---
title: "University of Edinburgh: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Edinburgh: 1,276 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 1,372."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-edinburgh
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Edinburgh: 1,276 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 1,372. (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
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# University of Edinburgh

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: United Kingdom
- web domain: ed.ac.uk

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

## Key findings

- University of Edinburgh was involved in 14 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #80 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (1), International Journal for Equity in Health (1) and Computer Speech & Language (1).
- Countries: United Kingdom (14), Norway (2) and Germany (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Edinburgh took part in 1,276 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (261), AI (254) and operations research (214).
- 137 of them were published in 2025, against 89 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences (23), University of Oxford (21) and Copenhagen Business School (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were European Journal of Operational Research (18), Digital Finance (14) and Energy Economics (12).
- The most-cited of them is “Artificial Intelligence (AI): Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy” (International Journal of Information Management, 2019), with 4,594 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Edinburgh has 296,540 works with 29,273,335 citations (h-index 1,372).
- The tracked journals hold 1,142 of its 117,202 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.0%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (5,956), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (5,918) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (5,454).

## 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) | 18 | 30 | 27 | 33 | 21 | 30 | 27 | 21 | 30 | 24 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 17 | 14 | 14 | 33 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 45 | 29 | 22 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 12 | 16 | 19 | 33 | 27 | 25 | 20 | 23 | 20 | 19 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 21 | 28 | 18 | 21 | 20 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 11 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 18 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 8 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 8 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 6 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 89 | 98 | 100 | 145 | 134 | 145 | 143 | 151 | 137 | 134 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [Digital Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/digital-finance.md) | 14 |
| 3 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [The British Accounting Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-british-accounting-review.md) | 10 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences | 23 |
| 2 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 21 |
| 3 | [Copenhagen Business School](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/copenhagen-business-school.md) | 15 |
| 4 | Ostim Technical University | 14 |
| 5 | [University of Manchester](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-manchester.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [University of Cambridge](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-cambridge.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [University of Essex](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-essex.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [University of Pretoria](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pretoria.md) | 13 |
| 9 | University of Aberdeen | 12 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 565 |
| 2 | China | 110 |
| 3 | United States | 88 |
| 4 | Germany | 40 |
| 5 | Canada | 38 |
| 6 | Spain | 31 |
| 7 | France | 29 |
| 8 | Italy | 28 |
| 9 | Australia | 26 |
| 10 | Denmark | 24 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [climate risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-risk.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 9 |
| 6 | Scotland | 8 |
| 7 | [climate change](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-change.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [interpretability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/interpretability.md) | 8 |
| 10 | credit risk | 7 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,594 | 53.3 | [Artificial Intelligence (AI): Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.08.002) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-08-27 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Elvira Ismagilova et al. |
| 2 | 888 | 12.7 | [Meta-Learning in Neural Networks: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3079209) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-01-01 | Timothy M. Hospedales, Antreas Antoniou, Paul Micaelli et al. |
| 3 | 533 | 6.4 | [Co-creation in learning and teaching: the case for a whole-class approach in higher education](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-019-00453-w) | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | 2019-12-02 | Catherine Bovill |
| 4 | 505 | 6.5 | [ASVspoof 2019: A large-scale public database of synthesized, converted and replayed speech](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2020.101114) | [Computer Speech & Language](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-speech-language.md) | 2020-05-20 | Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi, Massimiliano Todisco et al. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | 451 | 6.4 | [Deep Learning in Mining Biological Data](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-020-09773-x) | [Cognitive Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cognitive-computation.md) | 2021-01-01 | Mufti Mahmud, M. Shamim Kaiser, T. Martin McGinnity et al. |
| 7 | 448 | 4.2 | [Parallelizing the dual revised simplex method](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-017-0130-5) | [Mathematical Programming Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming-computation.md) | 2017-12-13 | Q. Huangfu, J. A. J. Hall |
| 8 | 440 | 6.3 | [Automatic feedback in online learning environments: A systematic literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2021.100027) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2021-01-01 | Anderson Pinheiro Cavalcanti, Arthur Barbosa, Ruan Carvalho et al. |
| 9 | 417 | 4.0 | [Autonomous agents modelling other agents: A comprehensive survey and open problems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2018.01.002) | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 2018-02-08 | Stefano V. Albrecht, Peter Stone |
| 10 | 415 | 5.2 | [The predictive power of public Twitter sentiment for forecasting cryptocurrency prices](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2020.101188) | [Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-financial-markets-institutions-and-money.md) | 2020-03-01 | Olivier Kraaijeveld, Johannes De Smedt |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Edinburgh in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Also known as | Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 19 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 296,540 |
| Citations | 29,273,335 |
| h-index | 1,372 |
| i10-index | 313,938 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.49 |
| Website | [www.ed.ac.uk](https://www.ed.ac.uk) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01nrxwf90](https://ror.org/01nrxwf90) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I98677209](https://openalex.org/I98677209) |

