Sapienza University of Rome
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Key findings#
- Sapienza University of Rome was involved in 8 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #139 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation (1), Statistics and Computing (1) and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (1).
- Countries: Italy (8), United States (1) and France (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, Sapienza University of Rome ranks #7 in statistics.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Sapienza University of Rome took part in 1,490 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (484), operations research (326) and AI (223).
- 160 of them were published in 2025, against 78 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (39), Roma Tre University (36) and Unitelma Sapienza University (35).
- The journals publishing most of them were Annals of Operations Research (51), Socio-Economic Planning Sciences (22) and Neural Networks (18).
- The most-cited of them is “Interpreting Black-Box Models: A Review on Explainable Artificial Intelligence” (Cognitive Computation, 2023), with 2,124 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Sapienza University of Rome has 277,596 works with 24,895,115 citations (h-index 1,145).
- The tracked journals hold 1,332 of its 117,666 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.1%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (7,073), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (5,519) and Particle Detector Development and Performance (5,382).
In the rankings#
Top institutions, 2023–2025: #7 in statistics
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 22 | 37 | 35 | 49 | 42 | 58 | 61 | 67 | 62 | 51 |
| Operations Research | 21 | 21 | 27 | 32 | 31 | 36 | 43 | 53 | 32 | 30 |
| AI | 11 | 17 | 15 | 20 | 27 | 31 | 28 | 30 | 23 | 21 |
| Finance | 2 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 17 | 13 | 13 | 29 | 7 | 17 |
| Statistics | 10 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 11 | 12 |
| Management | 5 | 5 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 12 |
| Higher Education and Research | 3 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| Marketing | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 78 | 101 | 110 | 160 | 147 | 175 | 189 | 212 | 160 | 158 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Annals of Operations Research | 51 |
| 2 | Socio-Economic Planning Sciences | 22 |
| 3 | Neural Networks | 18 |
| 4 | Italian Economic Journal | 18 |
| 5 | European Journal of Operational Research | 14 |
| 6 | Finance research letters | 14 |
| 7 | Computational Statistics | 13 |
| 8 | Structural Change and Economic Dynamics | 13 |
| 9 | Expert Systems with Applications | 13 |
| 10 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 12 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli | 39 |
| 2 | Roma Tre University | 36 |
| 3 | Unitelma Sapienza University | 35 |
| 4 | University of Rome Tor Vergata | 28 |
| 5 | Université d'Angers | 26 |
| 6 | University of Bari Aldo Moro | 25 |
| 7 | University of Bologna | 17 |
| 8 | National Research Council | 16 |
| 9 | University of Naples Federico II | 16 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy | 719 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 58 |
| 3 | France | 56 |
| 4 | United States | 49 |
| 5 | Spain | 36 |
| 6 | Germany | 29 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 28 |
| 8 | China | 22 |
| 9 | Belgium | 21 |
| 10 | Austria | 12 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy | 38 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 30 |
| 3 | fuzzy clustering | 21 |
| 4 | income inequality | 14 |
| 5 | euro area | 11 |
| 6 | artificial intelligence | 10 |
| 7 | monetary policy | 10 |
| 8 | multi-objective optimization | 10 |
| 9 | risk aversion | 10 |
| 10 | cross-national comparison | 9 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Rome, Lazio, Italy |
| Also known as | Rimska Univerza La Sapienza, Sapienza University, Sapienza – Università di Roma |
| Works in OpenAlex | 277,596 |
| Citations | 24,895,115 |
| h-index | 1,145 |
| i10-index | 383,493 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.30 |
| Website | www.uniroma1.it |
| ROR | ror.org/02be6w209 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I861853513 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 7,073 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 5,519 |
| 3 | Particle Detector Development and Performance | Physics and Astronomy | 5,382 |
| 4 | Theoretical and Computational Physics | Physics and Astronomy | 3,169 |
| 5 | High-Energy Particle Collisions Research | Physics and Astronomy | 2,593 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 14,127 | 436,301 | 158 | 1.1% |
| 2025 | 15,913 | 575,075 | 160 | 1.0% |
| 2024 | 15,452 | 567,249 | 212 | 1.4% |
| 2023 | 14,439 | 540,340 | 189 | 1.3% |
| 2022 | 13,781 | 528,898 | 175 | 1.3% |
| 2021 | 13,456 | 531,485 | 147 | 1.1% |
| 2020 | 13,402 | 461,874 | 160 | 1.2% |
| 2019 | 11,063 | 382,500 | 110 | 1.0% |
| 2018 | 10,321 | 342,412 | 101 | 1.0% |
| 2017 | 9,839 | 311,755 | 78 | 0.8% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | A micro-costing and cost-comparison analysis based on Italian guidelines for the management of persistent post-surgical hypoparathyroidism, including pregnancy and early postpartum care | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation | Michele Basile, Maria Luisa Brandi, Iacopo Chiodini et al. | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; University of Milan; Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda; … |
| 2026-10-25 | Matching-based estimation of causal quantile exposure response functions for continuous treatments | Statistics and Computing | Luca Merlo, Francesca Dominici, Lea Petrella et al. | Link Campus University; Harvard University; Sapienza University of Rome; … |
| 2026-10-20 | When mortality jumps: Optimal portfolio design for defined contribution pension schemes | Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control | Davide Feleppa, Immacolata Oliva | Sapienza University of Rome |
| 2026-10-17 | The role of immigrant caregivers in improving the welfare of elders and reducing public health costs | Journal of Population Economics | Lisa Capretti, Joanna Aleksandra Kopinska, Rama Dasi Mariani et al. | University of Rome Tor Vergata; Sapienza University of Rome; Roma Tre University |
| 2026-10-14 | Multicomponent biogas membrane separation by superstructure optimization | European Journal of Operational Research | Bernardetta Addis, Veronica Piccialli, Christophe Castel | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications; Université de Lorraine; … |
| 2026-10-09 | Do Hopfield networks dream of stored patterns? A statistical–mechanical theory of dreaming in multidirectional associative memories | Neural Networks | Adriano Barra A, Fabrizio Durante, Andrea Ladiana et al. | Istituto di Nanotecnologia; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma I; Sapienza University of Rome; … |
| 2026-10-07 | Building climate-resilient health systems for the displaced: health information systems and the statistical invisibility of climate-related mobility in sub-Saharan Africa | Health Policy OPEN | R. Leone, Y. Ouattara, Livia Tognaccini et al. | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Sapienza University of Rome; Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences |
| 2026-10-05 | When Does FX Intervention Work? A State-Dependent Analysis of Inflation and Volatility Regimes in Emerging Markets | Emerging Markets Review | Godwin Ezekoye | Sapienza University of Rome |
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Scholar4AI. (2026). Sapienza University of Rome. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sapienza-university-of-rome
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