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title: "Academic performance research: papers and trends"
description: "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)."
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# 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.

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

## 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

*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) | 50 | 59 | 39 | 56 | 48 | 62 | 60 | 51 | 54 | 41 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 31 | 34 | 23 | 41 | 42 | 35 | 50 | 42 | 71 | 64 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 6 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 4 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Journal of Educational Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-development.md) | 65 |
| 2 | [Economics of Education Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-education-review.md) | 56 |
| 3 | [Studies In Educational Evaluation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/studies-in-educational-evaluation.md) | 43 |
| 4 | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | 30 |
| 5 | [The International Journal of Management Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-international-journal-of-management-education.md) | 27 |
| 6 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 20 |
| 7 | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 20 |
| 8 | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | 18 |
| 9 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [Research in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-higher-education.md) | 16 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 26 |
| 2 | [Beijing Normal University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-normal-university.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [World Bank](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/world-bank.md) | 9 |
| 5 | University of Gothenburg | 7 |
| 6 | University of Oslo | 7 |
| 7 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Maastricht University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/maastricht-university.md) | 6 |
| 10 | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [gender differences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/gender-differences.md) | 51 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 43 |
| 3 | [university students](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/university-students.md) | 39 |
| 4 | [student engagement](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/student-engagement.md) | 33 |
| 5 | educational inequality | 32 |
| 6 | mathematics achievement | 31 |
| 7 | [online learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/online-learning.md) | 27 |
| 8 | student motivation | 27 |
| 9 | [higher education](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/higher-education.md) | 26 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 679 | 5.8 | [Comparing online and blended learner's self-regulated learning strategies and academic performance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2017.01.004) | [The Internet and Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-internet-and-higher-education.md) | 2017-01-26 | Jaclyn Broadbent |
| 2 | 581 | 6.5 | [Social cognitive career theory at 25: Empirical status of the interest, choice, and performance models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2019.06.004) | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | 2019-06-12 | Robert W. Lent, Steven D. Brown |
| 3 | 531 | 16.3 | [Is it harmful or helpful? Examining the causes and consequences of generative AI usage among university students](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-024-00444-7) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2024-02-15 | Muhammad Abbas, Farooq Ahmed Jam, Tariq Iqbal Khan |
| 4 | 428 | 9.0 | [The impact of a virtual teaching assistant (chatbot) on students' learning in Ghanaian higher education](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-022-00362-6) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2022-11-14 | Harry Barton Essel, Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, Akosua Tachie-Menson et al. |
| 5 | 413 | 5.7 | [Development of a new model on utilizing online learning platforms to improve students’ academic achievements and satisfaction](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-020-00216-z) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2020-10-01 | Hassan Abuhassna, Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi, Noraffandy Yahaya et al. |

## 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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  title = {Papers on “academic performance”},
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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference 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/).