---
title: "University of Washington: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Washington: 1,472 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly health economics and policy and economics; h-index 3,523."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Washington: 1,472 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly health economics and policy and economics; h-index 3,523. (as of 2026-11-05)"
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# University of Washington

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

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: United States
- web domain: washington.edu

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



## Key findings

- University of Washington was involved in 11 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #131 of 3,880 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Economics of Education Review (1), Nature Machine Intelligence (1) and International Journal for Equity in Health (1).
- Countries: United States (11), Japan (2) and United Kingdom (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Washington took part in 1,472 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (447), economics (221) and AI (192).
- 132 of them were published in 2025, against 138 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Harvard University (17), Stanford University (14) and Johns Hopkins University (13).
- The journals publishing most of them were Social Science & Medicine (33), Implementation Science (26) and Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (20).
- The most-cited of them is “From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees” (Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 10,493 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Washington has 528,756 works with 107,911,956 citations (h-index 3,523).
- The tracked journals hold 1,360 of its 218,936 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (46,359), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (44,331) and Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer (43,293).

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 43 | 52 | 44 | 77 | 45 | 40 | 39 | 39 | 42 | 26 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 22 | 22 | 25 | 19 | 22 | 28 | 26 | 17 | 22 | 18 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 14 | 15 | 14 | 18 | 23 | 27 | 25 | 16 | 23 | 17 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 14 | 14 | 23 | 25 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 13 | 19 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 10 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 6 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 8 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 7 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 138 | 161 | 152 | 183 | 160 | 167 | 139 | 128 | 132 | 112 |

## 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) | 33 |
| 2 | [Implementation Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/implementation-science.md) | 26 |
| 3 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 20 |
| 4 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 18 |
| 5 | [BMC Medical Research Methodology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/bmc-medical-research-methodology.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/administration-and-policy-in-mental-health-and-mental-health-services-research.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 17 |
| 2 | [Stanford University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/stanford-university.md) | 14 |
| 3 | [Johns Hopkins University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/johns-hopkins-university.md) | 13 |
| 4 | VA Puget Sound Health Care System | 13 |
| 5 | [New York University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/new-york-university.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [University of Michigan](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-michigan.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Duke University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/duke-university.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [University of Pennsylvania](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pennsylvania.md) | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 511 |
| 2 | China | 74 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 46 |
| 4 | Canada | 32 |
| 5 | Germany | 20 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 20 |
| 7 | Australia | 12 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 12 |
| 9 | France | 11 |
| 10 | Singapore | 11 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 18 |
| 2 | implementation strategies | 14 |
| 3 | [cost-effectiveness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cost-effectiveness.md) | 13 |
| 4 | [mental health](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mental-health.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [health equity](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-equity.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [low- and middle-income countries](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/low-and-middle-income-countries.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [health disparities](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-disparities.md) | 7 |
| 9 | opioid use disorder | 7 |
| 10 | Mexico | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10,493 | 128.6 | [From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0138-9) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-01-17 | Scott Lundberg, Gabriel Erion, Hugh Chen et al. |
| 2 | 1,090 | 14.6 | [Disclosure processing costs, investors’ information choice, and equity market outcomes: A review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2020.101344) | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 2020-08-15 | Elizabeth Blankespoor, Ed deHaan, Iván Marinovic |
| 3 | 1,004 | 9.2 | [Review articles: purpose, process, and structure](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-017-0563-4) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2017-10-02 | Robert W. Palmatier, Mark B. Houston, John S. Hulland |
| 4 | 958 | 8.2 | [Exporting challenges of SMEs: A review and future research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2017.01.003) | [Journal of World Business](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-world-business.md) | 2017-01-26 | Justin Paul, Sundar Parthasarathy, Parul Gupta |
| 5 | 631 | 9.7 | [AI for radiographic COVID-19 detection selects shortcuts over signal](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00338-7) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-05-31 | Alex J. DeGrave, Joseph D. Janizek, Su‐In Lee |
| 6 | 580 | 10.0 | [Online influencer marketing](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-021-00829-4) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2022-01-08 | Fine F. Leung, Flora Fang Gu, Robert W. Palmatier |
| 7 | 549 | 9.8 | [Digital technologies: tensions in privacy and data](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-022-00845-y) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2022-03-05 | Sara Quach, Park Thaichon, Kelly D. Martin et al. |
| 8 | 533 | 5.6 | [Human-like autonomous car-following model with deep reinforcement learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2018.10.024) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2018-11-11 | Meixin Zhu, Xuesong Wang, Yinhai Wang |
| 9 | 502 | 11.1 | [Human–AI collaboration enables more empathic conversations in text-based peer-to-peer mental health support](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-022-00593-2) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-01-23 | Ashish Kumar Sharma, Inna Wanyin Lin, Adam S. Miner et al. |
| 10 | 490 | 11.8 | [Algorithms to estimate Shapley value feature attributions](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00657-x) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-05-22 | Hugh Chen, Ian Covert, Scott Lundberg et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Washington in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Seattle, Washington, United States |
| Also known as | UW, Universidad de Washington, Université de Washington |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 14 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 528,756 |
| Citations | 107,911,956 |
| h-index | 3,523 |
| i10-index | 670,247 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 44.43 |
| Website | [www.washington.edu](https://www.washington.edu) |
| ROR | [ror.org/00cvxb145](https://ror.org/00cvxb145) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I201448701](https://openalex.org/I201448701) |

