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title: "University of Pisa: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Pisa: 725 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 909."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Pisa: 725 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 909. (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# University of Pisa

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: Italy
- web domain: unipi.it

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

## Key findings

- University of Pisa was involved in 10 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #149 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal (1), Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation (1) and Applied Health Economics and Health Policy (1).
- Countries: Italy (10), United States (3) and Austria (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Pisa took part in 725 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (238), AI (143) and operations research (128).
- 95 of them were published in 2025, against 44 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Florence (28), Kozminski University (16) and KU Leuven (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Machine Learning (21), Ecological Economics (11) and Socio-Economic Planning Sciences (10).
- The most-cited of them is “Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): What we know and what is left to attain Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence” (Information Fusion, 2023), with 1,763 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Pisa has 141,970 works with 13,865,484 citations (h-index 909).
- The tracked journals hold 645 of its 59,704 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.1%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (6,286), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (5,172) and Particle Detector Development and Performance (4,685).

## 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) | 14 | 22 | 14 | 27 | 22 | 14 | 32 | 27 | 36 | 30 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 5 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 19 | 15 | 15 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 13 | 14 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 20 | 14 | 16 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 4 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 9 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 44 | 65 | 49 | 79 | 81 | 52 | 93 | 87 | 95 | 80 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 21 |
| 2 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 11 |
| 3 | [Socio-Economic Planning Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/socio-economic-planning-sciences.md) | 10 |
| 4 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [Decisions in Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decisions-in-economics-and-finance.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Italian Economic Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/italian-economic-journal.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Florence | 28 |
| 2 | Kozminski University | 16 |
| 3 | [KU Leuven](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ku-leuven.md) | 15 |
| 4 | Scuola Normale Superiore | 15 |
| 5 | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | 15 |
| 6 | Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo" | 14 |
| 7 | [University of Bologna](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bologna.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [Sapienza University of Rome](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sapienza-university-of-rome.md) | 10 |
| 9 | University of Milan | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Italy | 355 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 44 |
| 3 | France | 30 |
| 4 | Belgium | 29 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 22 |
| 6 | Germany | 21 |
| 7 | Poland | 20 |
| 8 | United States | 20 |
| 9 | Spain | 19 |
| 10 | Austria | 12 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Italy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/italy.md) | 20 |
| 2 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [interpretability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/interpretability.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [environmental policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/environmental-policy.md) | 9 |
| 6 | Cournot duopoly | 7 |
| 7 | composite index | 7 |
| 8 | [federated learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/federated-learning.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Nash equilibrium](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/nash-equilibrium.md) | 6 |
| 10 | black-box models | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,763 | 41.4 | [Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): What we know and what is left to attain Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.101805) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2023-04-18 | Sajid Ali, Tamer Abuhmed, Shaker El–Sappagh et al. |
| 2 | 577 | 17.7 | [Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A manifesto of open challenges and interdisciplinary research directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2024.102301) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2024-02-15 | Luca Longo, Mario Brčić, Federico Cabitza et al. |
| 3 | 574 | 10.6 | [ESG disclosure and Firm performance: A bibliometric and meta analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2022.101668) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 2022-04-28 | Muhammad Arif Khan |
| 4 | 541 | 6.3 | [Measuring euro area monetary policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2019.08.016) | [Journal of Monetary Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-monetary-economics.md) | 2019-08-30 | Carlo Altavilla, Luca Brugnolini, Refet S. Gürkaynak et al. |
| 5 | 491 | 9.1 | [Counterfactual explanations and how to find them: literature review and benchmarking](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-022-00831-6) | [Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/data-mining-and-knowledge-discovery.md) | 2022-04-28 | Riccardo Guidotti |
| 6 | 306 | 4.0 | [A gentle introduction to deep learning for graphs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2020.06.006) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2020-06-11 | Davide Bacciu, Federico Errica, Alessio Micheli et al. |
| 7 | 277 | 6.8 | [Benchmarking and survey of explanation methods for black box models](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-023-00933-9) | [Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/data-mining-and-knowledge-discovery.md) | 2023-06-03 | Francesco Bodria, Fosca Giannotti, Riccardo Guidotti et al. |
| 8 | 267 | 4.6 | [The new paradigm of economic complexity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104450) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2021-12-20 | Pierre‐Alexandre Balland, Tom Broekel, Dario Diodato et al. |
| 9 | 263 | 2.7 | [Design of deep echo state networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2018.08.002) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2018-08-08 | Claudio Gallicchio, Alessio Micheli, Luca Pedrelli |
| 10 | 198 | 2.2 | [Tracking the SDGs in an ‘integrated’ manner: A proposal for a new index to capture synergies and trade-offs between and within goals](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.05.022) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2019-06-29 | Mario Biggeri, David Alexander Clark, Andrea Ferrannini et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Pisa in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Pisa, Tuscany, Italy |
| Also known as | UniPi, Università di Pisa, Universität Pisa, Université de Pise |
| Works in OpenAlex | 141,970 |
| Citations | 13,865,484 |
| h-index | 909 |
| i10-index | 202,660 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.70 |
| Website | [www.unipi.it](https://www.unipi.it) |
| ROR | [ror.org/03ad39j10](https://ror.org/03ad39j10) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I108290504](https://openalex.org/I108290504) |

