University of California, Los Angeles

2 papers in the last 7 days · country: United States · web domain: ucla.edu

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Key findings#

University of California, Los Angeles was involved in 9 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #162 of 3,809 institutions.
Most of them appeared in BMC Medical Research Methodology (2), Applied Intelligence (1) and Economics of Education Review (1).
Countries: United States (9), China (3) and Australia (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of California, Los Angeles took part in 853 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (269), AI (183) and operations research (105).
82 of them were published in 2025, against 63 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Peking University (20), National Bureau of Economic Research (13) and University of Southern California (12).
The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (14), Nature Machine Intelligence (13) and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (11).
The most-cited of them is “Image Segmentation Using Deep Learning: A Survey” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021), with 3,797 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of California, Los Angeles has 509,833 works with 69,832,593 citations (h-index 1,925).
The tracked journals hold 773 of its 169,398 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.5%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (7,624), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (6,860) and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (6,564).
OpenAlex lists it under University of California System.

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	29	38	23	24	28	21	23	33	22	28
AI	8	10	12	22	22	20	25	34	19	11
Operations Research	9	9	14	6	19	15	6	8	12	7
Finance	4	10	7	16	5	6	4	4	5	7
Statistics	5	11	7	5	6	8	4	4	6	9
Health Economics and Policy	2	3	3	8	4	5	9	6	6	3
Higher Education and Research	1	3	2	5	6	4	3	3	8	5
Management	2	3	6	5	6	4	4	5	0	4
Accounting	2	1	2	1	1	0	2	2	3	3
Marketing	1	0	0	4	1	1	2	1	1	2
Information Systems	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1
All categories	63	88	76	97	99	85	82	101	82	80

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	14
2	Nature Machine Intelligence	13
3	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	11
4	Economics Letters	9
5	Neural Networks	9
6	Health Policy	8
7	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	8
8	Journal of Financial Economics	7
9	Journal of Econometrics	7
10	Innovative Higher Education	7

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Peking University	20
2	National Bureau of Economic Research	13
3	University of Southern California	12
4	Harvard University	11
5	University of Pennsylvania	11
6	Johns Hopkins University	7
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	7
8	Nankai University	7
9	University of California, Berkeley	7

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	United States	345
2	China	72
3	United Kingdom	29
4	Germany	22
5	Canada	18
6	Hong Kong	12
7	Japan	12
8	Australia	11
9	Israel	9
10	South Korea	9

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	graph neural networks	11
2	COVID-19 pandemic	9
3	China	7
4	large language models	7
5	parameter estimation	6
6	self-supervised learning	6
7	car ownership	5
8	computational efficiency	5
9	cross-national comparison	5
10	health care financing	5

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	3,797	54.2	Image Segmentation Using Deep Learning: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2021-01-01	Shervin Minaee, Yuri Y. Boykov, Fatih Porikli et al.
2	517	5.3	Denoising Prior Driven Deep Neural Network for Image Restoration	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2018-10-04	Weisheng Dong, Peiyao Wang, Wotao Yin et al.
3	515	5.8	The strategic role of logistics in the industry 4.0 era	Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review	2019-07-01	Christopher S. Tang, Lucas P. Veelenturf
4	479	4.8	Creditor rights and innovation: Evidence from patent collateral	Journal of Financial Economics	2018-07-26	William Mann
5	466	8.8	GAN Inversion: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2022-06-09	Weihao Xia, Yulun Zhang, Yujiu Yang et al.
6	431	5.6	Finding key players in complex networks through deep reinforcement learning	Nature Machine Intelligence	2020-05-25	Changjun Fan, Li Zeng, Yizhou Sun et al.
7	356	3.4	Information Dropout: Learning Optimal Representations Through Noisy Computation	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2018-01-10	Alessandro Achille, Stefano Soatto
8	345	10.7	A Comprehensive Survey on Deep Graph Representation Learning	Neural Networks	2024-02-27	Wei Ju, Zheng Fang, Yiyang Gu et al.
9	324	4.6	Heterogeneous Network Representation Learning: A Unified Framework With Survey and Benchmark	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2020-12-21	Carl Yang, Yuxin Xiao, Yu Zhang et al.
10	308	2.7	The taxman cometh: Does tax uncertainty affect corporate cash holdings?	Review of Accounting Studies	2017-05-09	Michelle Hanlon, Edward L. Maydew, Daniel Saavedra

