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title: "University of Southern Denmark: research profile"
description: "Research profile of University of Southern Denmark: 1,014 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly management and health economics and policy; h-index 692."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Southern Denmark: 1,014 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly management and health economics and policy; h-index 692. (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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# University of Southern Denmark

[Browse institution research profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/directory/page/6.md)

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: Denmark
- web domain: sdu.dk

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



## Key findings

- University of Southern Denmark was involved in 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #248 of 3,880 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Technological Forecasting and Social Change (1), Pattern Recognition (1) and Journal of Business Venturing Insights (1).
- Countries: Denmark (7), Germany (2) and United Kingdom (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Southern Denmark took part in 1,014 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (183), health economics and policy (177) and economics (170).
- 106 of them were published in 2025, against 88 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Copenhagen (25), Woxsen School of Business (24) and Aarhus University (22).
- The journals publishing most of them were Social Science & Medicine (22), BMC Medical Research Methodology (13) and Journal of Business Research (12).
- The most-cited of them is “Investigating the emerging COVID-19 research trends in the field of business and management: A bibliometric analysis approach” (Journal of Business Research, 2020), with 1,094 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Southern Denmark has 101,467 works with 6,550,576 citations (h-index 692).
- The tracked journals hold 913 of its 53,361 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.7%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (3,176), Physical Activity and Health (2,516) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (1,506).

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 17 | 18 | 14 | 21 | 27 | 24 | 21 | 14 | 15 | 12 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 16 | 27 | 13 | 10 | 34 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 23 | 24 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 11 | 23 | 18 | 23 | 17 | 13 | 14 | 21 | 11 | 19 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 21 | 20 | 14 | 9 | 17 | 22 | 23 | 10 | 10 | 5 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 6 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 20 | 8 | 16 | 19 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 4 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 4 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 3 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| All categories | 88 | 105 | 89 | 100 | 120 | 105 | 112 | 88 | 106 | 101 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [BMC Medical Research Methodology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/bmc-medical-research-methodology.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 8 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Copenhagen](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-copenhagen.md) | 25 |
| 2 | Woxsen School of Business | 24 |
| 3 | [Aarhus University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/aarhus-university.md) | 22 |
| 4 | [Shanghai Maritime University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-maritime-university.md) | 21 |
| 5 | [The University of Adelaide](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-adelaide.md) | 20 |
| 6 | [Yonsei University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/yonsei-university.md) | 20 |
| 7 | Odense University Hospital | 17 |
| 8 | Copenhagen University Hospital | 14 |
| 9 | Rigshospitalet | 13 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Denmark | 407 |
| 2 | Germany | 74 |
| 3 | United States | 50 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 49 |
| 5 | Australia | 43 |
| 6 | China | 40 |
| 7 | India | 30 |
| 8 | Spain | 25 |
| 9 | South Korea | 23 |
| 10 | Iran | 21 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Denmark | 18 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [supply chain resilience](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/supply-chain-resilience.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [B2B marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/b2b-marketing.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [Industry 4.0](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/industry-4-0.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [multi-criteria decision making](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-criteria-decision-making.md) | 7 |
| 8 | primary care | 7 |
| 9 | EQ-5D-5L | 6 |
| 10 | England | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,094 | 14.4 | [Investigating the emerging COVID-19 research trends in the field of business and management: A bibliometric analysis approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.06.057) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-07-02 | Surabhi Verma, Anders Gustafsson |
| 2 | 799 | 11.6 | [Artificial intelligence-driven innovation for enhancing supply chain resilience and performance under the effect of supply chain dynamism: an empirical investigation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-03956-x) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 2021-02-03 | Amine Belhadi, Venkatesh Mani, Sachin Kamble et al. |
| 3 | 710 | 6.2 | [Supply chain network design under uncertainty: A comprehensive review and future research directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.04.009) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2017-04-08 | Kannan Govindan, Mohammad Fattahi, Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh |
| 4 | 641 | 8.2 | [A decision support system for demand management in healthcare supply chains considering the epidemic outbreaks: A case study of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.101967) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2020-05-06 | Kannan Govindan, Hassan Mina, Behrouz Alavi |
| 5 | 546 | 5.0 | [Multi-tier sustainable global supplier selection using a fuzzy AHP-VIKOR based approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.10.013) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2017-10-14 | Anjali Awasthi, Kannan Govindan, Stefan Gold |
| 6 | 539 | 4.7 | [Sustainable consumption and production in the food supply chain: A conceptual framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.03.003) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2017-03-23 | Kannan Govindan |
| 7 | 475 | 12.6 | [Emotion recognition and artificial intelligence: A systematic review (2014–2023) and research recommendations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.102019) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2023-09-16 | Smith K. Khare, Victoria Blanes‐Vidal, Esmaeil S. Nadimi et al. |
| 8 | 459 | 5.9 | [The Coronavirus crisis in B2B settings: Crisis uniqueness and managerial implications based on social exchange theory](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2020.05.004) | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 2020-05-06 | Roberto Mora Cortez, Wesley James Johnston |
| 9 | 436 | 5.3 | [Knowledge management capabilities and organizational risk-taking for business model innovation in SMEs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.12.001) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-01-14 | Marianne Hock, Thomas Clauß, Sascha Kraus et al. |
| 10 | 389 | 5.4 | [Implications of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak for innovation: Which technologies will improve our lives?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120451) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2020-11-07 | Alexander Brem, Éric Viardot, Petra A. Nylund |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Southern Denmark in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Odense, South Denmark, Denmark |
| Also known as | SDU, South Danish University, Syddansk Universitet |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 101,467 |
| Citations | 6,550,576 |
| h-index | 692 |
| i10-index | 87,941 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.29 |
| Website | [www.sdu.dk](https://www.sdu.dk) |
| ROR | [ror.org/03yrrjy16](https://ror.org/03yrrjy16) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2166335](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2166335) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I177969490](https://openalex.org/I177969490) |

