Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Key findings#
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam was involved in 9 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #121 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Business Venturing Insights (1), Annals of Operations Research (1) and Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (1).
- Countries: Netherlands (9), Germany (3) and Finland (3).
- From 2023 to 2025, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ranks #3 in management.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam took part in 1,503 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (562), management (288) and operations research (214).
- 151 of them were published in 2025, against 140 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Tinbergen Institute (94), Erasmus University Rotterdam (38) and University of Amsterdam (36).
- The journals publishing most of them were Ecological Economics (23), Journal of Business Research (18) and Journal of Business Ethics (15).
- The most-cited of them is “Sustainable careers: Towards a conceptual model” (Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2018), with 913 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has 141,607 works with 13,873,466 citations (h-index 993).
- The tracked journals hold 1,382 of its 62,146 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.2%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (3,472), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (2,647) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (2,230).
In the rankings#
Top institutions, 2023–2025: #3 in management
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 51 | 69 | 66 | 54 | 69 | 52 | 57 | 61 | 43 | 40 |
| Management | 12 | 24 | 29 | 24 | 24 | 32 | 45 | 31 | 37 | 30 |
| Operations Research | 20 | 22 | 27 | 24 | 25 | 24 | 13 | 23 | 21 | 15 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 13 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 8 |
| Finance | 23 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 4 |
| AI | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 5 |
| Marketing | 3 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| Accounting | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Higher Education and Research | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Statistics | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 140 | 147 | 156 | 142 | 153 | 158 | 164 | 171 | 151 | 121 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ecological Economics | 23 |
| 2 | Journal of Business Research | 18 |
| 3 | Journal of Business Ethics | 15 |
| 4 | Technovation | 14 |
| 5 | Journal of Econometrics | 14 |
| 6 | Journal of Vocational Behavior | 12 |
| 7 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 10 |
| 8 | The European Journal of Health Economics | 10 |
| 9 | Energy Economics | 9 |
| 10 | Transportation Research Part B Methodological | 9 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tinbergen Institute | 94 |
| 2 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 38 |
| 3 | University of Amsterdam | 36 |
| 4 | Utrecht University | 28 |
| 5 | Amsterdam Public Health | 23 |
| 6 | Maastricht University | 21 |
| 7 | Amsterdam University Medical Centers | 20 |
| 8 | University of Groningen | 19 |
| 9 | Delft University of Technology | 15 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netherlands | 607 |
| 2 | Germany | 100 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 84 |
| 4 | United States | 75 |
| 5 | China | 61 |
| 6 | Italy | 49 |
| 7 | Belgium | 40 |
| 8 | Spain | 31 |
| 9 | France | 31 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 22 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 18 |
| 2 | carbon pricing | 11 |
| 3 | stakeholder engagement | 11 |
| 4 | climate policy | 9 |
| 5 | sustainability transitions | 8 |
| 6 | willingness to pay | 8 |
| 7 | axiomatization | 7 |
| 8 | climate change adaptation | 7 |
| 9 | consumer behavior | 7 |
| 10 | firm performance | 7 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands |
| Also known as | VU, VU Amsterdam |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 141,607 |
| Citations | 13,873,466 |
| h-index | 993 |
| i10-index | 162,120 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.73 |
| Website | vu.nl |
| ROR | ror.org/008xxew50 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I865915315 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research | Medicine | 3,472 |
| 2 | Genetic Associations and Epidemiology | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2,647 |
| 3 | Alzheimer's disease research and treatments | Medicine | 2,230 |
| 4 | Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes | Psychology | 1,842 |
| 5 | Visual perception and processing mechanisms | Neuroscience | 1,833 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 7,518 | 367,312 | 121 | 1.6% |
| 2025 | 8,051 | 461,447 | 151 | 1.9% |
| 2024 | 8,243 | 461,283 | 171 | 2.1% |
| 2023 | 8,054 | 432,192 | 164 | 2.0% |
| 2022 | 7,914 | 413,152 | 158 | 2.0% |
| 2021 | 7,444 | 408,283 | 153 | 2.1% |
| 2020 | 7,053 | 338,917 | 142 | 2.0% |
| 2019 | 6,164 | 280,704 | 156 | 2.5% |
| 2018 | 4,920 | 247,581 | 147 | 3.0% |
| 2017 | 4,303 | 221,136 | 140 | 3.3% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | Towards response-able entrepreneurship as practice | Journal of Business Venturing Insights | Huriye Yeröz, Paul Lassalle, Boukje Cnossen et al. | De Montfort University; University of Strathclyde; Leuphana University of Lüneburg; … |
| 2026-10-30 | Deadlock detection and resolution in queueing networks with blocking | Annals of Operations Research | Tim Rens de Boer, René Bekker, R.D. van der Mei | Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| 2026-10-30 | Tradable credit schemes to decarbonize commuting trips: Insights from a field trial in a university setting | Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice | Isabella Waldorf, Erik T. Verhoef, Klaus Bogenberger | Technical University of Munich; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| 2026-10-28 | Sequencing games with batch-ordered jobs | Mathematical Methods of Operations Research | Iago Núñez Lugilde, Arantza Estévez-Fernández, Estela Sánchez-Rodríguez | Universidade de Vigo; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| 2026-10-27 | Dirty by design? Gig work challenges, stigma, and identity threat in crowdwork | Journal of Business Research | Ward van Zoonen, Monika E. von Bonsdorff, Marjo Elisa Siltaoja | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Jyväskylä |
| 2026-10-23 | Markov-Switching Multifractal Models for High-Frequency Trade Counts | Computational Economics | Zhamilya Mussayeva, Karim Moussa | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| 2026-10-22 | From Decision Support to Decision Partner: The Evolution of AI in Group Decision and Negotiation | Group Decision and Negotiation | Edona Elshan, Muhammed-Faith Kaya, Dominik Siemon | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Hohenheim; Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology |
| 2026-10-17 | Combining management control practices for organizational learning: A situational strength perspective | Accounting Organizations and Society | Flavia Schmid, Frank H. M. Verbeeten, Klaus Möller | University of St.Gallen; Utrecht University; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| 2026-10-15 | Home-based geriatric rehabilitation after shortened inpatient rehabilitation: cost-effectiveness analysis of the “Better@Home” multicentre prospective cohort study with a matched historical control group | The European Journal of Health Economics | Chris J. Gamble, Wim G Groen, M. Vaz et al. | Maastricht University; Care and Public Health Research Institute; Amsterdam Public Health; … |
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Scholar4AI. (2026). Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam
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