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title: "Yonsei University: research profile, papers and co-authors"
description: "Research profile of Yonsei University: 1,348 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 777."
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share_text: "Research profile of Yonsei University: 1,348 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 777. (as of 2026-11-02)"
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# Yonsei University

- 3 papers in the last 7 days
- country: South Korea
- web domain: yonsei.ac.kr

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

## Key findings

- Yonsei University was involved in 17 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #43 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Statistics and Computing (1), International Journal of Computer Vision (1) and Energy Policy (1).
- Countries: South Korea (17), China (3) and Lithuania (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, Yonsei University ranks #3 in marketing.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Yonsei University took part in 1,348 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (503), economics (205) and management (148).
- 160 of them were published in 2025, against 70 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Southeast University (39), Saveetha University (37) and Yonsei University Mirae Campus (28).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (72), Pattern Recognition (36) and Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (30).
- The most-cited of them is “African vultures optimization algorithm: A new nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for global optimization problems” (Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021), with 1,447 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Yonsei University has 182,604 works with 14,369,283 citations (h-index 777).
- The tracked journals hold 1,216 of its 87,011 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.4%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes (2,661), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (2,619) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (2,474).

## In the rankings

Top institutions, 2023–2025: [#3 in marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/marketing.md)

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 15 | 16 | 13 | 38 | 63 | 112 | 95 | 49 | 58 | 44 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 22 | 18 | 15 | 15 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 15 | 33 | 21 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 10 | 17 | 15 | 21 | 12 | 18 | 10 | 15 | 18 | 12 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 3 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 18 | 10 | 10 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 6 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 16 | 10 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 9 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 7 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 5 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| All categories | 70 | 82 | 74 | 118 | 152 | 204 | 203 | 153 | 160 | 132 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 72 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 36 |
| 3 | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 30 |
| 4 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 25 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 22 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 17 |
| 7 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 16 |
| 8 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 39 |
| 2 | Saveetha University | 37 |
| 3 | Yonsei University Mirae Campus | 28 |
| 4 | Pohang University of Science and Technology | 21 |
| 5 | Shanghai Maritime University | 20 |
| 6 | Woxsen School of Business | 19 |
| 7 | Sejong University | 18 |
| 8 | University of Southern Denmark | 18 |
| 9 | Lovely Professional University | 17 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | South Korea | 648 |
| 2 | China | 142 |
| 3 | United States | 123 |
| 4 | India | 69 |
| 5 | Australia | 41 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 28 |
| 7 | Denmark | 18 |
| 8 | Taiwan | 18 |
| 9 | Canada | 16 |
| 10 | Singapore | 14 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | South Korea | 20 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 13 |
| 4 | profit maximization | 12 |
| 5 | customer satisfaction | 11 |
| 6 | self-supervised learning | 11 |
| 7 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 10 |
| 10 | dual-channel retailing | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,447 | 22.1 | [African vultures optimization algorithm: A new nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for global optimization problems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2021.107408) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2021-05-21 | Benyamın Abdollahzadeh, Farhad Soleimanian Gharehchopogh, Seyedali Mirjalili |
| 2 | 1,161 | 15.8 | [An improved grey wolf optimizer for solving engineering problems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113917) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2020-09-16 | Mohammad H. Nadimi-Shahraki, Shokooh Taghian, Seyedali Mirjalili |
| 3 | 1,003 | 10.5 | [Chatbot e-service and customer satisfaction regarding luxury brands](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.10.004) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2018-11-10 | Minjee Chung, Eunju Ko, Heerim Joung et al. |
| 4 | 650 | 5.9 | [What is a luxury brand? A new definition and review of the literature](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.08.023) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2017-09-01 | Eunju Ko, John P. Costello, Charles Ray Taylor |
| 5 | 587 | 5.8 | [How to Respond to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or the Second Information Technology Revolution? Dynamic New Combinations between Technology, Market, and Society through Open Innovation](https://doi.org/10.3390/joitmc4030021) | [Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-open-innovation-technology-market-and-complexity.md) | 2018-06-22 | MinHwa Lee, JinHyo Joseph Yun, Andreas Pyka et al. |
| 6 | 576 | 9.4 | [Impacts of influencer attributes on purchase intentions in social media influencer marketing: Mediating roles of characterizations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121246) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2021-09-28 | Hisashi Masuda, Spring H. Han, Jungwoo Lee |
| 7 | 563 | 10.9 | [Prairie Dog Optimization Algorithm](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-022-07530-9) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2022-07-15 | Absalom El-Shamir Ezugwu, Jeffrey Ovre Agushaka, Laith Abualigah et al. |
| 8 | 385 | 6.2 | [A comprehensive survey of recent trends in deep learning for digital images augmentation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-021-10066-4) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2021-09-04 | Nour Eldeen M. Khalifa, Mohamed Loey, Seyedali Mirjalili |
| 9 | 350 | 7.2 | [Recent advances in the application of deep learning for fault diagnosis of rotating machinery using vibration signals](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10293-3) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2022-10-09 | Bayu Adhi Tama, Malinda Vania, Seung‐Chul Lee et al. |
| 10 | 341 | 3.2 | [Oil prices and inflation dynamics: Evidence from advanced and developing economies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2017.12.004) | [Journal of International Money and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-money-and-finance.md) | 2018-01-06 | Sangyup Choi, Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Yonsei University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Seoul, South Korea |
| Also known as | 연세대학교 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 3 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 182,604 |
| Citations | 14,369,283 |
| h-index | 777 |
| i10-index | 265,473 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.06 |
| Website | [www.yonsei.ac.kr](https://www.yonsei.ac.kr) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01wjejq96](https://ror.org/01wjejq96) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I193775966](https://openalex.org/I193775966) |

