Papers on “ChatGPT”
Research on “ChatGPT” 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 “ChatGPT” appeared in 699 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in higher education and research (196), AI (161) and management (89).
- 221 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (14), Education University of Hong Kong (9) and Sungkyunkwan University (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence (109), AI & Society (73) and International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (28).
- The most-cited of them is “Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy” (International Journal of Information Management, 2023), with 4,592 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 75 | 61 | 34 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 56 | 58 | 25 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 44 | 20 | 14 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 22 | 20 | 14 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 16 | 11 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 9 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 9 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 2 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 3 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 102 | 248 | 221 | 127 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence | 109 |
| 2 | AI & Society | 73 |
| 3 | International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education | 28 |
| 4 | Finance research letters | 24 |
| 5 | Scientometrics | 23 |
| 6 | The International Journal of Management Education | 19 |
| 7 | Expert Systems with Applications | 16 |
| 8 | Telematics and Informatics | 14 |
| 9 | The Internet and Higher Education | 13 |
| 10 | Business Horizons | 12 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 14 |
| 2 | Education University of Hong Kong | 9 |
| 3 | Sungkyunkwan University | 9 |
| 4 | University of Sheffield | 9 |
| 5 | Kyung Hee University | 8 |
| 6 | Wuhan University | 8 |
| 7 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 7 |
| 8 | Sun Yat-sen University | 7 |
| 9 | University of Cambridge | 7 |
| 10 | City University of Hong Kong | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 158 |
| 2 | China | 112 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 82 |
| 4 | Germany | 52 |
| 5 | Australia | 49 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 39 |
| 7 | India | 39 |
| 8 | South Korea | 35 |
| 9 | Canada | 27 |
| 10 | Italy | 27 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | large language models | 254 |
| 2 | generative AI | 222 |
| 3 | AI ethics | 41 |
| 4 | prompt engineering | 40 |
| 5 | artificial intelligence in education | 38 |
| 6 | generative AI in education | 37 |
| 7 | academic integrity | 34 |
| 8 | university students | 34 |
| 9 | higher education | 29 |
Most-cited papers#
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “ChatGPT”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chatgpt
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