---
title: "Vanderbilt University: research profile and papers"
description: "Historical profile (data snapshot 2026-11-04). Research profile of Vanderbilt University: 497 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and higher education and research; h-index 1,170."
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share_text: "Historical profile (data snapshot 2026-11-04). Research profile of Vanderbilt University: 497 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and higher education and research; h-index 1,170."
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-04T18:03:26+09:00
window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
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---

# Vanderbilt University

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Historical profile. Data snapshot: 2026-11-04. This profile is outside the current selection; the figures and research below are retained from that snapshot. Browse the directory for other profiles.

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

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## Key findings

- Vanderbilt University was involved in 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #290 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Health Economics (2), Journal of Economics Race and Policy (1) and Journal of Scheduling (1).
- Countries: United States (6), Canada (1) and France (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Vanderbilt University took part in 497 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (214), higher education and research (62) and AI (53).
- 47 of them were published in 2025, against 49 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were National Bureau of Economic Research (12), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (10) and University of Pennsylvania (10).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Educational Development (19), Journal of Econometrics (9) and Economics of Education Review (7).
- The most-cited of them is “Difference-in-Differences with multiple time periods” (Journal of Econometrics, 2020), with 9,073 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Vanderbilt University has 179,754 works with 22,552,924 citations (h-index 1,170).
- The tracked journals hold 452 of its 62,650 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.7%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (3,412), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (3,179) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (3,147).

## 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) | 20 | 23 | 31 | 26 | 17 | 24 | 17 | 22 | 21 | 13 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 9 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 49 | 48 | 47 | 49 | 40 | 61 | 55 | 56 | 47 | 45 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Journal of Educational Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-development.md) | 19 |
| 2 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Economics of Education Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-education-review.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [Explorations in Economic History](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/explorations-in-economic-history.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Innovative Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/innovative-higher-education.md) | 4 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [National Bureau of Economic Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-bureau-of-economic-research.md) | 12 |
| 2 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [University of Pennsylvania](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pennsylvania.md) | 10 |
| 4 | [China Mobile (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/china-mobile-china.md) | 6 |
| 5 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center | 6 |
| 6 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 5 |
| 8 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 5 |
| 9 | University of Pittsburgh | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 203 |
| 2 | China | 25 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 11 |
| 4 | Canada | 8 |
| 5 | Australia | 6 |
| 6 | Germany | 5 |
| 7 | New Zealand | 4 |
| 8 | Spain | 3 |
| 9 | France | 3 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 3 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Dempster-Shafer theory | 7 |
| 2 | sexual orientation | 6 |
| 3 | racial disparities | 5 |
| 4 | employment | 4 |
| 5 | multimedia retrieval | 4 |
| 6 | sexual minorities | 4 |
| 7 | unsupervised hashing | 4 |
| 8 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 3 |
| 9 | business survival | 3 |
| 10 | [consumer behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/consumer-behavior.md) | 3 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9,073 | 128.6 | [Difference-in-Differences with multiple time periods](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.12.001) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2020-12-17 | Brantly Callaway, Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna |
| 2 | 2,801 | 30.1 | [An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2019.01.004) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | 2019-01-31 | Jonathan Köhler, Frank Willem Geels, Florian Kern et al. |
| 3 | 1,044 | 13.8 | [Doubly robust difference-in-differences estimators](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.06.003) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2020-07-07 | Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna, Jun B. Zhao |
| 4 | 933 | 13.6 | [Digital Twin: Generalization, characterization and implementation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2021.113524) | [Decision Support Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-support-systems.md) | 2021-02-17 | Eric VanDerHorn, Sankaran Mahadevan |
| 5 | 804 | 7.7 | [Dissipation of stop-and-go waves via control of autonomous vehicles: Field experiments](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2018.02.005) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2018-02-20 | Raphael Stern, Shumo Cui, Maria Laura Delle Monache et al. |
| 6 | 459 | 5.7 | [A review of deep learning with special emphasis on architectures, applications and recent trends](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2020.105596) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2020-02-06 | Saptarshi Sengupta, Sanchita Basak, Pallabi Saikia et al. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | 305 | 4.8 | [Confidence interval for micro-averaged F1 and macro-averaged F1 scores](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-021-02635-5) | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 2021-07-31 | Kanae Takahashi, Kouji Yamamoto, Aya Kuchiba et al. |
| 9 | 274 | 2.6 | [Output Reachable Set Estimation and Verification for Multilayer Neural Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2808470) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2018-03-16 | Weiming Xiang, Hoang-Dung Tran, Taylor Thomas Johnson |
| 10 | 236 | 4.3 | [Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machines](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-022-00452-0) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-03-23 | Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Mario Aguilar, Jonathan William Babb et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Vanderbilt University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
| Also known as | Vandy |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 179,754 |
| Citations | 22,552,924 |
| h-index | 1,170 |
| i10-index | 248,151 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.35 |
| Website | [www.vanderbilt.edu](https://www.vanderbilt.edu/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/02vm5rt34](https://ror.org/02vm5rt34) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I200719446](https://openalex.org/I200719446) |

*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) | 7,720 | 380,479 | 45 | 0.6% |
| 2025 | 7,373 | 494,039 | 47 | 0.6% |
| 2024 | 7,158 | 505,984 | 56 | 0.8% |
| 2023 | 7,631 | 489,751 | 55 | 0.7% |
| 2022 | 6,900 | 491,469 | 61 | 0.9% |
| 2021 | 6,949 | 509,430 | 40 | 0.6% |
| 2020 | 7,285 | 463,710 | 49 | 0.7% |
| 2019 | 6,645 | 395,012 | 47 | 0.7% |
| 2018 | 6,493 | 359,883 | 48 | 0.7% |
| 2017 | 6,216 | 345,808 | 49 | 0.8% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Genetic Associations and Epidemiology | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3,412 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 3,179 |
| 3 | Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research | Neuroscience | 3,147 |
| 4 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 3,019 |
| 5 | Particle Detector Development and Performance | Physics and Astronomy | 2,602 |

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 | [Charting the Divide: The Intersection of Healthcare Provider Demographics and Politics in the Post-Dobbs Regime](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41996-026-00206-9) | [Journal of Economics Race and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economics-race-and-policy.md) | Jennifer Bennett Shinall, Myrick Clements Shinall | Vanderbilt University; Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| 2026-10-28 | [External reference pricing versus price controls under endogenous product quality](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2026.103195) | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | Difei Geng, Kamal Saggi D | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville; Vanderbilt University |
| 2026-10-24 | [Near-optimal universal scheduling for moldable tasks: the Fair algorithm](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-026-00897-w) | [Journal of Scheduling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-scheduling.md) | Lucas Perotin, Thomas Verrecchia, Padma Raghavan | Vanderbilt University |
| 2026-10-22 | [Measuring the state of open science in transportation using large language models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106024) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Junyi Ji, Ruth Lu, Linda Belkessa et al. | Vanderbilt University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Université Gustave Eiffel; … |
| 2026-10-17 | [Does advertising expand the market for hospital services? Evidence from Medicare](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2026.103191) | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | Abby E. Alpert, Atul Gupta, Michael R. Richards et al. | University of Pennsylvania; Cornell University; Vanderbilt University; … |
| 2026-10-06 | [UPER: A Unified Polyhedral Representation for universal multi-dimensional diffusion MRI image modeling](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104336) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Tianyuan Yao, Zhiyuan Li, Michael Kim et al. | Vanderbilt University; Park University; Vanderbilt University Medical Center; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Vanderbilt University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/vanderbilt-university

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  title = {Vanderbilt University},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/vanderbilt-university}},
  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/).