University of Bologna
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Key findings#
- University of Bologna 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 Italian Economic Journal (2), Philosophy & Technology (2) and Journal of Economics and Finance (1).
- Countries: Italy (17), China (3) and United States (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Bologna took part in 1,577 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (572), operations research (232) and AI (198).
- 204 of them were published in 2025, against 119 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Reading (22), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (18) and London School of Economics and Political Science (17).
- The journals publishing most of them were AI & Society (16), Finance research letters (16) and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (14).
- The most-cited of them is “Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy” (International Journal of Information Management, 2023), with 4,592 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Bologna has 229,952 works with 21,218,397 citations (h-index 991).
- The tracked journals hold 1,427 of its 101,103 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.4%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (6,917), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (6,119) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (5,579).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 52 | 51 | 45 | 56 | 59 | 57 | 56 | 85 | 65 | 46 |
| Operations Research | 26 | 31 | 25 | 17 | 20 | 30 | 17 | 26 | 20 | 20 |
| AI | 7 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 21 | 25 | 20 | 24 | 34 | 29 |
| Management | 12 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 19 | 35 | 19 | 13 | 18 | 11 |
| Finance | 7 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 15 | 17 | 18 | 27 | 8 |
| Statistics | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 8 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 6 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 7 |
| Marketing | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Accounting | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 |
| All categories | 119 | 109 | 127 | 150 | 166 | 206 | 154 | 192 | 204 | 150 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI & Society | 16 |
| 2 | Finance research letters | 16 |
| 3 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 14 |
| 4 | Economics Letters | 13 |
| 5 | Expert Systems with Applications | 13 |
| 6 | Italian Economic Journal | 13 |
| 7 | Journal of Business Research | 12 |
| 8 | Neural Networks | 11 |
| 9 | Decisions in Economics and Finance | 11 |
| 10 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 10 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Reading | 22 |
| 2 | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore | 18 |
| 3 | London School of Economics and Political Science | 17 |
| 4 | Sapienza University of Rome | 17 |
| 5 | Bocconi University | 16 |
| 6 | University of Florence | 16 |
| 7 | University of Newcastle Australia | 16 |
| 8 | University of Padua | 14 |
| 9 | University of Pisa | 14 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy | 700 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 125 |
| 3 | United States | 69 |
| 4 | France | 53 |
| 5 | Germany | 50 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 44 |
| 7 | Australia | 40 |
| 8 | Spain | 39 |
| 9 | China | 26 |
| 10 | Austria | 25 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 27 |
| 2 | Italy | 18 |
| 3 | large language models | 15 |
| 4 | artificial intelligence | 12 |
| 5 | risk aversion | 11 |
| 6 | climate change | 10 |
| 7 | cross-national comparison | 10 |
| 8 | climate risk | 9 |
| 9 | combinatorial optimization | 9 |
| 10 | transition risk | 9 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| Also known as | UNIBO, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Universitat de Bolonya, Università di Bologna |
| Works in OpenAlex | 229,952 |
| Citations | 21,218,397 |
| h-index | 991 |
| i10-index | 324,454 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.21 |
| Website | www.unibo.it |
| ROR | ror.org/01111rn36 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I9360294 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 6,917 |
| 2 | Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena | Physics and Astronomy | 6,119 |
| 3 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 5,579 |
| 4 | Particle Detector Development and Performance | Physics and Astronomy | 4,971 |
| 5 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 3,639 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 13,922 | 378,615 | 150 | 1.1% |
| 2025 | 15,337 | 490,357 | 204 | 1.3% |
