University of British Columbia

2 papers in the last 7 days · country: Canada · web domain: ubc.ca

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Key findings#

University of British Columbia was involved in 11 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #123 of 3,828 institutions.
Most of them appeared in Health Policy (2), Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (1) and Minerva (1).
Countries: Canada (11), United Kingdom (4) and United States (3).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of British Columbia took part in 1,137 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (374), operations research (241) and AI (158).
123 of them were published in 2025, against 104 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus (75), University of Toronto (19) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (17).
The journals publishing most of them were Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (22), Expert Systems with Applications (19) and Health Research Policy and Systems (15).
The most-cited of them is “A survey on semi-supervised learning” (Machine Learning, 2019), with 2,665 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of British Columbia has 384,406 works with 35,660,238 citations (h-index 1,431).
The tracked journals hold 1,041 of its 144,531 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.7%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (3,638), Asthma and respiratory diseases (3,361) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (3,262).

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	39	38	35	44	58	27	50	34	24	25
Operations Research	22	29	23	20	22	24	28	18	29	26
AI	7	5	7	15	13	20	26	21	28	16
Health Economics and Policy	15	6	13	13	11	12	12	12	17	11
Management	6	2	6	9	5	7	10	5	4	2
Statistics	4	6	5	5	4	7	7	5	5	3
Finance	5	8	6	0	5	6	3	5	5	0
Higher Education and Research	3	1	1	1	4	4	4	1	5	6
Marketing	2	3	3	3	2	2	3	2	4	0
Information Systems	0	1	1	3	3	1	1	1	1	3
Accounting	1	0	2	2	1	2	0	1	1	3
Tourism and Hospitality	0	3	2	1	0	1	2	0	0	1
All categories	104	102	104	116	128	113	146	105	123	96

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	22
2	Expert Systems with Applications	19
3	Health Research Policy and Systems	15
4	Health Policy	14
5	Transport Policy	12
6	Information Fusion	11
7	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	10
8	Mathematical Programming	9
9	Energy Policy	9
10	Land Use Policy	8

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus	75
2	University of Toronto	19
3	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	17
4	Beihang University	16
5	Simon Fraser University	15
6	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	10
7	National University of Singapore	9
8	University of Cambridge	9
9	Harvard University	8

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	Canada	470
2	United States	124
3	China	95
4	United Kingdom	47
5	Australia	38
6	Hong Kong	32
7	Netherlands	29
8	Germany	25
9	France	21
10	Switzerland	16

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	COVID-19 pandemic	22
2	British Columbia	16
3	China	9
4	Canada	8
5	climate change	7
6	cost-effectiveness	7
7	feature selection	7
8	high-speed rail	6
9	robust optimization	6
10	social welfare (welfare economics)	6

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,665	31.9	A survey on semi-supervised learning	Machine Learning	2019-11-15	Jesper E. van Engelen, Holger H. Hoos
2	1,202	15.3	Artificial intelligence for sustainability: Challenges, opportunities, and a research agenda	International Journal of Information Management	2020-04-20	Rohit Nishant, Mike Kennedy, Jacqueline Corbett
3	907	10.3	How do venture capitalists make decisions?	Journal of Financial Economics	2019-06-25	Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven Neil Kaplan et al.
4	868	8.4	Autonomous vehicle perception: The technology of today and tomorrow	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	2018-03-08	Jessica Van Brummelen, Marie O’Brien, Dominique Gruyer et al.
5	866	14.9	Explainable Artificial Intelligence in education	Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence	2022-01-01	Hassan Khosravi, Simon Buckingham Shum, Guanliang Chen et al.
6	790	13.1	The impact of artificial intelligence on learner–instructor interaction in online learning	International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education	2021-10-25	Kyoungwon Seo, Joice Tang, Ido Roll et al.
7	738	6.9	Deep learning for pixel-level image fusion: Recent advances and future prospects	Information Fusion	2017-11-11	Yü Liu, Xun Chen, Zengfu Wang et al.
8	695	6.2	Are foreign investors locusts? The long-term effects of foreign institutional ownership	Journal of Financial Economics	2017-07-19	Jan Bena, Miguel A. M. M. Ferreira, Pedro P. Matos et al.
9	533	4.6	The Effectiveness of Payments for Environmental Services	World Development	2017-04-08	Jan Börner, Kathy Baylis, Esteve Corbera et al.
10	489	5.2	The Participation of People with Disabilities in the Workplace Across the Employment Cycle: Employer Concerns and Research Evidence	Journal of Business and Psychology	2019-01-22	Silvia Bonaccio, Catherine E. Connelly, Ian R. Gellatly et al.

