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title: "Politecnico di Milano: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Politecnico di Milano: 1,201 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly operations research and economics; h-index 549."
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share_text: "Research profile of Politecnico di Milano: 1,201 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly operations research and economics; h-index 549. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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# Politecnico di Milano

- 4 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Italy
- web domain: polimi.it

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

## Key findings

- Politecnico di Milano was involved in 14 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #80 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Multivariate Analysis (4), Neural Networks (1) and Annals of Operations Research (1).
- Countries: Italy (14), United Kingdom (4) and China (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Politecnico di Milano took part in 1,201 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (278), economics (260) and AI (235).
- 161 of them were published in 2025, against 91 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Milan (16), École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (15) and Centre de Recherche sur les Risques et les Crises (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were Neural Networks (24), Expert Systems with Applications (20) and Research Policy (17).
- The most-cited of them is “Servitization and Industry 4.0 convergence in the digital transformation of product firms: A business model innovation perspective” (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2019), with 1,096 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Politecnico di Milano has 255,586 works with 6,186,664 citations (h-index 549).
- The tracked journals hold 1,058 of its 190,792 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies (1,976), Particle Detector Development and Performance (1,973) and Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics (1,971).

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 17 | 30 | 36 | 19 | 29 | 22 | 29 | 36 | 34 | 26 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 35 | 24 | 20 | 23 | 18 | 29 | 21 | 32 | 36 | 22 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 10 | 14 | 18 | 13 | 28 | 35 | 21 | 27 | 40 | 29 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 17 | 27 | 20 | 20 | 23 | 17 | 22 | 16 | 29 | 34 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 4 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 13 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 4 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 91 | 114 | 108 | 86 | 128 | 125 | 114 | 131 | 161 | 143 |

## Where the papers come from and its co-authors

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 24 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 20 |
| 3 | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 17 |
| 4 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 17 |
| 5 | [Technovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technovation.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 12 |
| 7 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Milan | 16 |
| 2 | École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris | 15 |
| 3 | Centre de Recherche sur les Risques et les Crises | 12 |
| 4 | [University of Milano-Bicocca](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-milano-bicocca.md) | 12 |
| 5 | Université Paris Sciences et Lettres | 12 |
| 6 | [Bocconi University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/bocconi-university.md) | 11 |
| 7 | Fondazione Politecnico di Milano | 11 |
| 8 | Politecnico di Torino | 11 |
| 9 | RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment | 11 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Italy | 549 |
| 2 | China | 64 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 52 |
| 4 | United States | 50 |
| 5 | France | 41 |
| 6 | Germany | 30 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 24 |
| 8 | Spain | 16 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 15 |
| 10 | Canada | 13 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 21 |
| 2 | [Italy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/italy.md) | 15 |
| 3 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [research agenda](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/research-agenda.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [supply chain resilience](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/supply-chain-resilience.md) | 9 |
| 7 | venture capital | 9 |
| 8 | [circular economy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/circular-economy.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [uncertainty quantification](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/uncertainty-quantification.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 7 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,096 | 11.7 | [Servitization and Industry 4.0 convergence in the digital transformation of product firms: A business model innovation perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.01.014) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2019-01-18 | Alejandro Germán Frank, Glauco Henrique de Sousa Mendes, Néstor Fabián Ayala et al. |
| 2 | 724 | 7.2 | [Agile Business Model Innovation in Digital Entrepreneurship: Lean Startup Approaches](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.06.013) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2018-06-23 | Antonio Ghezzi, Angelo Cavallo |
| 3 | 689 | 6.3 | [Credit Card Fraud Detection: A Realistic Modeling and a Novel Learning Strategy](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2017.2736643) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2017-09-14 | Andrea Dal Pozzolo, Giacomo Boracchi, Olivier Caelen et al. |
| 4 | 685 | 5.8 | [New players in entrepreneurial finance and why they are there](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-016-9826-6) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 2017-01-17 | Joern Block, Massimo G. Colombo, Douglas J. Cumming et al. |
| 5 | 666 | 6.0 | [Innovative and sustainable business models in the fashion industry: Entrepreneurial drivers, opportunities, and challenges](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2017.07.003) | [Business Horizons](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-horizons.md) | 2017-08-18 | Bruna Villa Todeschini, Marcelo Nogueira Cortimiglia, Daniela Callegaro-de-Menezes et al. |
| 6 | 644 | 6.5 | [Smart innovative cities: The impact of Smart City policies on urban innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.022) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2018-07-31 | Andrea Caragliu, Chiara Del Bo |
| 7 | 602 | 9.3 | [Digital technologies, innovation, and skills: Emerging trajectories and challenges](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104289) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2021-06-01 | Tommaso Ciarli, Martin F. Kenney, Silvia Massini et al. |
| 8 | 579 | 5.7 | [Entrepreneurial ecosystem research: present debates and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-018-0526-3) | [International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-entrepreneurship-and-management-journal.md) | 2018-06-04 | Angelo Cavallo, Antonio Ghezzi, Raffaello Balocco |
| 9 | 572 | 21.5 | [A Survey on Graph Neural Networks for Time Series: Forecasting, Classification, Imputation, and Anomaly Detection](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3443141) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-08-14 | Ming Jin, Huan Yee Koh, Qingsong Wen et al. |
| 10 | 558 | 4.7 | [Why Do Businesses Go Crypto? An Empirical Analysis of Initial Coin Offerings](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconbus.2018.04.001) | [Journal of Economics and Business](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economics-and-business.md) | 2017-01-01 | Saman Adhami, Giancarlo Giudici, Stefano Martinazzi |

