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title: "Sapienza University of Rome: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Sapienza University of Rome: 1,490 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 1,145."
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share_text: "Research profile of Sapienza University of Rome: 1,490 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 1,145. (as of 2026-11-02)"
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# Sapienza University of Rome

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: Italy
- web domain: uniroma1.it

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

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/statistics.md)

## 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) | 22 | 37 | 35 | 49 | 42 | 58 | 61 | 67 | 62 | 51 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 21 | 21 | 27 | 32 | 31 | 36 | 43 | 53 | 32 | 30 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 11 | 17 | 15 | 20 | 27 | 31 | 28 | 30 | 23 | 21 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 17 | 13 | 13 | 29 | 7 | 17 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 10 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 11 | 12 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 5 | 5 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 12 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 3 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 51 |
| 2 | [Socio-Economic Planning Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/socio-economic-planning-sciences.md) | 22 |
| 3 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [Italian Economic Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/italian-economic-journal.md) | 18 |
| 5 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Computational Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Structural Change and Economic Dynamics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/structural-change-and-economic-dynamics.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 12 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Italy | 38 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 30 |
| 3 | fuzzy clustering | 21 |
| 4 | [income inequality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/income-inequality.md) | 14 |
| 5 | euro area | 11 |
| 6 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [monetary policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/monetary-policy.md) | 10 |
| 8 | multi-objective optimization | 10 |
| 9 | risk aversion | 10 |
| 10 | cross-national comparison | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,124 | 55.4 | [Interpreting Black-Box Models: A Review on Explainable Artificial Intelligence](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-023-10179-8) | [Cognitive Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cognitive-computation.md) | 2023-08-24 | Vikas Hassija, Vinay Chamola, Atmesh Mahapatra et al. |
| 2 | 552 | 8.4 | [Unveiling the impact of the adoption of digital technologies on firms’ innovation performance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.04.035) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2021-05-18 | Antonio Usai, Fabio Fiano, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli et al. |
| 3 | 488 | 4.4 | [Suitability of Google Scholar as a source of scientific information and as a source of data for scientific evaluation—Review of the Literature](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2017.06.005) | [Journal of Informetrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-informetrics.md) | 2017-06-30 | Gali Halevi, Henk F. Moed, Judit Bar‐Ilan |
| 4 | 441 | 4.4 | [Automated Discovery of Process Models from Event Logs: Review and Benchmark](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2018.2841877) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2018-05-29 | Adriano Augusto, Raffaele Conforti, Marlon Dumas et al. |
| 5 | 425 | 6.2 | [Literature review on digitalization capabilities: Co-citation analysis of antecedents, conceptualization and consequences](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120635) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2021-02-07 | Alessandro Annarelli, Cinzia Battistella, Fabio Nonino et al. |
| 6 | 290 | 3.9 | [The household wasteful behaviour framework: A systematic review of consumer food waste](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2020.07.010) | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 2020-07-28 | Ludovica Principato, Giovanni Mattia, Alessio Di Leo et al. |
| 7 | 254 | 2.2 | [Regional economic resilience: the experience of the Italian local labor systems](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-017-0822-9) | [The Annals of Regional Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-annals-of-regional-science.md) | 2017-04-11 | Alessandra Faggian, Roberta Gemmiti, Timothy Jaquet et al. |
| 8 | 232 | 4.0 | [Green recovery in the mature manufacturing industry: The role of the green-circular premium and sustainability certification in innovative efforts](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107311) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2021-12-15 | Andrea Appolloni, Charbel José Chiappetta Jabbour, Idiano D’Adamo et al. |
| 9 | 227 | 3.0 | [Reservoir Computing Approaches for Representation and Classification of Multivariate Time Series](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.3001377) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-06-29 | Filippo Maria Bianchi, Simone Scardapane, Sigurd Løkse et al. |
| 10 | 226 | 4.1 | [Green innovation and financial performance: A study on Italian firms](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2022.104530) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2022-04-18 | Efi Vasileiou, Nikolaos Georgantzı́s, Giuseppe Attanasi et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Sapienza University of Rome 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](https://www.uniroma1.it) |
| ROR | [ror.org/02be6w209](https://ror.org/02be6w209) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I861853513](https://openalex.org/I861853513) |

*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) | 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% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | 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 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | [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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-026-00852-8) | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-11016-2) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2026.105443) | [Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-dynamics-and-control.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-026-01216-5) | [Journal of Population Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-population-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2026.10.006) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109729) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hpopen.2026.100187) | [Health Policy OPEN](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy-open.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ememar.2026.101556) | [Emerging Markets Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/emerging-markets-review.md) | Godwin Ezekoye | Sapienza University of Rome |

## Cite this page

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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