University College London

2 papers in the last 7 days · country: United Kingdom · web domain: ucl.ac.uk

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Key findings#

University College London was involved in 27 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #23 of 3,809 institutions.
Most of them appeared in Social Science & Medicine (2), Energy Policy (2) and Journal of Economics Race and Policy (2).
Countries: United Kingdom (27), United States (7) and China (3).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University College London took part in 2,138 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (761), AI (366) and operations research (281).
273 of them were published in 2025, against 168 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Naval Academy (53), Milli Savunma Üniversitesi (52) and University of Oxford (40).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (37), International Journal of Project Management (26) and Nature Machine Intelligence (26).
The most-cited of them is “DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2017), with 22,385 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University College London has 488,792 works with 58,145,655 citations (h-index 1,947).
The tracked journals hold 1,939 of its 224,663 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.9%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (11,937), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (8,187) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (8,024).
OpenAlex lists it under University of London.

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	74	78	74	81	67	72	91	79	79	66
AI	21	9	21	31	41	40	58	52	62	31
Operations Research	22	30	27	33	23	25	32	33	33	23
Health Economics and Policy	15	12	18	19	17	29	17	27	23	19
Management	7	15	13	8	25	29	15	19	23	18
Finance	7	7	5	13	13	12	12	26	26	17
Higher Education and Research	12	10	19	10	10	5	10	11	14	11
Statistics	8	8	2	5	4	13	2	7	4	10
Information Systems	1	1	1	2	2	2	4	4	3	2
Marketing	1	2	0	0	4	1	0	1	4	1
Tourism and Hospitality	0	1	0	2	2	0	1	1	1	0
Accounting	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	1
All categories	168	173	181	204	209	228	242	261	273	199

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	37
2	International Journal of Project Management	26
3	Nature Machine Intelligence	26
4	Energy Policy	24
5	Ecological Economics	23
6	Finance research letters	22
7	Pattern Recognition	21
8	Annals of Operations Research	20
9	PharmacoEconomics	17
10	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	16

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Naval Academy	53
2	Milli Savunma Üniversitesi	52
3	University of Oxford	40
4	Imperial College London	36
5	Ghent University	35
6	Vlerick Business School	35
7	Lebanese American University	31
8	London School of Economics and Political Science	24
9	University of Leeds	23

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	United Kingdom	975
2	China	243
3	United States	164
4	Italy	77
5	Germany	74
6	Turkey	64
7	Belgium	52
8	Netherlands	48
9	Australia	45
10	France	43

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	COVID-19 pandemic	30
2	China	29
3	multi-criteria decision making	17
4	project scheduling	15
5	cost-effectiveness	14
6	large language models	14
7	resource-constrained project scheduling	14
8	Chinese listed companies	11
9	gender differences	11
10	health technology assessment	11

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	22,385	196.0	DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2017-04-27	Liang-Chieh Chen, George Papandreou, Iasonas Kokkinos et al.
2	1,187	37.8	A review of convolutional neural networks in computer vision	Artificial Intelligence Review	2024-03-23	Xia Zhao, Limin Wang, Yufei Zhang et al.
3	1,045	15.4	Common pitfalls and recommendations for using machine learning to detect and prognosticate for COVID-19 using chest radiographs and CT scans	Nature Machine Intelligence	2021-03-15	Michael Roberts, Derek Driggs, Matthew Thorpe et al.
4	852	25.4	A meta systematic review of artificial intelligence in higher education: a call for increased ethics, collaboration, and rigour	International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education	2024-01-18	Melissa Bond, Hassan Khosravi, Maarten F. de Laat et al.
5	716	16.4	A systematic review of trustworthy and explainable artificial intelligence in healthcare: Assessment of quality, bias risk, and data fusion	Information Fusion	2023-03-14	Ahmed Shihab Albahri, Ali M. Duhaim, Mohammed Abdulraheem Fadhel et al.
6	703	6.2	Financing renewable energy: Who is financing what and why it matters	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	2017-06-08	Mariana Mazzucato, Gregor Semieniuk
7	691	8.4	Shared autonomous vehicle services: A comprehensive review	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	2020-01-06	Santhanakrishnan Narayanan, Emmanouil Manos Chaniotakis, Constantinos Antoniou
8	660	9.2	Higher education and the Sustainable Development Goals	Higher Education	2020-11-06	Maia Chankseliani, Tristan McCowan
9	547	10.0	Deep learning, reinforcement learning, and world models	Neural Networks	2022-04-19	Yutaka Matsuo, Yann LeCun, Maneesh Sahani et al.
10	527	8.5	Emergency remote teaching in higher education: mapping the first global online semester	International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education	2021-08-29	Melissa Bond, Svenja Bedenlier, Victoria I. Marín et al.

