---
title: "University of Exeter: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Exeter: 887 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and management; h-index 912."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Exeter: 887 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and management; h-index 912. (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# University of Exeter

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: United Kingdom
- web domain: exeter.ac.uk

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

## Key findings

- University of Exeter was involved in 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #284 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in PharmacoEconomics (2), Land Use Policy (1) and Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (1).
- Countries: United Kingdom (6), Australia (1) and Chile (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Exeter took part in 887 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (280), management (164) and AI (143).
- 121 of them were published in 2025, against 62 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Bristol (17), University of Manchester (15) and University of Birmingham (14).
- The journals publishing most of them were Technological Forecasting and Social Change (14), Expert Systems with Applications (13) and PharmacoEconomics (13).
- The most-cited of them is “Leadership, creativity, and innovation: A critical review and practical recommendations” (The Leadership Quarterly, 2018), with 1,078 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Exeter has 113,432 works with 8,605,635 citations (h-index 912).
- The tracked journals hold 791 of its 56,482 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.4%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Climate variability and models (2,782), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (2,766) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (2,608).

## 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) | 24 | 19 | 30 | 37 | 35 | 17 | 26 | 30 | 40 | 22 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 4 | 14 | 17 | 11 | 25 | 26 | 15 | 15 | 25 | 12 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 7 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 21 | 24 | 24 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 8 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 7 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 16 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 5 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| All categories | 62 | 72 | 71 | 85 | 109 | 87 | 81 | 103 | 121 | 96 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 14 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 13 |
| 4 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [The Leadership Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-leadership-quarterly.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Environmental and Resource Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-and-resource-economics.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Bristol](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bristol.md) | 17 |
| 2 | [University of Manchester](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-manchester.md) | 15 |
| 3 | [University of Birmingham](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-birmingham.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 14 |
| 5 | University of Derby | 11 |
| 6 | [University of Surrey](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-surrey.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Cardiff University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/cardiff-university.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [University College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-london.md) | 10 |
| 9 | University of Jordan | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 401 |
| 2 | China | 78 |
| 3 | United States | 75 |
| 4 | Germany | 34 |
| 5 | Australia | 31 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 23 |
| 7 | Italy | 22 |
| 8 | Spain | 17 |
| 9 | Canada | 16 |
| 10 | Sweden | 14 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [cost-effectiveness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cost-effectiveness.md) | 15 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [small and medium-sized enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/small-and-medium-sized-enterprises.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [health technology assessment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-technology-assessment.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [quality-adjusted life years](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/quality-adjusted-life-years.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [circular economy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/circular-economy.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/innovation.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [multi-objective optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-objective-optimization.md) | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,078 | 10.5 | [Leadership, creativity, and innovation: A critical review and practical recommendations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2018.03.001) | [The Leadership Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-leadership-quarterly.md) | 2018-03-30 | David John Hughes, Allan Lee, Amy Wei Tian et al. |
| 2 | 758 | 7.6 | [Two-Archive Evolutionary Algorithm for Constrained Multiobjective Optimization](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2018.2855411) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2018-07-19 | Ke Li, Renzhi Chen, Guangtao Fu et al. |
| 3 | 695 | 6.2 | [Are foreign investors locusts? The long-term effects of foreign institutional ownership](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2017.07.005) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2017-07-19 | Jan Bena, Miguel A. M. M. Ferreira, Pedro P. Matos et al. |
| 4 | 690 | 7.0 | [Data-Driven Evolutionary Optimization: An Overview and Case Studies](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2018.2869001) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2018-09-06 | Yaochu Jin, Handing Wang, Tinkle Chugh et al. |
| 5 | 669 | 6.4 | [Leadership behavior and employee well-being: An integrated review and a future research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2017.12.006) | [The Leadership Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-leadership-quarterly.md) | 2018-02-01 | Ilke Inceoglu, Geoff Thomas, Chris W. L. Chu et al. |
| 6 | 517 | 7.8 | [The adoption of digital technologies in supply chains: Drivers, process and impact](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120795) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2021-04-27 | Miying Yang, Mingtao Fu, Zihan Zhang |
| 7 | 480 | 4.4 | [The state-of-the-art integrations and applications of the analytic hierarchy process](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.09.007) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2017-09-13 | William Ho, Xin Ma |
| 8 | 432 | 6.2 | [Graph Neural Networks with Convolutional ARMA Filters](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3054830) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-01-01 | Filippo Maria Bianchi, Daniele Grattarola, Lorenzo Livi et al. |
| 9 | 407 | 4.2 | [Hybrid simulation modelling in operational research: A state-of-the-art review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.10.025) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2018-10-20 | Sally Brailsford, Tillal Eldabi, Martin Horacio Kunc et al. |
| 10 | 352 | 4.7 | [Agriculture 4.0: Making it work for people, production, and the planet](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104933) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 2020-07-25 | David Christian Rose, Rebecca Wheeler, Michael Winter et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Exeter in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Exeter, United Kingdom |
| Also known as | Prifysgol Caerwysg |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 113,432 |
| Citations | 8,605,635 |
| h-index | 912 |
| i10-index | 94,606 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.48 |
| Website | [www.exeter.ac.uk](https://www.exeter.ac.uk) |
| ROR | [ror.org/03yghzc09](https://ror.org/03yghzc09) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1414861](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1414861) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I23923803](https://openalex.org/I23923803) |

