---
title: "University of Wisconsin–Madison: research profile"
description: "Research profile of University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1,086 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 1,518."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1,086 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 1,518. (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-04T00:03:46+09:00
window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
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---

# University of Wisconsin–Madison

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

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

## Key findings

- University of Wisconsin–Madison was involved in 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #236 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (3), Human Resource Management Review (1) and PharmacoEconomics (1).
- Countries: United States (7), China (3) and Indonesia (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Wisconsin–Madison took part in 1,086 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (417), operations research (263) and AI (88).
- 141 of them were published in 2025, against 89 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Dartmouth College (25), Southeast University (24) and Texas A&M University (21).
- The journals publishing most of them were Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (49), International Economics (25) and Mathematical Programming (15).
- The most-cited of them is “CasADi: a software framework for nonlinear optimization and optimal control” (Mathematical Programming Computation, 2018), with 3,895 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Wisconsin–Madison has 396,669 works with 47,250,662 citations (h-index 1,518).
- The tracked journals hold 968 of its 121,028 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.8%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (8,887), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (6,896) and Cryospheric studies and observations (6,684).
- OpenAlex lists it under University of Wisconsin System.

## 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) | 34 | 62 | 43 | 43 | 28 | 45 | 32 | 41 | 58 | 31 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 29 | 23 | 26 | 20 | 25 | 25 | 23 | 31 | 25 | 36 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 22 | 13 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 12 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 7 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 12 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 89 | 130 | 102 | 91 | 92 | 103 | 102 | 118 | 141 | 118 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 49 |
| 2 | [International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-economics.md) | 25 |
| 3 | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [Innovative Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/innovative-higher-education.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Dartmouth College | 25 |
| 2 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 24 |
| 3 | [Texas A&M University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/texas-a-m-university.md) | 21 |
| 4 | Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery | 12 |
| 5 | [University of Michigan](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-michigan.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [Cornell University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/cornell-university.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 8 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 479 |
| 2 | China | 98 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 32 |
| 4 | Canada | 24 |
| 5 | South Korea | 17 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 13 |
| 7 | Singapore | 11 |
| 8 | Germany | 9 |
| 9 | Australia | 8 |
| 10 | France | 6 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [international trade](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/international-trade.md) | 24 |
| 2 | connected and automated vehicles | 18 |
| 3 | [autonomous vehicles](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/autonomous-vehicles.md) | 15 |
| 4 | trade policy | 13 |
| 5 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 10 |
| 6 | trade theory | 10 |
| 7 | longevity | 8 |
| 8 | road safety | 8 |
| 9 | string stability | 8 |
| 10 | [deep reinforcement learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/deep-reinforcement-learning.md) | 7 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,895 | 39.0 | [CasADi: a software framework for nonlinear optimization and optimal control](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-018-0139-4) | [Mathematical Programming Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming-computation.md) | 2018-07-11 | Joel A.E. Andersson, Joris Gillis, Greg Horn et al. |
| 2 | 885 | 31.2 | [Generalized Out-of-Distribution Detection: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-024-02117-4) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2024-06-23 | Jingkang Yang, Kaiyang Zhou, Yixuan Li et al. |
| 3 | 800 | 7.7 | [A hybrid deep learning based traffic flow prediction method and its understanding](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2018.03.001) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2018-03-20 | Yuankai Wu, Huachun Tan, Lingqiao Qin et al. |
| 4 | 363 | 3.7 | [The effects of scarcity on consumer decision journeys](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-018-0604-7) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2018-09-20 | Rebecca W. Hamilton, Debora Viana Thompson, Sterling A. Bone et al. |
| 5 | 362 | 3.1 | [Towards vehicle automation: Roadway capacity formulation for traffic mixed with regular and automated vehicles](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2017.01.017) | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 2017-03-01 | Danjue Chen, Soyoung Ahn, Madhav Chitturi et al. |
| 6 | 340 | 2.9 | [Dynamic passenger demand oriented metro train scheduling with energy-efficiency and waiting time minimization: Mixed-integer linear programming approaches](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2017.01.001) | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 2017-01-13 | Jiateng Yin, Lixing Yang, Tao Tang et al. |
| 7 | 309 | 3.2 | [Entrepreneurship and eudaimonic well-being: Five venues for new science](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2018.09.003) | [Journal of Business Venturing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing.md) | 2018-10-01 | Carol Diane Ryff |
| 8 | 276 | 2.8 | [The Role of Family Support in Facilitating Academic Success of Low-Income Students](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-018-9517-z) | [Research in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-higher-education.md) | 2018-06-29 | Josipa Roksa, Peter Kinsley |
| 9 | 251 | 2.5 | [A dynamic lane-changing trajectory planning model for automated vehicles](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2018.06.007) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2018-07-27 | Da Yong Yang, Shiyu Zheng, Cheng Wen et al. |
| 10 | 247 | 2.5 | [Distributed conflict-free cooperation for multiple connected vehicles at unsignalized intersections](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2018.06.004) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2018-06-22 | Biao Xu, Shengbo Eben Li, Yougang Bian et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Wisconsin–Madison in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Madison, Wisconsin, United States |
| Also known as | UW, UW–Madison, Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Part of | [University of Wisconsin System](https://openalex.org/I1304256225) |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 7 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 396,669 |
| Citations | 47,250,662 |
| h-index | 1,518 |
| i10-index | 541,270 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.05 |
| Website | [www.wisc.edu](https://www.wisc.edu/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01y2jtd41](https://ror.org/01y2jtd41) |
| Wikidata | [Q838330](Q838330) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I135310074](https://openalex.org/I135310074) |

