---
title: "Economic and Social Research Council"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Economic and Social Research Council was named as a funder of 2,457 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,503), management (221) and finance (166). It ranks #37 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/funders/economic-and-social-research-council
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/funders/economic-and-social-research-council.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Economic and Social Research Council was named as a funder of 2,457 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,503), management (221) and finance (166). (as of 2026-10-31)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-31T17:45:59+09:00
window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Economic and Social Research Council was named as a funder of 2,457 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,503), management (221) and finance (166).
- It ranks #37 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 152 of them were published in 2025, against 317 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were London School of Economics and Political Science (87), University College London (61) and University of Oxford (51).
- 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 193 | 180 | 182 | 193 | 182 | 163 | 141 | 108 | 90 | 71 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 23 | 30 | 17 | 24 | 26 | 28 | 25 | 24 | 15 | 9 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 25 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 18 | 21 | 21 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 16 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 22 | 16 | 14 | 29 | 9 | 7 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 22 | 11 | 9 | 20 | 17 | 15 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 10 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 19 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 11 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 5 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 317 | 269 | 259 | 318 | 298 | 273 | 229 | 222 | 152 | 120 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | 34 |
| 2 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 25 |
| 3 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 23 |
| 4 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 21 |
| 5 | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | 19 |
| 6 | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 18 |
| 7 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 18 |
| 8 | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 16 |
| 10 | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 15 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | London School of Economics and Political Science | 87 |
| 2 | University College London | 61 |
| 3 | University of Oxford | 51 |
| 4 | University of Cambridge | 41 |
| 5 | University of Warwick | 36 |
| 6 | Institute for Fiscal Studies | 35 |
| 7 | University of Essex | 33 |
| 8 | University of Leeds | 33 |
| 9 | University of Edinburgh | 32 |
| 10 | University of Manchester | 31 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 619 |
| 2 | United States | 117 |
| 3 | Germany | 82 |
| 4 | Italy | 40 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 40 |
| 6 | Australia | 37 |
| 7 | France | 34 |
| 8 | Spain | 33 |
| 9 | China | 28 |
| 10 | Canada | 24 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 42 |
| 2 | gender differences | 18 |
| 3 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 15 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 13 |
| 5 | multinational corporations | 13 |
| 6 | public goods | 13 |
| 7 | social networks | 12 |
| 8 | India | 11 |
| 9 | global value chains | 11 |
| 10 | higher education policy | 10 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,755 | 35.6 | [General diagnostic tests for cross-sectional dependence in panels](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-020-01875-7) | [Empirical Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/empirical-economics.md) | 2020-05-20 | M. Hashem Pesaran |
| 2 | 1,415 | 18.9 | [Inequality in the impact of the coronavirus shock: Evidence from real time surveys](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104245) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2020-07-31 | Abi Adams‐Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin et al. |
| 3 | 1,187 | 11.6 | [Just transition: Integrating climate, energy and environmental justice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.04.014) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2018-04-24 | Darren McCauley, Raphael James Heffron |
| 4 | 989 | 13.4 | [Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104274) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2020-09-09 | Dave Altig, Scott Baker, Jose Maria Barrero et al. |
| 5 | 944 | 16.5 | [Forecasting: theory and practice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2021.11.001) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2022-01-19 | Fotios Petropoulos, Daniele Apiletti, Vassilios Assimakopoulos et al. |
| 6 | 896 | 12.1 | [The impact of COVID-19 on student experiences and expectations: Evidence from a survey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104271) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2020-08-27 | Esteban M. Aucejo, Jacob French, Maria Paola Ugalde Araya et al. |
| 7 | 859 | 14.8 | [Explainable Artificial Intelligence in education](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2022.100074) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2022-01-01 | Hassan Khosravi, Simon Buckingham Shum, Guanliang Chen et al. |
| 8 | 858 | 12.4 | [Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105383) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2021-01-22 | Siri Eriksen, E. Lisa F. Schipper, Morgan Scoville-Simonds et al. |
| 9 | 740 | 7.0 | [The digital transformation of business models in the creative industries: A holistic framework and emerging trends](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2017.12.004) | [Technovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technovation.md) | 2018-01-05 | Feng Li |
| 10 | 703 | 6.2 | [Financing renewable energy: Who is financing what and why it matters](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.05.021) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2017-06-08 | Mariana Mazzucato, Gregor Semieniuk |

## 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

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-funders-economic-and-social-research-council,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Economic and Social Research Council},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/economic-and-social-research-council}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).