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title: "The University of Sydney: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of The University of Sydney: 2,710 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; #37 for 2023–2025; h-index 1,484."
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share_text: "Research profile of The University of Sydney: 2,710 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; #37 for 2023–2025; h-index 1,484. (as of 2026-11-02)"
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# The University of Sydney

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

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

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year.md) · [#5 in health economics and policy](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/health-economics-and-policy.md) · [#5 in management](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/management.md)

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 35 | 35 | 44 | 53 | 64 | 88 | 98 | 85 | 97 | 80 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 34 | 56 | 45 | 68 | 53 | 40 | 60 | 54 | 55 | 53 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 39 | 29 | 47 | 30 | 42 | 49 | 32 | 36 | 42 | 42 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 24 | 26 | 28 | 34 | 34 | 21 | 24 | 33 | 26 | 35 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 18 | 21 | 21 | 27 | 16 | 25 | 39 | 33 | 36 | 34 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 17 | 22 | 23 | 27 | 17 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 33 | 20 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 8 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 9 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 3 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 7 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 10 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 77 |
| 2 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 45 |
| 3 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 37 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 36 |
| 5 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 32 |
| 6 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 31 |
| 7 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 30 |
| 8 | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 29 |
| 9 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 27 |
| 10 | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 27 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [UNSW Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/unsw-sydney.md) | 68 |
| 2 | University of Technology Sydney | 55 |
| 3 | [The University of Melbourne](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-melbourne.md) | 49 |
| 4 | [Macquarie University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/macquarie-university.md) | 41 |
| 5 | The University of Queensland | 41 |
| 6 | [Jingdong (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/jingdong-china.md) | 35 |
| 7 | [Monash University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/monash-university.md) | 35 |
| 8 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 42 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 30 |
| 3 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 28 |
| 4 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 22 |
| 5 | Australia | 18 |
| 6 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 16 |
| 7 | mode choice | 16 |
| 8 | sustainable transport | 16 |
| 9 | Mobility as a Service | 15 |
| 10 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3152247) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-02-18 | Kai Han, Yunhe Wang, Hanting Chen et al. |
| 2 | 3,925 | 58.3 | [Knowledge Distillation: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-021-01453-z) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-019-01247-4) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2021.3130191) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101554) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2020-05-14 | Shaen Corbet, Charles James Larkin, Brian M. Lucey |
| 6 | 859 | 14.8 | [Explainable Artificial Intelligence in education](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2022.100074) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102456) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2021-11-24 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Arpan Kumar Kar et al. |
| 8 | 743 | 7.7 | [Generalized Latent Multi-View Subspace Clustering](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2877660) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2018.04.018) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2022.03.002) | [Business Horizons](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-horizons.md) | 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](https://www.sydney.edu.au) |
| ROR | [ror.org/0384j8v12](https://ror.org/0384j8v12) |
| Wikidata | [Q487556](Q487556) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I129604602](https://openalex.org/I129604602) |

*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% |

*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 |

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](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-026-00918-y) | [Journal of International Business Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-studies.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-026-09900-x) | [Review of Economics of the Household](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-economics-of-the-household.md) | Kadir Atalay, Derek Chung, Stephen Whelan | The University of Sydney |
| 2026-10-26 | [Advancing sustainable food systems cooperation in trade agreements: Lessons from Chile](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2026.103185) | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2026.105322) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2026.105326) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2026.101789) | [Journal of World Business](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-world-business.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-026-10668-6) | [Cognitive Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cognitive-computation.md) | Marco Fronzi | The University of Sydney |
| 2026-10-20 | [A systematic review of global ship recycling research: Drivers, trends, and future research opportunities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2026.104500) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | Jingni Guo, Veronica Schulz, Michael G H Bell | The University of Sydney; Kühne Logistics University |
| 2026-10-20 | [Artificial Emotional Intelligence](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-026-01026-9) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2026.105172) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | Jenny Lee, Vicki Andonopoulos | UNSW Sydney; The University of Sydney |
| 2026-10-17 | [Ecosystem governance for circularity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2026.102694) | [Long Range Planning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/long-range-planning.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-026-02429-y) | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcae.2026.100604) | [Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-contemporary-accounting-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105202) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-026-00901-7) | [Journal of International Business Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-studies.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115083) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115107) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41278-026-00371-6) | [Maritime Economics & Logistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/maritime-economics-logistics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2026.103994) | [Journal of Monetary Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-monetary-economics.md) | Matthew Elias, Christian Gillitzer, Greg Kaplan et al. | University of Chicago; The University of Sydney; UNSW Sydney |

## Cite this page

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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  urldate = {2026-11-02},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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