Papers on “business cycles”
Research on “business cycles” 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 “business cycles” appeared in 1,550 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,047), finance (376) and management (47).
- 136 of them were published in 2025, against 149 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were European Central Bank (12), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (10) and Centre for Economic Policy Research (10).
- The journals publishing most of them were Economic Modelling (32), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (18) and Journal of Monetary Economics (18).
- The most-cited of them is “Innocent Bystanders? Monetary policy and inequality” (Journal of Monetary Economics, 2017), with 628 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 103 | 126 | 120 | 132 | 109 | 98 | 95 | 105 | 90 | 69 |
| Finance | 34 | 33 | 38 | 40 | 46 | 47 | 32 | 43 | 38 | 25 |
| Management | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 0 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Marketing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Statistics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 149 | 170 | 167 | 187 | 165 | 160 | 141 | 174 | 136 | 101 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Economic Modelling | 32 |
| 2 | Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control | 18 |
| 3 | Journal of Monetary Economics | 18 |
| 4 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 18 |
| 5 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 16 |
| 6 | Empirical Economics | 16 |
| 7 | Finance research letters | 16 |
| 8 | Journal of Macroeconomics | 15 |
| 9 | Structural Change and Economic Dynamics | 15 |
| 10 | European Economic Review | 14 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | European Central Bank | 12 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 10 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research | 10 |
| 4 | International Monetary Fund | 10 |
| 5 | Sichuan University | 7 |
| 6 | Southwest Jiaotong University | 7 |
| 7 | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú | 6 |
| 8 | Australian National University | 5 |
| 9 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 5 |
| 10 | Korea University | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 141 |
| 2 | China | 99 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 61 |
| 4 | Germany | 49 |
| 5 | Italy | 47 |
| 6 | France | 39 |
| 7 | Spain | 37 |
| 8 | Australia | 30 |
| 9 | Japan | 25 |
| 10 | Canada | 24 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | economic recession | 46 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 33 |
| 3 | inflation | 30 |
| 4 | monetary policy | 24 |
| 5 | procyclicality | 23 |
| 6 | unemployment | 22 |
| 7 | economic growth | 21 |
| 8 | China | 18 |
| 9 | 2008 financial crisis | 16 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 628 | 5.5 | Innocent Bystanders? Monetary policy and inequality | Journal of Monetary Economics | 2017-05-17 | Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Lorenz Kueng et al. |
| 2 | 514 | 5.3 | Policy uncertainty and firm cash holdings | Journal of Business Research | 2018-10-10 | Hieu V. Phan, Nam H. Nguyen, Hien Thu Nguyen et al. |
| 3 | 292 | 2.7 | The effects of monetary policy shocks on inequality | Journal of International Money and Finance | 2017-11-26 | Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, Aleksandra Zdzienicka |
| 4 | 234 | 2.3 | How important are global geopolitical risks to emerging countries? | International Economics | 2018-05-23 | Chak Hung Jack Cheng, Ching‐Wai Chiu |
| 5 | 226 | 2.9 | On the empirical relationship between tourism and economic growth | Tourism Management | 2020-05-11 | Juan Gabriel Brida, David Matesanz Gómez, Verónica Segarra |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “business cycles”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/business-cycles
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