Papers on “behavioral intention”
Research on “behavioral intention” 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 “behavioral intention” appeared in 890 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in tourism and hospitality (227), management (173) and marketing (144).
- 112 of them were published in 2025, against 52 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hanyang University (10), Sejong University (10) and Macau University of Science and Technology (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Hospitality Management (35), Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (26) and Technological Forecasting and Social Change (19).
- The most-cited of them is “Re-examining the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT): Towards a Revised Theoretical Model” (Information Systems Frontiers, 2017), with 2,133 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tourism and Hospitality | 11 | 23 | 18 | 29 | 26 | 20 | 21 | 30 | 33 | 16 |
| Management | 9 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 19 | 27 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 17 |
| Marketing | 7 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 21 | 15 | 19 | 12 | 12 | 20 |
| Information Systems | 18 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 15 |
| Operations Research | 1 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 14 |
| Economics | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 7 |
| AI | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
| Finance | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| All categories | 52 | 76 | 67 | 74 | 101 | 101 | 98 | 105 | 112 | 104 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanyang University | 10 |
| 2 | Sejong University | 10 |
| 3 | Macau University of Science and Technology | 8 |
| 4 | University of Johannesburg | 8 |
| 5 | Kyung Hee University | 7 |
| 6 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 6 |
| 7 | King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals | 6 |
| 8 | University of South Carolina | 6 |
| 9 | Audencia Business School | 5 |
| 10 | Shenzhen University | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 89 |
| 2 | United States | 70 |
| 3 | South Korea | 46 |
| 4 | India | 44 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 31 |
| 6 | Germany | 23 |
| 7 | Malaysia | 22 |
| 8 | Australia | 18 |
| 9 | France | 18 |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia | 18 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | social influence | 76 |
| 2 | performance expectancy | 66 |
| 3 | perceived usefulness | 64 |
| 4 | technology acceptance | 60 |
| 5 | technology adoption | 58 |
| 6 | technology acceptance model | 55 |
| 7 | perceived ease of use | 50 |
| 8 | trust | 45 |
| 9 | UTAUT | 43 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “behavioral intention”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/behavioral-intention
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