University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Key findings#
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was involved in 4 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #506 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Transportation Research Part B Methodological (1), Information & Management (1) and Robotics and Autonomous Systems (1).
- Countries: United States (4) and China (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign took part in 1,265 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (341), operations research (268) and AI (222).
- 147 of them were published in 2025, against 99 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Zhejiang University (39), University of Illinois System (16) and Cornell University (13).
- The journals publishing most of them were Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (22), Expert Systems with Applications (20) and Food Policy (16).
- The most-cited of them is “Learning without Forgetting” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2017), with 4,192 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has 356,346 works with 34,410,656 citations (h-index 1,445).
- The tracked journals hold 1,165 of its 103,220 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.1%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (5,857), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (5,569) and Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (5,323).
- 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 31 | 36 | 43 | 39 | 35 | 32 | 21 | 35 | 41 | 28 |
| Operations Research | 27 | 23 | 21 | 31 | 27 | 33 | 29 | 27 | 27 | 23 |
| AI | 10 | 17 | 11 | 30 | 33 | 20 | 28 | 24 | 35 | 14 |
| Management | 7 | 10 | 10 | 19 | 8 | 15 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 8 |
| Finance | 11 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 4 |
| Accounting | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 6 |
| Marketing | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| Statistics | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 99 | 112 | 123 | 156 | 139 | 133 | 118 | 138 | 147 | 100 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zhejiang University | 39 |
| 2 | University of Illinois System | 16 |
| 3 | Cornell University | 13 |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley | 12 |
| 5 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 9 |
| 6 | The University of Texas at Austin | 9 |
| 7 | Tsinghua University | 9 |
| 8 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 8 |
| 9 | Michigan State University | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 503 |
| 2 | China | 118 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 38 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 32 |
| 5 | Australia | 27 |
| 6 | Canada | 17 |
| 7 | Japan | 14 |
| 8 | South Korea | 14 |
| 9 | Germany | 11 |
| 10 | India | 11 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | large language models | 12 |
| 2 | multinational corporations | 11 |
| 3 | autonomous vehicles | 9 |
| 4 | COVID-19 pandemic | 8 |
| 5 | ride-hailing | 8 |
| 6 | artificial intelligence | 7 |
| 7 | generative AI | 7 |
| 8 | China | 6 |
| 9 | United States | 6 |
| 10 | approximation algorithms | 6 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Urbana, Illinois, United States |
| Also known as | UIUC, Universidad de Illinois en Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois, Université de l'Illinois à Urbana-Champaign |
| Part of | University of Illinois System |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 7 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 356,346 |
| Citations | 34,410,656 |
| h-index | 1,445 |
| i10-index | 399,618 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.22 |
| Website | illinois.edu |
| ROR | ror.org/047426m28 |
| Wikidata | Q457281 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I157725225 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 5,857 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 5,569 |
| 3 | Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques | Computer Science | 5,323 |
| 4 | Animal Nutrition and Physiology | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4,194 |
| 5 | Protein Structure and Dynamics | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3,677 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 15,155 | 594,018 | 100 | 0.7% |
| 2025 | 13,908 | 801,442 | 147 | 1.1% |
| 2024 | 13,163 | 814,360 | 138 | 1.0% |
| 2023 | 11,686 | 790,011 | 118 | 1.0% |
| 2022 | 11,163 | 793,112 | 133 | 1.2% |
| 2021 | 11,661 | 831,633 | 139 | 1.2% |
| 2020 | 11,519 | 769,775 | 156 | 1.4% |
| 2019 | 10,215 | 691,902 | 123 | 1.2% |
| 2018 | 10,225 | 628,535 | 112 | 1.1% |
| 2017 | 9,680 | 582,447 | 99 | 1.0% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | A comprehensive framework of traffic shockwave propagation | Transportation Research Part B Methodological | Nachuan Li, Hani S. Mahmassani, Alireza Talebpour et al. | Northwestern University; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; George Washington University |
| 2026-10-22 | What works when: calibrating temporal focus for crowdfunding success | Information & Management | Yu-Wei Lin, Shiyu Yang, Aravinda Garimella | Santa Clara University; San Francisco State University; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 2026-10-20 | Kalman filter-based fusion of MPC and PI control for enhanced path-tracking of unmanned tracked agricultural robots | Robotics and Autonomous Systems | Honghua Feng, Jian Wang, Wanshu Zhang et al. | Hangzhou Dianzi University; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Zhejiang University |
| 2026-10-14 | Mindful community in agritourism: Fieldwork on tea farms in China and coffee farms in the Philippines | Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights | Darcy Yue Lu, Allison M. Causing, Yao‐Chin Wang | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Florida |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
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