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title: "Purdue University West Lafayette: research profile"
description: "Research profile of Purdue University West Lafayette: 1,214 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 984."
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share_text: "Research profile of Purdue University West Lafayette: 1,214 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 984. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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# Purdue University West Lafayette

- 4 papers in the last 7 days
- country: United States
- web domain: purdue.edu

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

## Key findings

- Purdue University West Lafayette 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 Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (2), Journal of Air Transport Management (1) and Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (1).
- Countries: United States (14), Australia (2) and China (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Purdue University West Lafayette took part in 1,214 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (335), operations research (263) and AI (160).
- 160 of them were published in 2025, against 114 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Oklahoma State University (10), Kyung Hee University (9) and University of Pennsylvania (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Hospitality Management (30), Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (18) and Journal of Air Transport Management (14).
- The most-cited of them is “Social network analysis: Characteristics of online social networks after a disaster” (International Journal of Information Management, 2017), with 618 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Purdue University West Lafayette has 299,584 works with 21,904,299 citations (h-index 984).
- The tracked journals hold 1,098 of its 103,172 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.1%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (5,327), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (5,062) and Engineering Education and Pedagogy (3,278).
- OpenAlex lists it under Purdue University 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) | 37 | 29 | 42 | 33 | 39 | 30 | 26 | 33 | 35 | 31 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 24 | 28 | 22 | 30 | 26 | 23 | 25 | 26 | 33 | 26 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 7 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 10 | 15 | 26 | 18 | 31 | 18 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 14 | 18 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 9 | 16 | 23 | 11 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 10 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 6 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 7 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 6 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 2 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 5 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 6 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 114 | 122 | 102 | 127 | 134 | 97 | 108 | 134 | 160 | 116 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 30 |
| 2 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [Journal of Air Transport Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-air-transport-management.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 12 |
| 7 | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 10 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Oklahoma State University | 10 |
| 2 | [Kyung Hee University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/kyung-hee-university.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [University of Pennsylvania](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pennsylvania.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 8 |
| 5 | Purdue University System | 8 |
| 6 | The Ohio State University | 8 |
| 7 | [University of Houston](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-houston.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [University of Tennessee at Knoxville](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-tennessee-at-knoxville.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [Carnegie Mellon University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/carnegie-mellon-university.md) | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 518 |
| 2 | China | 87 |
| 3 | South Korea | 30 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 26 |
| 5 | Australia | 24 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 18 |
| 7 | Canada | 14 |
| 8 | Germany | 11 |
| 9 | Singapore | 10 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 8 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 16 |
| 2 | [gender differences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/gender-differences.md) | 9 |
| 3 | low-cost carriers | 9 |
| 4 | [consumer behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/consumer-behavior.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [machine learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/machine-learning.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [online learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/online-learning.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [technology adoption](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/technology-adoption.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [ChatGPT](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chatgpt.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 618 | 5.7 | [Social network analysis: Characteristics of online social networks after a disaster](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2017.08.003) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2017-09-23 | Jooho Kim, Makarand Hastak |
| 2 | 567 | 5.7 | [Fostering meaningful work in organizations: A multi-level review and integration](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2018.07.004) | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | 2018-07-21 | Evgenia I. Lysova, Blake A. Allan, Bryan J. Dik et al. |
| 3 | 559 | 7.2 | [Unemployment in the time of COVID-19: A research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103436) | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | 2020-05-07 | David L. Blustein, Ryan D. Duffy, Joaquim Armando Ferreira et al. |
| 4 | 514 | 5.4 | [What have we learned? A review of stated preference and choice studies on autonomous vehicles](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2018.12.003) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2018-12-18 | Christos Gkartzonikas, Konstantina Gkritza |
| 5 | 448 | 5.9 | [Consumer preferences for farm-raised meat, lab-grown meat, and plant-based meat alternatives: Does information or brand matter?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101931) | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | 2020-07-03 | Ellen J. Van Loo, Vincenzina Caputo, Jayson L. Lusk |
| 6 | 436 | 4.5 | [Predicting station-level hourly demand in a large-scale bike-sharing network: A graph convolutional neural network approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2018.10.011) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2018-11-05 | Lei Lin, Zhengbing He, Srinivas Peeta |
| 7 | 401 | 4.3 | [Multiple traveling salesman problem with drones: Mathematical model and heuristic approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2019.01.020) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2019-01-10 | Patchara Kitjacharoenchai, Mario Ventresca, Mohammad Moshref‐Javadi et al. |
| 8 | 369 | 3.9 | [Adaptive Fuzzy Control for Nontriangular Structural Stochastic Switched Nonlinear Systems With Full State Constraints](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2018.2883374) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2018-11-26 | Kangkang Sun, Shaoshuai Mou, Jianbin Qiu et al. |
| 9 | 345 | 3.7 | [Truck-drone hybrid delivery routing: Payload-energy dependency and No-Fly zones](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.01.010) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-01-09 | Ho Young Jeong, Byung Duk Song, Seokcheon Lee |
| 10 | 334 | 4.1 | [Two echelon vehicle routing problem with drones in last mile delivery](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.107598) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-12-27 | Patchara Kitjacharoenchai, Byung‐Cheol Min, Seokcheon Lee |

