---
title: "University of Houston: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Houston: 642 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly tourism and hospitality and management; h-index 659."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-houston
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Houston: 642 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly tourism and hospitality and management; h-index 659. (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-04T00:03:46+09:00
window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# University of Houston

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: United States
- web domain: uh.edu

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

## Key findings

- University of Houston was involved in 3 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #673 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Research in International Business and Finance (1), Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (1) and Journal of Financial Stability (1).
- Countries: United States (3), Canada (1) and China (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Houston took part in 642 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in tourism and hospitality (126), management (92) and economics (83).
- 71 of them were published in 2025, against 53 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (10), Kyung Hee University (10) and Pennsylvania State University (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Hospitality Management (36), Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (9) and Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (7).
- The most-cited of them is “Count (and count-like) data in finance” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2022), with 1,030 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Houston has 100,157 works with 6,434,874 citations (h-index 659).
- The tracked journals hold 588 of its 36,657 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (1,889), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (1,705) and Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (1,701).
- OpenAlex lists it under University of Houston System.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 5 | 9 | 16 | 19 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 21 | 10 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 6 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 8 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 10 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 6 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 8 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 9 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 5 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 6 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 4 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 4 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| All categories | 53 | 62 | 67 | 60 | 70 | 66 | 62 | 77 | 71 | 54 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 36 |
| 2 | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Tourism Management Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management-perspectives.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 5 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [Kyung Hee University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/kyung-hee-university.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [Pennsylvania State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/pennsylvania-state-university.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [Purdue University West Lafayette](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/purdue-university-west-lafayette.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [Texas A&M University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/texas-a-m-university.md) | 8 |
| 6 | César Ritz Colleges | 6 |
| 7 | Rice University | 6 |
| 8 | University of South Carolina | 6 |
| 9 | [Florida State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/florida-state-university.md) | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 264 |
| 2 | China | 33 |
| 3 | South Korea | 21 |
| 4 | Canada | 17 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 15 |
| 6 | Switzerland | 12 |
| 7 | Germany | 12 |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 11 |
| 9 | Australia | 5 |
| 10 | India | 5 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [hospitality industry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/hospitality-industry.md) | 13 |
| 2 | [corporate social responsibility](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-social-responsibility.md) | 7 |
| 3 | [hospitality employees](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/hospitality-employees.md) | 7 |
| 4 | salespeople | 7 |
| 5 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 6 |
| 6 | Kickstarter | 5 |
| 7 | [generative AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generative-ai.md) | 5 |
| 8 | research productivity | 5 |
| 9 | turnover intention | 5 |
| 10 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,030 | 20.6 | [Count (and count-like) data in finance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2022.08.004) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2022-09-05 | Jonathan B. Cohn, Zack Liu, Malcolm Wardlaw |
| 2 | 445 | 6.2 | [How Technology is Changing Retail](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretai.2020.10.006) | [Journal of Retailing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing.md) | 2020-11-10 | Venkatesh Shankar, Kirthi Kalyanam, Pankaj Setia et al. |
| 3 | 377 | 3.2 | [Corporate Social Responsibility Report Narratives and Analyst Forecast Accuracy](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3429-7) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 2017-01-03 | Volkan Muslu, Sunay Mutlu, Suresh Radhakrishnan et al. |
| 4 | 323 | 3.7 | [A review of the business case for CSR in the hospitality industry](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2019.102330) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2019-07-18 | Yinyoung Rhou, Manisha Singal |
| 5 | 305 | 4.0 | [Quality of virtual reality and its impacts on behavioral intention](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102595) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2020-07-01 | Minwoo Lee, Seonjeong Ally Lee, Miyoung Jeong et al. |
| 6 | 266 | 2.7 | [Exploring Airbnb service quality attributes and their asymmetric effects on customer satisfaction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2018.07.014) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2018-08-07 | Yongwook Ju, Ki‐Joon Back, Youngjoon Choi et al. |
| 7 | 244 | 2.3 | [A systematic review of research methods and topics of the empirical MOOC literature (2014–2016)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2018.01.002) | [The Internet and Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-internet-and-higher-education.md) | 2018-01-16 | Meina Zhu, Annisa Ratna Sari, Mimi Miyoung Lee |
| 8 | 241 | 3.8 | [Organizational capital, corporate tax avoidance, and firm value](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2021.102050) | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 2021-07-23 | Mostafa Monzur Hasan, Gerald J. Lobo, Buhui Qiu |
| 9 | 238 | 3.3 | [Uncertainty risks and strategic reaction of restaurant firms amid COVID-19: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102752) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2020-11-15 | Jaewook Kim, Jewoo Kim, Yiqi Wang |
| 10 | 237 | 2.8 | [Big data and business analytics: A research agenda for realizing business value](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2019.103237) | [Information & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-management.md) | 2019-11-18 | Patrick Mikalef, Ilias O. Pappas, John Krogstie et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Houston in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Houston, United States |
| Also known as | UH, Universidad de Houston, Université de houston |
| Part of | [University of Houston System](https://openalex.org/I2801525821) |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 100,157 |
| Citations | 6,434,874 |
| h-index | 659 |
| i10-index | 95,879 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.34 |
| Website | [uh.edu](https://uh.edu) |
| ROR | [ror.org/048sx0r50](https://ror.org/048sx0r50) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1472358](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1472358) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I44461941](https://openalex.org/I44461941) |

*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) | 4,532 | 158,498 | 54 | 1.2% |
| 2025 | 4,795 | 207,955 | 71 | 1.5% |
| 2024 | 4,652 | 204,516 | 77 | 1.7% |
| 2023 | 4,136 | 194,905 | 62 | 1.5% |
| 2022 | 4,092 | 188,155 | 66 | 1.6% |
| 2021 | 4,076 | 186,052 | 70 | 1.7% |
| 2020 | 4,289 | 165,717 | 60 | 1.4% |
| 2019 | 3,709 | 144,842 | 67 | 1.8% |
| 2018 | 3,423 | 128,019 | 62 | 1.8% |
| 2017 | 3,485 | 117,542 | 53 | 1.5% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism | Physics and Astronomy | 1,889 |
| 2 | Visual perception and processing mechanisms | Neuroscience | 1,705 |
| 3 | Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1,701 |
| 4 | Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies | Medicine | 1,543 |
| 5 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 1,418 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-10 | [Going global, losing transparency? Evidence from stock price delay](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2026.103664) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | Alireza Askarzadeh, Fatemeh Askarzadeh, Navid Safari et al. | University of Houston - Downtown; University of Houston; Georgia College & State University; … |
| 2026-10-09 | [Confronting sexual harassment in hospitality: How Supervisor Support Behaviors in Sexual Harassment (SSB-SH) safeguard employees at work](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101556) | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | Grace Eleanor Kim, Dustin Maneethai, Iuliana Theis et al. | University of Houston; University of Delaware |
| 2026-10-09 | [Deterrence or self-protection: Effects of anti-mafia campaign on corporate fraud](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2026.101603) | [Journal of Financial Stability](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-stability.md) | Zhenjun Li, Qu Yang, Justin Yiqiang Jin et al. | Wuhan University of Technology; Xi'an Jiaotong University; McMaster University; … |

## Cite this page

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

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {University of Houston},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-houston}},
  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  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/).