Papers on “consumer surplus”
Research on “consumer surplus” 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 “consumer surplus” appeared in 895 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (398), operations research (344) and information systems (46).
- 118 of them were published in 2025, against 58 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (19), Tianjin University (17) and South China University of Technology (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (50), International Journal of Production Economics (33) and European Journal of Operational Research (23).
- The most-cited of them is “Shopper-Facing Retail Technology: A Retailer Adoption Decision Framework Incorporating Shopper Attitudes and Privacy Concerns” (Journal of Retailing, 2017), with 602 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 36 | 41 | 37 | 39 | 46 | 44 | 37 | 38 | 35 | 45 |
| Operations Research | 12 | 19 | 18 | 21 | 33 | 39 | 42 | 59 | 59 | 42 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 6 |
| Marketing | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Finance | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Management | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Accounting | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 58 | 65 | 62 | 71 | 93 | 99 | 98 | 118 | 118 | 113 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 50 |
| 2 | International Journal of Production Economics | 33 |
| 3 | European Journal of Operational Research | 23 |
| 4 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 21 |
| 5 | Annals of Operations Research | 18 |
| 6 | Omega | 16 |
| 7 | Energy Economics | 15 |
| 8 | International Journal of Industrial Organization | 15 |
| 9 | Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice | 15 |
| 10 | Electronic Commerce Research and Applications | 14 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 19 |
| 2 | Tianjin University | 17 |
| 3 | South China University of Technology | 15 |
| 4 | University of Science and Technology of China | 15 |
| 5 | Beijing Jiaotong University | 11 |
| 6 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 11 |
| 7 | Shanghai Maritime University | 11 |
| 8 | Northeastern University | 10 |
| 9 | Central South University | 9 |
| 10 | Fudan University | 9 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 261 |
| 2 | United States | 70 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 35 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 30 |
| 5 | Canada | 24 |
| 6 | Italy | 21 |
| 7 | France | 19 |
| 8 | India | 16 |
| 9 | Spain | 14 |
| 10 | Taiwan | 11 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | social welfare (welfare economics) | 146 |
| 2 | supply chain coordination | 25 |
| 3 | Cournot competition | 24 |
| 4 | duopoly | 24 |
| 5 | price discrimination | 23 |
| 6 | game-theoretic model | 19 |
| 7 | price competition | 19 |
| 8 | platform competition | 18 |
| 9 | consumer heterogeneity | 17 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “consumer surplus”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/consumer-surplus
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