---
title: "University College Dublin: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University College Dublin: 729 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and finance; h-index 681."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-dublin
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share_text: "Research profile of University College Dublin: 729 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and finance; h-index 681. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# University College Dublin

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: Ireland
- web domain: ucd.ie

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

## Key findings

- University College Dublin was involved in 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #234 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in International Review of Financial Analysis (2), Finance research letters (1) and European Actuarial Journal (1).
- Countries: Ireland (7), Greece (2) and China (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University College Dublin took part in 729 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (234), finance (124) and AI (95).
- 77 of them were published in 2025, against 49 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Dublin City University (22), Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics (18) and Trinity College Dublin (17).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (13), International Review of Financial Analysis (11) and Health Policy (8).
- The most-cited of them is “Industry 5.0: A survey on enabling technologies and potential applications” (Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2021), with 1,891 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University College Dublin has 105,024 works with 7,261,178 citations (h-index 681).
- The tracked journals hold 640 of its 49,751 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.3%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (2,720), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (2,425) and Particle Detector Development and Performance (1,883).
- OpenAlex lists it under National University of Ireland.

## 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) | 16 | 18 | 25 | 23 | 33 | 17 | 29 | 24 | 23 | 26 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 5 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 15 | 20 | 12 | 14 | 18 | 11 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 12 | 14 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 10 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 49 | 46 | 63 | 63 | 93 | 76 | 84 | 89 | 77 | 89 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 13 |
| 2 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 11 |
| 3 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Dublin City University | 22 |
| 2 | Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics | 18 |
| 3 | [Trinity College Dublin](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/trinity-college-dublin.md) | 17 |
| 4 | University of Waikato | 12 |
| 5 | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway | 10 |
| 6 | [University College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-london.md) | 9 |
| 7 | National University of Ireland, Maynooth | 8 |
| 8 | Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority | 7 |
| 9 | [University of Edinburgh](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-edinburgh.md) | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Ireland | 339 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 66 |
| 3 | United States | 50 |
| 4 | China | 30 |
| 5 | Italy | 29 |
| 6 | Germany | 27 |
| 7 | France | 21 |
| 8 | Canada | 19 |
| 9 | New Zealand | 17 |
| 10 | Turkey | 17 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Ireland | 19 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [firm size](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/firm-size.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [multi-criteria decision making](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-criteria-decision-making.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [2008 financial crisis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/2008-financial-crisis.md) | 5 |
| 9 | Bayesian inference | 5 |
| 10 | [Bitcoin](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bitcoin.md) | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,891 | 30.1 | [Industry 5.0: A survey on enabling technologies and potential applications](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2021.100257) | [Journal of Industrial Information Integration](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-industrial-information-integration.md) | 2021-08-11 | Praveen Kumar Reddy Maddikunta, Quoc‐Viet Pham, B. Prabadevi et al. |
| 2 | 832 | 10.8 | [Safe haven or risky hazard? Bitcoin during the Covid-19 bear market](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101607) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2020-05-24 | Thomas Conlon, Richard J. McGee |
| 3 | 603 | 7.8 | [Are cryptocurrencies a safe haven for equity markets? An international perspective from the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2020.101248) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 2020-06-04 | Thomas Conlon, Shaen Corbet, Richard J. McGee |
| 4 | 349 | 3.9 | [Green human resource management and environmental cooperation: An ability-motivation-opportunity and contingency perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.06.013) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-06-17 | Wantao Yu, Roberto Chávez, Mengying Feng et al. |
| 5 | 300 | 4.9 | [Tail dependence between bitcoin and green financial assets](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110068) | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 2021-09-08 | Muhammad Abubakr Naeem, Sitara Karim |
| 6 | 287 | 3.1 | [Economic growth, urbanization and energy consumption — A provincial level analysis of China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.01.004) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2019-01-10 | Zheng Wei, Patrick Paul Walsh |
| 7 | 257 | 3.7 | [Digital platform-based ecosystems: The evolution of collaboration and competition between incumbent producers and entrant platforms](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.12.058) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2021-01-18 | Alessio Cozzolino, Leonardo Corbo, Paolo Aversa |
| 8 | 256 | 3.9 | [COVID-19 and time-frequency connectedness between green and conventional financial markets](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfj.2021.100650) | [Global Finance Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/global-finance-journal.md) | 2021-06-09 | Muhammad Arif, Mudassar Hasan, Suha Mahmoud Alawi et al. |
| 9 | 233 | 2.1 | [A multi-agent systems approach for sustainable supplier selection and order allocation in a partnership supply chain](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.07.014) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2017-07-09 | Pezhman Ghadimi, Farshad Ghassemi Toosi, Cathal Heavey |
| 10 | 224 | 2.8 | [The role of science, technology and innovation in the UN 2030 agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.119957) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2020-02-12 | Patrick Paul Walsh, Enda Murphy, David Horan |

