---
title: "University of Minnesota: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Minnesota: 866 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 1,574."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Minnesota: 866 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 1,574. (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
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# University of Minnesota

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

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



## Key findings

- University of Minnesota was involved in 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #290 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Innovative Higher Education (1), SSM - Population Health (1) and Transportation Research Part B Methodological (1).
- Countries: United States (6), Spain (1) and United Kingdom (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Minnesota took part in 866 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (275), operations research (169) and AI (99).
- 77 of them were published in 2025, against 102 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Minnesota System (10), Michigan State University (9) and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (20), Public Relations Review (17) and Expert Systems with Applications (9).
- The most-cited of them is “Theory-Guided Data Science: A New Paradigm for Scientific Discovery from Data” (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2017), with 1,742 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Minnesota has 422,420 works with 45,045,417 citations (h-index 1,574).
- The tracked journals hold 806 of its 132,168 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (6,066), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (4,907) and Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (4,618).
- OpenAlex lists it under University of Minnesota System.

## 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) | 42 | 29 | 33 | 31 | 33 | 26 | 21 | 20 | 22 | 18 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 21 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 23 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 18 | 14 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 17 | 11 | 19 | 6 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 6 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 5 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 2 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 7 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 102 | 91 | 95 | 89 | 98 | 80 | 100 | 74 | 77 | 60 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 20 |
| 2 | [Public Relations Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-relations-review.md) | 17 |
| 3 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [Journal of International Business Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-studies.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Innovative Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/innovative-higher-education.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 5 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Minnesota System | 10 |
| 2 | [Michigan State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/michigan-state-university.md) | 9 |
| 3 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | 8 |
| 4 | [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/massachusetts-institute-of-technology.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Johns Hopkins University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/johns-hopkins-university.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Stanford University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/stanford-university.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [University of Pennsylvania](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pennsylvania.md) | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 311 |
| 2 | China | 44 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 26 |
| 4 | Canada | 24 |
| 5 | Australia | 13 |
| 6 | Italy | 12 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 9 |
| 8 | South Korea | 9 |
| 9 | France | 8 |
| 10 | Germany | 7 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [multinational corporations](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multinational-corporations.md) | 9 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [autonomous vehicles](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/autonomous-vehicles.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 4 |
| 6 | built environment | 4 |
| 7 | column generation | 4 |
| 8 | [corporate social responsibility](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-social-responsibility.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [gender differences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/gender-differences.md) | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,742 | 15.5 | [Theory-Guided Data Science: A New Paradigm for Scientific Discovery from Data](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2017.2720168) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2017-06-29 | Anuj Karpatne, Gowtham Atluri, James H. Faghmous et al. |
| 2 | 1,314 | 15.7 | [Entrepreneurial ecosystem elements](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00270-6) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 2019-11-11 | Erik Stam, Andrew Van de Ven |
| 3 | 946 | 25.1 | [CHGNet as a pretrained universal neural network potential for charge-informed atomistic modelling](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00716-3) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-09-14 | Bowen Deng, Peichen Zhong, KyuJung Jun et al. |
| 4 | 694 | 10.6 | [Trust me, trust me not: A nuanced view of influencer marketing on social media](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.05.024) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2021-05-29 | Do Yeon Kim, Hye-Young Kim |
| 5 | 671 | 7.6 | [Machine Learning for the Geosciences: Challenges and Opportunities](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2018.2861006) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2019-07-04 | Anuj Karpatne, Imme Ebert‐Uphoff, Sai Ravela et al. |
| 6 | 586 | 6.8 | [Global platforms and ecosystems: Implications for international business theories](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-019-00262-4) | [Journal of International Business Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-studies.md) | 2019-08-19 | Satish Nambisan, Shaker A. Zahra, Yadong Luo |
| 7 | 497 | 7.4 | [Anomaly Detection on Attributed Networks via Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3068344) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-04-05 | Yixin Liu, Zhao Li, Shirui Pan et al. |
| 8 | 469 | 5.8 | [Influencer advertising on social media: The multiple inference model on influencer-product congruence and sponsorship disclosure](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.02.020) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-02-18 | Do Yeon Kim, Hye-Young Kim |
| 9 | 446 | 4.3 | [Applying gradient boosting decision trees to examine non-linear effects of the built environment on driving distance in Oslo](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.02.009) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 2018-03-20 | Chuan Ding, Xinyu Cao, Petter Næss |
| 10 | 395 | 5.4 | [International entrepreneurship in the post Covid world](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2020.101143) | [Journal of World Business](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-world-business.md) | 2020-09-14 | Shaker A. Zahra |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Minnesota in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
| Also known as | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| Part of | [University of Minnesota System](https://openalex.org/I2800403580) |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 10 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 422,420 |
| Citations | 45,045,417 |
| h-index | 1,574 |
| i10-index | 513,767 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 2.81 |
| Website | [twin-cities.umn.edu](https://twin-cities.umn.edu) |
| ROR | [ror.org/017zqws13](https://ror.org/017zqws13) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I130238516](https://openalex.org/I130238516) |