*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) | 23,193 | 757,595 | 118 | 0.5% |
| 2025 | 15,785 | 982,168 | 141 | 0.9% |
| 2024 | 15,033 | 988,793 | 118 | 0.8% |
| 2023 | 14,583 | 962,256 | 102 | 0.7% |
| 2022 | 13,265 | 964,268 | 103 | 0.8% |
| 2021 | 13,614 | 1,002,762 | 92 | 0.7% |
| 2020 | 13,532 | 914,277 | 91 | 0.7% |
| 2019 | 12,087 | 809,550 | 102 | 0.8% |
| 2018 | 11,854 | 734,701 | 130 | 1.1% |
| 2017 | 11,275 | 696,284 | 89 | 0.8% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 8,887 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 6,896 |
| 3 | Cryospheric studies and observations | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 6,684 |
| 4 | Environmental Monitoring and Data Management | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 5,804 |
| 5 | Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5,309 |

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 | [Drawing more complete and valid interpretations of mediation in human resource management: Beyond the sole focus on indirect effects and their statistical significance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2026.101184) | [Human Resource Management Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/human-resource-management-review.md) | Rakoon Piyanontalee, Jie (Jasmine) Feng, Mevan M. Jayasinghe et al. | The College of New Jersey; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Michigan State University; … |
| 2026-10-25 | [Measuring the Health of Young Children](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-026-01675-4) | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | Daniel M. Hausman | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 2026-10-24 | [Developing a Malay ethnomathematics learning instruction based on a 360-degree virtual tour: supporting fifth-grade students’ spatial skills and cultural awareness](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-026-14176-w) | [Education and Information Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/education-and-information-technologies.md) | Rizki Rahmali Fadhillah, Zetra Hainul Putra, Neni Hermita et al. | Riau University; University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 2026-10-19 | [A low-rank consensus method for vision language model hallucination mitigation in autonomous driving](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106092) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Keke Long, Jiacheng Guo, Tianyun Zhang et al. | University of Wisconsin–Madison; Cleveland State University; University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| 2026-10-10 | [Decision-making and planning for autonomous vehicles on foggy highway obstacle sections under visual perception](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106056) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Shengchun Sui, Yongming He, Xinran Li et al. | Northeast Forestry University; University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 2026-10-07 | [Integrated optimization of collection point selection, UAV routing, and upload scheduling for UAV-aided data collection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106061) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Bingjie Liang, Gang Zhong, Yuanzhang Zhao et al. | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Southeast University; University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 2026-10-06 | [A hierarchical vehicle trajectory planning method based on risk assessment and safe spatio-temporal reachable set](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134656) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Chuang Cui, Bocheng An, Linheng Li et al. | Southeast University; University of Wisconsin–Madison |

## Cite this page

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

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  title = {University of Wisconsin–Madison},
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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).