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title: "Virginia Tech: research profile, papers and co-authors"
description: "Research profile of Virginia Tech: 1,011 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and tourism and hospitality; h-index 835."
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share_text: "Research profile of Virginia Tech: 1,011 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and tourism and hospitality; h-index 835. (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Virginia Tech

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: United States
- web domain: vt.edu

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

## Key findings

- Virginia Tech was involved in 1 paper in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #1562 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research (1).
- Countries: United States (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Virginia Tech took part in 1,011 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (263), tourism and hospitality (173) and operations research (121).
- 126 of them were published in 2025, against 99 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Alicante (11), Shandong Normal University (10) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Hospitality Management (22), Tourism Management (21) and Expert Systems with Applications (12).
- The most-cited of them is “Fast and Accurate Image Super-Resolution with Deep Laplacian Pyramid Networks” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2018), with 956 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Virginia Tech has 172,082 works with 11,254,912 citations (h-index 835).
- The tracked journals hold 928 of its 63,258 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.5%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Aeroelasticity and Vibration Control (3,008), Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics (2,637) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (2,570).

## 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) | 32 | 30 | 31 | 27 | 29 | 20 | 32 | 19 | 24 | 19 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 12 | 15 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 20 | 16 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 13 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 16 | 16 | 5 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 10 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 5 | 24 | 14 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 6 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 6 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 9 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 5 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 2 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 99 | 102 | 98 | 96 | 109 | 101 | 114 | 83 | 126 | 83 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 21 |
| 3 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Information & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-management.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Alicante | 11 |
| 2 | [Shandong Normal University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shandong-normal-university.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [Florida State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/florida-state-university.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [George Mason University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/george-mason-university.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 6 |
| 8 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 6 |
| 9 | [Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/rutgers-the-state-university-of-new-jersey.md) | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 406 |
| 2 | China | 62 |
| 3 | Spain | 24 |
| 4 | France | 21 |
| 5 | Canada | 18 |
| 6 | India | 17 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 16 |
| 8 | Australia | 15 |
| 9 | Germany | 13 |
| 10 | South Korea | 9 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 12 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 11 |
| 3 | [hospitality industry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/hospitality-industry.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [online reviews](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/online-reviews.md) | 10 |
| 5 | loss aversion | 7 |
| 6 | prospect theory | 7 |
| 7 | [spillover effects](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/spillover-effects.md) | 7 |
| 8 | Airbnb | 6 |
| 9 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [firm value](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/firm-value.md) | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 956 | 9.7 | [Fast and Accurate Image Super-Resolution with Deep Laplacian Pyramid Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2865304) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-08-13 | Wei‐Sheng Lai, Jia‐Bin Huang, Narendra Ahuja et al. |
| 2 | 899 | 8.4 | [Optimal and Autonomous Control Using Reinforcement Learning: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2017.2773458) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2017-12-07 | Bahare Kiumarsi, Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis, Hamidreza Modares et al. |
| 3 | 695 | 6.2 | [Are foreign investors locusts? The long-term effects of foreign institutional ownership](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2017.07.005) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2017-07-19 | Jan Bena, Miguel A. M. M. Ferreira, Pedro P. Matos et al. |
| 4 | 685 | 9.9 | [Adoption and use of AI tools: a research agenda grounded in UTAUT](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-020-03918-9) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 2021-01-19 | Viswanath Venkatesh |
| 5 | 608 | 7.9 | [e-Tourism beyond COVID-19: a call for transformative research](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40558-020-00181-3) | [Information Technology & Tourism](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-technology-tourism.md) | 2020-05-29 | Ulrike Gretzel B, Matthias Fuchs, Rodolfo Baggio et al. |
| 6 | 514 | 4.8 | [A new image classification method using CNN transfer learning and web data augmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.11.028) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2017-11-13 | Dongmei Han, Qigang Liu, Weiguo Fan |
| 7 | 487 | 6.0 | [DRIT++: Diverse Image-to-Image Translation via Disentangled Representations](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-019-01284-z) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2020-02-03 | Hsin-Ying Lee, Hung-Yu Tseng, Qi Mao et al. |
| 8 | 486 | 5.0 | [Making the V in VQA Matter: Elevating the Role of Image Understanding in Visual Question Answering](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-018-1116-0) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2018-09-11 | Yash Goyal, Tejas Khot, Aishwarya Agrawal et al. |
| 9 | 474 | 4.2 | [Understanding the determinants of online review helpfulness: A meta-analytic investigation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2017.06.007) | [Decision Support Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-support-systems.md) | 2017-06-28 | Hong Hong, Di Xu, Gang Alan Wang et al. |
| 10 | 405 | 3.8 | [Inferring transportation modes from GPS trajectories using a convolutional neural network](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2017.11.021) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2017-12-01 | Sina Dabiri, Kevin P. Heaslip |

## In OpenAlex

*Virginia Tech in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Blacksburg, Virginia, United States |
| Also known as | Institut polytechnique et université d'État de virginie, Instituto Politécnico y Universidad Estatal de Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 5 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 172,082 |
| Citations | 11,254,912 |
| h-index | 835 |
| i10-index | 170,870 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.34 |
| Website | [www.vt.edu](https://www.vt.edu) |
| ROR | [ror.org/02smfhw86](https://ror.org/02smfhw86) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I859038795](https://openalex.org/I859038795) |

*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) | 7,074 | 275,512 | 83 | 1.2% |
| 2025 | 7,918 | 363,435 | 126 | 1.6% |
| 2024 | 8,402 | 364,597 | 83 | 1.0% |
| 2023 | 7,783 | 350,000 | 114 | 1.5% |
| 2022 | 6,976 | 342,218 | 101 | 1.4% |
| 2021 | 6,709 | 346,581 | 109 | 1.6% |
| 2020 | 7,342 | 307,225 | 96 | 1.3% |
| 2019 | 6,281 | 259,142 | 98 | 1.6% |
| 2018 | 5,932 | 230,278 | 102 | 1.7% |
| 2017 | 5,915 | 206,466 | 99 | 1.7% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Aeroelasticity and Vibration Control | Engineering | 3,008 |
| 2 | Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics | Engineering | 2,637 |
| 3 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 2,570 |
| 4 | Advanced DC-DC Converters | Engineering | 2,565 |
| 5 | Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows | Engineering | 2,206 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | [Organizational Factors Impacting Implementation of Evidence-based Practices for Autistic Youth: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of Virginia’s Community Mental Health System](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-026-01525-7) | [Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/administration-and-policy-in-mental-health-and-mental-health-services-research.md) | Jennifer R. Bertollo, Jessica E. Tschida, Megan Fok et al. | Children's National; Virginia Tech; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Virginia Tech. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/virginia-tech

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-institutions-virginia-tech,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Virginia Tech},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/virginia-tech}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).