---
title: "North Carolina State University: research profile"
description: "Research profile of North Carolina State University: 746 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 852."
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share_text: "Research profile of North Carolina State University: 746 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 852. (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
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---

# North Carolina State University

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: United States
- web domain: ncsu.edu

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

## Key findings

- North Carolina State University was involved in 4 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #507 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Annals of Operations Research (1), Computers & Industrial Engineering (1) and Public Relations Review (1).
- Countries: United States (4), 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

*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) | 22 | 22 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 22 | 20 | 22 | 20 | 19 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 11 | 17 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 9 | 5 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 17 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 7 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 9 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Public Relations Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-relations-review.md) | 9 |
| 2 | [Innovative Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/innovative-higher-education.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [Journal of Business Venturing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Journal of Business Venturing Insights](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing-insights.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | 5 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Arizona State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/arizona-state-university.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [Northeastern University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northeastern-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/texas-a-m-university.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Duke University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/duke-university.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [Hainan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hainan-university.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/rutgers-the-state-university-of-new-jersey.md) | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Bayesian optimization | 8 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 8 |
| 4 | Gaussian process regression | 8 |
| 5 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 8 |
| 6 | deforestation | 5 |
| 7 | out-of-sample forecasting | 5 |
| 8 | school choice | 5 |
| 9 | North Carolina | 4 |
| 10 | [autonomous vehicles](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/autonomous-vehicles.md) | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,742 | 15.5 | [Theory-Guided Data Science: A New Paradigm for Scientific Discovery from Data](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2017.2720168) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2017-06-29 | Anuj Karpatne, Gowtham Atluri, James H. Faghmous et al. |
| 2 | 803 | 8.4 | [Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: Past, Present and Future](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-018-0734-2) | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 2018-11-02 | Vikas Soekhai, Esther Wilhelmina de Bekker-Grob, Alan R. Ellis et al. |
| 3 | 321 | 4.3 | [Revising entrepreneurial action in response to exogenous shocks: Considering the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2020.e00186) | [Journal of Business Venturing Insights](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing-insights.md) | 2020-08-03 | Ferran Giones, Alexander Brem, Jeffrey M. Pollack et al. |
| 4 | 312 | 2.7 | [Toward a better understanding of crowdfunding, openness and the consequences for innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2017.02.003) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2017-03-01 | Michael A. Stanko, David H. Henard |
| 5 | 308 | 3.2 | [Transportation resilience to climate change and extreme weather events – Beyond risk and robustness](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2018.11.003) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 2018-11-23 | Samuel A. Markolf, Christopher G. Hoehne, Andrew M. Fraser et al. |
| 6 | 301 | 3.8 | [AI in the headlines: the portrayal of the ethical issues of artificial intelligence in the media](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-00965-5) | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 2020-03-29 | Leila Ouchchy, Allen Coin, Veljko Dubljević |
| 7 | 279 | 8.7 | [Forecasting wholesale prices of yellow corn through the Gaussian process regression](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-024-09531-2) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2024-03-01 | Bingzi Jin, Xiaojie Xu |
| 8 | 235 | 2.9 | [A Survey of Single-Scene Video Anomaly Detection](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3040591) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-01-01 | Bharathkumar Ramachandra, Michael Jeffrey Jones, Ranga Raju Vatsavai |
| 9 | 226 | 8.9 | [Forecasts of coking coal futures price indices through Gaussian process regressions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13563-024-00472-9) | [Mineral Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mineral-economics.md) | 2024-09-17 | Bingzi Jin, Xiaojie Xu |
| 10 | 209 | 6.1 | [Students’ perceptions of using ChatGPT in a physics class as a virtual tutor](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-023-00434-1) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2023-12-21 | Lu Ding, Tong Li, Shiyan Jiang et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*North Carolina State University 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](https://openalex.org/I4210158053) |
| 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](https://www.ncsu.edu/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04tj63d06](https://ror.org/04tj63d06) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I137902535](https://openalex.org/I137902535) |

*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) | 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% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | 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 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | [A simulation-driven approach to last-mile logistics analysis considering microlevel operational sequences for efficient delivery planning](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-026-07429-x) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2026.112478) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2026.102784) | [Public Relations Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-relations-review.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2026.100507) | [Cleaner and Responsible Consumption](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cleaner-and-responsible-consumption.md) | Johannes Bernhard Grote, Thomas Decker, Melinda J. Knuth et al. | Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences; Technical University of Munich; North Carolina State University; … |

## Cite this page

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

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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).