Papers on “citizen participation”
Research on “citizen participation” 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 “citizen participation” appeared in 1,106 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (348), management (206) and information systems (185).
- 132 of them were published in 2025, against 89 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Delft University of Technology (12), University of Birmingham (8) and Harvard University (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were Government Information Quarterly (35), Energy Policy (28) and Land Use Policy (22).
- The most-cited of them is “Data science empowering the public: Data-driven dashboards for transparent and accountable decision-making in smart cities” (Government Information Quarterly, 2018), with 380 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 31 | 32 | 26 | 44 | 30 | 33 | 36 | 36 | 44 | 36 |
| Management | 11 | 18 | 12 | 19 | 31 | 16 | 28 | 25 | 31 | 15 |
| Information Systems | 17 | 20 | 25 | 19 | 13 | 17 | 22 | 27 | 15 | 10 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 10 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 7 |
| Marketing | 7 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| Operations Research | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 |
| AI | 3 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| Statistics | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| All categories | 89 | 101 | 93 | 128 | 116 | 100 | 112 | 132 | 132 | 103 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Government Information Quarterly | 35 |
| 2 | Energy Policy | 28 |
| 3 | Land Use Policy | 22 |
| 4 | Futures | 16 |
| 5 | Social Science & Medicine | 16 |
| 6 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 15 |
| 7 | AI & Society | 11 |
| 8 | Public Relations Review | 10 |
| 9 | Ecological Economics | 10 |
| 10 | Technology in Society | 9 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delft University of Technology | 12 |
| 2 | University of Birmingham | 8 |
| 3 | Harvard University | 6 |
| 4 | Renmin University of China | 6 |
| 5 | Tsinghua University | 6 |
| 6 | University of Groningen | 6 |
| 7 | Utrecht University | 6 |
| 8 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 6 |
| 9 | Chongqing University | 5 |
| 10 | ETH Zurich | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 95 |
| 2 | United States | 80 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 68 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 38 |
| 5 | Germany | 34 |
| 6 | Italy | 26 |
| 7 | Spain | 25 |
| 8 | Australia | 24 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 20 |
| 10 | France | 16 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 24 |
| 2 | China | 22 |
| 3 | energy transition | 21 |
| 4 | stakeholder engagement | 21 |
| 5 | 15 | |
| 6 | accountability | 15 |
| 7 | local government | 15 |
| 8 | transparency | 15 |
| 9 | e-participation | 13 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “citizen participation”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/citizen-participation
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