University of Essex
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Key findings#
- University of Essex was involved in 5 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #377 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Artificial Intelligence Review (1), Utilities Policy (1) and Machine Learning (1).
- Countries: United Kingdom (5), China (2) and Bangladesh (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Essex took part in 976 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (309), finance (186) and AI (151).
- 88 of them were published in 2025, against 81 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Institute for Social and Economic Research (15), University of Edinburgh (13) and IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (10).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Economics (14), European Economic Review (13) and International Review of Financial Analysis (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 Essex has 48,389 works with 2,137,996 citations (h-index 461).
- The tracked journals hold 889 of its 18,932 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (4.7%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Electoral Systems and Political Participation (1,510), Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (893) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (834).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 34 | 25 | 31 | 40 | 36 | 41 | 37 | 23 | 23 | 19 |
| Finance | 12 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 25 | 28 | 27 | 26 | 8 | 11 |
| AI | 7 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 20 | 16 | 21 | 28 |
| Management | 7 | 12 | 11 | 21 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 11 |
| Operations Research | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
| Accounting | 6 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| Marketing | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Statistics | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Higher Education and Research | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 81 | 77 | 81 | 112 | 110 | 116 | 126 | 98 | 88 | 87 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energy Economics | 14 |
| 2 | European Economic Review | 13 |
| 3 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 12 |
| 4 | Neural Networks | 11 |
| 5 | Expert Systems with Applications | 11 |
| 6 | Finance research letters | 10 |
| 7 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 9 |
| 8 | Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | 9 |
| 9 | Artificial Intelligence Review | 8 |
| 10 | Pattern Recognition | 7 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Institute for Social and Economic Research | 15 |
| 2 | University of Edinburgh | 13 |
| 3 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 10 |
| 4 | Durham University | 9 |
| 5 | University of Liverpool | 9 |
| 6 | Centre for Economic Policy Research | 8 |
| 7 | Newcastle University | 8 |
| 8 | University of East Anglia | 8 |
| 9 | University of Glasgow | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 399 |
| 2 | China | 82 |
| 3 | United States | 38 |
| 4 | Italy | 35 |
| 5 | Germany | 21 |
| 6 | Australia | 20 |
| 7 | Canada | 17 |
| 8 | Spain | 16 |
| 9 | France | 14 |
| 10 | India | 11 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 22 |
| 2 | corporate governance | 17 |
| 3 | mechanism design | 9 |
| 4 | China | 7 |
| 5 | artificial intelligence | 7 |
| 6 | machine learning | 7 |
| 7 | multinational corporations | 7 |
| 8 | explainable AI | 6 |
| 9 | resource allocation | 6 |
| 10 | computational efficiency | 5 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Colchester, United Kingdom |
| Works in OpenAlex | 48,389 |
| Citations | 2,137,996 |
| h-index | 461 |
| i10-index | 29,195 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.26 |
| Website | www.essex.ac.uk |
| ROR | ror.org/02nkf1q06 |
| Wikidata | www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1075104 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I110002522 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Electoral Systems and Political Participation | Social Sciences | 1,510 |
| 2 | Labor market dynamics and wage inequality | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 893 |
| 3 | Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation | Arts and Humanities | 834 |
| 4 | Financial Markets and Investment Strategies | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 772 |
| 5 | Political Conflict and Governance | Social Sciences | 670 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 2,106 | 75,106 | 87 | 4.1% |
| 2025 | 2,485 | 99,178 | 88 | 3.5% |
| 2024 | 2,475 | 98,428 | 98 | 4.0% |
| 2023 | 2,336 | 93,501 | 126 | 5.4% |
| 2022 | 2,126 | 89,021 | 116 | 5.5% |
| 2021 | 2,097 | 90,461 | 110 | 5.2% |
| 2020 | 2,022 | 80,332 | 112 | 5.5% |
| 2019 | 1,962 | 70,119 | 81 | 4.1% |
| 2018 | 1,776 | 58,761 | 77 | 4.3% |
| 2017 | 1,653 | 52,204 | 81 | 4.9% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | Vision-based touchless gesture recognition for clinical HCI: deployment challenges, trade-offs, and future directions | Artificial Intelligence Review | Md. Bakhtiar Azim Niloy, Fakrul Islam, Talukder Hasnat Zadid et al. | American International University-Bangladesh; Daffodil International University; Khulna University of Engineering and Technology; … |
| 2026-10-19 | Energy equity under crisis pricing: the vulnerability-responsiveness paradox in Norwegian residential electricity consumption during the European energy crisis | Utilities Policy | Seyed‐Ali Sadegh‐Zadeh, Murouj Aljamaeen, Mohammad Amin Barati et al. | University of Staffordshire; University of Tehran; University of Essex |
| 2026-10-16 | The Challenges of Hyperparameter Tuning for Accurate Causal Effect Estimation | Machine Learning | Damian Machlanski, Spyridon Samothrakis, Paul Clarke | University of Edinburgh; University of Essex; Institute for Social and Economic Research |
| 2026-10-14 | Enhanced P300-based brain-computer interface decoding via region-weighted multiscale temporal-spatial representation learning method | Neural Networks | Shurui Li, Ian P. Daly, Ke Qin et al. | East China University of Science and Technology; University of Essex; Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing in Energy Chemical Process, Ministry of Education; … |
| 2026-10-10 | FSTA-Gait: Factorized Spatio-Temporal Attention Network for robust gait recognition | Image and Vision Computing | Wanjiang Xu, Chao Tang, Huosheng Hu et al. | Hefei University; University of Essex; Jiangxi Academy of Sciences; … |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Essex. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-essex
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title = {University of Essex},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-essex}},
urldate = {2026-11-03},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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