Utrecht University
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Key findings#
- Utrecht University was involved in 9 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #162 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Postdigital Science and Education (1), Research Policy (1) and Education and Information Technologies (1).
- Countries: Netherlands (9), Turkey (1) and Switzerland (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Utrecht University took part in 1,131 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (400), management (241) and AI (107).
- 134 of them were published in 2025, against 80 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (28), Delft University of Technology (24) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (21).
- The journals publishing most of them were Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (40), Research Policy (20) and Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (20).
- The most-cited of them is “Barriers to the Circular Economy: Evidence From the European Union (EU)” (Ecological Economics, 2018), with 1,900 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Utrecht University has 203,327 works with 20,517,154 citations (h-index 1,084).
- The tracked journals hold 1,011 of its 81,255 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.2%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (4,365), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (3,482) and Climate variability and models (2,261).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 28 | 41 | 56 | 43 | 39 | 37 | 35 | 33 | 44 | 44 |
| Management | 13 | 18 | 21 | 30 | 33 | 31 | 24 | 24 | 23 | 24 |
| AI | 4 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 17 | 9 |
| Operations Research | 8 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 9 |
| Finance | 9 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 6 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 3 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 5 |
| Information Systems | 5 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 11 |
| Higher Education and Research | 6 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 |
| Statistics | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Marketing | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 80 | 103 | 108 | 115 | 120 | 116 | 111 | 124 | 134 | 120 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions | 40 |
| 2 | Research Policy | 20 |
| 3 | Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice | 20 |
| 4 | Land Use Policy | 13 |
| 5 | Business & Information Systems Engineering | 12 |
| 6 | Ecological Economics | 11 |
| 7 | Transportation | 9 |
| 8 | Health Policy | 9 |
| 9 | Energy Policy | 9 |
| 10 | Journal of Business Research | 8 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 28 |
| 2 | Delft University of Technology | 24 |
| 3 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 21 |
| 4 | Tilburg University | 21 |
| 5 | University of Groningen | 19 |
| 6 | University Medical Center Utrecht | 18 |
| 7 | Centre for Economic Policy Research | 15 |
| 8 | Leiden University | 15 |
| 9 | Maastricht University | 14 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netherlands | 489 |
| 2 | Germany | 91 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 77 |
| 4 | China | 40 |
| 5 | United States | 38 |
| 6 | Italy | 37 |
| 7 | Belgium | 34 |
| 8 | France | 32 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 21 |
| 10 | Canada | 20 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | sustainability transitions | 20 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 13 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 11 |
| 4 | energy transition | 11 |
| 5 | travel behavior | 10 |
| 6 | built environment | 9 |
| 7 | entrepreneurial ecosystems | 9 |
| 8 | mode choice | 9 |
| 9 | path dependence | 8 |
| 10 | stock returns | 8 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Also known as | Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 203,327 |
| Citations | 20,517,154 |
| h-index | 1,084 |
| i10-index | 255,290 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 6.37 |
| Website | www.uu.nl |
| ROR | ror.org/04pp8hn57 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I193662353 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Geology and Paleoclimatology Research | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 4,365 |
| 2 | Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3,482 |
| 3 | Climate variability and models | Environmental Science | 2,261 |
| 4 | Veterinary Medicine and Surgery | Veterinary | 2,212 |
| 5 | Cryospheric studies and observations | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1,962 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 8,785 | 506,478 | 120 | 1.4% |
| 2025 | 10,262 | 622,144 | 134 | 1.3% |
| 2024 | 10,327 | 621,222 | 124 | 1.2% |
| 2023 | 10,182 | 597,759 | 111 | 1.1% |
| 2022 | 9,592 | 586,001 | 116 | 1.2% |
| 2021 | 10,002 | 588,996 | 120 | 1.2% |
| 2020 | 9,338 | 499,792 | 115 | 1.2% |
| 2019 | 8,189 | 402,802 | 108 | 1.3% |
| 2018 | 7,239 | 354,129 | 103 | 1.4% |
| 2017 | 6,124 | 321,959 | 80 | 1.3% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Utrecht University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/utrecht-university
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Utrecht University},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/utrecht-university}},
urldate = {2026-11-03},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}