--- title: "Journal of the Knowledge Economy: impact and top papers" description: "Journal of the Knowledge Economy has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.33 and an h-index of 87 in OpenAlex, #35 of 56 tracked management journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 568 papers, and its papers received 12,537 citations." url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-knowledge-economy markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-knowledge-economy.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "Journal of the Knowledge Economy has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.33 and an h-index of 87 in OpenAlex, #35 of 56 tracked management journals by citedness. (as of 2026-11-03)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00 window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Journal of the Knowledge Economy - 1 paper in the last 7 days - category: Management - publisher: Springer Science+Business Media - ISSN 1868-7865 - Journal website: https://link.springer.com/journal/13132 - ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1868-7865 - OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S60370010 Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md Rankings of Management: [Management dashboard](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) · [Management journal rankings by citations](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) · [Top management institutions, 2023–2025](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/management.md) · [Top funders of management research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders/management.md) · [Companies in management research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/management.md) · [Open access in management journals](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/management.md) · [Top Management conferences](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/categories/management.md) ## Key findings - Journal of the Knowledge Economy has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.33 and an h-index of 87 in OpenAlex, #35 of 56 tracked management journals by citedness. - In 2025 it published 568 papers, and its papers received 12,537 citations. - Journal of the Knowledge Economy published 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #178 of 480 journals. - Leading institutions: Xi'an Jiaotong University (1), Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (1) and National Research University Higher School of Economics (1). - Countries: China (1), Kazakhstan (1) and Russia (1). - From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, Journal of the Knowledge Economy published 6 papers (0 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex). - Its most frequent keywords over that period were “banking sector” (2), “foreign direct investment” (2) and “AI-enabled decision support” (1). ## Citation metrics *Citation metrics (OpenAlex)* | Metric | Value | |---|---:| | 2-year mean citedness | 5.33 | | h-index | 87 | | i10-index | 1,290 | | Papers in OpenAlex | 3,353 | | Citations in OpenAlex | 52,148 | | Rank among tracked management journals | [#35 of 56](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) | *Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)* | Year | Papers | Citations received | |---|---:|---:| | 2026 (so far) | 376 | 9,745 | | 2025 | 568 | 12,537 | | 2024 | 773 | 8,974 | | 2023 | 570 | 6,369 | | 2022 | 239 | 3,883 | | 2021 | 148 | 2,668 | | 2020 | 76 | 2,048 | | 2019 | 50 | 1,470 | | 2018 | 57 | 1,338 | | 2017 | 77 | 1,068 | | 2016 | 90 | 745 | 2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly. Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: https://link.springer.com/journal/13132 ## The last 36 months *Papers by publication date, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months | |---:|---:|---:|---:| | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | *Most frequent keywords, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | # | Keyword | Papers | |---:|---|---:| | 1 | banking sector | 2 | | 2 | [foreign direct investment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/foreign-direct-investment.md) | 2 | | 3 | AI-enabled decision support | 1 | | 4 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 1 | | 5 | ESG controversies | 1 | | 6 | [Industry 4.0](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/industry-4-0.md) | 1 | | 7 | Pakistan | 1 | | 8 | Senegal | 1 | | 9 | access to finance | 1 | | 10 | agricultural technology adoption | 1 | *Papers, newest first.* | Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-10-29 | [Economics Factors and Innovation Impact on Greenhouse Gas Emission Through Scale, Composition, and Technique Effect](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-026-03295-x) | [Journal of the Knowledge Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-knowledge-economy.md) | Muhammad Suleman, Feng Wang, Mehwish Nida et al. | Xi'an Jiaotong University | | 2026-10-22 | [Maximizing Productive Efficiency: The Role of Sectorial Foreign and Domestic Investments in Total Factor Productivity in Pakistan by applying Machine Learning Approach](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-026-03450-4) | [Journal of the Knowledge Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-knowledge-economy.md) | Faheem Ur Rehman | National Research University Higher School of Economics; Al-Farabi Kazakh National University | | 2026-10-12 | [A Novel Framework for Smart Service Failure and Recovery](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-026-03491-9) | [Journal of the Knowledge Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-knowledge-economy.md) | Yuval Cohen, Shai Rozenes | Afeka College of Engineering; Holon Institute of Technology | | 2026-10-12 | [Access to Finance and Agricultural Technology Adoption in Senegal: The Role of Land Tenure Security](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-026-03352-5) | [Journal of the Knowledge Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-knowledge-economy.md) | Babacar Ndiaye, Vincent Mendy, Nassibou Bassongui | Université Amadou Mahtar Mbow; Ziguinchor University; Centre Africain d'Études Supérieures en Gestion | | 2026-10-06 | [Mapping the Research on ESG Controversies: A Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Literature Review with ADO-TCM Framework](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-026-03449-x) | [Journal of the Knowledge Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-knowledge-economy.md) | Maria Mitroulia, Evangelos Chytis, Evangelos Koumanakos | University of Ioannina; Hellenic Open University | | 2026-10-05 | [Strategic and Operational Big Data Capabilities for Cyber Financial crime Prevention: Exploring the Mediating Role of Decision-Making Efficiency and Effectiveness](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-026-03470-0) | [Journal of the Knowledge Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-knowledge-economy.md) | Shahzad Ali, Calvin W. H. Cheong, Muhammad Saeed Meo et al. | Sunway University; HELP University; Superior University; … | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). Journal of the Knowledge Economy. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-knowledge-economy ```bibtex @misc{scholar4ai-journals-journal-of-the-knowledge-economy, author = {{Scholar4AI}}, title = {Journal of the Knowledge Economy}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-knowledge-economy}}, urldate = {2026-11-03}, note = {Journal and Conference 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/).