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title: "Consumer surplus research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "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)."
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# 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.

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

## 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

*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) | 36 | 41 | 37 | 39 | 46 | 44 | 37 | 38 | 35 | 45 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 12 | 19 | 18 | 21 | 33 | 39 | 42 | 59 | 59 | 42 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 6 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 50 |
| 2 | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 33 |
| 3 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 23 |
| 4 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 21 |
| 5 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 18 |
| 6 | [Omega](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/omega.md) | 16 |
| 7 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 15 |
| 8 | [International Journal of Industrial Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-industrial-organization.md) | 15 |
| 9 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 15 |
| 10 | [Electronic Commerce Research and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-commerce-research-and-applications.md) | 14 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 19 |
| 2 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-university.md) | 17 |
| 3 | [South China University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/south-china-university-of-technology.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [University of Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Beijing Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-jiaotong-university.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Shanghai Maritime University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-maritime-university.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Northeastern University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northeastern-university.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Central South University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-south-university.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Fudan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fudan-university.md) | 9 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [social welfare (welfare economics)](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-welfare-welfare-economics.md) | 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

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 602 | 5.2 | [Shopper-Facing Retail Technology: A Retailer Adoption Decision Framework Incorporating Shopper Attitudes and Privacy Concerns](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretai.2016.12.006) | [Journal of Retailing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing.md) | 2017-02-14 | J. Jeffrey Inman, Hristina Dzhogleva Nikolova |
| 2 | 388 | 5.0 | [Innovative “Bring-Service-Near-Your-Home” operations under Corona-Virus (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) outbreak: Can logistics become the Messiah?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.101961) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2020-04-27 | Tsan‐Ming Choi |
| 3 | 339 | 4.2 | [Optimal pricing in on-demand-service-platform-operations with hired agents and risk-sensitive customers in the blockchain era](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.01.049) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2020-01-29 | Tsan‐Ming Choi, Shu Jun Guo, Na Liu et al. |
| 4 | 328 | 3.8 | [Information disclosure structure in supply chains with rental service platforms in the blockchain technology era](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.08.008) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-08-29 | Tsan‐Ming Choi, Lipan Feng, Rong Li |
| 5 | 269 | 2.4 | [Subsidy scheme or price discount scheme? Mass adoption of electric vehicles under different market structures](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.04.030) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2017-04-21 | Lulu Shao, Jun Yang, Min Zhang |

## 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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “consumer surplus”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/consumer-surplus}},
  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/).