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title: "Climate change adaptation research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “climate change adaptation” appeared in 950 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (744), tourism and hospitality (51) and operations research (46)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “climate change adaptation” appeared in 950 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (744), tourism and hospitality (51) and operations research (46). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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---

# Papers on “climate change adaptation”

Research on “climate change adaptation” 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 “climate change adaptation” appeared in 950 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (744), tourism and hospitality (51) and operations research (46).
- 152 of them were published in 2025, against 70 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (10), World Bank (8) and Peking University (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Land Use Policy (60), Ecological Economics (35) and World Development (25).
- The most-cited of them is “Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?” (World Development, 2021), with 865 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) | 62 | 69 | 67 | 86 | 48 | 57 | 66 | 71 | 117 | 101 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 9 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 13 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 70 | 79 | 77 | 98 | 69 | 72 | 89 | 93 | 152 | 151 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 60 |
| 2 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 35 |
| 3 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 25 |
| 4 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 23 |
| 5 | [Economics of Disasters and Climate Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-disasters-and-climate-change.md) | 18 |
| 6 | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 17 |
| 7 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 17 |
| 8 | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Environmental and Resource Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-and-resource-economics.md) | 10 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [World Bank](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/world-bank.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [ETH Zurich](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/eth-zurich.md) | 6 |
| 6 | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis | 6 |
| 7 | [International Monetary Fund](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/international-monetary-fund.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Technical University of Munich](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/technical-university-of-munich.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [Utrecht University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/utrecht-university.md) | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 105 |
| 2 | China | 102 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 57 |
| 4 | Italy | 47 |
| 5 | Germany | 39 |
| 6 | Australia | 31 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 28 |
| 8 | France | 27 |
| 9 | India | 19 |
| 10 | Spain | 18 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [climate change mitigation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-change-mitigation.md) | 69 |
| 2 | [climate change](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-change.md) | 37 |
| 3 | [climate risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-risk.md) | 31 |
| 4 | extreme heat | 31 |
| 5 | climate resilience | 29 |
| 6 | extreme weather events | 29 |
| 7 | climate change impacts | 24 |
| 8 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 22 |
| 9 | climate change vulnerability | 21 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 865 | 12.5 | [Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105383) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2021-01-22 | Siri Eriksen, E. Lisa F. Schipper, Morgan Scoville-Simonds et al. |
| 2 | 583 | 5.4 | [Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation: Evidence from a half million chinese manufacturing plants](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2017.11.001) | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 2017-11-08 | Peng Zhang, Olivier Deschênes, Kyle C. Meng et al. |
| 3 | 550 | 6.8 | [Does financial inclusion impact CO2 emissions? Evidence from Asia](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101451) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2020-01-31 | Thai‐Ha Le, Ha-Chi Le, Farhad Taghizadeh Hesary |
| 4 | 466 | 6.3 | [Response and adaptation of agriculture to climate change: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102557) | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 2020-08-21 | Shuai Chen, Binlei Gong |
| 5 | 330 | 3.0 | [Farmers' Adaptation to Climate Change, Its Determinants and Impacts on Rice Yield in Nepal](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.08.006) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2017-08-11 | Uttam Khanal, Clevo Wilson, Viet-Ngu Vincent Hoang et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “climate change adaptation”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-change-adaptation

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “climate change adaptation”},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  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/).