University of Alberta
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Key findings#
- University of Alberta was involved in 17 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #63 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Pattern Recognition (2), Journal of Marketing Analytics (1) and Eastern Economic Journal (1).
- Countries: Canada (17), China (12) and Poland (3).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Alberta took part in 1,336 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (607), economics (221) and operations research (137).
- 147 of them were published in 2025, against 99 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Polish Academy of Sciences (97), Istinye University (93) and Systems Research Institute (91).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (62), Expert Systems with Applications (47) and Information Fusion (27).
- The most-cited of them is “Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? International evidence” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2018), with 2,547 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Alberta has 266,574 works with 23,204,851 citations (h-index 1,176).
- The tracked journals hold 1,224 of its 103,627 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.2%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (2,861), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (2,706) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (2,287).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 29 | 40 | 47 | 67 | 59 | 75 | 78 | 90 | 80 | 42 |
| Economics | 26 | 27 | 17 | 25 | 25 | 31 | 21 | 17 | 13 | 19 |
| Operations Research | 5 | 14 | 12 | 18 | 12 | 16 | 9 | 25 | 19 | 7 |
| Finance | 11 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 6 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 9 |
| Management | 11 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| Statistics | 7 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Marketing | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Accounting | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| All categories | 99 | 102 | 104 | 161 | 143 | 156 | 142 | 170 | 147 | 112 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems | 62 |
| 2 | Expert Systems with Applications | 47 |
| 3 | Information Fusion | 27 |
| 4 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 26 |
| 5 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 22 |
| 6 | Neural Networks | 15 |
| 7 | Applied Intelligence | 13 |
| 8 | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 11 |
| 9 | Pattern Recognition | 10 |
| 10 | PharmacoEconomics | 10 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polish Academy of Sciences | 97 |
| 2 | Istinye University | 93 |
| 3 | Systems Research Institute | 91 |
| 4 | Nantong University | 31 |
| 5 | Macau University of Science and Technology | 25 |
| 6 | Wuhan University | 20 |
| 7 | Milli Savunma Üniversitesi | 18 |
| 8 | Naval Academy | 18 |
| 9 | Linyi University | 17 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | 571 |
| 2 | China | 293 |
| 3 | Poland | 112 |
| 4 | Turkey | 107 |
| 5 | United States | 101 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 49 |
| 7 | Macao | 33 |
| 8 | South Korea | 25 |
| 9 | Australia | 23 |
| 10 | Germany | 23 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | corporate governance | 16 |
| 2 | fuzzy c-means clustering | 14 |
| 3 | class imbalance | 13 |
| 4 | high-dimensional data | 13 |
| 5 | interpretability | 13 |
| 6 | multi-criteria decision making | 13 |
| 7 | COVID-19 pandemic | 12 |
| 8 | consensus reaching | 12 |
| 9 | feature selection | 12 |
| 10 | fuzzy clustering | 11 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Also known as | UAlberta, Université de l'Alberta |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 6 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 266,574 |
| Citations | 23,204,851 |
| h-index | 1,176 |
| i10-index | 313,612 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.75 |
| Website | www.ualberta.ca |
| ROR | ror.org/0160cpw27 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I154425047 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 2,861 |
| 2 | Geological and Geochemical Analysis | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2,706 |
| 3 | Wildlife Ecology and Conservation | Environmental Science | 2,287 |
| 4 | Innovations in Medical Education | Medicine | 2,261 |
| 5 | Physical Activity and Health | Medicine | 2,260 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 10,696 | 525,261 | 112 | 1.0% |
| 2025 | 12,469 | 676,165 | 147 | 1.2% |
| 2024 | 12,505 | 673,585 | 170 | 1.4% |