| 2024 | 13,608 | 486,618 | 192 | 1.4% |
| 2023 | 12,466 | 459,808 | 154 | 1.2% |
| 2022 | 11,533 | 443,084 | 206 | 1.8% |
| 2021 | 11,618 | 450,920 | 166 | 1.4% |
| 2020 | 10,847 | 383,973 | 150 | 1.4% |
| 2019 | 9,279 | 318,779 | 127 | 1.4% |
| 2018 | 8,345 | 282,729 | 109 | 1.3% |
| 2017 | 8,070 | 265,593 | 119 | 1.5% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | Correction: The 2022 Energy Crisis: Topic Modelling and Sentiment Analysis of the Italian Twitter Discourse | Italian Economic Journal | Matteo Farnè, Laura Zavarise | University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-28 | Forecasting volatility in periods of financial turbulence: a new state-dependent model | Journal of Economics and Finance | Fabio Gobbi, Sabrina Mulinacci | University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-25 | The advertisement knapsack problem | Optimization Letters | Michele Monaci, Ulrich Pferschy | University of Bologna; University of Graz |
| 2026-10-21 | Hot–cold reciprocation gaps | Experimental Economics | Riccardo Ghidoni, Sigrid Suetens, Jierui Yang | University of Bologna; Tilburg University; Xiangtan University |
| 2026-10-20 | Rethinking Ethical Employment Pathways for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Systemic Nested Alliances Model | Journal of Business Ethics | Pier Franco Luigi Fraboni, Luca Baccarini, Giorgia Moschini et al. | Marche Polytechnic University; University of Bologna; Pegaso University; … |
| 2026-10-20 | Street-scale heat exposure mapping for urban cyclists: Integrating vision transformer-GAN with aggregated Strava cycling activity data | Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice | Jin Rui, Zhaowen Xu | Peking University; University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-17 | Pax Digitalis: When Competition Becomes Partition | Philosophy & Technology | Luciano Floridi, Jessica Morley, Claudio Novelli | Yale University; University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-17 | Efficient Time-Fractional Diffusion Network for Under-Display ToF Imaging and Beyond | International Journal of Computer Vision | Xin Qiao, Xing Wei, Matteo Poggi et al. | Xi'an Jiaotong University; Anyang Institute of Technology; University of Bologna; … |
| 2026-10-16 | Looking back, thinking ahead: A systematic review of business models in SMEs | Technovation | Amir Hakaki, Marcello M. Mariani, Benjamin Laker | University of Reading; University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-15 | Critical peak pricing or rebate? An impact analysis in a cold climate market | Energy Economics | Debbie J. Dupuis, Pierre‐Olivier Pineau, Luca Trapin | HEC Montréal; University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-14 | Everything but the Signature: A Proposal for AI-Born Journals | Philosophy & Technology | Luciano Floridi | Yale University; University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-14 | Detecting disjoint and overlapping communities in temporal node-attributed networks | Expert Systems with Applications | Renny Márquez, Richard W. Weber, Alex Barrales-Araneda | Universidad de Los Andes, Chile; Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo; Complex Engineering System Institute; … |
| 2026-10-13 | Giving stateless agents a sense of time: A reconsolidating episodic–semantic memory architecture | Knowledge-Based Systems | Gian Maria Santi | University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-13 | Climate disclosure and risk premium in the European bond market | Eurasian economic review : | Matteo Mazzarano, Gianni Guastella, Stefano Pareglio et al. | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Athens University of Economics and Business; University of Bologna; … |
| 2026-10-09 | GeoEdgeJoin: Efficient multimodal raster-vector joins for intelligent geospatial cloud–edge–IoT systems | Telematics and Informatics Reports | Isam Mashhour Al Jawarneh, Luca Foschini, Paolo Bellavista | University of Sharjah; University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-06 | Dynamic stream clustering for real-time schema profiling with DSC+ | Knowledge and Information Systems | Chiara Forresi, Matteo Francia, Enrico Gallinucci et al. | University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-06 | Search and Switching Costs: A Market Experiment | Italian Economic Journal | Irene Maria Buso, Daniela Teresa Di Cagno, John D. Hey | University of Bologna; Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli; University of York |
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Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Bologna. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bologna
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