Universidade de São Paulo

1 paper in the last 7 days · country: Brazil · web domain: usp.br

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Key findings#

Universidade de São Paulo was involved in 8 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #195 of 3,809 institutions.
Most of them appeared in Knowledge-Based Systems (1), The Annals of Regional Science (1) and Applied Intelligence (1).
Countries: Brazil (8), Canada (1) and Germany (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Universidade de São Paulo took part in 1,190 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (312), AI (256) and operations research (216).
137 of them were published in 2025, against 95 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Universidade Federal de São Carlos (32), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) (26) and Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) (18).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (23), Land Use Policy (15) and Finance research letters (11).
The most-cited of them is “Blockchain adoption challenges in supply chain: An empirical investigation of the main drivers in India and the USA” (International Journal of Information Management, 2018), with 1,084 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Universidade de São Paulo has 579,290 works with 27,417,930 citations (h-index 934).
The tracked journals hold 1,099 of its 266,441 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.4%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution (7,589), Dental materials and restorations (7,524) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (6,372).

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)
Economics	24	25	30	28	34	35	32	30	42	32
AI	24	32	24	30	20	33	21	30	19	23
Operations Research	13	22	30	22	26	33	22	17	23	8
Management	10	8	6	8	14	14	12	13	18	7
Statistics	9	14	6	5	12	12	9	9	6	4
Finance	4	2	8	10	10	5	6	6	16	7
Higher Education and Research	1	5	4	7	6	4	2	2	0	4
Health Economics and Policy	1	4	1	4	5	2	8	3	5	2
Information Systems	3	4	4	4	2	1	1	2	2	0
Marketing	2	0	2	0	2	3	1	1	2	3
Accounting	1	1	1	0	4	1	1	2	2	1
Tourism and Hospitality	3	0	1	1	1	3	1	1	2	0
All categories	95	117	117	119	136	146	116	116	137	91

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	23
2	Land Use Policy	15
3	Finance research letters	11
4	Energy Policy	9
5	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	8
6	Neural Computing and Applications	8
7	Utilities Policy	8
8	Economics Letters	7
9	Statistics & Probability Letters	7
10	World Development	7

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Universidade Federal de São Carlos	32
2	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)	26
3	Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)	18
4	Universidade Federal de São Paulo	18
5	Fundação Getulio Vargas	15
6	Insper	13
7	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco	9
8	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	8
9	Escola de Economia de São Paulo	8

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	Brazil	460
2	United States	56
3	United Kingdom	38
4	Portugal	24
5	Germany	23
6	Canada	20
7	France	19
8	Netherlands	16
9	Australia	15
10	Spain	15

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	Brazil	38
2	COVID-19 pandemic	16
3	deforestation	12
4	Sustainable Development Goals	10
5	São Paulo	10
6	energy transition	9
7	income inequality	9
8	global convergence	8
9	metaheuristic optimization	8
10	systemic risk	8

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	1,084	11.4	Blockchain adoption challenges in supply chain: An empirical investigation of the main drivers in India and the USA	International Journal of Information Management	2018-12-05	Maciel Manoel de Queiroz, Samuel Fosso Wamba
2	760	10.3	The strategic use of artificial intelligence in the digital era: Systematic literature review and future research directions	International Journal of Information Management	2020-09-14	Aline de Fátima Soares Borges, Fernando J.B. Laurindo, Mauro de Mesquita Spínola et al.
3	508	5.5	Fintechs: A literature review and research agenda	Electronic Commerce Research and Applications	2019-02-10	Eduardo Zied Milian, Mauro de Mesquita Spínola, Marly Monteiro de Carvalho
4	307	2.7	Deep learning for biological image classification	Expert Systems with Applications	2017-05-17	Carlos de Oliveira Affonso, André Luis Debiaso Rossi, Fábio Henrique Antunes Vieira et al.
5	264	6.2	Barriers and facilitators of university-industry collaboration for research, development and innovation: a systematic review	Management Review Quarterly	2023-04-26	André Luís Rossoni, Eduardo Pinheiro Gondim de Vasconcellos, Renata Luiza de Castilho Rossoni
6	255	2.2	Can project sustainability management impact project success? An empirical study applying a contingent approach	International Journal of Project Management	2017-03-14	Marly Monteiro de Carvalho, Roque Rabechini
7	214	2.2	Volatility and return jumps in bitcoin	Economics Letters	2018-10-15	Pedro Chaim, Márcio Poletti Laurini
8	211	2.5	The making of smart cities: Are Songdo, Masdar, Amsterdam, San Francisco and Brisbane the best we could build?	Land Use Policy	2019-09-05	Tan Yiğitcanlar, Hoon Han, Md. Kamruzzaman et al.
9	205	2.7	Challenges in benchmarking stream learning algorithms with real-world data	Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	2020-07-06	Vinicius M. A. Souza, Denis M. dos Reis, André G. Maletzke et al.
10	190	1.9	Educational Data Mining: A review of evaluation process in the e-learning	Telematics and Informatics	2018-05-08	Marcos W. Rodrigues, Seiji Isotani, Luis Enrique Zárate