*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) | 6,551 | 236,418 | 80 | 1.2% |
| 2025 | 8,099 | 311,244 | 95 | 1.2% |
| 2024 | 7,554 | 311,945 | 87 | 1.2% |
| 2023 | 7,252 | 296,213 | 93 | 1.3% |
| 2022 | 6,755 | 281,415 | 52 | 0.8% |
| 2021 | 6,979 | 285,020 | 81 | 1.2% |
| 2020 | 6,850 | 240,043 | 79 | 1.2% |
| 2019 | 5,734 | 201,309 | 49 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 5,499 | 181,260 | 65 | 1.2% |
| 2017 | 4,982 | 168,638 | 44 | 0.9% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 6,286 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 5,172 |
| 3 | Particle Detector Development and Performance | Physics and Astronomy | 4,685 |
| 4 | Logic, programming, and type systems | Computer Science | 2,070 |
| 5 | High-Energy Particle Collisions Research | Physics and Astronomy | 1,972 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | [State-owned participation and digital adoption: Empirical evidence from the former EU-28](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-026-01255-0) | [International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-entrepreneurship-and-management-journal.md) | Iacopo Cavallini, Giuseppina Iacoviello, Raffaele Casella et al. | University of Pisa |
| 2026-10-27 | [A micro-costing and cost-comparison analysis based on Italian guidelines for the management of persistent post-surgical hypoparathyroidism, including pregnancy and early postpartum care](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-026-00852-8) | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | Michele Basile, Maria Luisa Brandi, Iacopo Chiodini et al. | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; University of Milan; Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda; … |
| 2026-10-26 | [A Post-market Decision-Making Framework for Medical Devices in Hospital Settings: the THE Mini-HTA Tool](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40258-026-01082-y) | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | Mattia Barsanti, Salvatore Tallarico, Marco Praticò et al. | University of Pisa; Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio |
| 2026-10-25 | [Matching-based estimation of causal quantile exposure response functions for continuous treatments](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-11016-2) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | Luca Merlo, Francesca Dominici, Lea Petrella et al. | Link Campus University; Harvard University; Sapienza University of Rome; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [Beyond the numbers: ESG shift in bank acquisitions through textual insight](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2026.103683) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | Maria Saveria Mavillonio, Elena Bruno, Pierluigi Martino | University of Pisa |
| 2026-10-21 | [Global value chains and credit risk in times of exogenous shocks](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10290-026-00674-z) | [Review of World Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-world-economics.md) | Filomena Pietrovito, Chiara Franco | University of Molise; University of Pisa |
| 2026-10-20 | [Material use and its relationship with per capita income. A panel data analysis at the global level](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.109282) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | Tommaso Luzzati, Emilio Padilla, Bhavesh Gulati et al. | University of Pisa; Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia; Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| 2026-10-19 | [Climbing the waste hierarchy with stakeholder engagement and tariffs in urban waste management: A case study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2026.102362) | [Utilities Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/utilities-policy.md) | Giulia Romanò, Lucio Masserini, Sara Latini | University of Pisa |
| 2026-10-10 | [From AI potential to sustainable value: The AI-SDGs value cycle as an integrative framework for sustainable innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103733) | [Technovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technovation.md) | Francesco Paolo Appio, Davide La Torre, Vito Giordano et al. | Paris School of Business; SKEMA Business School; University of Pisa; … |
| 2026-10-09 | [Correction: Women’s Treatment Preferences for Moderate to Severe Vasomotor Symptoms Associated with Menopause: Insights from the WARMER Study](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40271-026-00845-y) | [Patient](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/patient.md) | Sebastian Heidenreich, Tommaso Simoncini, Katelyn N. Cutts et al. | Thermo Fisher Scientific (United Kingdom); University of Pisa; Thermo Fisher Scientific (United States); … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Pisa. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pisa

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