University of Pretoria
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Key findings#
- University of Pretoria was involved in 5 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #377 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Computers & Industrial Engineering (2), World Development Perspectives (1) and Journal of Business Research (1).
- Countries: South Africa (5), United Kingdom (2) and Tanzania (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Pretoria took part in 806 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (236), economics (233) and marketing (83).
- 77 of them were published in 2025, against 65 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Copenhagen Business School (43), Lebanese American University (22) and University of Ibadan (22).
- The journals publishing most of them were Industrial Marketing Management (21), Finance research letters (16) and Economics Letters (11).
- The most-cited of them is “Does Bitcoin hedge global uncertainty? Evidence from wavelet-based quantile-in-quantile regressions” (Finance research letters, 2017), with 817 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Pretoria has 92,943 works with 3,284,022 citations (h-index 437).
- The tracked journals hold 736 of its 44,670 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2,493), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (2,307) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (2,158).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 22 | 27 | 22 | 32 | 28 | 21 | 19 | 22 | 20 | 23 |
| Economics | 19 | 40 | 29 | 17 | 23 | 29 | 24 | 18 | 20 | 14 |
| Marketing | 5 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 1 |
| Management | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 9 |
| AI | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 |
| Operations Research | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 3 |
| Statistics | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| Accounting | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 65 | 93 | 79 | 88 | 90 | 79 | 75 | 90 | 77 | 70 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Industrial Marketing Management | 21 |
| 2 | Finance research letters | 16 |
| 3 | Economics Letters | 11 |
| 4 | Research in International Business and Finance | 10 |
| 5 | Energy Economics | 9 |
| 6 | The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance | 9 |
| 7 | Financial Innovation | 8 |
| 8 | Resources Policy | 7 |
| 9 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 6 |
| 10 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 6 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copenhagen Business School | 43 |
| 2 | Lebanese American University | 22 |
| 3 | University of Ibadan | 22 |
| 4 | Ostim Technical University | 21 |
| 5 | Helmut Schmidt University | 14 |
| 6 | University of the Witwatersrand | 14 |
| 7 | University of Edinburgh | 13 |
| 8 | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology | 12 |
| 9 | Temple University | 12 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa | 312 |
| 2 | United States | 76 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 68 |
| 4 | Denmark | 49 |
| 5 | Turkey | 41 |
| 6 | Nigeria | 30 |
| 7 | China | 26 |
| 8 | Germany | 23 |
| 9 | Lebanon | 22 |
| 10 | France | 21 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa | 19 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 18 |
| 3 | stock market volatility | 16 |
| 4 | volatility forecasting | 16 |
| 5 | climate risk | 15 |
| 6 | emerging markets | 13 |
| 7 | out-of-sample forecasting | 11 |
| 8 | realized volatility | 11 |
| 9 | GARCH-MIDAS | 10 |
| 10 | United States | 9 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa |
| Also known as | UP, Universiteit van Pretoria |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 92,943 |
| Citations | 3,284,022 |
| h-index | 437 |
| i10-index | 64,008 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.86 |
| Website | www.up.ac.za |
| ROR | ror.org/00g0p6g84 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I69552723 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Biblical Studies and Interpretation | Arts and Humanities | 2,493 |
| 2 | Wildlife Ecology and Conservation | Environmental Science | 2,307 |
| 3 | Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2,158 |
| 4 | Christian Theology and Mission | Arts and Humanities | 1,624 |
| 5 | Legal Issues in South Africa | Social Sciences | 1,508 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 4,931 | 126,952 | 70 | 1.4% |
| 2025 | 6,096 | 160,796 | 77 | 1.3% |
| 2024 | 5,831 | 158,440 | 90 | 1.5% |
| 2023 | 5,835 | 150,170 | 75 | 1.3% |
| 2022 | 5,258 | 145,001 | 79 | 1.5% |
| 2021 | 5,186 | 135,921 | 90 | 1.7% |
| 2020 | 4,618 | 112,432 | 88 | 1.9% |
| 2019 | 3,845 | 89,623 | 79 | 2.1% |
| 2018 | 3,820 | 75,347 | 93 | 2.4% |
| 2017 | 4,181 | 66,828 | 65 | 1.6% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Pretoria. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pretoria
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title = {University of Pretoria},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pretoria}},
urldate = {2026-11-03},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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