---
title: "University of Turku: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Turku: 572 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly management and economics; h-index 632."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Turku: 572 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly management and economics; h-index 632. (as of 2026-11-04)"
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# University of Turku

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: Finland
- web domain: utu.fi

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

## Key findings

- University of Turku was involved in 5 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #385 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Business Research (2), Tourism Management (1) and Journal of Consumer Policy (1).
- Countries: Finland (5) and United States (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Turku took part in 572 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (157), economics (92) and marketing (77).
- 63 of them were published in 2025, against 54 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Aalto University (17), Tampere University (14) and University of Helsinki (14).
- The journals publishing most of them were Industrial Marketing Management (16), Journal of Business Research (13) and Higher Education (7).
- The most-cited of them is “Designing conceptual articles: four approaches” (AMS Review, 2020), with 2,218 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Turku has 94,611 works with 7,150,341 citations (h-index 632).
- The tracked journals hold 519 of its 43,335 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.2%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies (2,157), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (2,110) and Study of Mite Species (2,108).

## 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) | 13 | 11 | 18 | 17 | 23 | 23 | 11 | 15 | 17 | 9 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 8 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 11 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 8 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 8 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 8 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 54 | 38 | 50 | 58 | 72 | 74 | 56 | 54 | 63 | 53 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 16 |
| 2 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [International Journal of Project Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-project-management.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 4 |
| 7 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 4 |
| 8 | [Journal of Productivity Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-productivity-analysis.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 4 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Aalto University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/aalto-university.md) | 17 |
| 2 | Tampere University | 14 |
| 3 | University of Helsinki | 14 |
| 4 | University of Jyväskylä | 14 |
| 5 | University of Tampere | 12 |
| 6 | [University of Vaasa](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-vaasa.md) | 10 |
| 7 | Hanken School of Economics | 9 |
| 8 | University of Oulu | 8 |
| 9 | [Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lappeenranta-lahti-university-of-technology.md) | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Finland | 226 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 23 |
| 3 | United States | 21 |
| 4 | China | 18 |
| 5 | Germany | 16 |
| 6 | Italy | 12 |
| 7 | Norway | 12 |
| 8 | Denmark | 11 |
| 9 | Sweden | 11 |
| 10 | Australia | 10 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Finland | 17 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [B2B marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/b2b-marketing.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [corporate social responsibility](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-social-responsibility.md) | 5 |
| 5 | mechanism design | 5 |
| 6 | [public debt](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/public-debt.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [small and medium-sized enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/small-and-medium-sized-enterprises.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [moderating effect](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/moderating-effect.md) | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,218 | 27.8 | [Designing conceptual articles: four approaches](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13162-020-00161-0) | [AMS Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ams-review.md) | 2020-03-09 | Elina Jaakkola |
| 2 | 1,764 | 14.9 | [The Rise of Motivational Information Systems: A Review of Gamification Research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.10.013) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2017-01-01 | Jonna Koivisto, Juho Hamari |
| 3 | 941 | 11.5 | [Customer experience: fundamental premises and implications for research](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-019-00718-x) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2020-01-13 | Larissa Becker, Elina Jaakkola |
| 4 | 853 | 11.3 | [Unusual purchasing behavior during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: The stimulus-organism-response approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2020.102224) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2020-07-21 | Samuli Laato, A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Ali Farooq et al. |
| 5 | 761 | 12.8 | [Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102456) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2021-11-24 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Arpan Kumar Kar et al. |
| 6 | 622 | 6.6 | [Does gamification satisfy needs? A study on the relationship between gamification features and intrinsic need satisfaction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.12.002) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-01-03 | Nannan Xi, Juho Hamari |
| 7 | 580 | 8.2 | [From information seeking to information avoidance: Understanding the health information behavior during a global health crisis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102440) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 2020-11-28 | Saira Hanif Soroya, Ali Farooq, Khalid Mahmood et al. |
| 8 | 558 | 7.7 | [Artificial intelligence in marketing: Topic modeling, scientometric analysis, and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.10.044) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-11-02 | Mekhail Mustak, Joni O. Salminen, Loïc Plé et al. |
| 9 | 538 | 7.1 | [Misinformation sharing and social media fatigue during COVID-19: An affordance and cognitive load perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120201) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2020-07-11 | A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Samuli Laato, Md. Shamim Talukder et al. |
| 10 | 453 | 8.7 | [An artificial intelligence algorithmic approach to ethical decision-making in human resource management processes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2022.100925) | [Human Resource Management Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/human-resource-management-review.md) | 2022-06-29 | Waymond Rodgers, James M. Murray, Abraham Stefanidis et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Turku in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland |
| Also known as | Turun yliopisto, Åbo universitet |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 3 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 94,611 |
| Citations | 7,150,341 |
| h-index | 632 |
| i10-index | 108,751 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.40 |
| Website | [www.utu.fi](https://www.utu.fi) |
| ROR | [ror.org/05vghhr25](https://ror.org/05vghhr25) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I155660961](https://openalex.org/I155660961) |

*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) | 4,894 | 171,947 | 53 | 1.1% |
| 2025 | 7,144 | 218,630 | 63 | 0.9% |
| 2024 | 5,334 | 216,958 | 54 | 1.0% |
| 2023 | 4,827 | 199,051 | 56 | 1.2% |
| 2022 | 6,911 | 188,296 | 74 | 1.1% |
| 2021 | 4,396 | 183,220 | 72 | 1.6% |
| 2020 | 4,244 | 160,852 | 58 | 1.4% |
| 2019 | 3,784 | 134,342 | 50 | 1.3% |
| 2018 | 3,598 | 120,697 | 38 | 1.1% |
| 2017 | 3,097 | 109,727 | 54 | 1.7% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2,157 |
| 2 | Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations | Physics and Astronomy | 2,110 |
| 3 | Study of Mite Species | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2,108 |
| 4 | Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena | Physics and Astronomy | 2,097 |
| 5 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 1,890 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | [Acoustic–semantic equivalence: A trimodal framework for B2B sales communication effectiveness and training allocation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116609) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | Joona Mäntyvaara, Paavo Nevalainen, Jukka Heikkonen | University of Turku |
| 2026-10-26 | [Going green but seeing red: Tensions in initiating collective market shaping for sustainability](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116625) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | Eini Haaja, Sini Nordberg-Davies, Mariia Syväri | University of Turku |
| 2026-10-23 | [Natural resource management strategies of nature-based tourism firms](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2026.105554) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | Pinja Leino, Henna Konu, Esko Sorakunnas | University of Eastern Finland; University of Turku |
| 2026-10-15 | [How Concern About War and Finances Shapes Consumer Well-being: Evidence From Finland](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-026-09635-3) | [Journal of Consumer Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-consumer-policy.md) | Jannica Nyman, Essi Pöyry, Samuel Piha | University of Turku; University of Helsinki |
| 2026-10-15 | [Corporate board oversight and disclosure complexity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.110926) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | Habeeb Yahya, Toufiq Nazrul | University of Turku; Washburn University |

## Cite this page

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

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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
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