The University of Sydney

1 paper in the last 7 days · country: Australia · web domain: sydney.edu.au

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Key findings#

The University of Sydney was involved in 19 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #32 of 3,191 institutions.
Most of them appeared in Journal of International Business Studies (2), Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (2) and Pattern Recognition (2).
Countries: Australia (19), China (5) and Taiwan (2).
From 2023 to 2025, The University of Sydney ranks #37 among all institutions publishing in the tracked journals, #5 in health economics and policy and #5 in management.
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at The University of Sydney took part in 2,710 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (679), economics (518) and operations research (388).
324 of them were published in 2025, against 189 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were UNSW Sydney (68), University of Technology Sydney (55) and The University of Melbourne (49).
The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (77), Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (45) and International Journal of Computer Vision (37).
The most-cited of them is “A Survey on Vision Transformer” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2022), with 4,682 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, The University of Sydney has 338,328 works with 31,477,158 citations (h-index 1,484).
The tracked journals hold 2,410 of its 149,382 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.6%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (4,382), Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (3,934) and Physical Activity and Health (3,581).

In the rankings#

Top institutions, 2023–2025: #37 overall · #5 in health economics and policy · #5 in management

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	35	35	44	53	64	88	98	85	97	80
Economics	34	56	45	68	53	40	60	54	55	53
Operations Research	39	29	47	30	42	49	32	36	42	42
Finance	24	26	28	34	34	21	24	33	26	35
Management	18	21	21	27	16	25	39	33	36	34
Health Economics and Policy	17	22	23	27	17	27	27	27	33	20
Information Systems	8	3	7	17	6	8	7	14	10	9
Accounting	3	8	7	6	8	9	5	7	9	7
Marketing	4	3	7	8	5	3	5	6	7	10
Statistics	4	4	4	3	10	7	4	5	4	7
Higher Education and Research	3	3	3	6	9	10	2	3	4	2
Tourism and Hospitality	0	3	1	2	4	2	2	1	1	1
All categories	189	213	237	281	268	289	305	304	324	300

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	77
2	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	45
3	International Journal of Computer Vision	37
4	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	36
5	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	32
6	Neural Networks	31
7	Expert Systems with Applications	30
8	Health Research Policy and Systems	29
9	Knowledge-Based Systems	27
10	Transport Policy	27

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	UNSW Sydney	68
2	University of Technology Sydney	55
3	The University of Melbourne	49
4	Macquarie University	41
5	The University of Queensland	41
6	Jingdong (China)	35
7	Monash University	35
8	Nanyang Technological University	29
9	University of Newcastle Australia	29

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	Australia	1,233
2	China	388
3	United States	205
4	United Kingdom	127
5	Hong Kong	68
6	Singapore	53
7	Germany	49
8	France	38
9	Canada	36
10	Finland	33

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	COVID-19 pandemic	42
2	China	30
3	graph neural networks	28
4	corporate governance	22
5	Australia	18
6	knowledge distillation	16
7	mode choice	16
8	sustainable transport	16
9	Mobility as a Service	15
10	artificial intelligence	15

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	4,682	83.0	A Survey on Vision Transformer	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2022-02-18	Kai Han, Yunhe Wang, Hanting Chen et al.
2	3,925	58.3	Knowledge Distillation: A Survey	International Journal of Computer Vision	2021-03-22	Jianping Gou, Baosheng Yu, Stephen J. Maybank et al.
3	2,963	35.2	Deep Learning for Generic Object Detection: A Survey	International Journal of Computer Vision	2019-10-31	Li Liu, Wanli Ouyang, Xiaogang Wang et al.
4	1,230	20.7	A Review on Generative Adversarial Networks: Algorithms, Theory, and Applications	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2021-11-23	Jie Gui, Zhenan Sun, Yonggang Wen et al.
5	880	11.3	The contagion effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from gold and cryptocurrencies	Finance research letters	2020-05-14	Shaen Corbet, Charles James Larkin, Brian M. Lucey
6	859	14.8	Explainable Artificial Intelligence in education	Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence	2022-01-01	Hassan Khosravi, Simon Buckingham Shum, Guanliang Chen et al.
7	760	12.8	Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action	International Journal of Information Management	2021-11-24	Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Arpan Kumar Kar et al.
8	743	7.7	Generalized Latent Multi-View Subspace Clustering	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2018-10-24	Changqing Zhang, Huazhu Fu, Qinghua Hu et al.
9	639	6.3	Convolutional neural networks for seizure prediction using intracranial and scalp electroencephalogram	Neural Networks	2018-05-07	Nhan Duy Truong, Anh Duy Nguyen, Levin Kuhlmann et al.
10	600	10.9	Artificial intelligence and knowledge management: A partnership between human and AI	Business Horizons	2022-03-25	Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, David A. Askay, Ali Eshraghi et al.

