---
title: "University of Toronto: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Toronto: 1,539 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 1,924."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Toronto: 1,539 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 1,924. (as of 2026-11-02)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-02T12:20:52+09:00
window: 2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02
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---

# University of Toronto

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: Canada
- web domain: utoronto.ca

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

## Key findings

- University of Toronto was involved in 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #213 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (1), Transport Policy (1) and Journal of Multivariate Analysis (1).
- Countries: Canada (6), United Kingdom (1) and China (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, University of Toronto ranks #4 in health economics and policy.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Toronto took part in 1,539 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (409), operations research (258) and health economics and policy (245).
- 165 of them were published in 2025, against 133 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were McMaster University (33), York University (24) and University of Toronto Scarborough (23).
- The journals publishing most of them were Health Policy (33), Health Research Policy and Systems (29) and Expert Systems with Applications (22).
- The most-cited of them is “Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? International evidence” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2018), with 2,547 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Toronto has 580,119 works with 68,005,721 citations (h-index 1,924).
- The tracked journals hold 1,414 of its 236,042 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Innovations in Medical Education (7,116), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (6,385) and Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (5,361).

## In the rankings

Top institutions, 2023–2025: [#4 in health economics and policy](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/health-economics-and-policy.md)

## 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) | 32 | 46 | 34 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 38 | 49 | 38 | 37 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 25 | 24 | 28 | 25 | 35 | 28 | 18 | 31 | 22 | 22 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 21 | 21 | 20 | 21 | 25 | 26 | 38 | 27 | 32 | 14 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 8 | 10 | 17 | 17 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 29 | 36 | 22 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 16 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 10 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 10 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 7 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 133 | 136 | 141 | 158 | 180 | 161 | 156 | 184 | 165 | 125 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 33 |
| 2 | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 29 |
| 3 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 22 |
| 4 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 22 |
| 5 | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [Transportation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 15 |
| 8 | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [McMaster University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/mcmaster-university.md) | 33 |
| 2 | York University | 24 |
| 3 | University of Toronto Scarborough | 23 |
| 4 | Toronto Metropolitan University | 22 |
| 5 | University of British Columbia | 19 |
| 6 | McGill University | 17 |
| 7 | Hospital for Sick Children | 16 |
| 8 | University of Waterloo | 16 |
| 9 | University of Ottawa | 14 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Canada | 630 |
| 2 | United States | 160 |
| 3 | China | 99 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 72 |
| 5 | Germany | 26 |
| 6 | Israel | 26 |
| 7 | Australia | 18 |
| 8 | France | 17 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 17 |
| 10 | Belgium | 15 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 25 |
| 2 | Canada | 15 |
| 3 | Ontario | 11 |
| 4 | [cost-effectiveness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cost-effectiveness.md) | 11 |
| 5 | Toronto | 10 |
| 6 | cross-national comparison | 10 |
| 7 | travel behavior | 10 |
| 8 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 9 |
| 9 | health technology assessment | 9 |
| 10 | mode choice | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,547 | 26.0 | [Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? International evidence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2018.08.013) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2018-09-04 | Alexander Dyck, Karl V. Lins, Lukas Roth et al. |
| 2 | 2,214 | 30.9 | [Shortcut learning in deep neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-020-00257-z) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-11-10 | Robert Geirhos, Jörn-Henrik Jacobsen, Claudio Michaelis et al. |
| 3 | 1,830 | 19.3 | [Semantic Understanding of Scenes Through the ADE20K Dataset](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-018-1140-0) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2018-12-07 | Bolei Zhou, Hang Zhao, Xavier Puig et al. |
| 4 | 671 | 6.9 | [Machine learning for integrating data in biology and medicine: Principles, practice, and opportunities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2018.09.012) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2018-09-21 | Marinka Žitnik, Francis Nguyen, Bo Wang et al. |
| 5 | 615 | 9.5 | [Adoption of agricultural technology in the developing world: A meta-analysis of the empirical literature](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105599) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2021-06-17 | Sacha Walde Ruzzante, Ricardo Labarta, Amy M. Bilton |
| 6 | 598 | 10.2 | [What influences algorithmic decision-making? A systematic literature review on algorithm aversion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121390) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2021-12-13 | Hasan Mahmud, A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed et al. |
| 7 | 589 | 6.1 | [Is Uber a substitute or complement for public transit?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2018.09.003) | [Journal of Urban Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-urban-economics.md) | 2018-10-04 | Jonathan D. Hall, Craig Palsson, Joseph Price |
| 8 | 579 | 5.2 | [Do managers overreact to salient risks? Evidence from hurricane strikes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2017.07.002) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2017-07-15 | Olivier Dessaint, Adrien Matray |
| 9 | 489 | 5.2 | [The Participation of People with Disabilities in the Workplace Across the Employment Cycle: Employer Concerns and Research Evidence](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-018-9602-5) | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | 2019-01-22 | Silvia Bonaccio, Catherine E. Connelly, Ian R. Gellatly et al. |
| 10 | 422 | 3.7 | [3D Object Proposals Using Stereo Imagery for Accurate Object Class Detection](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2706685) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-05-19 | Xiaozhi Chen, Kaustav Kundu, Yukun Zhu et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Toronto in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Also known as | Université de Toronto |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 9 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 580,119 |
| Citations | 68,005,721 |
| h-index | 1,924 |
| i10-index | 729,892 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.20 |
| Website | [www.utoronto.ca](https://www.utoronto.ca) |
| ROR | [ror.org/03dbr7087](https://ror.org/03dbr7087) |
| Wikidata | [Q180865](Q180865) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I185261750](https://openalex.org/I185261750) |