## In OpenAlex

*University College Dublin in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Dublin, Leinster, Ireland |
| Also known as | UCD, An Coláiste Ollscoile Baile Átha Cliath, University College Dublin – National University of Ireland, Dublin |
| Part of | [National University of Ireland](https://openalex.org/I181231927) |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 4 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 105,024 |
| Citations | 7,261,178 |
| h-index | 681 |
| i10-index | 101,976 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.73 |
| Website | [www.ucd.ie](https://www.ucd.ie) |
| ROR | [ror.org/05m7pjf47](https://ror.org/05m7pjf47) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I100930933](https://openalex.org/I100930933) |

*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) | 6,461 | 230,199 | 89 | 1.4% |
| 2025 | 6,921 | 289,349 | 77 | 1.1% |
| 2024 | 6,542 | 281,672 | 89 | 1.4% |
| 2023 | 6,150 | 261,357 | 84 | 1.4% |
| 2022 | 5,757 | 250,550 | 76 | 1.3% |
| 2021 | 5,940 | 245,285 | 93 | 1.6% |
| 2020 | 5,373 | 208,297 | 63 | 1.2% |
| 2019 | 4,682 | 176,801 | 63 | 1.3% |
| 2018 | 4,375 | 151,771 | 46 | 1.1% |
| 2017 | 4,011 | 136,773 | 49 | 1.2% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 2,720 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 2,425 |
| 3 | Particle Detector Development and Performance | Physics and Astronomy | 1,883 |
| 4 | Reproductive Physiology in Livestock | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1,452 |
| 5 | Irish and British Studies | Social Sciences | 1,116 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | [Policy regime dependence in sustainability index return predictability: evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.111026) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | Yusen Tan, Binsheng Qian | Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance; University College Dublin |
| 2026-10-24 | [Does community social capital improve African American representation on corporate boards?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2026.105486) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | Daewoung Choi, Yong Kyu Gam, Min Jung Kang et al. | University of Washington Bothell; University College Dublin; University of Michigan–Flint; … |
| 2026-10-20 | [Editorial: Special issue on climate risk and actuarial response](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13385-026-00474-7) | [European Actuarial Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-actuarial-journal.md) | Hirbod Assa, María del Carmen Boado‐Penas, Julia Eisenberg | University College Dublin; Heriot-Watt University; Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences; … |
| 2026-10-15 | [External collaboration and local knowledge divergence in regional knowledge spaces](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2026.105641) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | Jisoo Hur, Dieter F. Kogler, Keungoui Kim | Pukyong National University; University College Dublin; Yonsei University |
| 2026-10-13 | [Can central bankers' talk predict bank stock returns? A machine learning approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2026.105465) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | Apostolos G. Katsafados, George N. Leledakis, Nikolaos P. Panagiotou et al. | Athens University of Economics and Business; University College Dublin |
| 2026-10-13 | [Emotional Safety and Researcher Wellbeing in Research on Sensitive Topics - Reflections and Learnings from the Field](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-026-09771-y) | [Journal of Academic Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-academic-ethics.md) | Melanie Hoewer | University College Dublin |
| 2026-10-07 | [The conditional value relevance of ESG and innovation disclosures: a multi-method analysis of European firms combining panel econometrics and machine learning](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-026-07442-0) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | Andreas Errikos Delegkos, Evangelia Arsenou, Dionisis Cavouras et al. | University of West Attica; University College Dublin |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). University College Dublin. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-dublin

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
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