In OpenAlex#

The University of Sydney in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Also known as	USYD, Sydney University, University of Sydney
Units listed in OpenAlex	3
Works in OpenAlex	338,328
Citations	31,477,158
h-index	1,484
i10-index	386,372
2-year mean citedness	6.18
Website	www.sydney.edu.au
ROR	ror.org/0384j8v12
Wikidata	Q487556
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I129604602

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies	Physics and Astronomy	4,382
2	Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation	Medicine	3,934
3	Physical Activity and Health	Medicine	3,581
4	Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research	Medicine	3,098
5	Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena	Physics and Astronomy	3,025

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)	16,830	779,635	300	1.8%
2025	18,842	1,006,088	324	1.7%
2024	18,207	1,003,019	304	1.7%
2023	18,249	940,856	305	1.7%
2022	16,797	912,282	289	1.7%
2021	17,319	911,960	268	1.5%
2020	16,872	781,465	281	1.7%
2019	15,272	627,036	237	1.6%
2018	14,238	546,091	213	1.5%
2017	13,586	486,895	189	1.4%

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	Correction: National identity rhetoric under bilateral geopolitical tensions: evidence from Taiwanese MNEs	Journal of International Business Studies	Jin‐Su Kang, Sunghoon Kim, Chuan‐Kai Lee	Western University; National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; Ivey Business School; …
2026-10-26	Grandchildren and work: labour supply responses in later life	Review of Economics of the Household	Kadir Atalay, Derek Chung, Stephen Whelan	The University of Sydney
2026-10-26	Advancing sustainable food systems cooperation in trade agreements: Lessons from Chile	Food Policy	Paz Cavada-Robert, Kelly Garton, Dori Patay et al.	University of Chile; University of Auckland; The University of Sydney
2026-10-24	Which bike-train integration strategy is most suitable in a city? A cost comparison using continuous approximation	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	Regine Tejada, Andrés Fielbaum	The University of Sydney; University of the Philippines Diliman
2026-10-23	Who should pick the meeting point? Efficiency–fairness trade-offs between operator and users in ridepooling	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	Xinyu Wang, Andrés Fielbaum	The University of Sydney
2026-10-23	Extreme environmental distance and global sustainability engagement: Evidence from the United Nations Global Compact	Journal of World Business	Fujie Zhao, Joey Wenling Yang, Jing Yu et al.	City University of Macau; The University of Western Australia; The University of Sydney
2026-10-23	Hierarchical Interoceptive–Social Inference Dysregulation: A Computational Psychiatry Framework for Borderline Personality Disorder with Level-1 Active Inference Simulation and Implications for Cluster B Pathology	Cognitive Computation	Marco Fronzi	The University of Sydney
2026-10-20	A systematic review of global ship recycling research: Drivers, trends, and future research opportunities	Transport Policy	Jingni Guo, Veronica Schulz, Michael G H Bell	The University of Sydney; Kühne Logistics University
2026-10-20	Artificial Emotional Intelligence	Business & Information Systems Engineering	Angelina Chen, Raffaele Ciriello	The University of Sydney
2026-10-17	Influencer beware: The buffering role of sponsor–influencer fit in the commercialization-authenticity trade-off	Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services	Jenny Lee, Vicki Andonopoulos	UNSW Sydney; The University of Sydney
2026-10-17	Ecosystem governance for circularity	Long Range Planning	Llewellyn D W Thomas, Paavo Ritala, Erkko Autio et al.	The University of Sydney; Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology; Tampere University; …
2026-10-14	Robust Data-Driven CARA Optimization	Mathematical Programming	Li Chen, Arjun Ramachandra, Napat Rujeerapaiboon	The University of Sydney; Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; National University of Singapore
2026-10-13	How digital governance shapes excess goodwill? Evidence from big data management agency reform	Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics	Ruizhan Ju, Yang Li, Muqing Hu	Ocean University of China; The University of Sydney
2026-10-12	Beyond pairwise alignment: Hypergraph-based semantic calibration for image-text matching	Information Processing & Management	Jin Chen, Xiang Shen, Dezhi Han et al.	Shanghai Maritime University; The University of Sydney; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; …
2026-10-12	Repricing the green transition: market reactions to COP26 among MNCs diversified in pollution havens	Journal of International Business Studies	Noman Ahmed Shaheer, Kijong Kim, Fanshu Li et al.	The University of Sydney; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Tongji University
2026-10-09	Conditional Multimodal Alignment for few-shot class-incremental 3D point cloud classification	Pattern Recognition	Lei Xia, Zecheng Sheng, Ling Fan et al.	Tongji University; The University of Sydney; Shanghai University
2026-10-09	PRISM: Distilling multi-source priors for single-image avatar reconstruction	Pattern Recognition	Jinlong Fan, Yaotian Xu, Haimei Zhao et al.	Hangzhou Dianzi University; The University of Sydney; Wuhan University
2026-10-07	A framework for understanding automatic identification system (AIS) manipulation: purposes, goals, and strategies	Maritime Economics & Logistics	Puay Guan Goh, Justin V. Hastings, Xiongfei Lai et al.	National University of Singapore; The University of Sydney
2026-10-06	Household liquidity and the adjustable-rate mortgage cash-flow channel of monetary policy	Journal of Monetary Economics	Matthew Elias, Christian Gillitzer, Greg Kaplan et al.	University of Chicago; The University of Sydney; UNSW Sydney

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Scholar4AI. (2026). The University of Sydney. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney

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