*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) | 23,641 | 1,249,521 | 112 | 0.5% |
| 2025 | 21,805 | 1,645,624 | 132 | 0.6% |
| 2024 | 21,707 | 1,679,004 | 128 | 0.6% |
| 2023 | 22,231 | 1,626,797 | 139 | 0.6% |
| 2022 | 21,015 | 1,620,755 | 167 | 0.8% |
| 2021 | 21,002 | 1,673,178 | 160 | 0.8% |
| 2020 | 57,209 | 1,476,067 | 183 | 0.3% |
| 2019 | 18,051 | 1,241,274 | 152 | 0.8% |
| 2018 | 19,905 | 1,110,616 | 161 | 0.8% |
| 2017 | 16,011 | 1,032,943 | 138 | 0.9% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 46,359 |
| 2 | Epigenetics and DNA Methylation | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 44,331 |
| 3 | Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 43,293 |
| 4 | HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions | Medicine | 7,400 |
| 5 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 6,600 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | [Pandemic learning loss by student baseline achievement: extent and sources of heterogeneity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2026.102853) | [Economics of Education Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-education-review.md) | Ian Callen, Dan D. Goldhaber, Thomas J. Kane et al. | University of Virginia; American Institutes for Research; University of Washington; … |
| 2026-10-29 | [Foundation model for particle collision data analysis](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-026-01322-9) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | Ting-Hsiang Hsu, Bai-Hong Zhou, Qibin Liu et al. | University of Washington; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Stanford University; … |
| 2026-10-24 | [Health-system fragmentation and maternal mortality in Mexico, 2008–2022: a spatio-temporal spillover analysis](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-026-03081-w) | [International Journal for Equity in Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-for-equity-in-health.md) | Carlos Pineda‐Antúnez, Miguel Ángel Mendoza-González, Diego Cerecero-García et al. | University of Washington; Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; … |
| 2026-10-21 | [Trade and production impacts of Japan's domestic forestry-related subsidy and incentive programs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103930) | [Forest Policy and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/forest-policy-and-economics.md) | Indroneil Ganguly, Badri Gopalakrishnan, Abdallah Akintola et al. | University of Washington; Boston College |
| 2026-10-19 | [Advances in progressive decoupling methodology for problem decomposition in optimization](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-026-02430-5) | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar | University of Washington |
| 2026-10-15 | [Incomplete assessments: Including harms and trade-offs in assessing policy approaches to Covid-19](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101983) | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | Itai Bavli, Brent A. Sutton, Kevin Bardosh et al. | University of British Columbia; University of Oxford; University of Washington |
| 2026-10-12 | [Modeling tensions and tradeoffs in community responses to large scale solar development in rural Georgia](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115660) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | Hilda E. Kurtz, Gretchen Sneegas, James Jordan et al. | University of Georgia; University of Washington; The University of Texas at Austin |
| 2026-10-12 | [From traffic-flow capacity to recovery capacity: An episode-based framework for multi-sector urban resilience](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106063) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | F. C. Tang, Xuesong Simon Zhou, Edward Zhu et al. | Arizona State University; Johns Hopkins University; Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo; … |
| 2026-10-09 | [An agenda for plastics crisis research in the synthetic age](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.109264) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | Borja Nogué-Algueró, Richard York, Stefano B. Longo et al. | University of Gothenburg; University of Oregon; Lund University; … |
| 2026-10-08 | [Budget Impact Analysis of the Veterans Crisis Line Caring Letters Project](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-026-01528-4) | [Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/administration-and-policy-in-mental-health-and-mental-health-services-research.md) | Yi-Jung Shen, Samantha G. Auty, Kiersten L. Strombotne et al. | Boston University; VA Boston Healthcare System; Veterans Administration; … |
| 2026-10-07 | [Learn AI with AI: Designing conversational agents to support older adults in learning about AI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2026.103953) | [International Journal of Human-Computer Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-human-computer-studies.md) | Eugene Tang KangJie, Tianqi Song, Mengqi Shi et al. | National University of Singapore; University of Washington |

## Cite this page

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

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  urldate = {2026-11-05},
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).