---
title: "University of Essex: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Essex: 976 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and finance; h-index 461."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Essex: 976 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and finance; h-index 461. (as of 2026-11-03)"
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---

# University of Essex

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

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

## 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

*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) | 34 | 25 | 31 | 40 | 36 | 41 | 37 | 23 | 23 | 19 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 12 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 25 | 28 | 27 | 26 | 8 | 11 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 7 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 20 | 16 | 21 | 28 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 7 | 12 | 11 | 21 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 11 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 6 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 14 |
| 2 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-quantitative-finance-and-accounting.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Institute for Social and Economic Research | 15 |
| 2 | [University of Edinburgh](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-edinburgh.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 10 |
| 4 | [Durham University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/durham-university.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [University of Liverpool](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-liverpool.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Newcastle University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/newcastle-university.md) | 8 |
| 8 | University of East Anglia | 8 |
| 9 | [University of Glasgow](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-glasgow.md) | 8 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 17 |
| 3 | mechanism design | 9 |
| 4 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [machine learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/machine-learning.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [multinational corporations](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multinational-corporations.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [resource allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/resource-allocation.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [computational efficiency](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/computational-efficiency.md) | 5 |

## 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 | 2,128 | 20.6 | [Impact of digital finance on financial inclusion and stability](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bir.2017.12.003) | [Borsa Istanbul Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/borsa-istanbul-review.md) | 2018-03-18 | Peterson K Ozili |
| 3 | 680 | 8.9 | [The use of digital technologies by small and medium enterprises during COVID-19: Implications for theory and practice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102192) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2020-07-01 | Θάνος Παπαδόπουλος, Konstantinos N. Baltas, Maria Elisavet Balta |
| 4 | 656 | 8.5 | [Searching for safe-haven assets during the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101526) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2020-05-22 | Qiang Ji, Dayong Zhang, Yuqian Zhao |
| 5 | 584 | 11.4 | [Climate policy uncertainty and firm-level total factor productivity: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106209) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2022-07-27 | Xiaohang Ren, Xiao Zhang, Cheng Yan et al. |
| 6 | 405 | 4.6 | [Retail investor attention and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2019.101376) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2019-07-29 | Fenghua Wen, Longhao Xu, Guangda Ouyang et al. |
| 7 | 372 | 3.8 | [Corporate governance and firm performance in emerging markets: Evidence from Turkey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2018.08.004) | [International Business Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-business-review.md) | 2018-08-22 | İlhan Ciftci, Ekrem Tatoğlu, Geoffrey Wood et al. |
| 8 | 362 | 4.6 | [Lost in the shadows: reflections on the dark side of co-production](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-00558-0) | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 2020-05-07 | Oli Williams, Sophie Sarre, Constantina Papoulias et al. |
| 9 | 342 | 4.9 | [Socio-demographic factors associated with self-protecting behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-020-00818-x) | [Journal of Population Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-population-economics.md) | 2021-01-14 | Nicholas Papageorge, Matthew Zahn, Michèle V. K. Belot et al. |
| 10 | 341 | 3.9 | [Correlation-based channel selection and regularized feature optimization for MI-based BCI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2019.07.008) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2019-07-15 | Jing Jin, Yangyang Miao, Ian P. Daly et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Essex 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](https://www.essex.ac.uk) |
| ROR | [ror.org/02nkf1q06](https://ror.org/02nkf1q06) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1075104](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1075104) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I110002522](https://openalex.org/I110002522) |

*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) | 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% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | 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 |

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 | [Vision-based touchless gesture recognition for clinical HCI: deployment challenges, trade-offs, and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11739-8) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2026.102356) | [Utilities Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/utilities-policy.md) | 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](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 | [Enhanced P300-based brain-computer interface decoding via region-weighted multiscale temporal-spatial representation learning method](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109768) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2026.106229) | [Image and Vision Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/image-and-vision-computing.md) | 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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  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}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).