In OpenAlex#

University College London in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	London, England, United Kingdom
Also known as	UCL, Coleg Prifysgol Llundain, London University, University College, London
Part of	University of London
Units listed in OpenAlex	17
Works in OpenAlex	488,792
Citations	58,145,655
h-index	1,947
i10-index	582,130
2-year mean citedness	6.75
Website	www.ucl.ac.uk
ROR	ror.org/02jx3x895
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I45129253

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research	Medicine	11,937
2	Alzheimer's disease research and treatments	Medicine	8,187
3	Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies	Physics and Astronomy	8,024
4	Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research	Neuroscience	6,326
5	Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena	Physics and Astronomy	6,260

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)	25,502	1,373,158	199	0.8%
2025	29,548	1,735,533	273	0.9%
2024	29,497	1,707,857	261	0.9%
2023	27,729	1,590,874	242	0.9%
2022	26,359	1,537,174	228	0.9%
2021	26,607	1,521,131	209	0.8%
2020	24,198	1,306,189	204	0.8%
2019	21,478	1,061,811	181	0.8%
2018	20,355	924,963	173	0.8%
2017	18,892	821,355	168	0.9%

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
2026-10-30	Asylum granted: The integration and well-being benefits of obtaining refugee status	World Development	Marine Casalis, Dominik Hangartner, Alexandra Hartman et al.	ETH Zurich; University College London; London School of Economics and Political Science
2026-10-28	Introduction to the special issue on public sector capacities: selected papers from the 2025 IIPF congress	International Tax and Public Finance	François Gérard, Shafik Hebous	University College London; International Monetary Fund
2026-10-27	Recovering from stigmatised loss following child removal into state care: a realist synthesis of institutional mechanisms shaping maternal health and inequality	Social Science & Medicine	Ruth McGovern, C. Smiles, C. Grant et al.	Newcastle University; Teesside University; King's College London; …
2026-10-23	Generalized and scalable deep Gaussian process emulation	Computational Statistics & Data Analysis	Deyu Ming, Daniel Williamson	University College London; University of Exeter
2026-10-22	A relational retrofitting void in the private rented sector: the Brighton and Hove ‘loop’	Energy Policy	Giulia M. Mininni, Donal Brown, Marie Claire Brisbois et al.	University of Sussex; University of Manchester; University of Oxford; …
2026-10-21	Individual Resilience as Human Capital Stock: Neighborhood Social Capital, Environmental Perceptions, and Dynamic Pathways Across COVID-19 Phases	Networks and Spatial Economics	Rui Sun, Yiming Wang	University of Bristol; University College London
2026-10-17	Resilience as social practice: Negotiating long COVID at the intersection of illness and ageing	Social Science & Medicine	Chao Fang, Alastair Comery, Sarah Akhtar Baz et al.	University of Liverpool; Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; University of Manchester; …
2026-10-17	Not Flourishing	Journal of Happiness Studies	Alex Bryson, David G. Blanchflower	University College London; Dartmouth College
2026-10-16	The impact of COVID-19 on all-cause mortality and life expectancy: findings from a population-based cohort in uMkhanyakude district, northern KwaZulu-natal	Population Health Metrics	Lusanda Mazibuko, Kobus Herbst, Kathy J. Baisley et al.	Africa Health Research Institute; University College London; South African Medical Research Council; …
2026-10-15	Correction to: Analyzing Female Employment Trends in South Asia	Journal of Economics Race and Policy	Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Matías Morales, Fatima Najeeb	World Bank; Tulane University; Universidad Andrés Bello; …
2026-10-15	Construction cost and traffic performance of transport infrastructure projects: Evidence from a multilateral lender	Transport Policy	Olga Collado Romero, Doramas Jorge-Calderón, Timo Välilä	University College London; European Investment Bank