## In OpenAlex

*Politecnico di Milano in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
| Also known as | Polytechnic University of Milan, École Polytechnique de Milan |
| Works in OpenAlex | 255,586 |
| Citations | 6,186,664 |
| h-index | 549 |
| i10-index | 115,440 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 0.66 |
| Website | [polimi.it](https://polimi.it) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01nffqt88](https://ror.org/01nffqt88) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I93860229](https://openalex.org/I93860229) |

*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) | 7,819 | 192,425 | 143 | 1.8% |
| 2025 | 138,378 | 243,054 | 161 | 0.1% |
| 2024 | 8,434 | 230,876 | 131 | 1.6% |
| 2023 | 8,189 | 214,344 | 114 | 1.4% |
| 2022 | 7,066 | 199,842 | 125 | 1.8% |
| 2021 | 6,957 | 197,294 | 128 | 1.8% |
| 2020 | 5,979 | 166,096 | 86 | 1.4% |
| 2019 | 5,453 | 140,950 | 108 | 2.0% |
| 2018 | 5,171 | 121,350 | 114 | 2.2% |
| 2017 | 5,165 | 107,702 | 91 | 1.8% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies | Chemical Engineering | 1,976 |
| 2 | Particle Detector Development and Performance | Physics and Astronomy | 1,973 |
| 3 | Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics | Engineering | 1,971 |
| 4 | Masonry and Concrete Structural Analysis | Engineering | 1,655 |
| 5 | Structural Health Monitoring Techniques | Engineering | 1,598 |

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 | [DPDA: A Dual-Path Domain Adaptation Method for Cross-Terrain Real-Time Attack Detection in Mobile Robots](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109848) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Yu Wang, Zhitao He, Yongyi Chen et al. | Zhejiang University of Technology; Politecnico di Milano |
| 2026-10-30 | [AI-driven ESG investing: robust portfolios with dynamic ensemble learning](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-026-07459-5) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | Nico Rosamilia, Irene Ferrari, Edoardo Pariani et al. | New York University; Politecnico di Milano |
| 2026-10-29 | [Actualizing entrepreneurial futures: Imaginaries, Visions, and the Olivetti Corporation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2026.106661) | [Journal of Business Venturing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing.md) | Vittoria Magrelli, Roy Suddaby, Trevor Lyle Israelsen et al. | University of Chieti-Pescara; University of Victoria; Pennsylvania State University; … |
| 2026-10-28 | [How immersive experiences carry over across the customer journey: A two-stage study of virtual reality in heritage tourism](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdmm.2026.101179) | [Journal of Destination Marketing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-destination-marketing-management.md) | Matteo Lorandi, Marco Mandolfo, Giuliano Noci | Politecnico di Milano |
| 2026-10-20 | [Scaffolding the void: Digital platforms as intermediaries in supply chain traceability](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2026.110250) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | Quynh Do, Claudia Colicchia, Alessandro Creazza et al. | Lancaster University; Politecnico di Milano; University Carlo Cattaneo |
| 2026-10-17 | [AI-enabled project monitoring and control: Toward a configurational framework for human–AI collaboration in project leadership](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2026.100245) | [Project Leadership and Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/project-leadership-and-society.md) | Erik Humberto Araya Aliaga, Adeline Abou-Ali, Costanza Mariani et al. | International University of Monaco; Politecnico di Milano |
| 2026-10-14 | [Demand-driven urban rail transit timetabling: Research perspectives](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106070) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Tommaso Schettini, Ola Jabali, Gilbert Laporte et al. | Concordia University; HEC Montréal; Politecnico di Milano; … |
| 2026-10-12 | [Modeling spatio-temporal smoothness using nonlinear differential operators](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2026.105728) | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | Aldo Clemente, Alessando Palummo, Eleonora Arnone et al. | Politecnico di Milano; University of Turin; University of Cambridge; … |
| 2026-10-10 | [Decoding fairness: Unveiling the cognitive processes that determine pay rises and promotions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2026.104299) | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | Gabriele Boccoli, Benedetta Colaiacovo, Francesco Candia et al. | Politecnico di Milano; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| 2026-10-10 | [Local inference for functional data on manifold domains using permutation tests](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2026.105719) | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | Niels Lundtorp Olsen, Alessia Pini, Simone Vantini | Technical University of Denmark; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Politecnico di Milano |
| 2026-10-09 | [Voronoi Depth for functional data over non-convex multidimensional supports](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2026.105727) | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | Michele Cavazzutti, Alessando Palummo, Eleonora Arnone et al. | Politecnico di Milano; University of Turin; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-09 | [A functional linear model of coregionalization for fully non-stationary spatial random fields](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2026.105717) | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | Giacomo De Carlo, Riccardo Scimone, Alessandra Menafoglio | Politecnico di Milano |
| 2026-10-08 | [From trade-off to paradox: a configurational theorizing and “quantum” approach to the resilience–sustainability tension in global sourcing](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-026-00909-z) | [Journal of International Business Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-studies.md) | G. Grassi, Stefano Elia, Cristina Di Stefano et al. | Politecnico di Milano |
| 2026-10-08 | [The paradox of experience: Public procurement and delivery timelines across digital solution types](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2026.102185) | [Government Information Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/government-information-quarterly.md) | Tommaso Giaccardi, Luca Gastaldi, Pier Paolo Patrucco | Politecnico di Milano; Copenhagen Business School |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Politecnico di Milano. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/politecnico-di-milano

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