Economic and Social Research Council
Papers in the tracked journals that name Economic and Social Research Council as a funder. Funders are the organisations OpenAlex links to a paper from its funding information (Crossref metadata and the paper's acknowledgements); a paper counts once for each funder it names. Grant numbers are not shown. Also as Markdown.
Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Economic and Social Research Council was named as a funder of 2,287 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,423), management (202) and finance (166).
- It ranks #37 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 144 of them were published in 2025, against 290 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were London School of Economics and Political Science (85), University College London (58) and University of Oxford (47).
- The journals publishing most of them were Higher Education (34), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (25) and World Development (23).
- The most-cited of them is “General diagnostic tests for cross-sectional dependence in panels” (Empirical Economics, 2020), with 2,755 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 182 | 172 | 173 | 181 | 173 | 154 | 133 | 100 | 86 | 69 |
| Management | 20 | 23 | 14 | 24 | 25 | 28 | 23 | 22 | 14 | 9 |
| Finance | 25 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 18 | 21 | 21 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| Higher Education and Research | 8 | 13 | 6 | 14 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 25 | 8 | 5 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 17 | 9 | 8 | 18 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 7 |
| Operations Research | 19 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 11 |
| AI | 5 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Marketing | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Accounting | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Statistics | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 290 | 251 | 243 | 303 | 267 | 258 | 214 | 204 | 144 | 113 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Higher Education | 34 |
| 2 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 25 |
| 3 | World Development | 23 |
| 4 | European Economic Review | 21 |
| 5 | Labour Economics | 19 |
| 6 | Journal of Development Economics | 18 |
| 7 | Journal of Econometrics | 18 |
| 8 | Journal of Health Economics | 17 |
| 9 | Journal of Public Economics | 16 |
| 10 | Research Policy | 15 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | London School of Economics and Political Science | 85 |
| 2 | University College London | 58 |
| 3 | University of Oxford | 47 |
| 4 | University of Cambridge | 36 |
| 5 | University of Warwick | 36 |
| 6 | Institute for Fiscal Studies | 35 |
| 7 | University of Essex | 32 |
| 8 | University of Edinburgh | 31 |
| 9 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 30 |
| 10 | University of Leeds | 30 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 575 |
| 2 | United States | 112 |
| 3 | Germany | 82 |
| 4 | Italy | 39 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 38 |
| 6 | Australia | 37 |
| 7 | Spain | 33 |
| 8 | France | 33 |
| 9 | China | 26 |
| 10 | Canada | 23 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 42 |
| 2 | gender differences | 18 |
| 3 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 15 |
| 4 | multinational corporations | 13 |
| 5 | public goods | 12 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 11 |
| 7 | global value chains | 11 |
| 8 | social networks | 11 |
| 9 | India | 10 |
| 10 | higher education policy | 10 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Economic and Social Research Council. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/economic-and-social-research-council
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title = {Economic and Social Research Council},
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urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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