In OpenAlex#

University of California, Los Angeles in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	Los Angeles, California, United States
Also known as	UCLA, State Normal School at Los Angeles, UC Los Angeles, Universidad de California en Los Ángeles
Part of	University of California System
Units listed in OpenAlex	4
Works in OpenAlex	509,833
Citations	69,832,593
h-index	1,925
i10-index	682,999
2-year mean citedness	4.85
Website	www.ucla.edu
ROR	ror.org/046rm7j60
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I161318765

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics	Physics and Astronomy	7,624
2	Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies	Physics and Astronomy	6,860
3	Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics	Physics and Astronomy	6,564
4	Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research	Neuroscience	6,158
5	Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions	Physics and Astronomy	5,951

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)	21,131	1,104,309	80	0.4%
2025	22,849	1,461,339	82	0.4%
2024	20,396	1,493,927	101	0.5%
2023	21,002	1,445,874	82	0.4%
2022	19,765	1,442,107	85	0.4%
2021	19,627	1,500,644	99	0.5%
2020	18,473	1,361,175	97	0.5%
2019	16,306	1,170,567	76	0.5%
2018	15,933	1,067,829	88	0.6%
2017	15,047	1,009,793	63	0.4%

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
2026-10-28	Real-world performance of large-scale propensity score adjustment strategies: matching, weighting, and stratification	BMC Medical Research Methodology	Kelly M Li, Martijn J. Schuemie, Patrick B. Ryan et al.	University of California, Los Angeles; Janssen Research & Development (United States); Columbia University Irving Medical Center; …
2026-10-28	Performance of different algorithms in dealing with missing data in the presence of structural bias: a simulation study	BMC Medical Research Methodology	Yulin Gong, Mina Habib, Onyebuchi A. Arah et al.	University of California, Los Angeles; Aarhus University
2026-10-24	A multi-stage multi-level attention-based feature learning framework for multi-endpoint survival prediction in head and neck cancer	Applied Intelligence	Xiaoying Pan, Xingzhao Pan, Lin Bai et al.	Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications; University of California, Los Angeles
2026-10-17	Putting AI to the test: Evidence from a large-scale RCT in rural China	Economics of Education Review	Yue Ma, Tianli Feng, Robert W. Fairlie et al.	Stanford University; University of California, Los Angeles; Peking University; …
2026-10-17	Auto insurance affordability and the gap in car ownership: An analysis of transportation burden	Transport Policy	Tat Srisan, Paul M. Ong, Tierra S. Bills	University of California, Los Angeles
2026-10-12	Heterogeneous beliefs, asset prices, and business cycles	Journal of Financial Economics	Saki Bigio, Dejanir Silva, Eduardo Zilberman	University of California, Los Angeles; Purdue University West Lafayette; Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro; …
2026-10-11	User roles and attention cues: exploring the popularity of ideas in open innovation communities	Information & Management	Qian Liu, Qianzhou Du, Xiaofang Cai et al.	Central University of Finance and Economics; University of Science and Technology of China; Southern University of Science and Technology; …
2026-10-07	Entangling humans and AI	AI & Society	N. Katherine Hayles	University of California, Los Angeles; Duke University
2026-10-07	Let's Take the Con out of Econometrics	Journal of Business Cycle Research	Edward E. Leamer	University of California, Los Angeles

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Scholar4AI. (2026). University of California, Los Angeles. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-california-los-angeles

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