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title: "Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore: research profile"
description: "Research profile of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore: 893 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and finance; h-index 605."
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share_text: "Research profile of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore: 893 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and finance; h-index 605. (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Italy
- web domain: unicatt.eu

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

## Key findings

- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore was involved in 13 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #86 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation (1), Statistical Methods & Applications (1) and Computational Economics (1).
- Countries: Italy (13), France (2) and United Kingdom (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore took part in 893 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (460), finance (154) and management (69).
- 120 of them were published in 2025, against 61 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Milano-Bicocca (25), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (20) and University of Bologna (18).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (21), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (18) and Health Policy (14).
- The most-cited of them is “Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2021), with 1,353 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore has 84,810 works with 6,963,895 citations (h-index 605).
- The tracked journals hold 797 of its 41,780 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.9%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment (1,865), Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments (1,582) and Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics (1,425).

## 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) | 39 | 41 | 35 | 43 | 42 | 52 | 52 | 57 | 53 | 46 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 7 | 19 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 20 | 16 | 28 | 28 | 7 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 3 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 12 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 5 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 10 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 9 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 61 | 80 | 64 | 77 | 89 | 97 | 96 | 113 | 120 | 96 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 21 |
| 2 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [Structural Change and Economic Dynamics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/structural-change-and-economic-dynamics.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 12 |
| 7 | [Italian Economic Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/italian-economic-journal.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 10 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Milano-Bicocca](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-milano-bicocca.md) | 25 |
| 2 | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | 20 |
| 3 | [University of Bologna](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bologna.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [Bocconi University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/bocconi-university.md) | 16 |
| 5 | Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic | 15 |
| 6 | [Sapienza University of Rome](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sapienza-university-of-rome.md) | 15 |
| 7 | University of Milan | 15 |
| 8 | University of Pavia | 13 |
| 9 | [University of Turin](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-turin.md) | 11 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Italy | 425 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 51 |
| 3 | United States | 31 |
| 4 | Germany | 30 |
| 5 | France | 25 |
| 6 | Spain | 22 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 19 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 18 |
| 9 | Czechia | 18 |
| 10 | Denmark | 12 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 21 |
| 2 | [Italy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/italy.md) | 21 |
| 3 | [innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/innovation.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [Russian invasion of Ukraine](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/russian-invasion-of-ukraine.md) | 10 |
| 5 | agent-based modeling | 9 |
| 6 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [global value chains](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/global-value-chains.md) | 9 |
| 8 | European firms | 8 |
| 9 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [financial stability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-stability.md) | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,353 | 22.0 | [Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.09.009) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2021-09-17 | Doron Avramov, Si Cheng, Abraham Lioui et al. |
| 2 | 317 | 5.3 | [A bibliometric review of finance bibliometric papers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102520) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2021-10-30 | Ashraf Ali Khan, John W. Goodell, M. Kabir Hassan et al. |
| 3 | 309 | 2.9 | [Does success bring success? The post-offering lives of equity-crowdfunded firms](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.10.018) | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 2017-11-09 | Andrea Signori, Silvio Vismara A |
| 4 | 300 | 2.7 | [Multimorbidity care model: Recommendations from the consensus meeting of the Joint Action on Chronic Diseases and Promoting Healthy Ageing across the Life Cycle (JA-CHRODIS)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.09.006) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2017-09-14 | Katie Palmer, Alessandra Marengoni, Maria João Forjaz et al. |
| 5 | 250 | 2.3 | [Connecting alone: Smartphone use, quality of social interactions and well-being](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2017.09.001) | [Journal of Economic Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-psychology.md) | 2017-10-13 | Valentina Rotondi, Luca Matteo Stanca, Miriam Tomasuolo |
| 6 | 249 | 2.5 | [Financial constraints and public funding of eco-innovation: empirical evidence from European SMEs](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-018-0090-9) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 2018-09-08 | Grazia Cecere, Nicoletta Corrocher, Maria Luisa Mancusi |
| 7 | 203 | 2.7 | [The Effects of Air Pollution on COVID-19 Related Mortality in Northern Italy](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-020-00486-1) | [Environmental and Resource Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-and-resource-economics.md) | 2020-08-01 | Eric Stephen Coker, Laura Cavalli, Enrico Fabrizi et al. |
| 8 | 187 | 1.9 | [Technology and employment: Mass unemployment or job creation? Empirical evidence from European patenting firms](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.06.008) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2018-07-15 | Vincent Van Roy, Dániel Vértesy, Marco Vivarelli |
| 9 | 178 | 3.2 | [Impact of COVID-19 on the quantile connectedness between energy, metals and agriculture commodities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.105962) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2022-03-16 | Saqib Farid, Muhammad Abubakr Naeem, Andrea Paltrinieri et al. |
| 10 | 175 | 1.7 | [Technological change and employment: is Europe ready for the challenge?](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40821-017-0100-x) | [Eurasian economic review :](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/eurasian-economic-review.md) | 2018-01-15 | Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli |

