](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2018.12.010) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2018-12-10 | Jeffrey M. Wooldridge |
| 5 | 635 | 5.8 | [Investor flows and fragility in corporate bond funds](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2016.11.007) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2017-09-07 | Itay Goldstein B, Hao Jiang, David T. Ng |
| 6 | 630 | 18.3 | [Crested Porcupine Optimizer: A new nature-inspired metaheuristic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2023.111257) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2023.110454) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.04.014) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 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)](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2024.3392335) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.110248) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 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](https://msu.edu/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/05hs6h993](https://ror.org/05hs6h993) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I87216513](https://openalex.org/I87216513) |

*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% |

*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 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | [Constraint-Search Collaborative Genetic Algorithm for Bayesian Network Structure Learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2026.104655) | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | Zuowei He, Hengyang Lu, Shuwei Zhu et al. | Jiangnan University; Michigan State University |
| 2026-11-01 | [Diamond mining, environmental degradation and local livelihoods: The case of Kono District, Sierra Leone](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2026.106085) | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2026.101184) | [Human Resource Management Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/human-resource-management-review.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2026.102365) | [Utilities Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/utilities-policy.md) | Patricia Guillante, Kristen Sara Cetin | Michigan State University |
| 2026-10-21 | [FOS: a large-scale temporal graph benchmark for scientific interdisciplinary link prediction](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05851-3) | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104948) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2026.109209) | [Computers in Human Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-in-human-behavior.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2026.103195) | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | YuXiang Zhang, Yizao Liu, James W. Sears | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou); Pennsylvania State University; Michigan State University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Michigan State University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/michigan-state-university

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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).