*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) | 7,321 | 316,100 | 96 | 1.3% |
| 2025 | 7,969 | 392,774 | 121 | 1.5% |
| 2024 | 7,781 | 378,293 | 103 | 1.3% |
| 2023 | 6,975 | 351,487 | 81 | 1.2% |
| 2022 | 6,881 | 332,521 | 87 | 1.3% |
| 2021 | 6,348 | 319,127 | 109 | 1.7% |
| 2020 | 5,951 | 261,642 | 85 | 1.4% |
| 2019 | 5,155 | 209,820 | 71 | 1.4% |
| 2018 | 5,053 | 178,651 | 72 | 1.4% |
| 2017 | 4,369 | 148,126 | 62 | 1.4% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Climate variability and models | Environmental Science | 2,782 |
| 2 | Animal Behavior and Reproduction | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2,766 |
| 3 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 2,608 |
| 4 | Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research | Medicine | 1,765 |
| 5 | Geology and Paleoclimatology Research | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1,655 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | [The land use challenge in the United Kingdom: Finding space for food production and biodiversity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.108391) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | Dustin Benton, Michael Winter, H. Charles J. Godfray | University of Exeter; University of Oxford |
| 2026-10-23 | [Generalized and scalable deep Gaussian process emulation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2026.108485) | [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics-data-analysis.md) | Deyu Ming, Daniel Williamson | University College London; University of Exeter |
| 2026-10-17 | [Ecosystem governance for circularity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2026.102694) | [Long Range Planning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/long-range-planning.md) | Llewellyn D W Thomas, Paavo Ritala, Erkko Autio et al. | The University of Sydney; Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology; Tampere University; … |
| 2026-10-14 | [The mediating effect of loneliness in the relationship between disability and health-related quality of life](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119931) | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | Nia Morrish, A. Medina-Lara | University of Exeter |
| 2026-10-09 | [Methodological Challenges and Preferred Approaches for the Economic Evaluation of CAR T Therapies: Evidence Review and Expert Consensus from NICE Appraisals](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-026-01673-6) | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | Mehdi Yousefi, Amin Mehrabian, Maeve A O'Reilly et al. | University of Birmingham; University College Hospital; University of Exeter |
| 2026-10-06 | [Correction: Comparing User‑Written Codes for Performing Economic Evaluations in Stata](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-026-01663-8) | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | Bradley Barker-Jones, Patricia Navvuga, Petra Baji et al. | University of Bristol; University of Exeter; Southmead Hospital |

## Cite this page

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

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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