---
title: "University of Pretoria: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Pretoria: 806 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly finance and economics; h-index 437."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Pretoria: 806 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly finance and economics; h-index 437. (as of 2026-11-03)"
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---

# University of Pretoria

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: South Africa
- web domain: up.ac.za

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

## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 22 | 27 | 22 | 32 | 28 | 21 | 19 | 22 | 20 | 23 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 19 | 40 | 29 | 17 | 23 | 29 | 24 | 18 | 20 | 14 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 5 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 9 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 3 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 21 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-quarterly-review-of-economics-and-finance.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Copenhagen Business School](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/copenhagen-business-school.md) | 43 |
| 2 | [Lebanese American University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lebanese-american-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-edinburgh.md) | 13 |
| 8 | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology | 12 |
| 9 | [Temple University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/temple-university.md) | 12 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | South Africa | 19 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [stock market volatility](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/stock-market-volatility.md) | 16 |
| 4 | volatility forecasting | 16 |
| 5 | [climate risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-risk.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 13 |
| 7 | out-of-sample forecasting | 11 |
| 8 | realized volatility | 11 |
| 9 | GARCH-MIDAS | 10 |
| 10 | [United States](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/united-states.md) | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 817 | 7.0 | [Does Bitcoin hedge global uncertainty? Evidence from wavelet-based quantile-in-quantile regressions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2017.02.009) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2017-02-07 | Elie I. Bouri, Rangan Gupta, Aviral Kumar Tiwari et al. |
| 2 | 718 | 6.2 | [Can volume predict Bitcoin returns and volatility? A quantiles-based approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2017.03.019) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 2017-03-27 | Mehmet Balcılar, Elie I. Bouri, Rangan Gupta et al. |
| 3 | 632 | 8.8 | [Return connectedness across asset classes around the COVID-19 outbreak](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101646) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2020-11-20 | Elie I. Bouri, Oğuzhan Çepni, David Gabauer et al. |
| 4 | 602 | 5.5 | [The economic consequences associated with integrated report quality: Capital market and real effects](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2017.08.005) | [Accounting Organizations and Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/accounting-organizations-and-society.md) | 2017-10-01 | Mary E. Barth, Steven F. Cahan, Li Chen et al. |
| 5 | 536 | 5.4 | [Herding behaviour in cryptocurrencies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2018.07.008) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2018-07-25 | Elie I. Bouri, Rangan Gupta, David Roubaud |
| 6 | 485 | 4.6 | [Geopolitical risks and stock market dynamics of the BRICS](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2017.05.008) | [Economic Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-systems.md) | 2018-02-21 | Mehmet Balcılar, Matteo Bonato, Rıza Demirer et al. |
| 7 | 459 | 5.7 | [A review of deep learning with special emphasis on architectures, applications and recent trends](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2020.105596) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2020-02-06 | Saptarshi Sengupta, Sanchita Basak, Pallabi Saikia et al. |
| 8 | 413 | 3.7 | [Geopolitical risks and the oil-stock nexus over 1899–2016](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2017.07.017) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2017-08-01 | Nikolaos Antonakakis, Rangan Gupta, Christos Kollias et al. |
| 9 | 380 | 3.8 | [On the transmission mechanism of country-specific and international economic uncertainty spillovers: Evidence from a TVP-VAR connectedness decomposition approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.07.007) | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 2018-07-19 | David Gabauer, Rangan Gupta |
| 10 | 347 | 3.3 | [Dynamic connectedness of uncertainty across developed economies: A time-varying approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.02.011) | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 2018-03-02 | Nikolaos Antonakakis, David Gabauer, Rangan Gupta et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Pretoria 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](https://www.up.ac.za) |
| ROR | [ror.org/00g0p6g84](https://ror.org/00g0p6g84) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I69552723](https://openalex.org/I69552723) |

*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) | 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% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | 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 |

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 | [Can indigenous crops bridge the food security gap through diversification? evidence from Tanzania](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2026.100845) | [World Development Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development-perspectives.md) | Innocensia John, Chewe Nkonde, Diane Holt et al. | University of Dar es Salaam; University of Zambia; University of Leeds; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [An ensemble learning-based control chart for time-between-events and amplitude data: application to intensity X-Ray machines](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2026.112479) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | Ali Yeganeh, Fatemeh Sogandi, Jean‐Claude Malela‐Majika et al. | University of Pretoria; University of Torbat Heydarieh |
| 2026-10-21 | [Policy persistence without performance: compensatory legitimacy and the expansion of entrepreneurship education in Sub-Saharan Africa](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116618) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | Benson Honig, Olu Aluko, Juliana Siwale et al. | McMaster University; Nottingham Trent University; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; … |
| 2026-10-11 | [An unsupervised attention-based pattern-recognition control chart for gamma-distributed IoT sensor data: application to a wet-wipe production line](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2026.112410) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | Maonatlala Thanwane, Ali Yeganeh, Jean‐Claude Malela‐Majika et al. | University of Pretoria |
| 2026-10-06 | [Regional heterogeneity in the relationship between temperature and household electricity consumption across rural South Africa](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2026.102348) | [Utilities Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/utilities-policy.md) | Yuxiang Ye, Saien Moodley, Steven F. Koch | University of the Witwatersrand; University of Pretoria |

## 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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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).