---
title: "University of Southampton: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Southampton: 1,271 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 942."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-southampton
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Southampton: 1,271 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 942. (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-04T00:03:46+09:00
window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# University of Southampton

- 3 papers in the last 7 days
- country: United Kingdom
- web domain: southampton.ac.uk

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

## Key findings

- University of Southampton was involved in 14 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #83 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Statistics & Probability Letters (3), Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (1) and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (1).
- Countries: United Kingdom (14), China (3) and Saudi Arabia (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Southampton took part in 1,271 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (271), operations research (245) and finance (220).
- 139 of them were published in 2025, against 105 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were KU Leuven (16), Liverpool John Moores University (13) and Queen Mary University of London (13).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Economics (15), European Journal of Operational Research (15) and Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (15).
- The most-cited of them is “COVID-19 pandemic, oil prices, stock market, geopolitical risk and policy uncertainty nexus in the US economy: Fresh evidence from the wavelet-based approach” (International Review of Financial Analysis, 2020), with 1,488 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Southampton has 184,636 works with 14,183,104 citations (h-index 942).
- The tracked journals hold 1,145 of its 69,251 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.7%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (4,397), Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (3,819) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (3,088).

## 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) | 26 | 30 | 27 | 25 | 20 | 30 | 33 | 22 | 35 | 23 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 22 | 30 | 20 | 17 | 29 | 28 | 18 | 25 | 27 | 29 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 15 | 20 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 28 | 23 | 21 | 16 | 18 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 6 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 22 | 28 | 20 | 18 | 12 | 15 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 8 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 18 | 10 | 16 | 21 | 16 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 4 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 6 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| All categories | 105 | 125 | 115 | 122 | 140 | 155 | 120 | 124 | 139 | 126 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 15 |
| 2 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 15 |
| 3 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [KU Leuven](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ku-leuven.md) | 16 |
| 2 | Liverpool John Moores University | 13 |
| 3 | [Queen Mary University of London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/queen-mary-university-of-london.md) | 13 |
| 4 | [University of Liverpool](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-liverpool.md) | 12 |
| 5 | Azerbaijan State University of Economics | 10 |
| 6 | [Swansea University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/swansea-university.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [University College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-london.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [King's College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/king-s-college-london.md) | 9 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 509 |
| 2 | China | 123 |
| 3 | United States | 51 |
| 4 | France | 31 |
| 5 | Australia | 29 |
| 6 | Germany | 24 |
| 7 | Belgium | 22 |
| 8 | Italy | 22 |
| 9 | Spain | 18 |
| 10 | India | 17 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 20 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 13 |
| 4 | [Bitcoin](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bitcoin.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 10 |
| 6 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [blockchain](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/blockchain.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [corporate social responsibility](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-social-responsibility.md) | 7 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,488 | 19.2 | [COVID-19 pandemic, oil prices, stock market, geopolitical risk and policy uncertainty nexus in the US economy: Fresh evidence from the wavelet-based approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101496) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2020-05-15 | Arshian Sharif, Chaker Aloui, Larisa Yarovaya |
| 2 | 1,172 | 12.0 | [RETRACTED: Cryptocurrencies as a financial asset: A systematic analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2018.09.003) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2018-09-12 | Shaen Corbet, Brian M. Lucey, Andrew Urquhart et al. |
| 3 | 947 | 16.5 | [Forecasting: theory and practice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2021.11.001) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2022-01-19 | Fotios Petropoulos, Daniele Apiletti, Vassilios Assimakopoulos et al. |
| 4 | 851 | 10.7 | [Antecedents, consequences, and challenges of small and medium-sized enterprise digitalization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.03.004) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-03-14 | Robert Eller, Philip Alford, Andreas Kallmuenzer et al. |
| 5 | 763 | 7.7 | [Supply chain finance: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2018.08.003) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2018-08-10 | Xinhan Xu, Xiangfeng Chen, Fu Jia et al. |
| 6 | 631 | 8.1 | [Infected Markets: Novel Coronavirus, Government Interventions, and Stock Return Volatility around the Globe](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101597) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2020-05-21 | Adam Zaremba, Renatas Kizys, David Y. Aharon et al. |
| 7 | 480 | 6.3 | [Women on corporate boards and corporate financial and non-financial performance: A systematic literature review and future research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101554) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2020-07-15 | Thi Hong Hanh Nguyen, Collins Gyakari Ntim, John Kalimilo Malagila |
| 8 | 407 | 4.2 | [Hybrid simulation modelling in operational research: A state-of-the-art review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.10.025) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2018-10-20 | Sally Brailsford, Tillal Eldabi, Martin Horacio Kunc et al. |
| 9 | 389 | 3.6 | [Born to be green: new insights into the economics and management of green entrepreneurship](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-017-9933-z) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 2017-10-04 | Pelin Demirel, Qian Cher Li, Francesco Rentocchini et al. |
| 10 | 389 | 3.7 | [What Causes the Attention of Bitcoin?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.02.017) | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 2018-01-01 | Andrew Urquhart |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Southampton in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Southampton, England, United Kingdom |
| Also known as | Prifysgol Southampton |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 5 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 184,636 |
| Citations | 14,183,104 |
| h-index | 942 |
| i10-index | 186,785 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.53 |
| Website | [www.southampton.ac.uk](https://www.southampton.ac.uk/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01ryk1543](https://ror.org/01ryk1543) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I43439940](https://openalex.org/I43439940) |

