---
title: "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"
description: "Research profile of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1,285 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly health economics and policy and economics; h-index 1,686."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1,285 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly health economics and policy and economics; h-index 1,686. (as of 2026-11-05)"
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window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

[Browse institution research profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/directory/page/5.md)

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

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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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 39 | 36 | 35 | 38 | 38 | 42 | 42 | 36 | 39 | 27 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 25 | 21 | 31 | 23 | 29 | 28 | 23 | 19 | 30 | 24 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 12 | 24 | 26 | 18 | 28 | 20 | 13 | 17 | 29 | 14 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 18 | 17 | 19 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 9 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 8 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 3 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 5 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 6 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 7 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 6 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | 60 |
| 2 | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | 22 |
| 3 | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | 22 |
| 4 | [BMC Medical Research Methodology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/bmc-medical-research-methodology.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 10 |
| 6 | [Public Relations Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-relations-review.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/administration-and-policy-in-mental-health-and-mental-health-services-research.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Implementation Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/implementation-science.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 8 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Duke University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/duke-university.md) | 20 |
| 2 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 15 |
| 3 | [University of Michigan](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-michigan.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [University of Toronto](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-toronto.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [North Carolina State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/north-carolina-state-university.md) | 13 |
| 6 | UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center | 12 |
| 7 | [University of Pennsylvania](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pennsylvania.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [Columbia University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/columbia-university.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Johns Hopkins University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/johns-hopkins-university.md) | 11 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [health disparities](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-disparities.md) | 16 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 13 |
| 3 | resting-state fMRI | 9 |
| 4 | structural racism | 9 |
| 5 | [mental health](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mental-health.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [older adults](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/older-adults.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [high-dimensional data](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/high-dimensional-data.md) | 7 |
| 8 | Alzheimer's disease | 6 |
| 9 | T1-weighted imaging | 6 |
| 10 | [United States](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/united-states.md) | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,764 | 30.4 | [The digital transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship: Progress, challenges and key themes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.03.018) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2019-04-05 | Satish Nambisan, Mike Wright, Maryann P. Feldman |
| 2 | 2,762 | 26.9 | [Artificial intelligence and the future of work: Human-AI symbiosis in organizational decision making](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2018.03.007) | [Business Horizons](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-horizons.md) | 2018-04-12 | Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi |
| 3 | 840 | 7.6 | [The evolution of 10-K textual disclosure: Evidence from Latent Dirichlet Allocation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2017.07.002) | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 2017-09-08 | Travis A. Dyer, Mark H. Lang, Lorien Stice‐Lawrence |
| 4 | 700 | 7.2 | [The sharing economy and digital platforms: A review and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.07.004) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2018-09-12 | Will Sutherland, Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi |
| 5 | 605 | 10.9 | [Artificial intelligence and knowledge management: A partnership between human and AI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2022.03.002) | [Business Horizons](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-horizons.md) | 2022-03-25 | Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, David A. Askay, Ali Eshraghi et al. |
| 6 | 544 | 5.8 | [Hierarchical Fully Convolutional Network for Joint Atrophy Localization and Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis Using Structural MRI](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2889096) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-12-21 | Chunfeng Lian, Mingxia Liu, Jun Zhang et al. |
| 7 | 522 | 16.4 | [Federated learning for medical image analysis: A survey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2024.110424) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2024-03-12 | Hao Guan, Pew‐Thian Yap, Andrea Bozoki et al. |
| 8 | 472 | 4.1 | [Changes in corporate effective tax rates over the past 25 years](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2017.04.001) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2017-04-13 | Scott Dyreng, Michelle Hanlon, Edward L. Maydew et al. |
| 9 | 450 | 4.9 | [Can a carbon trading system promote the transformation of a low-carbon economy under the framework of the porter hypothesis? —Empirical analysis based on the PSM-DID method](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.03.007) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2019-03-12 | Han Wang, Zhoupeng Chen, Xingyi Wu et al. |
| 10 | 415 | 5.6 | [How does manufacturing agglomeration affect green economic efficiency?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104944) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2020-09-09 | Huaxi Yuan, Yidai Feng, Chien‐Chiang Lee et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 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](https://openalex.org/I4210158053) |
| 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](https://www.unc.edu) |
| ROR | [ror.org/0130frc33](https://ror.org/0130frc33) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I114027177](https://openalex.org/I114027177) |

*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) | 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% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | 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 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-20 | [Enhancing maternal and child health service coverage estimates at the sub-national level in Nigeria: a methodological study using routine health information systems data](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-026-00521-1) | [Population Health Metrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/population-health-metrics.md) | Ting Chen, Sian Curtis, Kavita Singh et al. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Johns Hopkins University |
| 2026-10-17 | [A systematic review of global interventions for sustainable strategies to reduce healthcare worker burnout and turnover in underserved areas of the United States](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-026-01104-9) | [Human Resources for Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/human-resources-for-health.md) | Jenny Carpenter, Anoushka Das, Salma Treish et al. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Makerere University |
| 2026-10-17 | [GenAI-supported internal feedback intervention for writing improvement: The roles of evaluative judgment and student-AI interaction in a cluster-randomized experimental study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2026.105767) | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | Shijun Cindy Chen, Christian Dieter Schunn, Jie Cao et al. | University of Hong Kong; University of Pittsburgh; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; … |
| 2026-10-15 | [Gradient boosting machine for survival prediction in studies with general failure-time outcome-dependent sampling design](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10985-026-09732-y) | [Lifetime Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/lifetime-data-analysis.md) | Haolin Li, Haibo Zhou, Jianwen Cai | Boston University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 2026-10-12 | [A Selective Review of Statistical Significance in Cluster Analysis](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-026-10343-1) | [Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/methodology-and-computing-in-applied-probability.md) | Yifan Dai, Hui Shen, Yufeng Liu | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; McGill University; University of Michigan |
| 2026-10-08 | [A feminist institutionalist consideration for analyzing gender in public relations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2026.102782) | [Public Relations Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-relations-review.md) | Renee Mitson | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 2026-10-07 | [The effects of depth and placement of Prequestions on video learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2026.101118) | [The Internet and Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-internet-and-higher-education.md) | Ziyi Kuang, Xiaoxue Leng | Shaanxi Normal University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |

## 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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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).