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title: "Stanford University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Stanford University: 1,335 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 2,613."
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share_text: "Research profile of Stanford University: 1,335 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 2,613. (as of 2026-11-02)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02
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---

# Stanford University

- 2 papers in the last 7 days
- country: United States
- web domain: stanford.edu

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

## Key findings

- Stanford University 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 Journal of Macroeconomics (2), Nature Machine Intelligence (1) and Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (1).
- Countries: United States (8), China (2) and Japan (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, Stanford University ranks #10 in accounting.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Stanford University took part in 1,335 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (573), AI (243) and operations research (158).
- 137 of them were published in 2025, against 122 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Stanford Medicine (53), National Bureau of Economic Research (33) and Hoover Institution (31).
- The journals publishing most of them were Nature Machine Intelligence (39), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (23) and Journal of Public Economics (18).
- The most-cited of them is “Visual Genome: Connecting Language and Vision Using Crowdsourced Dense Image Annotations” (International Journal of Computer Vision, 2017), with 5,111 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Stanford University has 553,683 works with 97,561,829 citations (h-index 2,613).
- The tracked journals hold 1,218 of its 210,349 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (9,764), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (9,692) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (7,435).

## In the rankings

Top institutions, 2023–2025: [#10 in accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/accounting.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) | 60 | 58 | 55 | 63 | 57 | 85 | 58 | 44 | 54 | 39 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 12 | 6 | 14 | 19 | 33 | 31 | 37 | 33 | 26 | 32 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 17 | 15 | 19 | 15 | 20 | 18 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 15 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 3 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 8 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 10 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 6 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 13 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 122 | 103 | 130 | 132 | 147 | 170 | 143 | 134 | 137 | 117 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 39 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 23 |
| 3 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 16 |
| 5 | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Stanford Medicine | 53 |
| 2 | National Bureau of Economic Research | 33 |
| 3 | Hoover Institution | 31 |
| 4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 24 |
| 5 | Harvard University | 23 |
| 6 | Columbia University | 21 |
| 7 | University of Pennsylvania | 20 |
| 8 | New York University | 16 |
| 9 | Cornell University | 14 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 531 |
| 2 | China | 81 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 62 |
| 4 | Germany | 37 |
| 5 | Canada | 24 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 22 |
| 7 | Australia | 20 |
| 8 | Israel | 14 |
| 9 | Italy | 14 |
| 10 | South Korea | 14 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 17 |
| 2 | convex optimization | 12 |
| 3 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 10 |
| 4 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 10 |
| 5 | gender differences | 8 |
| 6 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 7 |
| 7 | human capital | 7 |
| 8 | [monetary policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/monetary-policy.md) | 7 |
| 9 | deep learning | 6 |
| 10 | [generative AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generative-ai.md) | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,111 | 43.7 | [Visual Genome: Connecting Language and Vision Using Crowdsourced Dense Image Annotations](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-016-0981-7) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2017-02-05 | Ranjay Krishna, Yuke Zhu, Oliver Groth et al. |
| 2 | 3,140 | 55.8 | [How much should we trust staggered difference-in-differences estimates?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2022.01.004) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2022-02-22 | Andrew C. Baker, David F. Larcker, Charles C. Y. Wang |
| 3 | 1,236 | 15.4 | [OSQP: an operator splitting solver for quadratic programs](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-020-00179-2) | [Mathematical Programming Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming-computation.md) | 2020-02-20 | Bartolomeo Stellato, Goran Banjac, Paul J. Goulart et al. |
| 4 | 1,090 | 14.6 | [Disclosure processing costs, investors’ information choice, and equity market outcomes: A review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2020.101344) | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 2020-08-15 | Elizabeth Blankespoor, Ed deHaan, Iván Marinovic |
| 5 | 1,053 | 39.9 | [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. |
| 6 | 999 | 13.3 | [Polarization and public health: Partisan differences in social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104254) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2020-08-06 | Hunt Allcott, Levi Boxell, Jacob Conway et al. |
| 7 | 989 | 13.4 | [Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104274) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2020-09-09 | Dave Altig, Scott Baker, Jose Maria Barrero et al. |
| 8 | 907 | 10.3 | [How do venture capitalists make decisions?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.06.011) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-06-25 | Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven Neil Kaplan et al. |
| 9 | 671 | 6.9 | [Machine learning for integrating data in biology and medicine: Principles, practice, and opportunities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2018.09.012) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2018-09-21 | Marinka Žitnik, Francis Nguyen, Bo Wang et al. |
| 10 | 602 | 5.5 | [The economic consequences associated with integrated report quality: Capital market and real effects](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2017.08.005) | [Accounting Organizations and Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/accounting-organizations-and-society.md) | 2017-10-01 | Mary E. Barth, Steven F. Cahan, Li Chen et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Stanford University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Stanford, California, United States |
| Also known as | SU, Leland Stanford Junior University, Universidad Stanford |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 13 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 553,683 |
| Citations | 97,561,829 |
| h-index | 2,613 |
| i10-index | 721,148 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 7.96 |
| Website | [www.stanford.edu](https://www.stanford.edu) |
| ROR | [ror.org/00f54p054](https://ror.org/00f54p054) |
| Wikidata | [Q41506](Q41506) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I97018004](https://openalex.org/I97018004) |

