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title: "Consistency research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “consistency” appeared in 758 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (492), economics (155) and AI (63)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “consistency” appeared in 758 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (492), economics (155) and AI (63). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “consistency”

Research on “consistency” 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 “consistency” appeared in 758 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (492), economics (155) and AI (63).
- 72 of them were published in 2025, against 76 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (10), Anhui Polytechnic University (6) and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were Statistical Papers (27), Journal of Multivariate Analysis (24) and Statistics and Computing (20).
- The most-cited of them is “How do electronic word of mouth practices contribute to mobile banking adoption?” (Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2019), with 280 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 49 | 49 | 52 | 51 | 55 | 47 | 38 | 59 | 49 | 43 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 17 | 22 | 17 | 22 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 7 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 4 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 7 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 76 | 81 | 84 | 79 | 79 | 78 | 67 | 78 | 72 | 64 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Statistical Papers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-papers.md) | 27 |
| 2 | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | 24 |
| 3 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 20 |
| 4 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 19 |
| 5 | [Statistics & Probability Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-probability-letters.md) | 18 |
| 6 | [Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-statistical-planning-and-inference.md) | 16 |
| 7 | [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics-data-analysis.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/japanese-journal-of-statistics-and-data-science.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Computational Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [Journal of the Korean Statistical Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-korean-statistical-society.md) | 8 |

*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 | Anhui Polytechnic University | 6 |
| 3 | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas | 6 |
| 4 | Universidad de Buenos Aires | 6 |
| 5 | [Anhui University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/anhui-university.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Chinese University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [Nankai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nankai-university.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Shanghai University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 98 |
| 2 | United States | 53 |
| 3 | Japan | 16 |
| 4 | Germany | 15 |
| 5 | France | 15 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 15 |
| 7 | Canada | 14 |
| 8 | Spain | 11 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 11 |
| 10 | India | 10 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [asymptotic normality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/asymptotic-normality.md) | 94 |
| 2 | [asymptotic distribution](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/asymptotic-distribution.md) | 25 |
| 3 | [convergence rate](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convergence-rate.md) | 23 |
| 4 | [maximum likelihood estimation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/maximum-likelihood-estimation.md) | 17 |
| 5 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [parameter estimation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/parameter-estimation.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [robust estimation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/robust-estimation.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [high-dimensional data](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/high-dimensional-data.md) | 13 |
| 9 | nonparametric estimation | 12 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 280 | 3.3 | [How do electronic word of mouth practices contribute to mobile banking adoption?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2019.101920) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2019-08-31 | Amit Shankar, Charles Jebarajakirthy, Md Ashaduzzaman |
| 2 | 168 | 1.6 | [Personalized individual semantics based on consistency in hesitant linguistic group decision making with comparative linguistic expressions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2018.01.011) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2018-01-08 | Cong‐Cong Li, Rosa M. Rodríguez, Luis M. Martínez et al. |
| 3 | 124 | 1.6 | [Consistency- and Consensus-Based Group Decision-Making Method With Incomplete Probabilistic Linguistic Preference Relations](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2020.3003501) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2020-06-18 | Пэйдэ Лю, Peng Wang, Witold Pedrycz |
| 4 | 119 | 1.1 | [Granulating linguistic information in decision making under consensus and consistency](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.01.030) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2018-01-31 | Francisco Javier Cabrerizo, Juan Antonio Morente-Molinera, Witold Pedrycz et al. |
| 5 | 107 | 1.0 | [Revisiting consistency with random utility maximisation: theory and implications for practical work](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-017-9651-7) | [Theory and Decision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/theory-and-decision.md) | 2018-01-02 | Stephane Hess, Andrew Daly, Richard P. Batley |

## Cite this page

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

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “consistency”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/consistency}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).