| 2023 | 12,031 | 636,433 | 142 | 1.2% |
| 2022 | 12,154 | 626,674 | 156 | 1.3% |
| 2021 | 12,227 | 629,824 | 143 | 1.2% |
| 2020 | 11,967 | 554,949 | 161 | 1.3% |
| 2019 | 10,575 | 459,843 | 104 | 1.0% |
| 2018 | 10,377 | 409,036 | 102 | 1.0% |
| 2017 | 9,322 | 375,824 | 99 | 1.1% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | Unconscious thought in complex decisions: Which decision-making strategies do people use? | Journal of Marketing Analytics | Chao Lei, Lance Gregory, Huan Tao et al. | Harbin Institute of Technology; University of Alberta; Huazhong University of Science and Technology; … |
| 2026-10-27 | How (Un)Explained Pay Dispersion Influences Team Performance: The Case of the English Premier League | Eastern Economic Journal | Yinle Huang, Brian P. Soebbing | Government of British Columbia; University of Alberta |
| 2026-10-26 | Peatland vulnerability to agricultural expansion: Conversion risk, inactivity, and carbon loss | Land Use Policy | Hongyu Wang, Feng Qiu, Wei Zhou | University of Alberta; China University of Geosciences (Beijing) |
| 2026-10-24 | SynMatch: Rethinking consistency in medical image segmentation with sparse annotations | Neural Networks | Zhiqiang Shen, Peng Cao, Xiaoli Liu et al. | Northeastern University; University of Alberta; Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute |
| 2026-10-23 | Unknown-aware graph consistent domain adaptation network for open-set node classification | Pattern Recognition | Ruoxian Song, Wenju Yang, Guangqi Wen et al. | Northeastern University; Shandong Normal University; Peking University; … |
| 2026-10-23 | When leader perfectionism works and when it does not: the role of leader vision in shaping follower outcomes | Journal of Business and Psychology | Lixun Zheng, Lu Wang, Guohua He et al. | Tsinghua University; University of Alberta; Shenzhen University; … |
| 2026-10-21 | Learning fuzzy textual guidance with polynomial cross-modal modeling for medical image segmentation | Information Sciences | Ce Gao, Sung‐Kwun Oh, Hao Huang et al. | University of Suwon; Linyi University; Sungkyunkwan University; … |
| 2026-10-18 | Clean steel, higher prices: Ultra-low emission upgrades and local housing markets in China | Energy Economics | Huijun Yan, 殷亮 | University of Alberta; Chongqing University |
| 2026-10-16 | Between utopian optimism and dystopian pessimism: navigating the roles of universities in knowledge democracies | Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Alexander Ruser, Nico Stehr | University of Agder; University of Alberta |
| 2026-10-16 | Sequential randomization tests using e-values for clinical trial monitoring across endpoint types | BMC Medical Research Methodology | Fernando Godinho Zampieri, Arthur M. Albuquerque, Aaditya Ramdas | University of Alberta; Canadian VIGOUR Centre; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; … |
| 2026-10-15 | iCAS: An in-context anomaly segmentation framework for industrial visual inspection | Pattern Recognition | Hanqiu Deng, Bin-Bin Gao, Xi Jiang et al. | Tencent (China); Southern University of Science and Technology; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; … |
| 2026-10-15 | Non-pharmacological interventions: nomenclature, taxonomy, and working definitions | Journal of Public Health Policy | John Conly, Jeffrey K Aronson, Annette Pluddemann et al. | Alberta Health Services; University of Calgary; University of Oxford; … |
| 2026-10-14 | Adaptive weight learning for robust unsupervised sparse feature selection | Knowledge-Based Systems | Jian Wang, Zebaio Hu, Zhilei Sun et al. | China University of Petroleum, East China; Huzhou Normal University; Ministry of Natural Resources; … |
| 2026-10-13 | Enhancing usability and attention alignment in AR-based construction assistance through formative multimodal evaluation | Computers & Industrial Engineering | Yuan Xiang, Qipei Mei, Xinming Li | University of Alberta |
| 2026-10-12 | Functional linear expected shortfall regression model | Journal of Multivariate Analysis | Wenhui Xuan, Ping Yu, Yafei Wang et al. | Shanxi Normal University; University of Alberta |
| 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; … |
| 2026-10-09 | Incentive effects on voluntary safety reporting behavior in airports | Transport Policy | Sheng‐Hua Xiong, Yan-Zhao Shi, W. K. Chow et al. | Civil Aviation Flight University of China; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; University of Alberta; … |
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Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Alberta. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-alberta
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