*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) | 13,803 | 620,971 | 134 | 1.0% |
| 2025 | 15,350 | 807,880 | 137 | 0.9% |
| 2024 | 14,913 | 815,680 | 151 | 1.0% |
| 2023 | 14,717 | 775,595 | 143 | 1.0% |
| 2022 | 13,524 | 765,946 | 145 | 1.1% |
| 2021 | 13,236 | 776,737 | 134 | 1.0% |
| 2020 | 12,501 | 661,913 | 145 | 1.2% |
| 2019 | 11,301 | 562,710 | 100 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 10,486 | 488,489 | 98 | 0.9% |
| 2017 | 11,174 | 444,184 | 89 | 0.8% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 5,956 |
| 2 | Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena | Physics and Astronomy | 5,918 |
| 3 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 5,454 |
| 4 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 4,982 |
| 5 | Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4,752 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | [Computational aspects of distortion](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-026-09776-2) | [Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/autonomous-agents-and-multi-agent-systems.md) | Soroush Ebadian, Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Mohamad Latifian et al. | University of Toronto; Imperial College London; University of Edinburgh |
| 2026-10-23 | [Delays, detours, and gaps - a one‑health study on access to rabies post‑exposure prophylaxis in Malawi](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-026-03067-8) | [International Journal for Equity in Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-for-equity-in-health.md) | B. Phiri, T. B. Johansen, C. Wolff et al. | Malawi University of Science and Technology; Public Health Institute of Malawi; Norwegian Institute of Public Health; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [Deep Scattering Spectrum for dysarthric speech recognition, detection and classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2026.102061) | [Computer Speech & Language](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-speech-language.md) | Erfan Loweimi, Zhengjun Yue, Zoran Cvetković | University of Edinburgh; King's College London; Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
| 2026-10-19 | [Are the basic psychological needs of self-determination theory necessary for employee well-being?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2026.104308) | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | Haien Ding, Frida Karine Feyer, Ann Sophie Lauterbach | University of Edinburgh; Norwegian University of Life Sciences; Technische Universität Dresden |
| 2026-10-16 | [Public preferences and willingness to pay for a net zero National Health Service: A discrete choice experiment in England and Scotland](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119957) | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | Luis Enrique Loría‐Rebolledo, Hangjian Wu, Michael Abbott et al. | University of Aberdeen; Newcastle University; University of Edinburgh; … |
| 2026-10-16 | [How do firms respond to parental leave absences?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2026.105803) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | Anne Ardila Brenøe, Ursa Krenk, Andreas Steinhauer et al. | University of Zurich; Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research; Rockwool Foundation Berlin; … |
| 2026-10-16 | [The Challenges of Hyperparameter Tuning for Accurate Causal Effect Estimation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-026-07140-9) | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | Damian Machlanski, Spyridon Samothrakis, Paul Clarke | University of Edinburgh; University of Essex; Institute for Social and Economic Research |
| 2026-10-14 | [Why AI Detectors Are Hurting Teaching: Moving from Suspicion to Trust in Higher Education](https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-026-00712-x) | [Postdigital Science and Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/postdigital-science-and-education.md) | Mingzheng Hu | University of Edinburgh |
| 2026-10-14 | [Interpretable functional linear regression via local sparsity promoting penalty](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2026.105729) | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | Marco Stefanucci, Mauro Bernardi, Antonio Canale | University of Rome Tor Vergata; University of Padua; University of Edinburgh |
| 2026-10-13 | [Hungry \[f\]or public goods? What the Scottish public demand from an agricultural support scheme](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2026.103210) | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | Jay G. Burns, Anastasio J. Villanueva, Jacqueline M. Potts et al. | University of Edinburgh; Andalusian Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training; Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland; … |
| 2026-10-12 | [Multisectoral framework for responding to the needs of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families in Ethiopia: a scoping review with implications for policy](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-026-00743-8) | [International Journal of Mental Health Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-mental-health-systems.md) | Munit Abdulreshid Abdullahi, Rosa Anna Hoekstra, Charlotte Hanlon | St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College; King's College London; Addis Ababa University; … |
| 2026-10-12 | [Natural capital: the boom and bust of a metaphor? Insights from Scotland](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.109272) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | Alys Daniels-Creasey, Janet Fisher, Marc J. Metzger et al. | University of Edinburgh |
| 2026-10-07 | [Optimal metric distortion for matching on the line](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2026.104630) | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Mohamad Latifian et al. | Imperial College London; Drexel University; University of Edinburgh; … |
| 2026-10-06 | [Bayesian modelling of clustered extreme events using a nonparametric Hawkes process](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-10981-y) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | Gordon J. Ross, Dean Markwick | University of Edinburgh; University College London |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Edinburgh. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-edinburgh

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