---
title: "University of California, Los Angeles: research profile"
description: "Research profile of University of California, Los Angeles: 853 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 1,925."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of California, Los Angeles: 853 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 1,925. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# University of California, Los Angeles

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

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

## 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

*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) | 29 | 38 | 23 | 24 | 28 | 21 | 23 | 33 | 22 | 28 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 8 | 10 | 12 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 25 | 34 | 19 | 11 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 9 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 19 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 7 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 4 | 10 | 7 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 5 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 9 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 14 |
| 2 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Innovative Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/innovative-higher-education.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 20 |
| 2 | [National Bureau of Economic Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-bureau-of-economic-research.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [University of Southern California](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-southern-california.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [University of Pennsylvania](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pennsylvania.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Johns Hopkins University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/johns-hopkins-university.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/massachusetts-institute-of-technology.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Nankai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nankai-university.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [University of California, Berkeley](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-california-berkeley.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 11 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [parameter estimation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/parameter-estimation.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [self-supervised learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/self-supervised-learning.md) | 6 |
| 7 | car ownership | 5 |
| 8 | [computational efficiency](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/computational-efficiency.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [health care financing](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-care-financing.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3059968) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2873610) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2019.06.004) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2019-07-01 | Christopher S. Tang, Lucas P. Veelenturf |
| 4 | 479 | 4.8 | [Creditor rights and innovation: Evidence from patent collateral](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2018.07.001) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2018-07-26 | William Mann |
| 5 | 466 | 8.8 | [GAN Inversion: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3181070) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-020-0177-2) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-05-25 | Changjun Fan, Li Zeng, Yizhou Sun et al. |
| 7 | 356 | 3.4 | [Information Dropout: Learning Optimal Representations Through Noisy Computation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2784440) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-01-10 | Alessandro Achille, Stefano Soatto |
| 8 | 345 | 10.7 | [A Comprehensive Survey on Deep Graph Representation Learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2024.106207) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2020.3045924) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 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?](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-017-9398-y) | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 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](https://openalex.org/I2803209242) |
| 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](https://www.ucla.edu) |
| ROR | [ror.org/046rm7j60](https://ror.org/046rm7j60) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I161318765](https://openalex.org/I161318765) |

*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% |

*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 |

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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-026-03040-7) | [BMC Medical Research Methodology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/bmc-medical-research-methodology.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-026-03034-5) | [BMC Medical Research Methodology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/bmc-medical-research-methodology.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-026-07392-x) | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2026.102850) | [Economics of Education Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-education-review.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2026.104491) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | Tat Srisan, Paul M. Ong, Tierra S. Bills | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2026-10-12 | [Heterogeneous beliefs, asset prices, and business cycles](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2026.104382) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2026.104449) | [Information & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-03387-x) | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | N. Katherine Hayles | University of California, Los Angeles; Duke University |
| 2026-10-07 | [Let's Take the Con out of Econometrics](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41549-026-00137-2) | [Journal of Business Cycle Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-cycle-research.md) | Edward E. Leamer | University of California, Los Angeles |

## Cite this page

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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  title = {University of California, Los Angeles},
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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).