*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) | 26,388 | 1,352,988 | 125 | 0.5% |
| 2025 | 30,048 | 1,771,567 | 165 | 0.5% |
| 2024 | 29,264 | 1,797,854 | 184 | 0.6% |
| 2023 | 28,822 | 1,704,351 | 156 | 0.5% |
| 2022 | 27,429 | 1,659,048 | 161 | 0.6% |
| 2021 | 28,896 | 1,695,516 | 180 | 0.6% |
| 2020 | 25,927 | 1,478,635 | 158 | 0.6% |
| 2019 | 22,741 | 1,235,399 | 141 | 0.6% |
| 2018 | 21,640 | 1,085,960 | 136 | 0.6% |
| 2017 | 21,275 | 985,024 | 133 | 0.6% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Innovations in Medical Education | Medicine | 7,116 |
| 2 | Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research | Medicine | 6,385 |
| 3 | Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes | Medicine | 5,361 |
| 4 | Schizophrenia research and treatment | Medicine | 5,278 |
| 5 | Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research | Neuroscience | 5,272 |

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 | [Computational aspects of distortion](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-026-09776-2) | [Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/autonomous-agents-and-multi-agent-systems.md) | Soroush Ebadian, Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Mohamad Latifian et al. | University of Toronto; Imperial College London; University of Edinburgh |
| 2026-10-24 | [Do municipal e-bike incentives match their policy objectives? Comparative insights on policy design](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2026.104512) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | Sana Riaz, Emilia M. Bruck | University of Toronto |
| 2026-10-17 | [An explicit expression for the expectation of a product of quadratic forms in multivariate normal random variables](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2026.105731) | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | Raymond Kan, Jiening Pan | University of Toronto; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Nankai University |
| 2026-10-13 | [Robust Bayesian methods using amortized simulation-based inference](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-10998-3) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | Yuyan Wang, Michael Evans, David J. Nott | National University of Singapore; University of Toronto |
| 2026-10-08 | [Bibliometric reporting frameworks and the data-cleaning gap: a response to McKay](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05865-x) | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | Malcolm Koo | University of Toronto; Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital |
| 2026-10-06 | [The impact of comprehensive student support on crime: Evidence from the pathways to education program](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2026.103925) | [Journal of Urban Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-urban-economics.md) | Adam Lavecchia, Philip Oreopoulos, Noah Spencer | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics; McMaster University; University of Toronto |

## Cite this page

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

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  urldate = {2026-11-02},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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