Northwestern University
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Key findings#
- Northwestern University was involved in 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #248 of 3,880 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Operations Research Letters (1), Journal of Economics Race and Policy (1) and Implementation Science (1).
- Countries: United States (7) and Belgium (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Northwestern University took part in 1,259 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (365), health economics and policy (214) and operations research (209).
- 130 of them were published in 2025, against 118 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Pennsylvania (21), Washington University in St. Louis (19) and National Bureau of Economic Research (17).
- The journals publishing most of them were Implementation Science (31), Social Science & Medicine (23) and Journal of Financial Economics (15).
- The most-cited of them is “Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic” (Journal of Public Economics, 2020), with 989 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Northwestern University has 323,898 works with 41,238,820 citations (h-index 1,600).
- The tracked journals hold 1,121 of its 123,056 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.9%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are earthquake and tectonic studies (6,909), Seismic Waves and Analysis (6,629) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (4,577).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 37 | 26 | 39 | 40 | 48 | 44 | 30 | 33 | 34 | 34 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 15 | 12 | 19 | 20 | 27 | 17 | 17 | 25 | 30 | 32 |
| Operations Research | 22 | 19 | 27 | 26 | 22 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 16 | 25 |
| AI | 9 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 21 | 11 | 20 | 22 | 24 |
| Management | 7 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| Finance | 7 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| Marketing | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Higher Education and Research | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| Information Systems | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Accounting | 3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Statistics | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 118 | 96 | 125 | 127 | 152 | 149 | 107 | 117 | 130 | 138 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Implementation Science | 31 |
| 2 | Social Science & Medicine | 23 |
| 3 | Journal of Financial Economics | 15 |
| 4 | Journal of Econometrics | 15 |
| 5 | Medical Image Analysis | 13 |
| 6 | Transportation Research Part B Methodological | 12 |
| 7 | Journal of Development Economics | 12 |
| 8 | Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | 10 |
| 9 | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 10 |
| 10 | Mathematical Programming | 9 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania | 21 |
| 2 | Washington University in St. Louis | 19 |
| 3 | National Bureau of Economic Research | 17 |
| 4 | University of Illinois Chicago | 17 |
| 5 | Harvard University | 16 |
| 6 | University of Chicago | 16 |
| 7 | Columbia University | 15 |
| 8 | Stanford University | 14 |
| 9 | University of Michigan | 13 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 492 |
| 2 | China | 58 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 50 |
| 4 | Canada | 30 |
| 5 | Australia | 22 |
| 6 | Germany | 20 |
| 7 | Italy | 16 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 15 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 15 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 13 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 16 |
| 2 | implementation strategies | 16 |
| 3 | large language models | 9 |
| 4 | implementation outcomes | 8 |
| 5 | health disparities | 7 |
| 6 | health equity | 6 |
| 7 | health-related quality of life | 6 |
| 8 | implementation research | 6 |
| 9 | opioid use disorder | 6 |
| 10 | United States | 5 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Evanston, Illinois, United States |
| Also known as | NU |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 3 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 323,898 |
| Citations | 41,238,820 |
| h-index | 1,600 |
| i10-index | 418,366 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.64 |
| Website | www.northwestern.edu |
| ROR | ror.org/000e0be47 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I111979921 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earthquake and tectonic studies | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 6,909 |
| 2 | Seismic Waves and Analysis | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 6,629 |
| 3 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 4,577 |
| 4 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 3,767 |
| 5 | Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research | Neuroscience | 3,392 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 14,863 | 879,961 | 138 | 0.9% |
| 2025 | 15,738 | 1,047,154 | 130 | 0.8% |
| 2024 | 14,684 | 1,028,162 | 117 | 0.8% |
| 2023 | 13,310 | 962,771 | 107 | 0.8% |
| 2022 | 13,321 | 950,841 | 149 | 1.1% |
| 2021 | 13,373 | 961,074 | 152 | 1.1% |
| 2020 | 13,444 | 874,705 | 127 | 0.9% |
| 2019 | 17,460 | 754,323 | 125 | 0.7% |
| 2018 | 11,178 | 676,273 | 96 | 0.9% |
| 2017 | 10,548 | 625,610 | 118 | 1.1% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | A Geometric Analysis of Gains from Trade | Operations Research Letters | Jason D. Hartline, Kangning Wang | Northwestern University; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
| 2026-10-31 | What Do First Names Signal? Evidence on Race, Class, and Unobserved Characteristics from a New Dataset | Journal of Economics Race and Policy | Deborah M. Weiss, Matthew L. Spitzer, Ethan Nourbash | Northwestern University |
| 2026-10-30 | Facilitation and incentivization improved speed of contingency management adoption, exposure, and submission | Implementation Science | Sara J. Becker, Tim Janssen, Kira DiClemente-Bosco et al. | Northwestern University; Brown University; The Ohio State University |
| 2026-10-28 | A comprehensive framework of traffic shockwave propagation | Transportation Research Part B Methodological | Nachuan Li, Hani S. Mahmassani, Alireza Talebpour et al. | Northwestern University; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; George Washington University |
| 2026-10-23 | Equivalence and near-equivalence of solutions to principal-agent problems | Games and Economic Behavior | Héctor Chade, Jeroen M. Swinkels | Yale University; Arizona State University; Northwestern University |
| 2026-10-15 | Love-for-variety: with an application to an Armington model of competitive trade | Journal of International Economics | Kiminori Matsuyama, Philip Ushchev | Northwestern University; Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| 2026-10-08 | Patient sorting and downstream spending: evidence from an information disclosure program | Journal of Health Economics | Nicole Holz | Northwestern University |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Northwestern University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-university
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Northwestern University},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-university}},
urldate = {2026-11-05},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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