FinTech Adoption in SMEs and Bank Credit Supplies: A Study on Manufacturing SMEs
2023Rehman SU, Al-Shaikh MS, Washington PB, Lee E, Song Z, Abu-AlSondos IA, Shehadeh M, Allahham M
Economies, 11(8), 213
Research · Published papers
Research the institute has funded, and the academic record of the investigators behind it.
The first section lists peer-reviewed studies the Institute of FAME directly funded, with funder relationships registered in Crossref. The second section lists selected publications by FAME's founder and affiliated investigators — independent academic work that establishes the methodological credentials of the institute's leadership, but that the institute did not commission or fund.
Section 1
FAME-Funded Research
2 peer-reviewed papers with the Institute of FAME registered as funder in Crossref metadata. These are the works the institute commissioned and supported.
Nexus between Regulatory Sandbox and Performance of Digital Banks—A Study on UK Digital Banks
2022Washington PB, Rehman SU, Lee E
Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 15(12), 610
Citation reach
Where FAME-funded research is being cited
75 peer-reviewed citations across both FAME-funded papers, including downstream uptake at tier-1 European universities and in journals across the FinTech, regulatory-policy, and banking-research literatures.
Peer-reviewed citations
75
across both FAME-funded papers (OpenAlex, May 2026)
Countries represented
25+
citing-author institutions span Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas
European institutions
18
citations from researchers at Europe-based universities
European universities citing FAME-funded research
Including:
- University of Oxford (UK)
- Imperial College London (UK)
- King's College London (UK)
- University College London (UK)
- Sciences Po Paris (FR)
- KU Leuven (BE)
- University of Bologna (IT)
- Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
- University of Vienna (AT)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- University of Padua (IT)
- Università della Svizzera italiana (CH)
Plus researchers at Bangor University, University of Gloucestershire, University of Salento, Széchenyi István University, University of Osijek, and others across the EU and EEA.
Notable downstream journals
FAME-funded papers are cited in:
- Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature family) — “FinTech, bank risk-taking, and credit allocation,” 2025
- Regulation & Governance (Wiley) — Wang & Zhou 2026 systematic review of regulatory-sandbox effectiveness in financial services
- Digital Business (Elsevier) — FinTech-on-bank-performance systematic literature review (Universitat de Barcelona, 2025)
- Applied Economics (Taylor & Francis) — quasi-natural-experiment study on regulatory-sandbox financial efficiency, 2025
- The TQM Journal, Cogent Business & Management, Information Discovery and Delivery, Frontiers in Blockchain, and Journal of Open Innovation
Founder publication record
The institute's leadership has a peer-reviewed track record at scale
Foundation grant officers, donors, and policy collaborators evaluating the institute frequently ask about the academic credibility behind FAME's funding decisions. The numbers below summarize that record. Headline metrics from Google Scholar (May 2026); OpenAlex confirmation in the footnote band beneath.
Peer-reviewed works
14
2016–2023
Total citations
1,111
Google Scholar
h-index
11
11 papers cited ≥11 times each
i10-index
12
12 of 14 papers with ≥10 citations
For benchmarking: tenure decisions at U.S. R1 business schools are routinely made on 200–500 citations and an h-index in the 7–12 range. The record above sits well within that band, with a distribution skewed toward consistent uptake — 10 of 14 papers cleared the 10-citation threshold (per OpenAlex), with very little long tail.
OpenAlex confirmation
The same author profile on OpenAlex — a structured, queryable, open-data citation database that indexes only formally peer-reviewed venues — confirms 817 citations, h-index 10, and i10-index 10 (May 2026). Scholar's higher figure reflects its broader indexing of preprints, theses, conference papers, and gray literature; the OpenAlex figure is the formal-database subset.
Section 2
Founder & Affiliated Investigator Publications
12 selected works by Dr. Patrick Bernard Washington and his academic collaborators. These works were not funded by the Institute of FAME — they are listed here to document the methodological credentials and academic record of the institute's leadership. Citation counts shown per paper where available.
Analyzing influence of COVID-19 on crypto & financial markets and sentiment analysis using deep ensemble model
2023Gali V, Rustam F, Lee E, Aljedaani W, Washington PB, Ashraf I
PLOS ONE, 18(6), e0286541
Sentiment analysis on Twitter data integrating TextBlob and deep learning models: The case of US airline industry
2022Aljedaani W, Rustam F, Mkaouer MW, Ghallab A, Rupapara V, Washington PB, Lee E, Ashraf I
Knowledge-Based Systems, 255, 109780
Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Detection on Cryptocurrency Related Tweets Using Ensemble LSTM-GRU Model
2022Aslam N, Rustam F, Lee E, Washington PB, Ashraf I
IEEE Access, 10, 39313–39324
Racism Detection by Analyzing Differential Opinions Through Sentiment Analysis of Tweets Using Stacked Ensemble GCR-NN Model
2022Lee E, Rustam F, Washington PB, El Barakaz F, Aljedaani W, Ashraf I
IEEE Access, 10, 9717–9728
Inquest of Current Situation in Afghanistan Under Taliban Rule Using Sentiment Analysis and Volume Analysis
2022Lee E, Rustam F, Aljedaani W, Ishaq A, Rupapara V, Washington PB, Ashraf I
IEEE Access, 10, 10333–10348
Drug Usage Safety from Drug Reviews with Hybrid Machine Learning Approach
2022Lee E, Rustam F, Aljedaani W, Ishaq A, Washington PB, Ashraf I
Computer Systems Science and Engineering, 45(3)
Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling on Tweets about Online Education during COVID-19
2021Mujahid M, Lee E, Rustam F, Washington PB, Ullah S, Reshi AA, Ashraf I
Applied Sciences, 11(18), 8438
Integrating Learning Analytics and Collaborative Learning for Improving Student's Academic Performance
2021Rafique I, Lee E, Washington PB, Mkaouer MW, Aljedaani W, Ashraf I
IEEE Access, 9, 167812–167826
Deepfake tweets classification using stacked Bi-LSTM and words embedding
2021Rupapara V, Rustam F, Aljedaani W, Shahzad HF, Lee E, Washington PB, Ashraf I
PeerJ Computer Science, 7, e745
BRICS-Eurasian Credit Markets: Problems and Prospects
2021Yarygina I, Lukashenko I, Lee E, Washington P, Tsarev R
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 351 (Comprehensible Science: ICCS 2021)
Examining the Role of Uncertainty as a Moderator on Consumers' Purchase Intentions of Organic Food
2021Alzahrani T, Washington P, Lee E, et al.
Journal of Tianjin University Science and Technology
Essays on Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation
2016Washington PB
Doctoral dissertation, The University of Alabama
Sourcing & verification
The publication list is sourced from Dr. Washington's OpenAlex profile (A5052032722), cross-validated against Crossref records and the published versions of record. FAME-funded designations are taken from registered Crossref funder metadata, not from informal attribution. Where a downloadable PDF is hosted on this site, it is either the publisher's open-access version of record or an author copy permitted by the venue's self-archiving policy.