Western University
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Key findings#
- Western University was involved in 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #234 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Journal of International Business Studies (1), World Patent Information (1) and Implementation Science (1).
- Countries: Canada (7), Australia (2) and United States (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Western University took part in 817 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (194), economics (151) and finance (119).
- 92 of them were published in 2025, against 70 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Ivey Business School (127), University of Ottawa (13) and University of Toronto (13).
- The journals publishing most of them were European Journal of Operational Research (15), Knowledge-Based Systems (13) and Journal of International Business Studies (11).
- The most-cited of them is “COVID-19 and digitalization: The great acceleration” (Journal of Business Research, 2021), with 947 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Western University has 174,310 works with 13,513,159 citations (h-index 902).
- The tracked journals hold 746 of its 69,743 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.1%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Innovations in Medical Education (2,165), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (2,120) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (1,858).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management | 19 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 23 | 23 | 19 | 20 | 26 | 20 |
| Economics | 15 | 24 | 8 | 16 | 10 | 22 | 15 | 17 | 14 | 10 |
| Finance | 13 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 19 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 10 |
| Operations Research | 4 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 20 | 12 | 6 |
| AI | 9 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 11 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 7 |
| Statistics | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Marketing | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 70 | 67 | 56 | 85 | 76 | 114 | 82 | 104 | 92 | 71 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | European Journal of Operational Research | 15 |
| 2 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 13 |
| 3 | Journal of International Business Studies | 11 |
| 4 | Journal of Business Research | 11 |
| 5 | Finance research letters | 11 |
| 6 | Journal of Business Ethics | 10 |
| 7 | Health Research Policy and Systems | 10 |
| 8 | Neural Networks | 8 |
| 9 | International Business Review | 8 |
| 10 | Journal of World Business | 8 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ivey Business School | 127 |
| 2 | University of Ottawa | 13 |
| 3 | University of Toronto | 13 |
| 4 | McGill University | 12 |
| 5 | Vienna University of Economics and Business | 12 |
| 6 | Technical University of Munich | 10 |
| 7 | University of Birmingham | 9 |
| 8 | Vector Institute | 9 |
| 9 | Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | 349 |
| 2 | United States | 95 |
| 3 | China | 54 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 53 |
| 5 | Australia | 18 |
| 6 | Germany | 17 |
| 7 | France | 17 |
| 8 | Austria | 16 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 9 |
| 10 | Finland | 8 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | multinational corporations | 18 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 10 |
| 3 | portfolio optimization | 10 |
| 4 | corporate governance | 6 |
| 5 | expected utility | 6 |
| 6 | risk aversion | 6 |
| 7 | China | 5 |
| 8 | S&P 500 | 5 |
| 9 | emerging markets | 5 |
| 10 | feature selection | 5 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | London, Ontario, Canada |
| Also known as | UWO, The University of Western Ontario, University of Western Ontario |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 7 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 174,310 |
| Citations | 13,513,159 |
| h-index | 902 |
| i10-index | 184,058 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.44 |
| Website | uwo.ca |
| ROR | ror.org/02grkyz14 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I125749732 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Innovations in Medical Education | Medicine | 2,165 |
| 2 | Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research | Medicine | 2,120 |
| 3 | Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1,858 |
| 4 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 1,708 |
| 5 | Astro and Planetary Science | Physics and Astronomy | 1,688 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 7,026 | 321,597 | 71 | 1.0% |
| 2025 | 8,705 | 408,790 | 92 | 1.1% |
| 2024 | 8,742 | 408,060 | 104 | 1.2% |
| 2023 | 8,868 | 383,314 | 82 | 0.9% |
| 2022 | 8,233 | 376,825 | 114 | 1.4% |
| 2021 | 8,656 | 379,295 | 76 | 0.9% |
| 2020 | 7,652 | 342,300 | 85 | 1.1% |
| 2019 | 6,397 | 286,295 | 56 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 6,374 | 259,181 | 67 | 1.1% |
| 2017 | 6,116 | 240,722 | 70 | 1.1% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Western University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/western-university
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Western University},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/western-university}},
urldate = {2026-11-03},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}