## In OpenAlex

*Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
| Also known as | UCSC, UNICATT, Catholic University of Milan, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart |
| Works in OpenAlex | 84,810 |
| Citations | 6,963,895 |
| h-index | 605 |
| i10-index | 114,750 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.99 |
| Website | [www.unicatt.eu](https://www.unicatt.eu) |
| ROR | [ror.org/03h7r5v07](https://ror.org/03h7r5v07) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I103320735](https://openalex.org/I103320735) |

*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) | 5,353 | 180,107 | 96 | 1.8% |
| 2025 | 6,041 | 221,007 | 120 | 2.0% |
| 2024 | 5,810 | 216,036 | 113 | 1.9% |
| 2023 | 5,164 | 201,379 | 96 | 1.9% |
| 2022 | 5,073 | 195,625 | 97 | 1.9% |
| 2021 | 4,883 | 192,769 | 89 | 1.8% |
| 2020 | 4,796 | 160,784 | 77 | 1.6% |
| 2019 | 3,525 | 117,258 | 64 | 1.8% |
| 2018 | 3,418 | 100,115 | 80 | 2.3% |
| 2017 | 3,070 | 90,341 | 61 | 2.0% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment | Medicine | 1,865 |
| 2 | Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments | Medicine | 1,582 |
| 3 | Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics | Medicine | 1,425 |
| 4 | Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics | Medicine | 1,395 |
| 5 | Acute Myocardial Infarction Research | Medicine | 1,093 |

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; … |
| 2026-10-26 | [A selective overview of population size estimation in humanitarian upheavals](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10260-026-00887-4) | [Statistical Methods & Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-methods-applications.md) | Alessio Farcomeni, Rosario Barone | University of Rome Tor Vergata; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| 2026-10-24 | [Optimal Portfolio Allocation with Gromov-Wasserstein Barycenter](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-026-11445-1) | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | Alessandro Spelta, Nicoló Pecora, Mario Maggi | University of Pavia; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| 2026-10-23 | [Crime and Prices:Thefts of expensive precious metals from cars](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2026.105807) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | Gerald Foong, Stephen J. Machin, Matteo Sandi | Intellectual Property Office of Singapore; London School of Economics and Political Science; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| 2026-10-23 | [Industrial policy in times of market power](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2026.105638) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | Domenico Delli Gatti, Roberta Terranova, Enrico Maria Turco | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Université Côte d'Azur; … |
| 2026-10-13 | [Climate disclosure and risk premium in the European bond market](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40822-026-00401-x) | [Eurasian economic review :](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/eurasian-economic-review.md) | Matteo Mazzarano, Gianni Guastella, Stefano Pareglio et al. | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Athens University of Economics and Business; University of Bologna; … |
| 2026-10-12 | [Exploring multi-horizon cryptocurrency forecasting: can machine learning drive profitable trading strategies?](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-026-07434-0) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | Filippo Dal Lago, Rocco Andrea D’Alterio, Faizal M.F. Hafiz et al. | University of Insubria; Université Côte d'Azur; Abu Dhabi School of Management; … |
| 2026-10-10 | [Decoding fairness: Unveiling the cognitive processes that determine pay rises and promotions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2026.104299) | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | Gabriele Boccoli, Benedetta Colaiacovo, Francesco Candia et al. | Politecnico di Milano; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| 2026-10-10 | [Ethical Implications of Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement in University Students: an overview](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-026-09770-z) | [Journal of Academic Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-academic-ethics.md) | Gabriele Napoletano, Alessandra De Matteis, Elena Sonnini et al. | Sapienza University of Rome; Azienda Sanitaria Locale Salerno; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| 2026-10-10 | [Local inference for functional data on manifold domains using permutation tests](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2026.105719) | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | Niels Lundtorp Olsen, Alessia Pini, Simone Vantini | Technical University of Denmark; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Politecnico di Milano |
| 2026-10-08 | [When women take all: Direct election and female leadership](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107791) | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | Davide Cipullo | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Cefriel |
| 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 | [Not naive, just gullible: psycho-cognitive vulnerability and fraud victimization in Italy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2026.109203) | [Computers in Human Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-in-human-behavior.md) | Chiara Barbara Dadà, Laura Colautti, Matteo Robba et al. | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; University of Mannheim; University of Pavia |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universita-cattolica-del-sacro-cuore

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