Papers on “corporate innovation”
Research on “corporate innovation” 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 “corporate innovation” appeared in 608 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (398), economics (108) and management (62).
- 127 of them were published in 2025, against 10 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Central University of Finance and Economics (17), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (17) and Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (17).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (122), International Review of Economics & Finance (43) and International Review of Financial Analysis (41).
- The most-cited of them is “How does hedge fund activism reshape corporate innovation?” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2018), with 607 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 6 | 10 | 12 | 17 | 20 | 25 | 67 | 78 | 95 | 68 |
| Economics | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 17 | 20 | 29 |
| Management | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 |
| Marketing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 10 | 15 | 22 | 35 | 30 | 49 | 98 | 109 | 127 | 113 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 122 |
| 2 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 43 |
| 3 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 41 |
| 4 | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 33 |
| 5 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 23 |
| 6 | Research in International Business and Finance | 13 |
| 7 | Journal of Corporate Finance | 11 |
| 8 | Economic Modelling | 10 |
| 9 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 8 |
| 10 | Energy Economics | 8 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 17 |
| 2 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 17 |
| 3 | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | 17 |
| 4 | Capital University of Economics and Business | 15 |
| 5 | Sun Yat-sen University | 14 |
| 6 | Xiamen University | 14 |
| 7 | Renmin University of China | 13 |
| 8 | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 12 |
| 9 | University of International Business and Economics | 12 |
| 10 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 12 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 360 |
| 2 | United States | 51 |
| 3 | Australia | 21 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 18 |
| 5 | Taiwan | 12 |
| 6 | South Korea | 11 |
| 7 | Macao | 10 |
| 8 | Malaysia | 8 |
| 9 | Canada | 7 |
| 10 | France | 7 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese listed companies | 129 |
| 2 | financial constraints | 102 |
| 3 | state-owned enterprises | 83 |
| 4 | China | 76 |
| 5 | R&D investment | 62 |
| 6 | corporate governance | 40 |
| 7 | listed companies | 38 |
| 8 | high-tech enterprises | 29 |
| 9 | firm size | 26 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 607 | 6.1 | How does hedge fund activism reshape corporate innovation? | Journal of Financial Economics | 2018-06-30 | Alon P. Brav, Wei Jiang, Song Ma et al. |
| 2 | 558 | 6.7 | Economic policy uncertainty, cost of capital, and corporate innovation | Journal of Banking & Finance | 2019-11-18 | Zhaoxia Xu |
| 3 | 509 | 9.2 | Fintech, financial constraints and innovation: Evidence from China | Journal of Corporate Finance | 2022-04-01 | Na Ding, Leilei Gu, Yuchao Peng |
| 4 | 446 | 4.2 | Managerial foreign experience and corporate innovation | Journal of Corporate Finance | 2017-12-13 | Rongli Yuan, Wen Wen |
| 5 | 422 | 3.9 | Institutional investors' corporate site visits and corporate innovation | Journal of Corporate Finance | 2017-10-24 | Xuanyu Jiang, Qingbo Yuan |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “corporate innovation”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-innovation
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