Top institutions in information systems research, 2023–2025

Universities and other research institutions ranked by the papers their authors published in the 18 tracked information systems journals in each year from 2023 to 2025, by publication date and OpenAlex affiliations; a paper counts once for each institution (and country) among its authors. Built from the site's archive of every paper of these journals and rebuilt daily. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

From 2023 to 2025, City University of Hong Kong published the most papers in the 18 tracked information systems journals (59), followed by Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (58) and University of Bayreuth (58).
In 2025 alone, City University of Hong Kong led with 24 papers.
Among countries, China took part in the most papers (1,161), ahead of United States and Germany.

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, 2023–2025
#	Institution	Country	2023	2024	2025	2023–2025
1	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	15	20	24	59
2	Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology	Germany	18	18	22	58
3	University of Bayreuth	Germany	19	20	19	58
4	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China	15	19	20	54
5	Renmin University of China	China	21	10	21	52
6	Harbin Institute of Technology	China	14	17	19	50
7	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	21	16	11	48
8	Tianjin University	China	15	14	17	46
9	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	15	13	16	44
10	Xi'an Jiaotong University	China	16	13	15	44
11	Hefei University of Technology	China	18	12	13	43
12	Tsinghua University	China	18	17	8	43
13	University of Science and Technology of China	China	14	12	14	40
14	Wuhan University	China	9	11	18	38
15	Fudan University	China	10	10	17	37
16	University of New Mexico	United States	10	14	12	36
17	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	10	13	12	35
18	Queensland University of Technology	Australia	10	12	13	35
19	Symbiosis International University	India	14	14	7	35
20	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway	10	16	8	34
21	UNSW Sydney	Australia	13	10	10	33
22	The University of Melbourne	Australia	7	14	11	32
23	Nanjing University	China	6	13	12	31
24	The University of Sydney	Australia	7	14	10	31
25	Zhejiang University	China	10	11	10	31
26	Swansea University	United Kingdom	18	10	2	30
27	University of St.Gallen	Switzerland	6	16	8	30
28	Copenhagen Business School	Denmark	8	14	7	29
29	NEOMA Business School	France	12	10	7	29
30	Tongji University	China	8	10	11	29
31	Georgia State University	United States	8	11	8	27
32	Shanghai University	China	8	8	11	27
33	Dalian University of Technology	China	5	9	12	26
34	Goethe University Frankfurt	Germany	10	9	7	26
35	Sichuan University	China	7	5	14	26
36	Technical University of Munich	Germany	8	8	10	26
37	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	Germany	8	7	10	25
38	National University of Singapore	Singapore	4	9	12	25
39	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	10	10	5	25
40	Sungkyunkwan University	South Korea	11	6	7	24
41	University of Duisburg-Essen	Germany	7	9	8	24
42	University of North Texas	United States	6	8	10	24
43	Virginia Tech	United States	8	8	8	24
44	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	6	9	8	23
45	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics	China	7	4	12	23
46	Sun Yat-sen University	China	9	4	10	23
47	University of Münster	Germany	10	8	5	23
48	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	India	11	6	5	22
49	South China University of Technology	China	4	8	10	22
50	The University of Queensland	Australia	8	6	8	22

Countries#

Countries with the most papers, 2023–2025
#	Country	2023	2024	2025	2023–2025
1	China	347	381	433	1,161
2	United States	271	317	266	854
3	Germany	152	166	181	499
4	United Kingdom	115	110	98	323
5	India	97	101	64	262
6	Australia	84	94	82	260
7	Netherlands	58	56	51	165
8	France	55	54	45	154
9	Canada	50	54	46	150
10	South Korea	46	49	53	148
11	Hong Kong	37	48	55	140
12	Taiwan	45	36	48	129
13	Spain	39	32	35	106
14	Italy	29	37	37	103
15	Switzerland	28	38	25	91
16	Finland	32	26	29	87
17	Austria	25	26	27	78
18	Denmark	27	25	22	74
19	Norway	22	27	22	71
20	Belgium	22	26	19	67
21	Sweden	19	29	18	66
22	Singapore	14	25	22	61
23	Malaysia	17	23	18	58
24	Portugal	18	27	13	58
25	Saudi Arabia	17	19	22	58
26	Indonesia	7	23	22	52
27	Turkey	20	18	13	51
28	New Zealand	15	16	13	44
29	Poland	20	12	12	44
30	United Arab Emirates	15	14	15	44

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Top institutions in information systems research, 2023–2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/information-systems

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