*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) | 29,342 | 1,654,250 | 117 | 0.4% |
| 2025 | 27,018 | 2,149,916 | 137 | 0.5% |
| 2024 | 25,779 | 2,152,160 | 134 | 0.5% |
| 2023 | 24,690 | 2,066,640 | 143 | 0.6% |
| 2022 | 25,971 | 2,015,586 | 170 | 0.7% |
| 2021 | 24,619 | 2,115,912 | 147 | 0.6% |
| 2020 | 24,179 | 1,897,934 | 132 | 0.5% |
| 2019 | 20,492 | 1,641,192 | 130 | 0.6% |
| 2018 | 19,275 | 1,444,762 | 103 | 0.5% |
| 2017 | 18,326 | 1,311,217 | 122 | 0.7% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 9,764 |
| 2 | Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9,692 |
| 3 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 7,435 |
| 4 | Epigenetics and DNA Methylation | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6,770 |
| 5 | T-cell and B-cell Immunology | Immunology and Microbiology | 6,564 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | [Foundation model for particle collision data analysis](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-026-01322-9) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | Ting-Hsiang Hsu, Bai-Hong Zhou, Qibin Liu et al. | University of Washington; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Stanford University; … |
| 2026-10-28 | [Advancing a just circular economy transition: A perspective from trust and responsibility in Hong Kong](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101210) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | Darren Man-wai Cheung, James Ho-chun Cheung, Daphne Ngar‐yin Mah et al. | Hong Kong Baptist University; Stanford University |
| 2026-10-17 | [Putting AI to the test: Evidence from a large-scale RCT in rural China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2026.102850) | [Economics of Education Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-education-review.md) | Yue Ma, Tianli Feng, Robert W. Fairlie et al. | Stanford University; University of California, Los Angeles; Peking University; … |
| 2026-10-17 | [Training, assessing, and matching students in technology-mediated peer learning environments](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2026.101691) | [Studies In Educational Evaluation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/studies-in-educational-evaluation.md) | Soren Rosier, Ojas Karnavat | Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley |
| 2026-10-14 | [Low-frequency guided region-to-pixel refinement network for multimodal building damage assessment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104873) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Tianyu Wei, He Chen, Ailong Ma et al. | Beijing Institute of Technology; Wuhan University; State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing; … |
| 2026-10-12 | [Robots Are Us](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41549-026-00144-3) | [Journal of Business Cycle Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-cycle-research.md) | Seth  G. Benzell, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Guillermo Lagarda | Chapman University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stanford University; … |
| 2026-10-07 | [Inflation dynamics with a generalized Lucas Phillips curve](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2026.103813) | [Journal of Macroeconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-macroeconomics.md) | John H. Cochrane | Hoover Institution; Stanford University |
| 2026-10-07 | [New-Keynesian inflation control is equilibrium selection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2026.103812) | [Journal of Macroeconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-macroeconomics.md) | John H. Cochrane | Hoover Institution; Stanford University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Stanford University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/stanford-university

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