Universitat de Barcelona
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Key findings#
- Universitat de Barcelona was involved in 9 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #162 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in International Journal for Equity in Health (1), International Tax and Public Finance (1) and Image and Vision Computing (1).
- Countries: Spain (9), United Kingdom (2) and Morocco (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Universitat de Barcelona took part in 787 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (380), health economics and policy (83) and AI (76).
- 100 of them were published in 2025, against 63 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Barcelona Institute of Economics (47), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (18) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (18).
- The journals publishing most of them were Social Choice and Welfare (8), Expert Systems with Applications (8) and SERIEs (8).
- The most-cited of them is “Sign Language Recognition: A Deep Survey” (Expert Systems with Applications, 2020), with 585 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Universitat de Barcelona has 201,616 works with 18,681,130 citations (h-index 1,058).
- The tracked journals hold 702 of its 92,321 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.8%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (3,228), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (3,187) and Schizophrenia research and treatment (2,740).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 33 | 35 | 29 | 39 | 34 | 35 | 31 | 57 | 49 | 38 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 4 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 15 |
| AI | 3 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 12 |
| Finance | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 7 |
| Operations Research | 9 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 6 |
| Management | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 2 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Statistics | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 63 | 72 | 59 | 76 | 74 | 75 | 81 | 102 | 100 | 85 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Social Choice and Welfare | 8 |
| 2 | Expert Systems with Applications | 8 |
| 3 | SERIEs | 8 |
| 4 | European Journal of Political Economy | 7 |
| 5 | Games and Economic Behavior | 7 |
| 6 | Ecological Economics | 7 |
| 7 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 7 |
| 8 | Economics & Human Biology | 7 |
| 9 | Health Economics Review | 7 |
| 10 | Regional Science and Urban Economics | 6 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barcelona Institute of Economics | 47 |
| 2 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | 18 |
| 3 | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | 18 |
| 4 | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | 14 |
| 5 | Barcelona School of Economics | 13 |
| 6 | Computer Vision Center | 11 |
| 7 | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas | 11 |
| 8 | Universitat Ramon Llull | 11 |
| 9 | University of Technology Sydney | 10 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain | 368 |
| 2 | United States | 44 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 43 |
| 4 | Italy | 33 |
| 5 | Germany | 24 |
| 6 | France | 21 |
| 7 | Australia | 15 |
| 8 | Brazil | 15 |
| 9 | Belgium | 14 |
| 10 | Colombia | 12 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 19 |
| 2 | Spain | 16 |
| 3 | gender differences | 9 |
| 4 | research trends | 8 |
| 5 | Catalonia | 7 |
| 6 | mental health | 7 |
| 7 | 2008 financial crisis | 6 |
| 8 | cost-effectiveness | 6 |
| 9 | journal history | 6 |
| 10 | welfare effects | 6 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Also known as | UB, Bartzelonako Unibertsitatea, Universidad de Barcelona, University of Barcelona |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 10 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 201,616 |
| Citations | 18,681,130 |
| h-index | 1,058 |
| i10-index | 249,512 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.40 |
| Website | web.ub.edu |
| ROR | ror.org/021018s57 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I71999127 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 3,228 |
| 2 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 3,187 |
| 3 | Schizophrenia research and treatment | Medicine | 2,740 |
| 4 | Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research | Medicine | 2,221 |
| 5 | Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena | Physics and Astronomy | 2,109 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 10,340 | 401,307 | 85 | 0.8% |
| 2025 | 12,537 | 518,096 | 100 | 0.8% |
| 2024 | 11,539 | 517,032 | 102 | 0.9% |
| 2023 | 11,155 | 492,004 | 81 | 0.7% |
| 2022 | 10,325 | 477,451 | 75 | 0.7% |
| 2021 | 12,461 | 475,379 | 74 | 0.6% |
| 2020 | 9,945 | 409,252 | 76 | 0.8% |
| 2019 | 8,634 | 334,407 | 59 | 0.7% |
| 2018 | 7,893 | 295,068 | 72 | 0.9% |
| 2017 | 7,832 | 267,152 | 63 | 0.8% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | Multidimensional vulnerabilities and health inequities among migrants in Tunisia: a qualitative study | International Journal for Equity in Health | Taha Maatoug, Anissa Ouahchi, Farah Seedat et al. | Barcelona Institute for Global Health; Universitat de Barcelona; University of Sousse; … |
| 2026-10-24 | Fiscal information and stated willingness to pay taxes: evidence from a survey experiment | International Tax and Public Finance | José MarÃa Durán-Cabré, Alejandro Esteller Moré, Riccardo Secomandi | Barcelona Institute of Economics; Universitat de Barcelona; University of Ferrara |
| 2026-10-17 | Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Zero-Shot Human–Object Interaction | Image and Vision Computing | Oriol Rabasseda, Zenjie Li, Kamal Nasrollahi et al. | Universitat de Barcelona; Aalborg University |
| 2026-10-14 | Beyond participation. Gendered constraints and agency in agroforestry: a systematic review | Agricultural and Food Economics | MGiulia Costanzo-Talarico, Luis Buendía, Sherman Farhad et al. | Universidad de León; Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat de la Universitat de Barcelona; Universitat de Barcelona |
| 2026-10-14 | Cost-effectiveness of virtual reality-based avatar therapy for patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia | Health Economics Review | Alexandrina Stoyanova, Raquel Andres, Edit Vass et al. | Universitat de Barcelona; Semmelweis University; Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu; … |
| 2026-10-13 | Characteristics of medical malpractice claims over 22 years: a population-based analysis in Catalonia, Spain | Health Policy | Josep Arimany–Manso, Josep Benet-Travé, Carles Martín-Fumadó et al. | Universitat de Barcelona |
| 2026-10-12 | Will the green transition deepen regional divides? Evidence from mobility intentions across European regions | The Annals of Regional Science | Sebastian Ritter, Vicente Royuela, Yann Marx | Universitat de Barcelona; Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research |
| 2026-10-10 | Does EQ-5D measure the most relevant aspects of health across cultures? Findings from a multi-country qualitative and card-sorting study | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes | Zoe Jane‐Lara Hildon, Michael Herdman, Rachel Lee-Yin Tan et al. | National University of Singapore; National University Health System; Office Of Health Economics; … |
| 2026-10-08 | Bayesian p(h)ooling: Optimal pooling structure in quadratic Bayesian persuasion | Journal of Mathematical Economics | Rastislav Rehák, Maxim Senkov | Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics; Universitat de Barcelona |
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Scholar4AI. (2026). Universitat de Barcelona. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universitat-de-barcelona
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