University of Waterloo

0 papers in the last 7 days · country: Canada · web domain: uwaterloo.ca

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Key findings#

University of Waterloo was involved in 4 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #520 of 3,880 institutions.
Most of them appeared in Journal of Financial Services Marketing (1), Information Sciences (1) and Stochastic Processes and their Applications (1).
Countries: Canada (4), China (1) and South Korea (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Waterloo took part in 1,203 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (239), AI (227) and economics (166).
132 of them were published in 2025, against 121 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Toronto (22), Western University (12) and York University (12).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (23), Insurance Mathematics and Economics (18) and Mathematical Programming (17).
The most-cited of them is “Image Segmentation Using Deep Learning: A Survey” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021), with 3,797 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Waterloo has 155,614 works with 10,082,494 citations (h-index 789).
The tracked journals hold 1,112 of its 59,995 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.9%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs (3,391), Quantum Information and Cryptography (3,084) and Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics (2,736).

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
Operations Research	26	26	26	26	27	17	26	30	25	10
AI	18	16	27	20	19	27	16	22	37	25
Economics	19	20	22	19	12	19	10	12	23	10
Finance	17	18	13	9	20	10	15	12	12	12
Statistics	10	10	19	13	17	15	12	10	9	3
Health Economics and Policy	11	14	6	8	14	7	10	7	9	13
Management	2	6	4	8	7	9	6	5	6	8
Tourism and Hospitality	7	7	12	3	6	5	3	4	2	3
Information Systems	3	4	3	2	4	9	4	4	2	4
Accounting	6	1	3	2	0	5	4	3	6	1
Higher Education and Research	1	4	2	7	1	3	3	3	1	0
Marketing	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	2
All categories	121	127	139	117	128	126	109	113	132	91

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	23
2	Insurance Mathematics and Economics	18
3	Mathematical Programming	17
4	European Journal of Operational Research	14
5	Social Science & Medicine	13
6	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	7
7	Resources Policy	6
8	Computers & Industrial Engineering	6
9	Machine Learning	6
10	Knowledge-Based Systems	6

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	University of Toronto	22
2	Western University	12
3	York University	12
4	University of British Columbia	11
5	Yunnan University	11
6	McMaster University	10
7	University of Alberta	10
8	Wilfrid Laurier University	9
9	Yunnan Key Laboratory of Software Engineering	9

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	Canada	445
2	China	99
3	United States	84
4	United Kingdom	38
5	Australia	19
6	Netherlands	17
7	Italy	15
8	Hong Kong	14
9	Germany	13
10	South Korea	11

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	COVID-19 pandemic	17
2	autonomous vehicles	8
3	large language models	8
4	contrastive learning	7
5	distortion risk measures	7
6	Stackelberg game	6
7	approximation algorithms	6
8	demand uncertainty	6
9	portfolio optimization	6
10	research trends	6

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	3,797	54.2	Image Segmentation Using Deep Learning: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2021-01-01	Shervin Minaee, Yuri Y. Boykov, Fatih Porikli et al.
2	2,963	35.2	Deep Learning for Generic Object Detection: A Survey	International Journal of Computer Vision	2019-10-31	Li Liu, Wanli Ouyang, Xiaogang Wang et al.
3	2,788	42.6	A review of uncertainty quantification in deep learning: Techniques, applications and challenges	Information Fusion	2021-05-23	Moloud Abdar, Farhad Pourpanah, Sadiq Hussain et al.
4	742	6.9	The use of machine learning algorithms in recommender systems: A systematic review	Expert Systems with Applications	2017-12-09	Ivens Da Silva Portugal, Paulo Alencar, Donald D. Cowan
5	695	6.2	Are foreign investors locusts? The long-term effects of foreign institutional ownership	Journal of Financial Economics	2017-07-19	Jan Bena, Miguel A. M. M. Ferreira, Pedro P. Matos et al.
6	616	8.3	Deep Learning for LiDAR Point Clouds in Autonomous Driving: A Review	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2020-08-21	Ying Li, Lingfei Ma, Zilong Zhong et al.
7	529	5.9	Global tourism vulnerability to climate change	Annals of Tourism Research	2019-06-04	Daniel J. Scott, C. Michael Hall, Stefan Gößling
8	521	8.6	Viewpoint: The case for a six-dimensional food security framework	Food Policy	2021-10-27	Jennifer A. Clapp (University of Waterloo), William G. Moseley, Barbara Burlingame et al.
9	376	3.9	From BoW to CNN: Two Decades of Texture Representation for Texture Classification	International Journal of Computer Vision	2018-11-08	Li Liu, Jie Chen, Paul Fieguth et al.
10	345	6.0	Deep ROC Analysis and AUC as Balanced Average Accuracy, for Improved Classifier Selection, Audit and Explanation	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2022-01-25	Andre M. Carrington, Douglas G. Manuel, Paul Fieguth et al.

In OpenAlex#

University of Waterloo in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Also known as	UW, UWaterloo, Université de waterloo
Units listed in OpenAlex	2
Works in OpenAlex	155,614
Citations	10,082,494
h-index	789
i10-index	147,474
2-year mean citedness	5.09
Website	uwaterloo.ca
ROR	ror.org/01aff2v68
Wikidata	www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1049470
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I151746483

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs	Computer Science	3,391
2	Quantum Information and Cryptography	Computer Science	3,084
3	Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics	Mathematics	2,736
4	Advanced Graph Theory Research	Computer Science	2,358
5	Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture	Computer Science	2,093

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)	6,800	283,559	91	1.3%
2025	7,194	389,885	132	1.8%
2024	7,213	381,948	113	1.6%
2023	7,184	363,853	109	1.5%
2022	7,033	345,616	126	1.8%
2021	6,974	346,167	128	1.8%
2020	6,948	301,629	117	1.7%
2019	6,275	258,104	139	2.2%
2018	5,683	225,503	127	2.2%
2017	5,491	200,540	121	2.2%

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
2026-10-26	The inner workings of mobile banking adoption: a systematic literature review of intrinsic factors	Journal of Financial Services Marketing	Yektasadat Amirkhalili, Brian Paul Cozzarin, Stanko Dimitrov	University of Waterloo
2026-10-24	Sensor-conditioned representation learning for structured sensing via scene-relevant observation quotients	Information Sciences	Yan Jiao, Pin‐Han Ho, Limei Peng	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; University of Waterloo; Kyungpook National University
2026-10-10	Decorated stable p-adic self-similar processes with stationary increments	Stochastic Processes and their Applications	Yi Shen, Zhenyuan Zhang	University of Waterloo; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2026-10-09	Equity trade‑offs in global aviation education: evidence from a micro‑credential transition across 141 countries	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	Suzanne K. Kearns, Ammar O. Abulibdeh, Amr ElAlfy et al.	University of Waterloo; International Civil Aviation Organization

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

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