In OpenAlex#

University of British Columbia in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Also known as	UBC, Université de la colombie-britannique
Units listed in OpenAlex	15
Works in OpenAlex	384,406
Citations	35,660,238
h-index	1,431
i10-index	417,643
2-year mean citedness	3.69
Website	www.ubc.ca
ROR	ror.org/03rmrcq20
Wikidata	Q391028
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I141945490

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies	Physics and Astronomy	3,638
2	Asthma and respiratory diseases	Medicine	3,361
3	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research	Medicine	3,262
4	Marine and fisheries research	Environmental Science	3,261
5	Innovations in Medical Education	Medicine	3,195

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)	40,789	785,534	96	0.2%
2025	17,950	1,031,018	123	0.7%
2024	17,907	1,041,917	105	0.6%
2023	17,280	992,180	146	0.8%
2022	16,922	978,131	113	0.7%
2021	18,117	993,815	128	0.7%
2020	15,969	877,660	116	0.7%
2019	14,013	738,469	104	0.7%
2018	13,526	664,099	102	0.8%
2017	12,847	614,580	104	0.8%

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Papers, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-11-01	Synchronizing airport check-in and security services through urban air mobility: A preference analysis of air passengers’ choices under time uncertainty	Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review	Ying Zhao, Yan Hu, Tao Feng et al.	Hiroshima University; Northwestern Polytechnical University; Dalian Maritime University; …
2026-10-29	Democratic Critique of Expert Policymaking: Alternative News Coverage of Canadian Public Health Officials and the COVID-19 Pandemic	Minerva	Marco Antonio Zenone, Chris Tenove, Heidi Tworek	University of Ottawa; University of British Columbia
2026-10-24	Making social science matter: How conceptual architecture structured socio-technical integration in a large interdisciplinary genomics project	Technology in Society	Leila M. Harris, Erik Fisher, Jesse Way	University of British Columbia; University of Johannesburg; Arizona State University
2026-10-22	Building system capacity for home visits for patients near the end of life: A mixed-methods study in Canada	Health Policy	Madeline McCoy, Sabah Tasnim, Hannah Millward et al.	Bruyere Health Research Institute; University of Ottawa; University of British Columbia; …
2026-10-17	On the theory and practice of proper indexes	Journal of Productivity Analysis	W. Erwin Diewert	University of British Columbia; UNSW Sydney
2026-10-15	Incomplete assessments: Including harms and trade-offs in assessing policy approaches to Covid-19	SSM - Population Health	Itai Bavli, Brent A. Sutton, Kevin Bardosh et al.	University of British Columbia; University of Oxford; University of Washington
2026-10-14	Augmenting workers and new technologies of care	Social Science & Medicine	Caleb Johnston, Geraldine Pratt	Newcastle University; University of British Columbia
2026-10-12	Impacts of ending consumer purchase incentives on electric vehicle adoption: Evidence from interrupted time series analysis	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	Aosen Cheer, Yi Qian	Arthritis Research Centre of Canada; University of British Columbia
2026-10-08	ACCEPT 3.0: Recalibrating ACute COPD Exacerbation Prediction Tool (ACCEPT) for global use	Diagnostic and Prognostic Research	Laura Huey Mien Lim, Jeenat Mehareen, Amin Adibi et al.	University of British Columbia; National University of Singapore; University of Cambridge; …
2026-10-07	Budget impact analysis of implementing point-of-care molecular testing for influenza A&B and RSV in Saudi older adult patients across hospital and home-care settings	Health Economics Review	Walid Ahmed Alkeridy, Khulud Alharbi, Amal Abuhamar et al.	University of British Columbia; King Saud University; Ministry of Health; …
2026-10-06	A population-based comparison of postoperative healthcare outcomes between immigrants and non-immigrants undergoing emergency general surgery in British Columbia	Health Policy	Michael Guo, Lyndon J. Rebello, Ahmer Azhar Karimuddin et al.	University of British Columbia; St. Paul's Hospital; UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research

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Scholar4AI. (2026). University of British Columbia. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-british-columbia

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