---
title: "University of Copenhagen: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Copenhagen: 883 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 1,373."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Copenhagen: 883 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 1,373. (as of 2026-11-04)"
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window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
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---

# University of Copenhagen

- 2 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Denmark
- web domain: ku.dk

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

## Key findings

- University of Copenhagen 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 Stochastic Processes and their Applications (1), Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (1) and Finance Research Open (1).
- Countries: Denmark (11), Germany (4) and United States (3).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Copenhagen took part in 883 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (422), AI (104) and health economics and policy (72).
- 87 of them were published in 2025, against 89 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Aarhus University (20), Lund University (11) and Technical University of Denmark (11).
- The journals publishing most of them were Health Policy (17), Land Use Policy (13) and Ecological Economics (11).
- The most-cited of them is “A Review of Domain Adaptation without Target Labels” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2019), with 613 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Copenhagen has 327,086 works with 30,919,278 citations (h-index 1,373).
- The tracked journals hold 808 of its 145,488 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (5,289), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (5,045) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (5,023).

## 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) | 54 | 49 | 45 | 44 | 53 | 49 | 34 | 36 | 34 | 24 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 8 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 10 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 13 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 8 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 5 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 5 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 89 | 86 | 94 | 77 | 109 | 99 | 94 | 73 | 87 | 75 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 17 |
| 2 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 10 |
| 6 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Aarhus University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/aarhus-university.md) | 20 |
| 2 | [Lund University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lund-university.md) | 11 |
| 3 | Technical University of Denmark | 11 |
| 4 | Copenhagen University Hospital | 10 |
| 5 | [Copenhagen Business School](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/copenhagen-business-school.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 9 |
| 7 | University of Southern Denmark | 9 |
| 8 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 8 |
| 9 | University of Oslo | 8 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Denmark | 329 |
| 2 | Germany | 59 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 51 |
| 4 | United States | 45 |
| 5 | Italy | 33 |
| 6 | China | 31 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 28 |
| 8 | Sweden | 28 |
| 9 | Finland | 23 |
| 10 | Norway | 22 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Denmark | 12 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [generative AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generative-ai.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [health care costs](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-care-costs.md) | 5 |
| 7 | smallholder farmers | 5 |
| 8 | [willingness to pay](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/willingness-to-pay.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [ChatGPT](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chatgpt.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Germany](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/germany.md) | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 613 | 7.2 | [A Review of Domain Adaptation without Target Labels](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2945942) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-10-07 | Wouter M. Kouw, Marco Loog |
| 2 | 560 | 4.9 | [Reconfiguring Frontier Spaces: The territorialization of resource control](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.01.018) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2017-05-11 | Mattias Borg Rasmussen, Christian Lund |
| 3 | 496 | 8.3 | [Fine-Grained Image Analysis With Deep Learning: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3126648) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-11-09 | Xiu-Shen Wei, Yi-Zhe Song, Oisin Mac Aodha et al. |
| 4 | 436 | 7.3 | [In crisis, we pray: Religiosity and the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.10.014) | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 2021-10-31 | Jeanet Bentzen |
| 5 | 385 | 3.7 | [Who owns the wealth in tax havens? Macro evidence and implications for global inequality](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.01.008) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2018-02-13 | Annette Alstadsæter, Niels Johannesen, Gabriel Zucman |
| 6 | 384 | 3.8 | [Open innovation in SMEs: Exploring inter-organizational relationships in an ecosystem](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.04.021) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2018-05-08 | Agnieszka Radziwon, Marcel L. A. M. Bogers |
| 7 | 381 | 4.6 | [Service quality and customer satisfaction: The moderating effects of hotel star rating](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2019.102414) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2019-11-21 | Robin Nunkoo, Viraiyan Teeroovengadum, Christian M. Ringle et al. |
| 8 | 360 | 3.3 | [The “human side” of open innovation: The role of employee diversity in firm-level openness](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2017.10.012) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2017-11-16 | Marcel L. A. M. Bogers, Nicolai J. Foss, Jacob Lyngsie |
| 9 | 285 | 2.9 | [Creating and capturing value from Big Data: A multiple-case study analysis of provider companies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2018.07.004) | [Technovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technovation.md) | 2018-07-19 | Andrea Urbinati, Marcel L. A. M. Bogers, Vittorio Chiesa et al. |
| 10 | 273 | 2.6 | [Publication patterns in the social sciences and humanities: evidence from eight European countries](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2711-0) | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 2018-03-26 | Emanuel Kulczycki, Tim Engels, Janne Pölönen et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Copenhagen in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark |
| Also known as | UCPH, Copenhagen University, Københavns Universitet, Universität Kopenhagen |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 6 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 327,086 |
| Citations | 30,919,278 |
| h-index | 1,373 |
| i10-index | 368,657 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 6.16 |
| Website | [www.ku.dk](https://www.ku.dk) |
| ROR | [ror.org/035b05819](https://ror.org/035b05819) |
| Wikidata | [Q186285](Q186285) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I124055696](https://openalex.org/I124055696) |

