North Carolina State University
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Key findings#
- North Carolina State University was involved in 5 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #377 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Annals of Operations Research (1), Computers & Industrial Engineering (1) and Public Relations Review (1).
- Countries: United States (5), Bangladesh (1) and Germany (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at North Carolina State University took part in 746 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (193), operations research (148) and AI (90).
- 73 of them were published in 2025, against 74 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Arizona State University (10), Northeastern University (8) and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Public Relations Review (9), Innovative Higher Education (9) and Expert Systems with Applications (9).
- The most-cited of them is “Theory-Guided Data Science: A New Paradigm for Scientific Discovery from Data” (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2017), with 1,742 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, North Carolina State University has 188,675 works with 12,966,389 citations (h-index 852).
- The tracked journals hold 683 of its 72,257 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.9%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (3,012), Semiconductor materials and devices (2,755) and Animal Nutrition and Physiology (2,726).
- OpenAlex lists it under University of North Carolina System.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 22 | 22 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 22 | 20 | 22 | 20 | 19 |
| Operations Research | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 11 | 17 |
| AI | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 9 | 5 |
| Statistics | 17 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Management | 7 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 9 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 3 |
| Marketing | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Finance | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Accounting | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 74 | 66 | 56 | 72 | 80 | 87 | 84 | 91 | 73 | 63 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Public Relations Review | 9 |
| 2 | Innovative Higher Education | 9 |
| 3 | Expert Systems with Applications | 9 |
| 4 | European Journal of Operational Research | 8 |
| 5 | Land Use Policy | 6 |
| 6 | Journal of Business Venturing | 6 |
| 7 | Ecological Economics | 6 |
| 8 | Journal of Business Venturing Insights | 6 |
| 9 | Higher Education | 5 |
| 10 | Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications | 5 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arizona State University | 10 |
| 2 | Northeastern University | 8 |
| 3 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 8 |
| 4 | Northern Illinois University | 7 |
| 5 | The Ohio State University | 7 |
| 6 | Texas A&M University | 6 |
| 7 | Duke University | 5 |
| 8 | Hainan University | 5 |
| 9 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 311 |
| 2 | China | 50 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 17 |
| 4 | Australia | 11 |
| 5 | South Korea | 8 |
| 6 | France | 6 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 6 |
| 8 | Canada | 5 |
| 9 | India | 5 |
| 10 | Turkey | 5 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bayesian optimization | 8 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 8 |
| 3 | China | 8 |
| 4 | Gaussian process regression | 8 |
| 5 | large language models | 8 |
| 6 | deforestation | 5 |
| 7 | out-of-sample forecasting | 5 |
| 8 | school choice | 5 |
| 9 | North Carolina | 4 |
| 10 | autonomous vehicles | 4 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States |
| Also known as | NCSU, Universidad Estatal de Carolina del Norte, Université d'État de caroline du nord |
| Part of | University of North Carolina System |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 14 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 188,675 |
| Citations | 12,966,389 |
| h-index | 852 |
| i10-index | 189,036 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.68 |
| Website | www.ncsu.edu |
| ROR | ror.org/04tj63d06 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I137902535 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Veterinary Medicine and Surgery | Veterinary | 3,012 |
| 2 | Semiconductor materials and devices | Engineering | 2,755 |
| 3 | Animal Nutrition and Physiology | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2,726 |
| 4 | Semiconductor materials and interfaces | Physics and Astronomy | 2,591 |
| 5 | Insect-Plant Interactions and Control | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2,390 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 11,402 | 298,570 | 63 | 0.6% |
| 2025 | 7,591 | 396,217 | 73 | 1.0% |
| 2024 | 7,794 | 390,581 | 91 | 1.2% |
| 2023 | 7,613 | 374,017 | 84 | 1.1% |
| 2022 | 6,656 | 373,405 | 87 | 1.3% |
| 2021 | 13,882 | 379,944 | 80 | 0.6% |
| 2020 | 8,096 | 335,107 | 72 | 0.9% |
| 2019 | 8,817 | 288,825 | 56 | 0.6% |
| 2018 | 5,969 | 256,405 | 66 | 1.1% |
| 2017 | 5,839 | 234,605 | 74 | 1.3% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | A simulation-driven approach to last-mile logistics analysis considering microlevel operational sequences for efficient delivery planning | Annals of Operations Research | Shamimur Rahman, Dana Zamorano, Tzu‐Liang Bill Tseng et al. | The University of Texas at El Paso; North Carolina State University |
| 2026-10-26 | Resilience-based network design optimization under aleatory uncertainty | Computers & Industrial Engineering | Kais Zaman, Tavila Sharmin, Faisal Mahmud | Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology; North Carolina State University; Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology |
| 2026-10-09 | Not my party, still my public: Political organization–public relationships beyond the base | Public Relations Review | Kaye D. Sweetser, Kalyca Lynn Becktel | San Diego State University; North Carolina State University |
| 2026-10-06 | Analyzing hobby-gardeners' purchase intentions for peat-reduced potting soils in Germany, UK and USA – An extended theory of planned behavior approach | Cleaner and Responsible Consumption | Johannes Bernhard Grote, Thomas Decker, Melinda J. Knuth et al. | Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences; Technical University of Munich; North Carolina State University; … |
| 2026-10-05 | The Relevance and Materiality of Illegal Acts: Examining Auditor and Investor Judgments | Journal of Business Ethics | Eileen Zalkin Taylor, Nicole S. Wright | North Carolina State University; James Madison University |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). North Carolina State University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/north-carolina-state-university
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