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title: "RWTH Aachen University: research profile and papers"
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# RWTH Aachen University

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: Germany
- web domain: rwth-aachen.de

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

## 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

*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) | 27 | 23 | 22 | 18 | 29 | 19 | 17 | 20 | 25 | 24 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 10 | 21 | 25 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 16 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 11 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 19 | 15 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 5 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 22 | 11 | 16 | 14 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 5 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 6 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [Journal of Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-economics.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [Optimization and Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/optimization-and-engineering.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [Review of Managerial Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-managerial-science.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [King Abdullah University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/king-abdullah-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 9 |
| 7 | WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management | 9 |
| 8 | [KU Leuven](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ku-leuven.md) | 7 |
| 9 | Universitätsklinikum Aachen | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 11 |
| 2 | [combinatorial optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/combinatorial-optimization.md) | 8 |
| 3 | process mining | 8 |
| 4 | computational complexity | 6 |
| 5 | [multi-criteria decision making](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-criteria-decision-making.md) | 6 |
| 6 | performance evaluation (human resources) | 6 |
| 7 | stochastic optimal control | 6 |
| 8 | [bi-level optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bi-level-optimization.md) | 5 |
| 9 | deterministic global optimization | 5 |
| 10 | [dimensionality reduction](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/dimensionality-reduction.md) | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,221 | 16.8 | [HOTA: A Higher Order Metric for Evaluating Multi-object Tracking](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-020-01375-2) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2020-10-08 | Jonathon Luiten, Aljos̆a Os̆ep, Patrick Dendorfer et al. |
| 2 | 1,065 | 40.3 | [Medical Image Segmentation Review: The Success of U-Net](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3435571) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-08-21 | Reza Azad, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Amelie Rauland et al. |
| 3 | 690 | 6.8 | [Robotic Process Automation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-018-0542-4) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 2018-05-14 | Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Martin Bichler, Armin Heinzl |
| 4 | 480 | 4.1 | [Predicting the future of additive manufacturing: A Delphi study on economic and societal implications of 3D printing for 2030](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.01.006) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2017-01-19 | Ruth Jiang, Robin Kleer, Frank Thomas Piller |
| 5 | 384 | 8.8 | [Welcome to the Era of ChatGPT et al.](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-023-00795-x) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 2023-03-13 | Timm Teubner, Christoph M. Flath, Christof Weinhardt et al. |
| 6 | 368 | 4.7 | [Artificial intelligence vs COVID-19: limitations, constraints and pitfalls](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-00978-0) | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 2020-04-28 | Wim A. Naudé |
| 7 | 350 | 4.8 | [Digital orientation: Conceptualization and operationalization of a new strategic orientation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2020.10.009) | [European Management Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-management-journal.md) | 2020-10-28 | Bastian Kindermann, Sebastian Beutel, Gonzalo Garcia de Lomana et al. |
| 8 | 346 | 2.9 | [The electric location routing problem with time windows and partial recharging](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.01.011) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2017-01-10 | Maximilian Schiffer, Grit Walther |
| 9 | 343 | 3.8 | [Weakly Supervised Learning with Multi-Stream CNN-LSTM-HMMs to Discover Sequential Parallelism in Sign Language Videos](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2911077) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-04-25 | Oscar Koller, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Hermann Ney et al. |
| 10 | 341 | 3.5 | [Corporate social responsibility, investor protection, and cost of equity: A cross-country comparison](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2018.07.018) | [Journal of Banking & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-banking-finance.md) | 2018-08-27 | Wolfgang Breuer, Torbjörn Müller, David Rosenbach et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*RWTH Aachen University 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](https://www.rwth-aachen.de/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04xfq0f34](https://ror.org/04xfq0f34) |
| Wikidata | [Q273263](Q273263) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I887968799](https://openalex.org/I887968799) |

*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) | 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% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | 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 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | [Robust mask-based appointment scheduling in primary care practices](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10729-026-09789-z) | [Health Care Management Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-care-management-science.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116615) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-026-10339-x) | [Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/methodology-and-computing-in-applied-probability.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2026.101895) | [Research in Transportation Business & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-business-management.md) | 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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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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