In OpenAlex#

Universidade de São Paulo in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	São Paulo, Brazil
Also known as	USP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, University of Sao Paulo, University of São Paulo
Units listed in OpenAlex	9
Works in OpenAlex	579,290
Citations	27,417,930
h-index	934
i10-index	532,760
2-year mean citedness	2.48
Website	www5.usp.br
ROR	ror.org/036rp1748
Wikidata	Q835960
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I17974374

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution	Agricultural and Biological Sciences	7,589
2	Dental materials and restorations	Dentistry	7,524
3	Marine Biology and Ecology Research	Earth and Planetary Sciences	6,372
4	Literature, Culture, and Criticism	Arts and Humanities	6,221
5	Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology	Agricultural and Biological Sciences	5,685

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)	28,251	585,136	91	0.3%
2025	32,638	769,432	137	0.4%
2024	32,590	799,085	116	0.4%
2023	31,503	793,068	116	0.4%
2022	30,586	790,070	146	0.5%
2021	30,863	791,270	136	0.4%
2020	30,094	664,275	119	0.4%
2019	27,676	534,357	117	0.4%
2018	25,868	467,337	117	0.5%
2017	24,623	413,977	95	0.4%

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
2026-10-28	Effective training pressure gates recursive knowledge degradation in LLMs: A multi-axis dose–response study	Knowledge-Based Systems	Julio Leite Azancort Neto, Carlos André de Mattos Teixeira, Carlos Ponce de León et al.	Universidade Federal do Pará; Universidade de São Paulo
2026-10-26	Beyond expectations? The local economic effects of a large shopping mall	The Annals of Regional Science	Denis Fernandes Alves, André Luis Chagas, Roberta de Moraes Rocha et al.	Universidade de São Paulo; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
2026-10-23	Multimodal continual federated learning for human activity recognition: Trends and challenges	Applied Intelligence	André L. S. Conde, Rodolfo I. Meneguette, Robson E. De Grande et al.	Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp); Universidade de São Paulo; Brock University
2026-10-22	Long term survival model with frailt terms based on the power variance function family	Statistical Methods & Applications	Michelle M. Sacramento, Gladys D. C. Barriga, Vicente G. Cancho et al.	Universidade de São Paulo; Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
2026-10-22	Voluntary sustainability standards and economic and ecological outcomes: panel evidence from Rwanda’s coffee sector	World Development	Marlene Yu Lilin Wätzold, Amanda Cooke, Carolina Ocampo‐Ariza et al.	University of Göttingen; Universidade de São Paulo; Technische Universität Darmstadt; …
2026-10-21	Bundling a conditional cash transfer program with an inclusive life insurance policy: an exploratory analysis of the female beneficiaries of the Brazilian “Programa Bolsa Família”	The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice	Laura Oto da Silva, Luís Eduardo Afonso	Universidade de São Paulo
2026-10-19	From Forest to Market: Sustainability Signals and Consumer Decision-Making for Amazonian Products	Journal of Consumer Policy	Gabriela Nobre Dias, Ingrid Moons, Kavita Miadaira Hamza et al.	University of Antwerp; Universidade de São Paulo
2026-10-13	A study of organizational factors driving the adoption and institutionalization of the value-based pricing approach in B2B companies	Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management	Juliana Ventura Amaral, Reinaldo Guerreiro	Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Contábeis, Atuariais e Financeiras; Universidade de São Paulo

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Universidade de São Paulo. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universidade-de-sao-paulo

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