University of Sheffield
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Key findings#
- University of Sheffield was involved in 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #284 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Health Research Policy and Systems (1), PharmacoEconomics - Open (1) and Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (1).
- Countries: United Kingdom (6), Hong Kong (1) and Hungary (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Sheffield took part in 1,074 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (226), AI (180) and economics (164).
- 119 of them were published in 2025, against 94 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Nottingham (18), University of Leeds (16) and University of York (16).
- The journals publishing most of them were PharmacoEconomics (36), Scientometrics (15) and Journal of Business Research (14).
- The most-cited of them is “Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy” (International Journal of Information Management, 2023), with 4,592 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Sheffield has 189,307 works with 16,873,012 citations (h-index 1,022).
- The tracked journals hold 990 of its 67,723 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.5%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (2,919), Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices (2,519) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (2,339).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health Economics and Policy | 35 | 36 | 17 | 13 | 22 | 19 | 21 | 26 | 21 | 16 |
| AI | 16 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 23 | 12 | 29 | 23 | 30 | 13 |
| Economics | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 16 | 21 | 16 | 20 | 16 | 13 |
| Management | 10 | 14 | 16 | 20 | 25 | 10 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 11 |
| Operations Research | 5 | 8 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 12 | 12 |
| Finance | 7 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 6 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Accounting | 5 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 8 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Marketing | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Statistics | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 94 | 98 | 101 | 103 | 131 | 97 | 121 | 126 | 119 | 84 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | PharmacoEconomics | 36 |
| 2 | Scientometrics | 15 |
| 3 | Journal of Business Research | 14 |
| 4 | Applied Health Economics and Health Policy | 13 |
| 5 | Pattern Recognition | 12 |
| 6 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 12 |
| 7 | PharmacoEconomics - Open | 10 |
| 8 | AI & Society | 9 |
| 9 | Expert Systems with Applications | 9 |
| 10 | Annals of Operations Research | 8 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Nottingham | 18 |
| 2 | University of Leeds | 16 |
| 3 | University of York | 16 |
| 4 | University of Bradford | 14 |
| 5 | University of Bristol | 14 |
| 6 | University of Manchester | 14 |
| 7 | University of Warwick | 14 |
| 8 | Xidian University | 14 |
| 9 | The University of Melbourne | 13 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 450 |
| 2 | China | 94 |
| 3 | United States | 58 |
| 4 | Australia | 37 |
| 5 | Germany | 31 |
| 6 | France | 31 |
| 7 | Italy | 27 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 18 |
| 9 | South Africa | 16 |
| 10 | Spain | 15 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | quality-adjusted life years | 23 |
| 2 | health-related quality of life | 16 |
| 3 | cost-effectiveness | 15 |
| 4 | health technology assessment | 15 |
| 5 | COVID-19 pandemic | 13 |
| 6 | large language models | 13 |
| 7 | corporate governance | 12 |
| 8 | health utility | 10 |
| 9 | stakeholder engagement | 10 |
| 10 | ChatGPT | 9 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Sheffield, England, United Kingdom |
| Also known as | Prifysgol Sheffield, Sheffield University |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 3 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 189,307 |
| Citations | 16,873,012 |
| h-index | 1,022 |
| i10-index | 210,797 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.89 |
| Website | www.sheffield.ac.uk |
| ROR | ror.org/05krs5044 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I91136226 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 2,919 |
| 2 | Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices | Physics and Astronomy | 2,519 |
| 3 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 2,339 |
| 4 | Bone health and osteoporosis research | Medicine | 2,327 |
| 5 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 2,269 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 7,024 | 362,624 | 84 | 1.2% |
| 2025 | 8,289 | 474,926 | 119 | 1.4% |
| 2024 | 8,578 | 483,371 | 126 | 1.5% |
| 2023 | 8,051 | 466,414 | 121 | 1.5% |
| 2022 | 7,760 | 462,998 | 97 | 1.2% |
| 2021 | 7,668 | 472,531 | 131 | 1.7% |
| 2020 | 7,282 | 413,471 | 103 | 1.4% |
| 2019 | 6,678 | 353,440 | 101 | 1.5% |
| 2018 | 6,676 | 306,119 | 98 | 1.5% |
| 2017 | 6,741 | 280,426 | 94 | 1.4% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Sheffield. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-sheffield
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {University of Sheffield},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-sheffield}},
urldate = {2026-11-03},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}