*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) | 23,056 | 772,021 | 60 | 0.3% |
| 2025 | 18,553 | 1,010,049 | 77 | 0.4% |
| 2024 | 14,699 | 1,034,283 | 74 | 0.5% |
| 2023 | 15,769 | 1,016,174 | 100 | 0.6% |
| 2022 | 14,530 | 1,023,386 | 80 | 0.6% |
| 2021 | 14,719 | 1,067,621 | 98 | 0.7% |
| 2020 | 14,921 | 982,483 | 89 | 0.6% |
| 2019 | 13,167 | 840,813 | 95 | 0.7% |
| 2018 | 13,093 | 766,390 | 91 | 0.7% |
| 2017 | 12,717 | 721,552 | 102 | 0.8% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 6,066 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 4,907 |
| 3 | Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes | Medicine | 4,618 |
| 4 | T-cell and B-cell Immunology | Immunology and Microbiology | 4,234 |
| 5 | Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation | Medicine | 4,134 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | [The Purpose, Value, and Public Perception of Higher Education: An Introduction to the Special Issue](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-026-09966-6) | [Innovative Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/innovative-higher-education.md) | Rachel Friedensen, Gresham Donald Collom, Ashton Ryan Cooper et al. | St. Cloud State University; University of Minnesota; University of Cincinnati |
| 2026-10-19 | [Data approaches for lifecourse research on early-life determinants of late-life health outcomes: opportunities, limitations, and tradeoffs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101985) | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | Eleanor Hayes‐Larson, Suhani Amin, Emma L. Nichols et al. | University of Southern California; University of Michigan; University of Minnesota; … |
| 2026-10-16 | [An exact solution algorithm for the bi-level optimization problem of electric vehicles charging station placement](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2026.103620) | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | Mobina Nankali, Michael W. Levin | University of Minnesota |
| 2026-10-14 | [The role of dispersed information in maintaining low interest rates](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2026.103818) | [Journal of Macroeconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-macroeconomics.md) | Marco Bassetto, Carlo Galli, Jason Hall | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; Centre for Economic Policy Research; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; … |
| 2026-10-12 | [Distributionally robust optimization with integer recourse: Convex reformulations and critical recourse decisions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107546) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | Yiling Zhang, Zhe Li, Eojin Han | University of Minnesota; University of Notre Dame |
| 2026-10-10 | [Whose voices are published? Public relations scholarship by race, place, and gender in 30 years of journal publications](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2026.102783) | [Public Relations Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-relations-review.md) | María Elizabeth Len-Ríos, Rosalynn A. Vasquez, Rita Tang | University of Minnesota; Suffolk University; University of Arizona |

## Cite this page

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

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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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