*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) | 7,648 | 384,543 | 126 | 1.6% |
| 2025 | 8,606 | 496,284 | 139 | 1.6% |
| 2024 | 8,566 | 505,227 | 124 | 1.4% |
| 2023 | 8,025 | 482,471 | 120 | 1.5% |
| 2022 | 7,745 | 474,728 | 155 | 2.0% |
| 2021 | 7,790 | 487,172 | 140 | 1.8% |
| 2020 | 7,485 | 418,970 | 122 | 1.6% |
| 2019 | 6,873 | 353,488 | 115 | 1.7% |
| 2018 | 7,066 | 308,581 | 125 | 1.8% |
| 2017 | 7,095 | 277,073 | 105 | 1.5% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations | Physics and Astronomy | 4,397 |
| 2 | Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics | Engineering | 3,819 |
| 3 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 3,088 |
| 4 | Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena | Physics and Astronomy | 2,777 |
| 5 | Asthma and respiratory diseases | Medicine | 2,653 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | [A deep reinforcement learning-based algorithm for regional drone routing problem with nonlinear fuel consumption](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2026.105355) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | Yanfang Ma, Zheng He, Rui Qiu et al. | Hebei University of Technology; Sichuan University; University of Southampton |
| 2026-10-31 | [CEO power and stock price crash risk: moderating effect of environmental practices](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-026-01559-w) | [Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-quantitative-finance-and-accounting.md) | Hamad Aldawsari, Taufiq Choudhry, Muhammad Saad Baloch | Saudi Electronic University; University of Southampton |
| 2026-10-29 | [Learning safe behaviour via justified human preferences and hypothetical queries](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-026-09770-8) | [Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/autonomous-agents-and-multi-agent-systems.md) | Ilias Kazantzidis, Timothy J. Norman, Yali Du et al. | University of Southampton; King's College London |
| 2026-10-24 | [Parity-odd polyspectra of spatial point processes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2026.110996) | [Statistics & Probability Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-probability-letters.md) | Daniel E. Clark | University of Southampton |
| 2026-10-22 | [From prediction to intervention: Probabilistic waiting time forecasting for resilient port management under tropical cyclones](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2026.104503) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | Ruikai Sun, Hui Li, Hao Rong et al. | Liverpool John Moores University; University of Southampton |
| 2026-10-22 | [Business networks and the persistence of entrepreneurship: evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-026-01292-7) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | Han Wang, Neil Lee | University of Southampton; London School of Economics and Political Science |
| 2026-10-16 | [Educational Materials for Health-Related Discrete Choice Experiments: A Theory-Driven Approach](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40271-026-00850-1) | [Patient](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/patient.md) | Stella Maria Marceta, Huib Karel Tabbers, Bjorn Benny de Koning et al. | Erasmus University Rotterdam; University of Southampton; Arthritis UK; … |
| 2026-10-15 | [Breaking safety constraints: Targeted backdoor attack on signal temporal logic guided-reinforcement learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134708) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Zhaoming Miao, Chao Huang, Wenhai Wang et al. | Zhejiang University; University of Southampton |
| 2026-10-14 | [Exploring adoption of social commerce in short agri-food supply chains: Combining partial least squares-structural equation modeling and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clscn.2026.100382) | [Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cleaner-logistics-and-supply-chain.md) | Agriani Hermita Sadeli, Bhakti Stephan Onggo, Tomy Perdana | Padjadjaran University; University of Southampton |
| 2026-10-13 | [Topological cumulants of point-process currents](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2026.110993) | [Statistics & Probability Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-probability-letters.md) | Daniel E. Clark | University of Southampton |
| 2026-10-08 | [The efficiency-driven sales mode: Blockchain-enabled carbon reduction in competitive supply chain](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2026.110246) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | Zichen Zou, Mingwu Liu, Yu Gong et al. | University of Southampton; Chongqing Jiaotong University |
| 2026-10-08 | [Factorial signatures of temporal point processes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2026.110992) | [Statistics & Probability Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-probability-letters.md) | Daniel Edward Clark | University of Southampton |
| 2026-10-07 | [Transport capital and regional economic performance in Korea: Implications for balanced regional development under the public investment appraisal system](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2026.105295) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | Changhoon Lee, John Preston, Shahram Heydari | University of Southampton |
| 2026-10-06 | [Conducting cross-sectoral collaborative research for food system transformation: learnings from a qualitative evaluation study](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-026-01540-y) | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | Sarah Shaw, Oliver Huse, Bea Savory et al. | University of Cambridge; MRC Epidemiology Unit; University of Southampton; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Southampton. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-southampton

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