*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) | 10,608 | 370,790 | 132 | 1.2% |
| 2025 | 11,646 | 483,911 | 160 | 1.4% |
| 2024 | 11,291 | 461,174 | 153 | 1.4% |
| 2023 | 10,961 | 411,178 | 203 | 1.9% |
| 2022 | 10,538 | 378,899 | 204 | 1.9% |
| 2021 | 9,896 | 346,352 | 152 | 1.5% |
| 2020 | 9,068 | 287,085 | 118 | 1.3% |
| 2019 | 8,346 | 229,966 | 74 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 7,884 | 198,933 | 82 | 1.0% |
| 2017 | 7,381 | 180,521 | 70 | 0.9% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes | Medicine | 2,661 |
| 2 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 2,619 |
| 3 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 2,474 |
| 4 | Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis | Medicine | 1,964 |
| 5 | Breast Cancer Treatment Studies | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1,895 |

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 | [DOD: detection of outliers in high dimensional data with distance of distances](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-11026-0) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | Seong-ho Lee, Yongho Jeon | University of Seoul; Yonsei University |
| 2026-10-28 | [Reconstruction and Restoration of 4D Light Fields via Super-resolved Inverse Image-Based Rendering](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03111-8) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Hyunjun Jung, Hae‐Gon Jeon | Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology; Yonsei University |
| 2026-10-28 | [The energy security paradox of technology innovation in the energy transition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115677) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | Xianyou Pan, 舒亚林, Ning Zhang et al. | Shanghai University of Electric Power; Beijing Institute of Technology; Yonsei University; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [A Lagrangian-inspired force-based loss for deep metric learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109798) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Byung Do Cheon, Jeongmin Yu, Jung-Eun Kim et al. | Yonsei University |
| 2026-10-21 | [STATIC: Surface-normal-guided Two-branch Alignment and Temporal Integration for Consistent Video Depth Estimation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115159) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Sunghun Yang, Minhyeok Lee, Suhwan Cho et al. | Yonsei University |
| 2026-10-19 | [HIER-TOD: Leveraging hidden intent for exemplar retrieval in end-to-end task-oriented dialogue](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134802) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Chanwoong Jeong, Seokju Hwang, Yusol Oh et al. | Yonsei University |
| 2026-10-16 | [Cherry pickers or loyal users? How financial rewards shape mobile app usage patterns](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2026.101650) | [Electronic Commerce Research and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-commerce-research-and-applications.md) | Chihong Jeon, Daegon Cho | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Yonsei University |
| 2026-10-15 | [External collaboration and local knowledge divergence in regional knowledge spaces](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2026.105641) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | Jisoo Hur, Dieter F. Kogler, Keungoui Kim | Pukyong National University; University College Dublin; Yonsei University |
| 2026-10-12 | [What, how, and where: the effects of multidimensional CSR communication strategies focusing on content, framing, and target](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116590) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | Zhenghao Tong, Hongjoo Woo | Fuzhou University of International Studies and Trade; Yonsei University |
| 2026-10-09 | [A multimodal deep learning-driven model for assessing drawing composition quality](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-026-01551-0) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | Yunhe Su, Xiaowen Feng | Hongik University; Yonsei University |
| 2026-10-07 | [The politicization of AI semiconductor discourse: A longitudinal analysis of Korean media coverage (2023–2025)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2026.124903) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | JongHwi Song, Sooyeun Yoo, Erdenebayar Urtnasan | Yonsei University; Yonsei University Mirae Campus |
| 2026-10-07 | [Generative AI as a social partner for young adults: Dual pathways to resilience and AI dependence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2026.103141) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | Yoojin Shin, DongA Jeong, Hyun Chul Kang et al. | Yonsei University |
| 2026-10-07 | [Fast and flexible? Evaluating CLIP for image classification in a marketing context](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41270-026-00550-7) | [Journal of Marketing Analytics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-marketing-analytics.md) | Young Joo Lee, Sue Ryung Chang, Chang Hee Park | Yonsei University |
| 2026-10-06 | [How confirmation bias makes persuaders more honest](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107777) | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | Minseo Choi, Daeyoung Jeong | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Yonsei University |
| 2026-10-06 | [Does rank-and-file employees' equity compensation matter for asymmetric cost behavior? Evidence from stock options](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcae.2026.100599) | [Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-contemporary-accounting-economics.md) | Kyeongheum Ra, Grace Goun Kim, Jinah Hwang | Yonsei University; Sungshin Women's University |
| 2026-10-05 | [A bibliometric assessment of hidden champions research: Mapping an evolving field](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-026-01287-4) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | Stephan Gerschewski, João J. Ferreira, Ana Joana C. Fernandes et al. | Peking University; Queensland University of Technology; University of Beira Interior; … |
| 2026-10-05 | [Beyond targeting women: Intrahousehold contexts and the effectiveness of food vouchers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2026.103189) | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | Seollee Park, Yaeeun Han, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim | Washington State University; Kyung Hee University; Yonsei University; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Yonsei University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/yonsei-university

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