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title: "University of Central Florida: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Central Florida: 879 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly tourism and hospitality and AI; h-index 591."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Central Florida: 879 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly tourism and hospitality and AI; h-index 591. (as of 2026-11-02)"
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# University of Central Florida

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: United States
- web domain: ucf.edu

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

## Key findings

- University of Central Florida was involved in 4 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #376 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Accounting Education (1), Transport Policy (1) and Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (1).
- Countries: United States (4), China (2) and Australia (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, University of Central Florida ranks #9 in tourism and hospitality.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Central Florida took part in 879 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in tourism and hospitality (329), AI (120) and operations research (97).
- 78 of them were published in 2025, against 89 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (13), Kyung Hee University (10) and Macau University of Science and Technology (10).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Hospitality Management (48), Tourism Management (23) and Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (16).
- 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 4,564 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Central Florida has 90,234 works with 4,798,265 citations (h-index 591).
- The tracked journals hold 812 of its 41,243 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.0%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics (1,701), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (1,470) and Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (1,411).
- OpenAlex lists it under State University System of Florida.

## In the rankings

Top institutions, 2023–2025: [#9 in tourism and hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/tourism-and-hospitality.md)

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 30 | 44 | 41 | 38 | 40 | 31 | 26 | 26 | 31 | 22 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 5 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 12 | 19 | 14 | 12 | 8 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 11 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 10 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 9 | 4 | 19 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 3 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 6 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 13 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| All categories | 89 | 99 | 98 | 87 | 118 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 78 | 67 |

## Where the papers come from and its co-authors

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 48 |
| 2 | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 23 |
| 3 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [Journal of Accounting Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-education.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [Journal of Destination Marketing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-destination-marketing-management.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 13 |
| 2 | [Kyung Hee University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/kyung-hee-university.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [Macau University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/macau-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 10 |
| 4 | University of South Florida | 9 |
| 5 | Michigan State University | 8 |
| 6 | [Delft University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/delft-university-of-technology.md) | 7 |
| 7 | WSB Merito University in Wroclaw | 6 |
| 8 | [Central South University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-south-university.md) | 5 |
| 9 | Eastern Mediterranean University | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 308 |
| 2 | China | 53 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 28 |
| 4 | Australia | 26 |
| 5 | South Korea | 23 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 19 |
| 7 | Macao | 19 |
| 8 | Canada | 12 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 11 |
| 10 | Italy | 8 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 12 |
| 2 | hospitality industry | 8 |
| 3 | [generative AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generative-ai.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [moderating effect](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/moderating-effect.md) | 7 |
| 5 | road safety | 7 |
| 6 | critical thinking | 6 |
| 7 | self-efficacy | 6 |
| 8 | hospitality employees | 5 |
| 9 | hotel guests | 5 |
| 10 | occupational stress | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,564 | 104.3 | [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 | 1,904 | 44.0 | [Diffusion Models in Vision: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3261988) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-03-27 | Florinel-Alin Croitoru, Vlad Hondru, Radu Tudor Ionescu et al. |
| 3 | 1,252 | 11.8 | [Blended learning: the new normal and emerging technologies](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-017-0087-5) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2018-01-09 | Charles D. Dziuban, Charles R. Graham, Patsy D. Moskal et al. |
| 4 | 845 | 7.3 | [Enhanced skeleton visualization for view invariant human action recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2017.02.030) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2017-03-03 | Mengyuan Liu, Hong Liu, Chen Chen |
| 5 | 694 | 7.4 | [Designing neural networks through neuroevolution](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-018-0006-z) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-12-29 | Kenneth Owen Stanley, Jeff Clune, Joel Lehman et al. |
| 6 | 675 | 6.5 | [Deeply Supervised Salient Object Detection with Short Connections](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2815688) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-03-14 | Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xiaowei Hu et al. |
| 7 | 454 | 4.4 | [The power of positivity? The influence of positive psychological capital language on crowdfunding performance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2018.03.003) | [Journal of Business Venturing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing.md) | 2018-04-03 | Aaron H. Anglin, Jeremy Collin Short, Will Drover et al. |
| 8 | 407 | 4.2 | [Effects of virtual reality on theme park visitors' experience and behaviors: A presence perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2018.10.024) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2018-10-23 | Wei Wei, Ruoxi Qi, Lu Zhang |
| 9 | 379 | 3.9 | [Critical dialogical accountability: From accounting-based accountability to accountability-based accounting](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2018.10.003) | [Critical Perspectives on Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/critical-perspectives-on-accounting.md) | 2018-11-03 | Jesse Dillard, Eija M. Vinnari |
| 10 | 370 | 22.1 | [YOLO advances to its genesis: a decadal and comprehensive review of the You Only Look Once (YOLO) series](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11253-3) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2025-06-10 | Ranjan Sapkota, Marco Flores-Calero, Rizwan Qureshi et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Central Florida in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Orlando, Florida, United States |
| Also known as | UCF, Universidad de Florida Central |
| Part of | [State University System of Florida](https://openalex.org/I2801649442) |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 90,234 |
| Citations | 4,798,265 |
| h-index | 591 |
| i10-index | 70,692 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.05 |
| Website | [www.ucf.edu](https://www.ucf.edu) |
| ROR | [ror.org/036nfer12](https://ror.org/036nfer12) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I106165777](https://openalex.org/I106165777) |

*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) | 5,177 | 148,229 | 67 | 1.3% |
| 2025 | 5,452 | 199,010 | 78 | 1.4% |
| 2024 | 4,642 | 199,656 | 82 | 1.8% |
| 2023 | 4,546 | 185,962 | 81 | 1.8% |
| 2022 | 4,371 | 176,937 | 80 | 1.8% |
| 2021 | 4,862 | 173,396 | 118 | 2.4% |
| 2020 | 4,960 | 149,872 | 87 | 1.8% |
| 2019 | 4,441 | 123,738 | 98 | 2.2% |
| 2018 | 4,095 | 105,497 | 99 | 2.4% |
| 2017 | 3,874 | 93,162 | 89 | 2.3% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics | Physics and Astronomy | 1,701 |
| 2 | Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications | Physics and Astronomy | 1,470 |
| 3 | Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices | Engineering | 1,411 |
| 4 | Human-Automation Interaction and Safety | Psychology | 1,256 |
| 5 | Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics | Engineering | 1,221 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | [Integrating generative AI, data analytics, and critical thinking into the accounting curriculum: A case-based approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccedu.2026.101054) | [Journal of Accounting Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-education.md) | Steven Hornik, Jay Thibodeau, Alexander Tighe et al. | University of Central Florida; University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| 2026-10-10 | [Beyond the mask: How COVID-19 reshaped travel behavior for deaf Koreans and the implications for inclusive policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2026.104489) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | Jaeyoung Lee, Charmhun Jo, Ning Peishan et al. | University of Central Florida; Central South University; Queensland University of Technology; … |
| 2026-10-09 | [Fixed or flexible: How product formats affect consumer redemption behavior for live-streamed food and beverage (F&B) products](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2026.105131) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | Yue Liu, Xingyang Lv, Ruizhi Yuan et al. | Sichuan University; Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; University of Nottingham Ningbo China; … |
| 2026-10-04 | [Cryptocurrency adoption in hospitality and tourism: A qualitative study from technological, financial, and E-commerce perspectives](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2026.101532) | [Tourism Management Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management-perspectives.md) | Linh Ha Le, Murat Hançer, Ahmet Bulent Ozturk et al. | University of Memphis; University of Central Florida; University of South Florida; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Central Florida. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-central-florida

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  title = {University of Central Florida},
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  urldate = {2026-11-02},
  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/).