University of Tennessee at Knoxville
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Key findings#
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville was involved in 11 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #85 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Informetrics (1), Computers & Industrial Engineering (1) and Review of Economics of the Household (1).
- Countries: United States (11), China (2) and Belgium (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, University of Tennessee at Knoxville ranks #7 in marketing.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Tennessee at Knoxville took part in 694 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (161), operations research (129) and marketing (102).
- 63 of them were published in 2025, against 53 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Purdue University West Lafayette (8), University of South Carolina (8) and Colorado State University (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (15), Public Relations Review (15) and Computers & Industrial Engineering (9).
- The most-cited of them is “Influencer marketing: Social media influencers as human brands attaching to followers and yielding positive marketing results by fulfilling needs” (Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2020), with 700 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Tennessee at Knoxville has 143,249 works with 9,970,768 citations (h-index 771).
- The tracked journals hold 620 of its 51,561 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.2%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (4,109), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (3,587) and Nuclear physics research studies (3,074).
- OpenAlex lists it under University of Tennessee System.
In the rankings#
Top institutions, 2023–2025: #7 in marketing
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 13 | 17 | 14 | 22 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 10 | 20 | 13 |
| Operations Research | 9 | 16 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 18 |
| Marketing | 9 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 13 |
| Management | 7 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 8 |
| AI | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| Finance | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Accounting | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Statistics | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 53 | 69 | 75 | 70 | 76 | 79 | 69 | 66 | 63 | 74 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Purdue University West Lafayette | 8 |
| 2 | University of South Carolina | 8 |
| 3 | Colorado State University | 7 |
| 4 | Indiana University | 7 |
| 5 | Indiana University Bloomington | 7 |
| 6 | University of Iowa | 7 |
| 7 | ESCP Business School | 6 |
| 8 | Florida State University | 6 |
| 9 | Auburn University | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 272 |
| 2 | China | 34 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 20 |
| 4 | Australia | 10 |
| 5 | France | 10 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 10 |
| 7 | Germany | 8 |
| 8 | South Korea | 8 |
| 9 | Canada | 7 |
| 10 | Belgium | 5 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 10 |
| 2 | mixed integer programming | 6 |
| 3 | firm performance | 5 |
| 4 | qualitative research | 5 |
| 5 | consumer preferences | 4 |
| 6 | corporate governance | 4 |
| 7 | corporate social responsibility | 4 |
| 8 | employee well-being | 4 |
| 9 | generative AI | 4 |
| 10 | hospitality industry | 4 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Knoxville, Tennessee, United States |
| Also known as | UT, UTK, University of Tennessee |
| Part of | University of Tennessee System |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 143,249 |
| Citations | 9,970,768 |
| h-index | 771 |
| i10-index | 138,522 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.05 |
| Website | www.utk.edu |
| ROR | ror.org/020f3ap87 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I75027704 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 4,109 |
| 2 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 3,587 |
| 3 | Nuclear physics research studies | Physics and Astronomy | 3,074 |
| 4 | Particle Detector Development and Performance | Physics and Astronomy | 2,409 |
| 5 | Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1,887 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 10,998 | 237,972 | 74 | 0.7% |
| 2025 | 5,681 | 316,498 | 63 | 1.1% |
| 2024 | 6,029 | 315,976 | 66 | 1.1% |
| 2023 | 6,569 | 302,345 | 69 | 1.1% |
| 2022 | 6,187 | 297,962 | 79 | 1.3% |
| 2021 | 5,672 | 293,639 | 76 | 1.3% |
| 2020 | 6,171 | 264,508 | 70 | 1.1% |
| 2019 | 5,487 | 227,528 | 75 | 1.4% |
| 2018 | 5,056 | 195,877 | 69 | 1.4% |
| 2017 | 4,709 | 177,023 | 53 | 1.1% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | The world in the stacks: a quantitative study of geographic and language representation in the Library of Congress book collection | Journal of Informetrics | Hongyu Zhou, Kai Li, Raf Guns et al. | Renmin University of China; University of Tennessee at Knoxville; University of Antwerp |
| 2026-10-23 | Towards autonomous freight intermodal optimization via generative AI and agentic digital twins | Computers & Industrial Engineering | Haowen Xu, Yulin Sun, Jose Tupayachi et al. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory; UNSW Sydney; Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; … |
| 2026-10-23 | Women as caregivers: full-time schools and grandmothers' labor supply | Review of Economics of the Household | Francisco Cabrera‐Hernández, María Padilla‐Romo | Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas; University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| 2026-10-19 | A low-rank consensus method for vision language model hallucination mitigation in autonomous driving | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | Keke Long, Jiacheng Guo, Tianyun Zhang et al. | University of Wisconsin–Madison; Cleveland State University; University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| 2026-10-19 | Rare earth element security premiums | Resource and Energy Economics | Prabuddha Prakash, Charles B. Sims | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| 2026-10-15 | The ripple effects of customer orientation: Personal, vicarious, and temporal pathways to frontline employee well-being | Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | Siddeeq M. Shabazz, Gabriel Gazzoli, Jin Ho Jung et al. | University of New Mexico; New Mexico State University; Ohio Northern University; … |
| 2026-10-14 | Hospitality spirit does not die: Sustaining, consolidating, and reshaping positive professional identity in times of crisis | Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management | Sandra Sun-Ah Ponting, Miranda Kitterlin-Lynch, James Williams | San Diego State University; Florida International University; University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| 2026-10-13 | Demand forecast and energy-aware portal siting for regional air mobility | Journal of Air Transport Management | Katherine Vasiloff, Kamal Acharya, Md Arifin Arif et al. | University of Tennessee at Knoxville; University of Maryland, Baltimore County; New Mexico State University; … |
| 2026-10-11 | Employment effects of the Farmers to Families Food Box program on small businesses | Food Policy | Mackenzie Gill, Lauren Chenarides, D. Adeline Yeh et al. | University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Colorado State University; Economic Research Service; … |
| 2026-10-10 | Consumer sophistication and firm strategy when social feedback is untrustworthy | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | Bikram P. Ghosh, Michael R. Galbreth | University of Arizona; University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| 2026-10-08 | Publisher Correction: Demystifying Success: What are the Attributes of Effective Multifaceted Success Programs for Lower-Income College Students? | Research in Higher Education | Nicholas A. Bowman, Nicole F. Tennessen, Shinji Katsumoto et al. | University of Iowa; University of Colorado Colorado Springs; University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
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Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-tennessee-at-knoxville
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