2026-10-15	Artificial intelligence is not enough to enhance organizational performance	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	Michael Wang	Kingston University London; City St George's, University of London; University College London
2026-10-13	Economic experiences and positive-sum beliefs	Eurasian economic review :	Leonardo Becchetti, Lorenzo Semplici, Francesco Salustri	University of Rome Tor Vergata; Roma Tre University; University College London
2026-10-12	Digitalization, trade-embodied carbon transfers, and heterogeneous environmental upgrading in global value chains: An input-output analysis in Europe	International Review of Economics & Finance	Zhonghe Wang	University College London
2026-10-12	Performance uncertainty in medical image analysis: A large-scale investigation of confidence intervals	Medical Image Analysis	Pascaline André, Charles Heitz, Evangelia Christodoulou et al.	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Inserm; Sorbonne Université; …
2026-10-10	eHealthism in inclusion health: a qualitative longitudinal study with women experiencing homelessness	International Journal for Equity in Health	Sophie Nadia Gaber, Elisabet Mattsson, Anna Klarare et al.	Uppsala University; University College London; Marie Cederschiöld University; …
2026-10-10	Beyond the buzz: analyzing (re)politicization in higher education	Higher Education	Yishai Fraenkel, Annette Bamberger	Bar-Ilan University; University College London
2026-10-09	Modelling behavioural responses to infrastructure development in megacity regions	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	Bowen Zhang, Chen Zhong, Zahratu Shabrina	University College London; King's College London
2026-10-09	Accurate assessment of surgical HER2-low status based on core needle biopsy data of breast cancer	Diagnostic and Prognostic Research	Wen Li, Zixi Chen, Junyao Li et al.	Chongqing University; Chongqing Cancer Hospital; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; …
2026-10-08	Same intervention, different outcomes: The politics of energy transition planning in Ghana and Kenya	Energy Policy	Gerald Emmanuel Arhin	University College London
2026-10-08	Analyzing Female Employment Trends in South Asia	Journal of Economics Race and Policy	Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Matías Morales, Fatima Najeeb	World Bank; Tulane University; Universidad Andrés Bello; …
2026-10-08	Ordinal relationship of composite time trade-off and discrete choice experiment preference data	The European Journal of Health Economics	Ling‐Hsiang Chuang, Carl Lundberg, Sun Sun et al.	Public Health Agency of Sweden; Umeå University; University of Leeds; …
2026-10-07	The Whispering Bibliography: Interrogating Zotero’s Agency in Postdigital Research and Authorship	Postdigital Science and Education	Jingyi Zhang	University College London
2026-10-07	Q-learning based large neighborhood search with load-aware destroy for load-dependent multi depot heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem	Computers & Industrial Engineering	Xinyi Wu, Shengguang Xiong, Jiaqing Li et al.	Wuhan University of Technology; University College London
2026-10-06	Is bitcoin a hedge against central banking? Evidence from AI-driven monetary policy expectations	Journal of International Money and Finance	Maxime L. D. Nicolas, François Sicard, Marion Labouré et al.	University College London; Deutsche Bank (United Kingdom)
2026-10-06	Bayesian modelling of clustered extreme events using a nonparametric Hawkes process	Statistics and Computing	Gordon J. Ross, Dean Markwick	University of Edinburgh; University College London
2026-10-05	Towards mission theory: A systematic literature review of its critiques and avenues for progress (2010–2025)	Research Policy	Iacopo Gronchi, Josh Entsminger	Demos Helsinki; University College London; Harvard University

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

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