University of Illinois Chicago
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Key findings#
- University of Illinois Chicago was involved in 3 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #700 of 3,880 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Transportation Research Part B Methodological (1), International Journal for Equity in Health (1) and Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (1).
- Countries: United States (3), Lebanon (1) and China (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Illinois Chicago took part in 929 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (337), health economics and policy (128) and economics (103).
- 114 of them were published in 2025, against 59 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Beihang University (20), Jinan University (19) and Northwestern University (17).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (50), Social Science & Medicine (21) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (20).
- The most-cited of them is “A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2020), with 10,982 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Illinois Chicago has 185,391 works with 16,547,474 citations (h-index 919).
- The tracked journals hold 842 of its 62,644 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.3%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (3,070), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (2,912) and Innovations in Medical Education (2,568).
- OpenAlex lists it under University of Illinois System.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 11 | 16 | 27 | 33 | 37 | 44 | 39 | 44 | 49 | 37 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 6 | 10 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 15 |
| Economics | 11 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 16 | 10 |
| Operations Research | 5 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 9 |
| Management | 4 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 5 |
| Statistics | 7 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Information Systems | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 |
| Finance | 5 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| Accounting | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| Marketing | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 59 | 76 | 73 | 104 | 93 | 114 | 100 | 109 | 114 | 87 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 50 |
| 2 | Social Science & Medicine | 21 |
| 3 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 20 |
| 4 | Neural Networks | 18 |
| 5 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 15 |
| 6 | Electronic Commerce Research | 11 |
| 7 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 10 |
| 8 | Expert Systems with Applications | 8 |
| 9 | Information Fusion | 8 |
| 10 | The Journal of Academic Librarianship | 7 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beihang University | 20 |
| 2 | Jinan University | 19 |
| 3 | Northwestern University | 17 |
| 4 | Southern University of Science and Technology | 12 |
| 5 | Beijing Normal University | 11 |
| 6 | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications | 11 |
| 7 | Lehigh University | 10 |
| 8 | Macquarie University | 10 |
| 9 | Central South University | 9 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 410 |
| 2 | China | 152 |
| 3 | Australia | 28 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 23 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 17 |
| 6 | Singapore | 12 |
| 7 | Canada | 11 |
| 8 | France | 11 |
| 9 | Macao | 9 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 9 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | graph neural networks | 23 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 14 |
| 3 | health-related quality of life | 9 |
| 4 | large language models | 9 |
| 5 | reinforcement learning | 8 |
| 6 | contrastive learning | 7 |
| 7 | depression | 7 |
| 8 | traffic congestion | 7 |
| 9 | graph representation learning | 6 |
| 10 | health disparities | 6 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Also known as | UIC, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Université de l'illinois à chicago |
| Part of | University of Illinois System |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 3 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 185,391 |
| Citations | 16,547,474 |
| h-index | 919 |
| i10-index | 225,258 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.93 |
| Website | www.uic.edu |
| ROR | ror.org/02mpq6x41 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I39422238 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 3,070 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 2,912 |
| 3 | Innovations in Medical Education | Medicine | 2,568 |
| 4 | Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research | Neuroscience | 2,174 |
| 5 | Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes | Medicine | 2,025 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 9,434 | 283,550 | 87 | 0.9% |
| 2025 | 8,132 | 380,462 | 114 | 1.4% |
| 2024 | 7,522 | 385,216 | 109 | 1.4% |
| 2023 | 7,121 | 375,973 | 100 | 1.4% |
| 2022 | 7,052 | 375,116 | 114 | 1.6% |
| 2021 | 6,991 | 384,958 | 93 | 1.3% |
| 2020 | 7,061 | 342,854 | 104 | 1.5% |
| 2019 | 6,444 | 291,215 | 73 | 1.1% |
| 2018 | 6,368 | 260,605 | 76 | 1.2% |
| 2017 | 5,953 | 247,939 | 59 | 1.0% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | Centralized truck platooning matching with compliance considerations | Transportation Research Part B Methodological | Pooria Choobchian, Bo Zou, Limon Barua | University of Illinois Chicago; Argonne National Laboratory |
| 2026-10-20 | An expanded Race and Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Care (RECTIC) framework: crosswalk analysis of patient and clinician perspectives on structural and social barriers in perinatal care | International Journal for Equity in Health | Ellen Goldstein, Mohammad S. Itani | University of Illinois Chicago; American University of Beirut |
| 2026-10-16 | Temperature-aware large-scale charging station siting and sizing for long-haul electric trucks | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | Xi Cheng, Xueqi Zeng, Amir Shafiee et al. | University of Illinois Chicago; Tongji University |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Illinois Chicago. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-illinois-chicago
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