---
title: "University of Surrey: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Surrey: 1,198 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and tourism and hospitality; h-index 544."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-surrey
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Surrey: 1,198 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and tourism and hospitality; h-index 544. (as of 2026-11-02)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-02T18:02:18+09:00
window: 2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02
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---

# University of Surrey

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

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

## Key findings

- University of Surrey was involved in 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #165 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Annals of Tourism Research (2), Tourism Management (2) and Artificial Intelligence Review (1).
- Countries: United Kingdom (7), Hong Kong (2) and United States (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, University of Surrey ranks #5 in tourism and hospitality.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Surrey took part in 1,198 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (329), tourism and hospitality (303) and economics (166).
- 156 of them were published in 2025, against 71 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Jiangnan University (45), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (22) and University of Johannesburg (17).
- The journals publishing most of them were Annals of Tourism Research (42), Tourism Management (33) and International Journal of Computer Vision (31).
- The most-cited of them is “Quantiles via moments” (Journal of Econometrics, 2019), with 2,531 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Surrey has 80,890 works with 4,384,344 citations (h-index 544).
- The tracked journals hold 1,077 of its 31,980 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (3.4%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Nuclear physics research studies (3,106), Astronomical and nuclear sciences (1,784) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (1,728).

## In the rankings

Top institutions, 2023–2025: [#5 in tourism and hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/tourism-and-hospitality.md)

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 14 | 14 | 23 | 26 | 35 | 39 | 38 | 46 | 49 | 45 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 21 | 16 | 20 | 36 | 28 | 41 | 31 | 44 | 34 | 32 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 12 | 19 | 20 | 22 | 15 | 15 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 11 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 9 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 20 | 29 | 14 | 28 | 20 | 4 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 19 | 16 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 4 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 71 | 70 | 93 | 121 | 122 | 154 | 132 | 158 | 156 | 121 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 42 |
| 2 | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 33 |
| 3 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 31 |
| 4 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 30 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 25 |
| 6 | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 25 |
| 7 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 23 |
| 8 | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | 18 |
| 9 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 14 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Jiangnan University | 45 |
| 2 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 22 |
| 3 | [University of Johannesburg](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-johannesburg.md) | 17 |
| 4 | University College London | 15 |
| 5 | [University of Birmingham](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-birmingham.md) | 12 |
| 6 | University of Bristol | 12 |
| 7 | University of Exeter | 11 |
| 8 | King's College London | 10 |
| 9 | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 567 |
| 2 | China | 216 |
| 3 | United States | 48 |
| 4 | Germany | 33 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 28 |
| 6 | Australia | 25 |
| 7 | Spain | 24 |
| 8 | Iran | 20 |
| 9 | South Africa | 19 |
| 10 | France | 18 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 17 |
| 2 | sustainable tourism | 15 |
| 3 | data envelopment analysis | 14 |
| 4 | blockchain | 12 |
| 5 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 10 |
| 6 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [federated learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/federated-learning.md) | 9 |
| 8 | multinational corporations | 9 |
| 9 | pseudo-labeling | 9 |
| 10 | destination management | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,531 | 27.9 | [Quantiles via moments](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2019.04.009) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2019-04-15 | José A. F. Machado, João Santos Silva |
| 2 | 2,302 | 33.3 | [Deep Learning for Person Re-Identification: A Survey and Outlook](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3054775) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-01-26 | Mang Ye, Jianbing Shen, Gaojie Lin et al. |
| 3 | 1,305 | 12.2 | [Virtual reality, presence, and attitude change: Empirical evidence from tourism](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2017.12.003) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2017-12-08 | Iis P. Tussyadiah, Dan Wang, Timothy Hyungsoo Jung et al. |
| 4 | 1,206 | 20.8 | [Domain Generalization: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3195549) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-01-01 | Kaiyang Zhou, Ziwei Liu, Yu Qiao et al. |
| 5 | 1,188 | 17.5 | [RFN-Nest: An end-to-end residual fusion network for infrared and visible images](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.02.023) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2021-03-01 | Hui Li, Xiao‐Jun Wu, Josef Kittler |
| 6 | 1,072 | 25.7 | [Multimodal Learning With Transformers: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3275156) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-05-11 | Peng Xu, Xiatian Zhu, David Andrew Clifton |
| 7 | 1,048 | 13.0 | [A review of research into automation in tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Tourism](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2020.102883) | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 2020-02-14 | Iis P. Tussyadiah |
| 8 | 745 | 9.8 | [A Coevolutionary Framework for Constrained Multiobjective Optimization Problems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2020.3004012) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2020-06-22 | Ye Tian, Tao Zhang, Jianhua Xiao et al. |
| 9 | 705 | 6.4 | [An Indicator-Based Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm With Reference Point Adaptation for Better Versatility](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2017.2749619) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2017-09-07 | Ye Tian, Ran Cheng, Xingyi Zhang et al. |
| 10 | 669 | 6.4 | [Leadership behavior and employee well-being: An integrated review and a future research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2017.12.006) | [The Leadership Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-leadership-quarterly.md) | 2018-02-01 | Ilke Inceoglu, Geoff Thomas, Chris W. L. Chu et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Surrey in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Guildford, England, United Kingdom |
| Also known as | Prifysgol Surrey |
| Works in OpenAlex | 80,890 |
| Citations | 4,384,344 |
| h-index | 544 |
| i10-index | 69,698 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.09 |
| Website | [www.surrey.ac.uk](https://www.surrey.ac.uk) |
| ROR | [ror.org/00ks66431](https://ror.org/00ks66431) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I28290843](https://openalex.org/I28290843) |

