---
title: "Utrecht University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Utrecht University: 1,131 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and management; h-index 1,084."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/utrecht-university
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share_text: "Research profile of Utrecht University: 1,131 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and management; h-index 1,084. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Utrecht University

- 2 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Netherlands
- web domain: uu.nl

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

## 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

*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) | 28 | 41 | 56 | 43 | 39 | 37 | 35 | 33 | 44 | 44 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 13 | 18 | 21 | 30 | 33 | 31 | 24 | 24 | 23 | 24 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 4 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 17 | 9 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 8 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 9 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 9 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 6 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 3 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 5 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 11 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 6 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | 40 |
| 2 | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 20 |
| 3 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 20 |
| 4 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Transportation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 8 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam.md) | 28 |
| 2 | [Delft University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/delft-university-of-technology.md) | 24 |
| 3 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 21 |
| 4 | [Tilburg University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tilburg-university.md) | 21 |
| 5 | [University of Groningen](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-groningen.md) | 19 |
| 6 | University Medical Center Utrecht | 18 |
| 7 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 15 |
| 8 | [Leiden University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/leiden-university.md) | 15 |
| 9 | [Maastricht University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/maastricht-university.md) | 14 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | sustainability transitions | 20 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 13 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 11 |
| 4 | [energy transition](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-transition.md) | 11 |
| 5 | travel behavior | 10 |
| 6 | built environment | 9 |
| 7 | entrepreneurial ecosystems | 9 |
| 8 | [mode choice](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mode-choice.md) | 9 |
| 9 | path dependence | 8 |
| 10 | [stock returns](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/stock-returns.md) | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,900 | 18.6 | [Barriers to the Circular Economy: Evidence From the European Union (EU)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.04.028) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2018-04-30 | Julian Kirchherr, Laura Piscicelli, Ruben Bour et al. |
| 2 | 1,314 | 15.7 | [Entrepreneurial ecosystem elements](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00270-6) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 2019-11-11 | Erik Stam, Andrew Van de Ven |
| 3 | 1,159 | 16.8 | [An open source machine learning framework for efficient and transparent systematic reviews](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-020-00287-7) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-02-01 | Rens van de Schoot, Jonathan De Bruin, Raoul D. Schram et al. |
| 4 | 1,093 | 9.3 | [Putting the sharing economy into perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2017.01.003) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | 2017-01-22 | Koen Frenken, Juliet B. Schor |
| 5 | 1,033 | 9.1 | [The lineages of the entrepreneurial ecosystem approach](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-017-9864-8) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 2017-05-11 | Zoltán J. Ács, Erik Stam, David Bruce Audretsch et al. |
| 6 | 844 | 8.7 | [Towards a typology of intermediaries in sustainability transitions: A systematic review and a research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.006) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2018-10-11 | Paula Kivimaa, Wouter Boon, Sampsa Hyysalo et al. |
| 7 | 641 | 5.7 | [Global Innovation Systems—A conceptual framework for innovation dynamics in transnational contexts](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2017.05.012) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2017-06-13 | Christian Binz, Bernhard Truffer |
| 8 | 518 | 5.0 | [Institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in Europe](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-018-0012-x) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 2018-02-24 | Niels S. Bosma, Jeroen Content, Mark W. J. L. Sanders et al. |
| 9 | 434 | 5.3 | [Mission-oriented innovation systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2019.11.011) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | 2020-01-13 | Marko P. Hekkert, M. J. Janssen, Joeri Hendrik Wesseling et al. |
| 10 | 423 | 3.6 | [A comparative study of machine learning classifiers for modeling travel mode choice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.01.057) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2017-02-13 | Julian Hagenauer, Marco Helbich |

## In OpenAlex

*Utrecht University 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](https://www.uu.nl) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04pp8hn57](https://ror.org/04pp8hn57) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I193662353](https://openalex.org/I193662353) |

*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) | 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% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | 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 |

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 | [What Could Students Learn About Large Language Models in L1 Education?](https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-026-00717-6) | [Postdigital Science and Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/postdigital-science-and-education.md) | Emmy Stevens, Siebe Bluijs, Jimmy van Rijt et al. | Tilburg University; Utrecht University; Leiden University |
| 2026-10-29 | [The effects of national security assessments in public procurement on competition, sustainability, innovation, and critical technology procurement](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2026.105657) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | Pelle Berkhout, Anne Rainville, Matthijs Janssen et al. | Utrecht University |
| 2026-10-26 | [Beyond the dashboard: co-designing actionable learning analytics for primary education](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-026-14172-0) | [Education and Information Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/education-and-information-technologies.md) | Paraskevi Topali, Nieske Coetsier, Onuralp Ulusoy et al. | Radboud University Nijmegen; HAN University of Applied Sciences; Utrecht University |
| 2026-10-24 | [Machine translation on sign language: A study of linguistic augmentation under simulated low-resource conditions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.124335) | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | Begüm Mutlu | Ankara University; Utrecht University |
| 2026-10-20 | [Smartphone Apps, Hooked Nudges, and Autonomy: A Reply to Sheintul](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-026-01219-w) | [Philosophy & Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/philosophy-technology.md) | Rebecca Zeilstra | Utrecht University |
| 2026-10-17 | [Combining management control practices for organizational learning: A situational strength perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2026.101662) | [Accounting Organizations and Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/accounting-organizations-and-society.md) | Flavia Schmid, Frank H. M. Verbeeten, Klaus Möller | University of St.Gallen; Utrecht University; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| 2026-10-16 | [Detecting tariff evasion: Evidence from matched container data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2026.103952) | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | Clément Anne, Cyril Romain Chalendard, Ana Margarida Fernandes et al. | World Bank; World Bank Group; Utrecht University; … |
| 2026-10-14 | [Perform together: gaining growth momentum in SMEs through employee involvement](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-026-01260-3) | [International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-entrepreneurship-and-management-journal.md) | Paul Geuvers, Erik Stam, Samuele Murtinu | Utrecht University |
| 2026-10-10 | [Developing a resource-based analysis of technological innovation systems: The case of digital innovation in Dutch processing industries](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101206) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | Nikhil John, Joeri Hendrik Wesseling, Koen Frenken | Utrecht University; Delft University of Technology |

## 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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