RWTH Aachen University
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Key findings#
- RWTH Aachen 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 Health Care Management Science (1), Journal of Business Research (1) and Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability (1).
- Countries: Germany (4), Thailand (1) and Italy (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at RWTH Aachen University took part in 779 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (224), economics (135) and management (131).
- 93 of them were published in 2025, against 58 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Forschungszentrum Jülich (21), Goethe University Frankfurt (12) and University of Bonn (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Policy (18), Journal of Business Economics (16) and Expert Systems with Applications (16).
- The most-cited of them is “HOTA: A Higher Order Metric for Evaluating Multi-object Tracking” (International Journal of Computer Vision, 2020), with 1,221 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, RWTH Aachen University has 217,498 works with 19,955,346 citations (h-index 950).
- The tracked journals hold 690 of its 96,660 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.7%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (8,775), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (6,902) and Particle Detector Development and Performance (5,159).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 27 | 23 | 22 | 18 | 29 | 19 | 17 | 20 | 25 | 24 |
| Economics | 10 | 21 | 25 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 16 |
| Management | 11 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 19 | 15 |
| AI | 5 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 22 | 11 | 16 | 14 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 5 |
| Statistics | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| Finance | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 6 |
| Marketing | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 58 | 86 | 86 | 65 | 72 | 66 | 82 | 82 | 93 | 89 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energy Policy | 18 |
| 2 | Journal of Business Economics | 16 |
| 3 | Expert Systems with Applications | 16 |
| 4 | Business & Information Systems Engineering | 14 |
| 5 | Statistics and Computing | 12 |
| 6 | European Journal of Operational Research | 11 |
| 7 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 10 |
| 8 | Optimization and Engineering | 9 |
| 9 | Review of Managerial Science | 8 |
| 10 | Artificial Intelligence | 7 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forschungszentrum Jülich | 21 |
| 2 | Goethe University Frankfurt | 12 |
| 3 | University of Bonn | 12 |
| 4 | Jülich Aachen Research Alliance | 11 |
| 5 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 9 |
| 6 | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | 9 |
| 7 | WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management | 9 |
| 8 | KU Leuven | 7 |
| 9 | Universitätsklinikum Aachen | 7 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 346 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 31 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 22 |
| 4 | United States | 18 |
| 5 | China | 16 |
| 6 | Austria | 14 |
| 7 | Switzerland | 14 |
| 8 | Belgium | 11 |
| 9 | Italy | 10 |
| 10 | Australia | 9 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | artificial intelligence | 11 |
| 2 | combinatorial optimization | 8 |
| 3 | process mining | 8 |
| 4 | computational complexity | 6 |
| 5 | multi-criteria decision making | 6 |
| 6 | performance evaluation (human resources) | 6 |
| 7 | stochastic optimal control | 6 |
| 8 | bi-level optimization | 5 |
| 9 | deterministic global optimization | 5 |
| 10 | dimensionality reduction | 5 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| Also known as | RWTH, RWTH Aachen, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 217,498 |
| Citations | 19,955,346 |
| h-index | 950 |
| i10-index | 287,667 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.00 |
| Website | www.rwth-aachen.de |
| ROR | ror.org/04xfq0f34 |
| Wikidata | Q273263 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I887968799 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 8,775 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 6,902 |
| 3 | Particle Detector Development and Performance | Physics and Astronomy | 5,159 |
| 4 | High-Energy Particle Collisions Research | Physics and Astronomy | 3,536 |
| 5 | Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics | Engineering | 2,565 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 10,953 | 297,736 | 89 | 0.8% |
| 2025 | 13,631 | 385,636 | 93 | 0.7% |
| 2024 | 12,786 | 377,772 | 82 | 0.6% |
| 2023 | 12,348 | 356,850 | 82 | 0.7% |
| 2022 | 11,115 | 340,637 | 66 | 0.6% |
| 2021 | 12,121 | 335,528 | 72 | 0.6% |
| 2020 | 9,921 | 288,995 | 65 | 0.7% |
| 2019 | 8,874 | 246,440 | 86 | 1.0% |
| 2018 | 8,472 | 217,153 | 86 | 1.0% |
| 2017 | 7,392 | 198,349 | 58 | 0.8% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | Robust mask-based appointment scheduling in primary care practices | Health Care Management Science | Sabrina Schmitz, Martin Comis, Christina Büsing | RWTH Aachen University |
| 2026-10-15 | Serendipity and innovation in new ventures: The moderating role of primary investor type | Journal of Business Research | Andrea Greven, Jan Poblocki, Denise Fischer et al. | RWTH Aachen University; University of Bonn; Chulalongkorn University; … |
| 2026-10-09 | $$\phi $$-Extropy in Discrete and Continuous Settings | Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability | Francesco Buono, Maria Kateri | University of Naples Federico II; RWTH Aachen University |
| 2026-10-08 | May I? Enabling the sharing of private e-vehicle charging infrastructure | Research in Transportation Business & Management | Paul Fabianek, Reinhard Madlener | RWTH Aachen University; Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). RWTH Aachen University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/rwth-aachen-university
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