*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) | 3,542 | 157,953 | 121 | 3.4% |
| 2025 | 4,243 | 204,352 | 156 | 3.7% |
| 2024 | 4,195 | 197,726 | 158 | 3.8% |
| 2023 | 3,929 | 182,425 | 132 | 3.4% |
| 2022 | 3,927 | 170,904 | 154 | 3.9% |
| 2021 | 3,684 | 163,038 | 122 | 3.3% |
| 2020 | 3,400 | 135,713 | 121 | 3.6% |
| 2019 | 3,000 | 113,093 | 93 | 3.1% |
| 2018 | 2,821 | 97,456 | 70 | 2.5% |
| 2017 | 2,781 | 86,246 | 71 | 2.6% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Nuclear physics research studies | Physics and Astronomy | 3,106 |
| 2 | Astronomical and nuclear sciences | Physics and Astronomy | 1,784 |
| 3 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 1,728 |
| 4 | Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research | Social Sciences | 1,399 |
| 5 | Ion-surface interactions and analysis | Engineering | 1,202 |

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 | [Airline ESG ratings and market performance: A spatial approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2026.104310) | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | Nadine Itani, Bora Kim, Anyu Liu et al. | University of Surrey; Texas A&M University |
| 2026-10-30 | [Translating sustainability into tourism investments: Green growth and budget allocation in NextGenerationEU](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2026.105560) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | Marc Fuster, Xavier Font, Macià Blázquez-Salom | Universitat de les Illes Balears; University of Surrey |
| 2026-10-28 | [Vision-based touchless gesture recognition for clinical HCI: deployment challenges, trade-offs, and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11739-8) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | Md. Bakhtiar Azim Niloy, Fakrul Islam, Talukder Hasnat Zadid et al. | American International University-Bangladesh; Daffodil International University; Khulna University of Engineering and Technology; … |
| 2026-10-21 | [Quantitative research in tourism: Theoretical and methodological innovations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2026.105553) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | Gang Li, Doris Chenguang Wu, Haiyan Song | University of Surrey; Sun Yat-sen University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 2026-10-17 | [When do hedonic appeals backfire? Credibility, scepticism and the disconnect between emotional engagement and pro-environmental intention](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104949) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | Safina Naz, Xavier Font, Marion Karl et al. | University of Surrey |
| 2026-10-12 | [Agency-structure: Tourists' sustainable food journey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2026.104302) | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | Mohammad Salehi, Viachaslau Filimonau, Michael S. Lin et al. | Hong Kong Polytechnic University; University of Surrey |
| 2026-10-05 | [Network data envelopment analysis in the insurance industry: a literature review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11123-026-00831-4) | [Journal of Productivity Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-productivity-analysis.md) | Pejman Peykani, Ali Emrouznejad, Zahra Abbasi | Khatam University; University of Surrey; University of Qom |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Surrey. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-surrey

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