---
title: "Northwestern University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Northwestern University: 1,259 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and health economics and policy; h-index 1,600."
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share_text: "Research profile of Northwestern University: 1,259 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and health economics and policy; h-index 1,600. (as of 2026-11-05)"
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window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# Northwestern University

[Browse institution research profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/directory/page/3.md)

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

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



## 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

*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) | 37 | 26 | 39 | 40 | 48 | 44 | 30 | 33 | 34 | 34 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 15 | 12 | 19 | 20 | 27 | 17 | 17 | 25 | 30 | 32 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 22 | 19 | 27 | 26 | 22 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 16 | 25 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 9 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 21 | 11 | 20 | 22 | 24 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 7 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 7 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Implementation Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/implementation-science.md) | 31 |
| 2 | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | 23 |
| 3 | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 12 |
| 7 | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/administration-and-policy-in-mental-health-and-mental-health-services-research.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Pennsylvania](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pennsylvania.md) | 21 |
| 2 | Washington University in St. Louis | 19 |
| 3 | [National Bureau of Economic Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-bureau-of-economic-research.md) | 17 |
| 4 | [University of Illinois Chicago](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-illinois-chicago.md) | 17 |
| 5 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [University of Chicago](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chicago.md) | 16 |
| 7 | [Columbia University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/columbia-university.md) | 15 |
| 8 | [Stanford University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/stanford-university.md) | 14 |
| 9 | [University of Michigan](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-michigan.md) | 13 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 16 |
| 2 | implementation strategies | 16 |
| 3 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 9 |
| 4 | implementation outcomes | 8 |
| 5 | [health disparities](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-disparities.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [health equity](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-equity.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [health-related quality of life](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-related-quality-of-life.md) | 6 |
| 8 | implementation research | 6 |
| 9 | opioid use disorder | 6 |
| 10 | [United States](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/united-states.md) | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 989 | 13.4 | [Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104274) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2020-09-09 | Dave Altig, Scott Baker, Jose Maria Barrero et al. |
| 2 | 911 | 11.3 | [On the road: Access to transportation infrastructure and economic growth in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102442) | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 2020-02-14 | Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Nancy Qian |
| 3 | 691 | 6.7 | [Time varying risk aversion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2018.02.007) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2018-03-19 | Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales |
| 4 | 652 | 11.7 | [Stock price reactions to ESG news: the role of ESG ratings and disagreement](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-022-09675-3) | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 2022-03-10 | George Serafeim, Aaron S. Yoon |
| 5 | 628 | 5.5 | [Innocent Bystanders? Monetary policy and inequality](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2017.05.005) | [Journal of Monetary Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-monetary-economics.md) | 2017-05-17 | Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Lorenz Kueng et al. |
| 6 | 526 | 7.1 | [Leveraging media and health communication strategies to overcome the COVID-19 infodemic](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41271-020-00247-w) | [Journal of Public Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-health-policy.md) | 2020-08-21 | Nour Mheidly, Jawad Fares |
| 7 | 473 | 4.1 | [How effective are macroprudential policies? An empirical investigation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfi.2017.04.001) | [Journal of Financial Intermediation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-intermediation.md) | 2017-04-28 | Özge Akıncı, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey |
| 8 | 454 | 7.1 | [Social Norms as a Barrier to Women’s Employment in Developing Countries](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41308-021-00140-w) | [IMF Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/imf-economic-review.md) | 2021-07-05 | Seema Jayachandran |
| 9 | 431 | 5.8 | [Forecasting for COVID-19 has failed](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2020.08.004) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2020-08-25 | John P. A. Ioannidis, Sally Cripps, Martin A. Tanner |
| 10 | 405 | 5.8 | [Inverse design of nanoporous crystalline reticular materials with deep generative models](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-020-00271-1) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-01-11 | Zhenpeng Yao, Benjamín Sánchez-Lengeling, N. Scott Bobbitt et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Northwestern University 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](https://www.northwestern.edu/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/000e0be47](https://ror.org/000e0be47) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I111979921](https://openalex.org/I111979921) |

*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) | 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% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | 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 |

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 | [A Geometric Analysis of Gains from Trade](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107572) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41996-026-00207-8) | [Journal of Economics Race and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economics-race-and-policy.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-026-01549-5) | [Implementation Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/implementation-science.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2026.103624) | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2026.104066) | [Games and Economic Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/games-and-economic-behavior.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2026.104345) | [Journal of International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-economics.md) | Kiminori Matsuyama, Philip Ushchev | Northwestern University; Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| 2026-10-08 | [Patient sorting and downstream spending: evidence from an information disclosure program](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2026.103187) | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | 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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  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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