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title: "University of Bologna: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Bologna: 1,577 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 991."
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# University of Bologna

- 2 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Italy
- web domain: unibo.it

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

## 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

*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) | 52 | 51 | 45 | 56 | 59 | 57 | 56 | 85 | 65 | 46 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 26 | 31 | 25 | 17 | 20 | 30 | 17 | 26 | 20 | 20 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 7 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 21 | 25 | 20 | 24 | 34 | 29 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 12 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 19 | 35 | 19 | 13 | 18 | 11 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 7 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 15 | 17 | 18 | 27 | 8 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 8 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 6 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 7 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 16 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [Italian Economic Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/italian-economic-journal.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Decisions in Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decisions-in-economics-and-finance.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 10 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Reading](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-reading.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universita-cattolica-del-sacro-cuore.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 17 |
| 4 | [Sapienza University of Rome](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sapienza-university-of-rome.md) | 17 |
| 5 | [Bocconi University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/bocconi-university.md) | 16 |
| 6 | University of Florence | 16 |
| 7 | [University of Newcastle Australia](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-newcastle-australia.md) | 16 |
| 8 | [University of Padua](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-padua.md) | 14 |
| 9 | [University of Pisa](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pisa.md) | 14 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 27 |
| 2 | [Italy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/italy.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [risk aversion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/risk-aversion.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [climate change](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-change.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [climate risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-risk.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [combinatorial optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/combinatorial-optimization.md) | 9 |
| 10 | transition risk | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,592 | 104.9 | [Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102642) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2023-03-11 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Nir Kshetri, Laurie Hughes et al. |
| 2 | 792 | 10.2 | [Competing during a pandemic? Retailers’ ups and downs during the COVID-19 outbreak](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.05.036) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-05-21 | Eleonora Pantano, Gabriele Pizzi, Daniele Scarpi et al. |
| 3 | 640 | 8.7 | [Attention in Natural Language Processing](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.3019893) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-09-10 | Andrea Galassi, Marco Lippi, Paolo Torroni |
| 4 | 588 | 11.8 | [Artificial intelligence in innovation research: A systematic review, conceptual framework, and future research directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2022.102623) | [Technovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technovation.md) | 2022-09-10 | Marcello M. Mariani, Isa Machado, Vittoria Magrelli et al. |
| 5 | 559 | 8.2 | [The evolving role of artificial intelligence in marketing: A review and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.01.055) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2021-02-21 | Božidar Vlačić, Leonardo Corbo, Susana Cristina Lima da Costa e Silva et al. |
| 6 | 494 | 8.5 | [Accountability in Artificial Intelligence: What It Is and How It Works](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01635-y) | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 2022-01-01 | Claudio Novelli, Mariarosaria Taddeo, Luciano Floridi |
| 7 | 416 | 12.8 | [Generative artificial intelligence in innovation management: A preview of future research developments](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114542) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2024-02-14 | Marcello M. Mariani, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi |
| 8 | 374 | 4.5 | [How entrepreneurial intentions influence entrepreneurial career choices: The moderating influence of social context](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2019.105982) | [Journal of Business Venturing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing.md) | 2019-11-29 | Azzurra Meoli, Riccardo Fini, Maurizio Sobrero et al. |
| 9 | 353 | 4.3 | [Blind to carbon risk? An analysis of stock market reaction to the Paris Agreement](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106571) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2020-01-15 | Irene Monasterolo, Luca De Angelis |
| 10 | 350 | 8.1 | [Artificial intelligence empowered conversational agents: A systematic literature review and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113838) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2023-03-21 | Marcello M. Mariani, Novin Hashemi, Jochen Wirtz |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Bologna 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](https://www.unibo.it) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01111rn36](https://ror.org/01111rn36) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I9360294](https://openalex.org/I9360294) |

*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) | 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% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | 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 |

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 | [Correction: The 2022 Energy Crisis: Topic Modelling and Sentiment Analysis of the Italian Twitter Discourse](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40797-026-00408-y) | [Italian Economic Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/italian-economic-journal.md) | Matteo Farnè, Laura Zavarise | University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-28 | [Forecasting volatility in periods of financial turbulence: a new state-dependent model](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12197-026-09794-6) | [Journal of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economics-and-finance.md) | Fabio Gobbi, Sabrina Mulinacci | University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-25 | [The advertisement knapsack problem](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-026-02340-7) | [Optimization Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/optimization-letters.md) | Michele Monaci, Ulrich Pferschy | University of Bologna; University of Graz |
| 2026-10-21 | [Hot–cold reciprocation gaps](https://doi.org/10.1017/eec.2026.10059) | [Experimental Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/experimental-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-026-06499-y) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2026.105317) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | Jin Rui, Zhaowen Xu | Peking University; University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-17 | [Pax Digitalis: When Competition Becomes Partition](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-026-01206-1) | [Philosophy & Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/philosophy-technology.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03074-w) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103744) | [Technovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technovation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2026.109644) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-026-01207-0) | [Philosophy & Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/philosophy-technology.md) | Luciano Floridi | Yale University; University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-14 | [Detecting disjoint and overlapping communities in temporal node-attributed networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134723) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117193) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Gian Maria Santi | University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-13 | [Climate disclosure and risk premium in the European bond market](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40822-026-00401-x) | [Eurasian economic review :](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/eurasian-economic-review.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teler.2026.100367) | [Telematics and Informatics Reports](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics-reports.md) | 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+](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-026-02889-w) | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | Chiara Forresi, Matteo Francia, Enrico Gallinucci et al. | University of Bologna |
| 2026-10-06 | [Search and Switching Costs: A Market Experiment](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40797-026-00409-x) | [Italian Economic Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/italian-economic-journal.md) | Irene Maria Buso, Daniela Teresa Di Cagno, John D. Hey | University of Bologna; Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli; University of York |

## Cite this page

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