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title: "Business cycles research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-04)"
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# 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.

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

## 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

*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) | 103 | 126 | 120 | 132 | 109 | 98 | 95 | 105 | 90 | 69 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 34 | 33 | 38 | 40 | 46 | 47 | 32 | 43 | 38 | 25 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 32 |
| 2 | [Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-dynamics-and-control.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [Journal of Monetary Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-monetary-economics.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 18 |
| 5 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [Empirical Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/empirical-economics.md) | 16 |
| 7 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 16 |
| 8 | [Journal of Macroeconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-macroeconomics.md) | 15 |
| 9 | [Structural Change and Economic Dynamics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/structural-change-and-economic-dynamics.md) | 15 |
| 10 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 14 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | European Central Bank | 12 |
| 2 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 10 |
| 4 | [International Monetary Fund](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/international-monetary-fund.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [Southwest Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-jiaotong-university.md) | 7 |
| 7 | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú | 6 |
| 8 | [Australian National University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/australian-national-university.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Korea University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/korea-university.md) | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | economic recession | 46 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 33 |
| 3 | [inflation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/inflation.md) | 30 |
| 4 | [monetary policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/monetary-policy.md) | 24 |
| 5 | procyclicality | 23 |
| 6 | [unemployment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/unemployment.md) | 22 |
| 7 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 21 |
| 8 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 18 |
| 9 | [2008 financial crisis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/2008-financial-crisis.md) | 16 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 628 | 5.5 | [Innocent Bystanders? Monetary policy and inequality](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2017.05.005) | [Journal of Monetary Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-monetary-economics.md) | 2017-05-17 | Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Lorenz Kueng et al. |
| 2 | 514 | 5.3 | [Policy uncertainty and firm cash holdings](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.10.001) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2017.11.004) | [Journal of International Money and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-money-and-finance.md) | 2017-11-26 | Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, Aleksandra Zdzienicka |
| 4 | 234 | 2.3 | [How important are global geopolitical risks to emerging countries?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inteco.2018.05.002) | [International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-economics.md) | 2018-05-23 | Chak Hung Jack Cheng, Ching‐Wai Chiu |
| 5 | 226 | 2.9 | [On the empirical relationship between tourism and economic growth](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104131) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 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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  title = {Papers on “business cycles”},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  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/).