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title: "Citizen participation research: papers and trends"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-05)"
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# Papers on “citizen participation”

[Browse research topics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/directory.md)

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.

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

## 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

*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) | 31 | 32 | 26 | 44 | 30 | 33 | 36 | 36 | 44 | 36 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 11 | 18 | 12 | 19 | 31 | 16 | 28 | 25 | 31 | 15 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 17 | 20 | 25 | 19 | 13 | 17 | 22 | 27 | 15 | 10 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 10 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 7 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 7 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 3 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Government Information Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/government-information-quarterly.md) | 35 |
| 2 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 28 |
| 3 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 22 |
| 4 | [Futures](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/futures.md) | 16 |
| 5 | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Public Relations Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-relations-review.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [Technology in Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technology-in-society.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Delft University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/delft-university-of-technology.md) | 12 |
| 2 | [University of Birmingham](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-birmingham.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [University of Groningen](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-groningen.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Utrecht University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/utrecht-university.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Chongqing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chongqing-university.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [ETH Zurich](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/eth-zurich.md) | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 24 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 22 |
| 3 | [energy transition](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-transition.md) | 21 |
| 4 | [stakeholder engagement](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/stakeholder-engagement.md) | 21 |
| 5 | [Twitter](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/twitter.md) | 15 |
| 6 | accountability | 15 |
| 7 | local government | 15 |
| 8 | [transparency](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transparency.md) | 15 |
| 9 | e-participation | 13 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 380 | 3.6 | [Data science empowering the public: Data-driven dashboards for transparent and accountable decision-making in smart cities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2018.01.006) | [Government Information Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/government-information-quarterly.md) | 2018-02-07 | Ricardo Matheus, Marijn Janssen, Devender Maheshwari |
| 2 | 361 | 3.2 | [Ebola on Instagram and Twitter: How health organizations address the health crisis in their social media engagement](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2017.04.009) | [Public Relations Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-relations-review.md) | 2017-05-05 | Jeanine P. D. Guidry, Yan Jin, Caroline Orr Bueno et al. |
| 3 | 302 | 3.8 | [Citizen science and sustainability transitions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2020.103978) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2020-04-20 | Henry Sauermann, Katrin Vohland, Vyron Antoniou et al. |
| 4 | 288 | 3.2 | [Co-benefits approach: Opportunities for implementing sponge city and urban heat island mitigation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.05.003) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 2019-05-09 | Bao‐Jie He, Jin Zhu, Dongxue Zhao et al. |
| 5 | 274 | 4.5 | [Can public participation constraints promote green technological innovation of Chinese enterprises? The moderating role of government environmental regulatory enforcement](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121198) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2021-09-20 | Li Zhao, Ling Zhang, Jianxin Sun et al. |

## 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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  title = {Papers on “citizen participation”},
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  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  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/).