*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) | 6,146 | 313,337 | 101 | 1.6% |
| 2025 | 6,618 | 347,708 | 106 | 1.6% |
| 2024 | 7,149 | 326,930 | 88 | 1.2% |
| 2023 | 6,529 | 291,454 | 112 | 1.7% |
| 2022 | 6,302 | 268,228 | 105 | 1.7% |
| 2021 | 6,355 | 252,121 | 120 | 1.9% |
| 2020 | 5,763 | 205,878 | 100 | 1.7% |
| 2019 | 5,038 | 162,337 | 89 | 1.8% |
| 2018 | 4,967 | 142,309 | 105 | 2.1% |
| 2017 | 4,640 | 124,639 | 88 | 1.9% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation | Medicine | 3,176 |
| 2 | Physical Activity and Health | Medicine | 2,516 |
| 3 | Genetic Associations and Epidemiology | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1,506 |
| 4 | Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications | Chemistry | 1,064 |
| 5 | Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 998 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | [Beating the crowd: The interplay of firm experience and industry dynamics in radical innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2026.124939) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | Alexander Brem, Petra A. Nylund | University of Stuttgart; University of Southern Denmark |
| 2026-10-17 | [MonoPRIO: Adaptive prior conditioning for unified monocular 3D object detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115138) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Leon Davies, Qinggang Meng, Mohamad Saada et al. | Loughborough University; University of Southern Denmark |
| 2026-10-14 | [Polycrisis entrepreneurship – Theoretical & methodological challenges and opportunities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2026.e00679) | [Journal of Business Venturing Insights](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing-insights.md) | Kim Klyver | University of Southern Denmark; Adelaide University; The University of Adelaide |
| 2026-10-13 | [Governing sustainable co-creation in business–NGO collaborations: Institutional logics and innovation outcomes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103740) | [Technovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technovation.md) | Annabeth Aagaard, Lise Andersen Lodsgård | Aarhus University; University of Southern Denmark |
| 2026-10-09 | [Understanding the mixed consequences of diversity practices: A typology of migrant employees](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2026.102666) | [International Business Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-business-review.md) | Nicole Richter, Sven Hauff, Mila Borislavova Lazarova | University of Southern Denmark; Helmut Schmidt University; Vienna University of Economics and Business; … |
| 2026-10-08 | [Combining digital and green technologies in regions: How to close the gap with respect to the frontier?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2026.105636) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | Stefano Basilico, Alberto Marzucchi, Sandro Montresor | University of Southern Denmark; Gran Sasso Science Institute; University of Trento |
| 2026-10-07 | [Optimal metric distortion for matching on the line](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2026.104630) | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Mohamad Latifian et al. | Imperial College London; Drexel University; University of Edinburgh; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Southern Denmark. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-southern-denmark

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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).