University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Key findings#
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was involved in 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #248 of 3,880 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Population Health Metrics (1), Human Resources for Health (1) and Computers & Education (1).
- Countries: United States (7), China (2) and Uganda (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill took part in 1,285 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (372), economics (253) and AI (201).
- 144 of them were published in 2025, against 137 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Duke University (20), Harvard University (15) and University of Michigan (14).
- The journals publishing most of them were Social Science & Medicine (60), Medical Image Analysis (22) and SSM - Population Health (22).
- The most-cited of them is “The digital transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship: Progress, challenges and key themes” (Research Policy, 2019), with 2,764 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has 329,618 works with 40,092,627 citations (h-index 1,686).
- The tracked journals hold 1,188 of its 141,141 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.8%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (6,673), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5,296) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (3,609).
- OpenAlex lists it under University of North Carolina System.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health Economics and Policy | 39 | 36 | 35 | 38 | 38 | 42 | 42 | 36 | 39 | 27 |
| Economics | 25 | 21 | 31 | 23 | 29 | 28 | 23 | 19 | 30 | 24 |
| AI | 12 | 24 | 26 | 18 | 28 | 20 | 13 | 17 | 29 | 14 |
| Statistics | 18 | 17 | 19 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 9 |
| Management | 8 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 3 |
| Operations Research | 5 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
| Marketing | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 |
| Higher Education and Research | 6 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| Finance | 7 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| Accounting | 6 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 137 | 149 | 140 | 118 | 140 | 135 | 116 | 109 | 144 | 97 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Social Science & Medicine | 60 |
| 2 | Medical Image Analysis | 22 |
| 3 | SSM - Population Health | 22 |
| 4 | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 12 |
| 5 | Pattern Recognition | 10 |
| 6 | Public Relations Review | 10 |
| 7 | Neural Networks | 10 |
| 8 | Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | 10 |
| 9 | Implementation Science | 9 |
| 10 | Journal of Econometrics | 8 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duke University | 20 |
| 2 | Harvard University | 15 |
| 3 | University of Michigan | 14 |
| 4 | University of Toronto | 14 |
| 5 | North Carolina State University | 13 |
| 6 | UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center | 12 |
| 7 | University of Pennsylvania | 12 |
| 8 | Columbia University | 11 |
| 9 | Johns Hopkins University | 11 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 466 |
| 2 | China | 78 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 37 |
| 4 | Canada | 23 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 19 |
| 6 | Australia | 13 |
| 7 | Germany | 11 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 10 |
| 9 | South Korea | 10 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 9 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | health disparities | 16 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 13 |
| 3 | resting-state fMRI | 9 |
| 4 | structural racism | 9 |
| 5 | mental health | 8 |
| 6 | older adults | 8 |
| 7 | high-dimensional data | 7 |
| 8 | Alzheimer's disease | 6 |
| 9 | T1-weighted imaging | 6 |
| 10 | United States | 6 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States |
| Also known as | UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill, Universidad de Carolina del Norte en Chapel Hill, Université de la Caroline du Nord à Chapel Hill |
| Part of | University of North Carolina System |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 5 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 329,618 |
| Citations | 40,092,627 |
| h-index | 1,686 |
| i10-index | 385,933 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.68 |
| Website | www.unc.edu |
| ROR | ror.org/0130frc33 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I114027177 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions | Medicine | 6,673 |
| 2 | Genetic Associations and Epidemiology | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5,296 |
| 3 | Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3,609 |
| 4 | Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research | Neuroscience | 3,546 |
| 5 | Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes | Medicine | 3,538 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 24,200 | 779,638 | 97 | 0.4% |
| 2025 | 16,351 | 939,617 | 144 | 0.9% |
| 2024 | 14,895 | 954,997 | 109 | 0.7% |
| 2023 | 14,509 | 919,228 | 116 | 0.8% |
| 2022 | 14,607 | 925,191 | 135 | 0.9% |
| 2021 | 14,839 | 957,210 | 140 | 0.9% |
| 2020 | 15,126 | 863,878 | 118 | 0.8% |
| 2019 | 29,289 | 737,955 | 140 | 0.5% |
| 2018 | 10,865 | 646,583 | 149 | 1.4% |
| 2017 | 10,660 | 605,358 | 137 | 1.3% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill
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year = {2026},
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