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title: "Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada was named as a funder of 1,778 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (724), management (324) and finance (264). It ranks #41 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada was named as a funder of 1,778 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (724), management (324) and finance (264). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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# Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Papers in the tracked journals that name Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 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), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada was named as a funder of 1,778 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (724), management (324) and finance (264).
- It ranks #41 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 192 of them were published in 2025, against 135 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Toronto (74), University of British Columbia (55) and McMaster University (52).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Econometrics (31), Journal of Business Research (21) and Finance research letters (17).
- The most-cited of them is “How do venture capitalists make decisions?” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2019), with 907 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) | 66 | 74 | 78 | 89 | 84 | 60 | 61 | 77 | 73 | 62 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 22 | 31 | 42 | 47 | 25 | 35 | 43 | 27 | 18 | 34 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 18 | 16 | 19 | 34 | 35 | 28 | 25 | 28 | 37 | 24 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 9 | 19 | 12 | 12 | 25 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 20 | 17 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 5 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 6 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 4 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| All categories | 135 | 165 | 182 | 213 | 198 | 161 | 183 | 185 | 192 | 164 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 31 |
| 2 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 21 |
| 3 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 17 |
| 4 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 16 |
| 5 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [Games and Economic Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/games-and-economic-behavior.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 13 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Toronto | 74 |
| 2 | University of British Columbia | 55 |
| 3 | McMaster University | 52 |
| 4 | McGill University | 47 |
| 5 | Simon Fraser University | 47 |
| 6 | Concordia University | 37 |
| 7 | York University | 36 |
| 8 | HEC Montréal | 35 |
| 9 | University of Ottawa | 35 |
| 10 | Western University | 34 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Canada | 664 |
| 2 | United States | 181 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 66 |
| 4 | China | 58 |
| 5 | France | 37 |
| 6 | Australia | 25 |
| 7 | Germany | 20 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 18 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 17 |
| 10 | South Africa | 12 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 28 |
| 2 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 19 |
| 3 | Canada | 17 |
| 4 | corporate social responsibility | 11 |
| 5 | stock returns | 11 |
| 6 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 10 |
| 7 | multinational corporations | 10 |
| 8 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [climate risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-risk.md) | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 907 | 10.3 | [How do venture capitalists make decisions?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.06.011) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-06-25 | Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven Neil Kaplan et al. |
| 2 | 834 | 7.2 | [New frontiers and conceptual frameworks for energy justice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.03.005) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2017-03-18 | Benjamin Kenneth Sovacool, Matthew J. Burke, Lucy Baker et al. |
| 3 | 813 | 10.2 | [Perceived Greenwashing: The Effects of Green Marketing on Environmental and Product Perceptions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04461-0) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 2020-02-28 | Szerena Szabo, Jane Webster |
| 4 | 695 | 6.2 | [Are foreign investors locusts? The long-term effects of foreign institutional ownership](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2017.07.005) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2017-07-19 | Jan Bena, Miguel A. M. M. Ferreira, Pedro P. Matos et al. |
| 5 | 589 | 6.1 | [Is Uber a substitute or complement for public transit?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2018.09.003) | [Journal of Urban Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-urban-economics.md) | 2018-10-04 | Jonathan D. Hall, Craig Palsson, Joseph Price |
| 6 | 580 | 8.3 | [Does CSR matter in times of crisis? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101876) | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 2021-01-08 | Kee‐Hong Bae, Sadok El Ghoul, Zhaoran Gong et al. |
| 7 | 542 | 6.5 | [Assessing the impact of big data on firm innovation performance: Big data is not always better data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.09.062) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2019-11-26 | Maryam Ghasemaghaei, Goran Calic |
| 8 | 507 | 7.7 | [Algorithms as work designers: How algorithmic management influences the design of jobs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2021.100838) | [Human Resource Management Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/human-resource-management-review.md) | 2021-05-10 | Xavier Parent‐Rocheleau, Sharon Kaye Parker |
| 9 | 489 | 5.2 | [The Participation of People with Disabilities in the Workplace Across the Employment Cycle: Employer Concerns and Research Evidence](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-018-9602-5) | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | 2019-01-22 | Silvia Bonaccio, Catherine E. Connelly, Ian R. Gellatly et al. |
| 10 | 471 | 5.8 | [Renewable energy consumption and economic growth nexus: Evidence from a threshold model](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111295) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2020-01-28 | Chaoyi Chen, Mehmet Pinar, Thanasis Stengos |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/social-sciences-and-humanities-research-council-of-canada

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  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/social-sciences-and-humanities-research-council-of-canada}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).