University of Johannesburg
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Key findings#
- University of Johannesburg was involved in 3 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #525 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Tourism Management Perspectives (1), Technovation (1) and Annals of Tourism Research (1).
- Countries: South Africa (3), New Zealand (2) and United Kingdom (2).
- From 2023 to 2025, University of Johannesburg ranks #10 in tourism and hospitality.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Johannesburg took part in 876 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (218), tourism and hospitality (201) and management (164).
- 108 of them were published in 2025, against 35 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (38), Sunway University (19) and Kyung Hee University (17).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Hospitality Management (27), Annals of Tourism Research (22) and Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (16).
- The most-cited of them is “Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy” (International Journal of Information Management, 2023), with 4,564 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Johannesburg has 82,941 works with 2,034,704 citations (h-index 360).
- The tracked journals hold 763 of its 58,180 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.3%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (1,679), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (1,495) and Legal Issues in South Africa (1,475).
In the rankings#
Top institutions, 2023–2025: #10 in tourism and hospitality
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 7 | 15 | 12 | 29 | 24 | 21 | 33 | 26 | 24 | 27 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 12 | 14 | 18 | 22 | 23 | 13 | 23 | 34 | 24 | 18 |
| Management | 4 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 28 | 22 | 33 | 27 | 23 |
| AI | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 5 | 13 | 5 | 9 |
| Finance | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 11 |
| Operations Research | 4 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 9 |
| Higher Education and Research | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| All categories | 35 | 45 | 60 | 85 | 87 | 100 | 105 | 138 | 108 | 113 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | International Journal of Hospitality Management | 27 |
| 2 | Annals of Tourism Research | 22 |
| 3 | Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services | 16 |
| 4 | Journal of Business Research | 15 |
| 5 | Tourism Management Perspectives | 15 |
| 6 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 14 |
| 7 | Resources Policy | 14 |
| 8 | Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship | 13 |
| 9 | Tourism Management | 12 |
| 10 | Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management | 10 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | 38 |
| 2 | Sunway University | 19 |
| 3 | Kyung Hee University | 17 |
| 4 | Tallinn University of Technology | 17 |
| 5 | Umeå University | 17 |
| 6 | University of Surrey | 17 |
| 7 | Vilnius University | 17 |
| 8 | Korea University | 15 |
| 9 | Washington State University | 15 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa | 464 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 87 |
| 3 | United States | 76 |
| 4 | Italy | 65 |
| 5 | Germany | 53 |
| 6 | South Korea | 48 |
| 7 | Australia | 46 |
| 8 | India | 39 |
| 9 | Malaysia | 38 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 36 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa | 22 |
| 2 | Africa | 19 |
| 3 | moderating effect | 15 |
| 4 | sub-Saharan Africa | 14 |
| 5 | economic growth | 13 |
| 6 | COVID-19 pandemic | 12 |
| 7 | hospitality industry | 12 |
| 8 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 12 |
| 9 | consumer behavior | 11 |
| 10 | research agenda | 10 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa |
| Also known as | UJ |
| Works in OpenAlex | 82,941 |
| Citations | 2,034,704 |
| h-index | 360 |
| i10-index | 38,591 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.29 |
| Website | www.uj.ac.za |
| ROR | ror.org/04z6c2n17 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I24027795 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research | Social Sciences | 1,679 |
| 2 | Geological and Geochemical Analysis | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1,495 |
| 3 | Legal Issues in South Africa | Social Sciences | 1,475 |
| 4 | Construction Project Management and Performance | Decision Sciences | 1,411 |
| 5 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 1,316 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 6,110 | 148,197 | 113 | 1.8% |
| 2025 | 7,730 | 181,935 | 108 | 1.4% |
| 2024 | 8,681 | 159,787 | 138 | 1.6% |
| 2023 | 6,994 | 132,021 | 105 | 1.5% |
| 2022 | 8,539 | 105,672 | 100 | 1.2% |
| 2021 | 5,255 | 88,017 | 87 | 1.7% |
| 2020 | 6,047 | 65,176 | 85 | 1.4% |
| 2019 | 6,336 | 49,332 | 60 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 4,480 | 38,530 | 45 | 1.0% |
| 2017 | 4,118 | 31,881 | 35 | 0.8% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-19 | Designing interventions for responsible tourist–wildlife encounters: Application of the COM-B Model, Theoretical Domains Framework and Behaviour Change Wheel | Tourism Management Perspectives | Richard S. Aquino, Girish Prayag, Joanne P. Aley | University of Canterbury; Far Eastern University; University of Johannesburg |
| 2026-10-17 | Technology adoption among silver tourists: A cross-cultural configurational comparison of Greece and the United Kingdom | Technovation | Andrea Caputo, Seckin Celik, Christina Karadimitriou et al. | York St John University; University of Trento; University of Johannesburg; … |
| 2026-10-16 | Well-being in digital-free tourism: A mixed-methods rhythmanalysis | Annals of Tourism Research | Wenjie Cai, Brad McKenna, 李善仕 et al. | University of Greenwich; University of East Anglia; Xiamen University; … |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Johannesburg. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-johannesburg
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