## In OpenAlex

*Purdue University West Lafayette in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | West Lafayette, Indiana, United States |
| Also known as | Université de Purdue |
| Part of | [Purdue University System](https://openalex.org/I2801333002) |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 3 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 299,584 |
| Citations | 21,904,299 |
| h-index | 984 |
| i10-index | 306,292 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.26 |
| Website | [www.purdue.edu](http://www.purdue.edu/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/02dqehb95](https://ror.org/02dqehb95) |
| Wikidata | [Q217741](Q217741) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I219193219](https://openalex.org/I219193219) |

*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) | 26,186 | 415,333 | 116 | 0.4% |
| 2025 | 11,368 | 549,531 | 160 | 1.4% |
| 2024 | 12,041 | 552,388 | 134 | 1.1% |
| 2023 | 12,148 | 525,464 | 108 | 0.9% |
| 2022 | 11,717 | 518,945 | 97 | 0.8% |
| 2021 | 16,333 | 529,103 | 134 | 0.8% |
| 2020 | 11,996 | 482,656 | 127 | 1.1% |
| 2019 | 10,244 | 417,491 | 102 | 1.0% |
| 2018 | 8,938 | 376,503 | 122 | 1.4% |
| 2017 | 8,387 | 349,598 | 114 | 1.4% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 5,327 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 5,062 |
| 3 | Engineering Education and Pedagogy | Engineering | 3,278 |
| 4 | Particle Detector Development and Performance | Physics and Astronomy | 2,860 |
| 5 | Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques | Computer Science | 2,841 |

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 | [When stories shape markets: Reputational shocks in business aviation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2026.103159) | [Journal of Air Transport Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-air-transport-management.md) | Fecri Karanki, Dean Roberts, Lucy Budd et al. | Purdue University West Lafayette; The University of Sydney |
| 2026-10-31 | [Comparing touch, voice, and gesture interaction for in-vehicle information systems: A multimodal assessment of mental workload, driving performance, and situation awareness](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2026.105336) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | Qing‐Xing Qu, Yiru Zhao, Zhongyang Xiao et al. | Northeastern University; Purdue University West Lafayette; Wuhan University of Technology; … |
| 2026-10-31 | [Estimating economy-wide mineral commodity consumption using hybrid input-output modeling: a case study of fluorspar](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.109285) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | Miriam Stevens, Elisa Alonso, David Pineault et al. | United States Geological Survey; Purdue University West Lafayette; National Minerals Information Center |
| 2026-10-29 | [The Impact of Child Caregiving-Related Life Changes on Caregivers’ Well-Being in Rural and Urban U.S. Areas](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10834-026-10115-6) | [Journal of Family and Economic Issues](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-family-and-economic-issues.md) | Zuzana Bednarik, Stephan J. Goetz | Purdue University West Lafayette; Pennsylvania State University |
| 2026-10-23 | [Building resilient U.S. manufacturing supply chains during COVID-19 through digital twin adoption: antecedents, adoption stages, and mechanisms](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12063-026-00620-0) | [Operations Management Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-management-research.md) | Senthilkumar Thiyagarajan, Nathan W. Hartman, Chad Matthew Laux et al. | Purdue University West Lafayette; New Mexico State University; International Management Institute, Bhubaneswar; … |
| 2026-10-22 | [Short-term demand forecasting in mobility-on-demand systems: A systematic literature review and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106087) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Xiaoming Li, Tho V. Le | Concordia University; Purdue University West Lafayette |
| 2026-10-20 | [Measuring cognitive presence in online discussions: automated detection and instructional insights from a MOOC context](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-026-10726-8) | [Educational Technology Research and Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/educational-technology-research-and-development.md) | Ji Hyun Yu, Fengjiao Tu, Haihua Chen et al. | University of North Texas; Purdue University West Lafayette |
| 2026-10-20 | [Physics-informed machine learning: a hybrid lens for fluid dynamics](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-026-01319-4) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | Kai Fukami, Romit Maulik | Tohoku University; Purdue University West Lafayette |
| 2026-10-17 | [Multimodal human-intent modeling for contextual robot-to-human handovers of arbitrary objects](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2026.105805) | [Robotics and Autonomous Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/robotics-and-autonomous-systems.md) | Lucas Chen, Guna Avula, Hanwen Ren et al. | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| 2026-10-14 | [Green by association? Restaurant presence on food-waste reduction platforms as a hybrid sustainability signal for brand equity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104948) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | Chang Ma, Jieyu Shi, Lu Zhang et al. | University of South Carolina; Michigan State University; Purdue University West Lafayette |
| 2026-10-12 | [Heterogeneous beliefs, asset prices, and business cycles](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2026.104382) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | Saki Bigio, Dejanir Silva, Eduardo Zilberman | University of California, Los Angeles; Purdue University West Lafayette; Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro; … |
| 2026-10-11 | [Inflation, households, and central banks around the world](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2026.103996) | [Journal of Monetary Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-monetary-economics.md) | Francesco D’Acunto, Fiorella De Fiore, Damiano Sandri et al. | Georgetown University; Centre for Economic Policy Research; Bank for International Settlements; … |
| 2026-10-07 | [Vehicle trajectory planning under observational perturbations with robust adversarial reinforcement learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106055) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Gengyue Han, Tiancheng Ruan, Ziyuan Pu et al. | Purdue University West Lafayette; Nanjing Forestry University; Southeast University; … |
| 2026-10-06 | [Exploring links between health and the genetic risk for smoking](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101982) | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | Yeongmi Jeong, Meghan M. Skira, Robbee Wedow | Purdue University West Lafayette; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Georgia; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Purdue University West Lafayette. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/purdue-university-west-lafayette

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).