Papers on “academic performance”
Research on “academic performance” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “academic performance” appeared in 1,154 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (520), higher education and research (433) and management (90).
- 147 of them were published in 2025, against 100 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (26), Beijing Normal University (12) and Peking University (11).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Educational Development (65), Economics of Education Review (56) and Studies In Educational Evaluation (43).
- The most-cited of them is “Comparing online and blended learner's self-regulated learning strategies and academic performance” (The Internet and Higher Education, 2017), with 679 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 50 | 59 | 39 | 56 | 48 | 62 | 60 | 51 | 54 | 41 |
| Higher Education and Research | 31 | 34 | 23 | 41 | 42 | 35 | 50 | 42 | 71 | 64 |
| Management | 6 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 4 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| AI | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Finance | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Marketing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 100 | 109 | 78 | 111 | 114 | 121 | 137 | 115 | 147 | 122 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | International Journal of Educational Development | 65 |
| 2 | Economics of Education Review | 56 |
| 3 | Studies In Educational Evaluation | 43 |
| 4 | Higher Education | 30 |
| 5 | The International Journal of Management Education | 27 |
| 6 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 20 |
| 7 | Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence | 20 |
| 8 | Labour Economics | 18 |
| 9 | Journal of Public Economics | 17 |
| 10 | Research in Higher Education | 16 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 26 |
| 2 | Beijing Normal University | 12 |
| 3 | Peking University | 11 |
| 4 | World Bank | 9 |
| 5 | University of Gothenburg | 7 |
| 6 | University of Oslo | 7 |
| 7 | Harvard University | 6 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science | 6 |
| 9 | Maastricht University | 6 |
| 10 | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 131 |
| 2 | China | 94 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 53 |
| 4 | Germany | 47 |
| 5 | Spain | 39 |
| 6 | Italy | 33 |
| 7 | Australia | 27 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 25 |
| 9 | Canada | 16 |
| 10 | Sweden | 16 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | gender differences | 51 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 43 |
| 3 | university students | 39 |
| 4 | student engagement | 33 |
| 5 | educational inequality | 32 |
| 6 | mathematics achievement | 31 |
| 7 | online learning | 27 |
| 8 | student motivation | 27 |
| 9 | higher education | 26 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “academic performance”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/academic-performance
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