*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) | 14,934 | 722,126 | 75 | 0.5% |
| 2025 | 16,588 | 926,214 | 87 | 0.5% |
| 2024 | 17,120 | 921,589 | 73 | 0.4% |
| 2023 | 17,935 | 861,267 | 94 | 0.5% |
| 2022 | 16,646 | 833,380 | 99 | 0.6% |
| 2021 | 18,146 | 833,255 | 109 | 0.6% |
| 2020 | 16,066 | 710,901 | 77 | 0.5% |
| 2019 | 14,453 | 588,430 | 94 | 0.7% |
| 2018 | 14,411 | 512,664 | 86 | 0.6% |
| 2017 | 14,123 | 454,269 | 89 | 0.6% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 5,289 |
| 2 | Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena | Physics and Astronomy | 5,045 |
| 3 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 5,023 |
| 4 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 4,575 |
| 5 | Genetic Associations and Epidemiology | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3,874 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | [Sample complexity for divergence regularized optimal transport with radial cost](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spa.2026.105128) | [Stochastic Processes and their Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/stochastic-processes-and-their-applications.md) | Ruiyu Han, Johannes Wiesel | Carnegie Mellon University; University of Copenhagen |
| 2026-10-29 | [Ambient lighting and basket construction in an immersive supermarket](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2026.105195) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | Jason Dipalma, Silvia Sapio, Ramya Rao et al. | Aarhus University; University of Naples Federico II; University of Copenhagen |
| 2026-10-23 | [Saving behavior and associated factors: Evidence from Ethiopia](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.finr.2026.100189) | [Finance Research Open](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-open.md) | Kebede Abrha Mengstu, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Haftom Bayray Kahsay et al. | Mekelle University; Ethiopian Policy Studies Institute; University of Copenhagen; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [Rising inequality, declining mobility: The evolution of intergenerational mobility in Germany](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2026.105811) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | Julia Baarck, Moritz Bode, Andreas Peichl | Ifo Institute for Economic Research; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; University of Copenhagen |
| 2026-10-21 | [Adaptive platform trials: A revolution or a fleeting trend? A review of the strengths and limitations](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-026-03035-4) | [BMC Medical Research Methodology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/bmc-medical-research-methodology.md) | Brett Doleman, Kristian Thorlund, Caroline Barkholt Kamp et al. | University of Nottingham; McMaster University; University of Copenhagen; … |
| 2026-10-17 | [Carbon taxes crowd out low-carbon choices: Evidence from a consumer experiment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107798) | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | Alice Pizzo, Christina Annette Gravert, Jan Michael Bauer et al. | Copenhagen Business School; University of Copenhagen; University of Cambridge |
| 2026-10-16 | [What can the Independent Panel on Evidence for Action against Antimicrobial Resistance learn from science policy-interfaces in global environmental governance? A scoping review and conceptual framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119954) | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | Lauren Jean Wallace, Sahran Shafaque, Tracey Wagner-Rizvi et al. | York University; University of Copenhagen; University of Ottawa |
| 2026-10-16 | [Incomplete insurance and open-economy spillovers of labor market reforms](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2026.105497) | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | Brigitte Hochmuth, Christian Merkl, Heiko Stüber | University of Copenhagen; Centre for Economic Policy Research; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; … |
| 2026-10-15 | [Reading the forest through patents: A Europe-wide sector analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103929) | [Forest Policy and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/forest-policy-and-economics.md) | Ivana Živojinović, Stojan Ivanović, Niels Strange et al. | European Forest Institute; European Forest Institute; BOKU University; … |
| 2026-10-12 | [With whom you elaborate matters: how learning orientation impacts cross-culture and same-culture information elaboration in culturally diverse teams](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-026-10161-9) | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | Yongkang Yang, Daan van Knippenberg, Anne Nederveen Pieterse et al. | Erasmus University Rotterdam; Rice University; University of Copenhagen |
| 2026-10-09 | [Should the geriatrician host the party? Person-centred hospital care in ageing societies requires placing geriatrics at the centre of care](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2026.105791) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | Emil Lundgren, Martin Aasbrenn, Sonja Lindner et al. | Zealand University Hospital Køge; University of Copenhagen; Medical University of Graz; … |

## Cite this page

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

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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
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