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title: "University of Johannesburg: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Johannesburg: 876 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and tourism and hospitality; h-index 360."
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# University of Johannesburg

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: South Africa
- web domain: uj.ac.za

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

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/tourism-and-hospitality.md)

## 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) | 7 | 15 | 12 | 29 | 24 | 21 | 33 | 26 | 24 | 27 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 12 | 14 | 18 | 22 | 23 | 13 | 23 | 34 | 24 | 18 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 4 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 28 | 22 | 33 | 27 | 23 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 5 | 13 | 5 | 9 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 11 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 9 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 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

*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) | 27 |
| 2 | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 22 |
| 3 | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Tourism Management Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management-perspectives.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-and-entrepreneurship.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | 10 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | 38 |
| 2 | Sunway University | 19 |
| 3 | [Kyung Hee University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/kyung-hee-university.md) | 17 |
| 4 | Tallinn University of Technology | 17 |
| 5 | Umeå University | 17 |
| 6 | [University of Surrey](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-surrey.md) | 17 |
| 7 | Vilnius University | 17 |
| 8 | Korea University | 15 |
| 9 | Washington State University | 15 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | South Africa | 22 |
| 2 | Africa | 19 |
| 3 | [moderating effect](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/moderating-effect.md) | 15 |
| 4 | sub-Saharan Africa | 14 |
| 5 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 12 |
| 7 | hospitality industry | 12 |
| 8 | [small and medium-sized enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/small-and-medium-sized-enterprises.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [consumer behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/consumer-behavior.md) | 11 |
| 10 | research agenda | 10 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,564 | 104.3 | [Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102642) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2023-03-11 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Nir Kshetri, Laurie Hughes et al. |
| 2 | 1,890 | 30.1 | [Industry 5.0: A survey on enabling technologies and potential applications](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2021.100257) | [Journal of Industrial Information Integration](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-industrial-information-integration.md) | 2021-08-11 | Praveen Kumar Reddy Maddikunta, Quoc‐Viet Pham, B. Prabadevi et al. |
| 3 | 1,432 | 15.8 | [Consumers acceptance of artificially intelligent (AI) device use in service delivery](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.03.008) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-04-09 | Doğan Gürsoy, Oscar Hengxuan Chi, Lu Lu et al. |
| 4 | 1,046 | 21.5 | [Literature reviews as independent studies: guidelines for academic practice](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-022-00588-8) | [Review of Managerial Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-managerial-science.md) | 2022-10-14 | Sascha Kraus, Matthias Breier, Weng Marc Lim et al. |
| 5 | 1,009 | 10.8 | [Developing and validating a service robot integration willingness scale](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2019.01.005) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2019-01-24 | Lu Lu, Ruiying Cai, Doğan Gürsoy |
| 6 | 916 | 12.7 | [Role of institutional pressures and resources in the adoption of big data analytics powered artificial intelligence, sustainable manufacturing practices and circular economy capabilities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120420) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2020-11-01 | Surajit Bag, J.H.C. Pretorius, Shivam Gupta et al. |
| 7 | 870 | 12.4 | [Chatbots applications in education: A systematic review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2021.100033) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2021-01-01 | Chinedu Wilfred Okonkwo, Abejide Ade-Ibijola |
| 8 | 617 | 8.1 | [Industry 4.0 adoption and 10R advance manufacturing capabilities for sustainable development](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107844) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2020-06-29 | Surajit Bag, Shivam Gupta, Sameer Kumar |
| 9 | 575 | 8.1 | [Performance Analysis of Intrusion Detection Systems Using a Feature Selection Method on the UNSW-NB15 Dataset](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-020-00379-6) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2020-11-25 | Sydney Mambwe Kasongo, Yanxia Sun |
| 10 | 534 | 5.8 | [A hedonic motivation model in virtual reality tourism: Comparing visitors and non-visitors](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.11.016) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-03-04 | Myung Ja Kim, C. Michael Hall |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Johannesburg 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](https://www.uj.ac.za/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04z6c2n17](https://ror.org/04z6c2n17) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I24027795](https://openalex.org/I24027795) |

*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) | 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% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | 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 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-19 | [Designing interventions for responsible tourist–wildlife encounters: Application of the COM-B Model, Theoretical Domains Framework and Behaviour Change Wheel](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2026.101547) | [Tourism Management Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management-perspectives.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103745) | [Technovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technovation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2026.104307) | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 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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  urldate = {2026-11-02},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).