Papers on “corruption”
Research on “corruption” 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 “corruption” appeared in 1,077 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (679), management (157) and finance (146).
- 107 of them were published in 2025, against 93 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Université de Yaoundé II (13), Université de Dschang (12) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (10).
- The journals publishing most of them were Resources Policy (36), European Journal of Political Economy (18) and Economic Change and Restructuring (15).
- The most-cited of them is “Corruption and economic growth: New empirical evidence” (European Journal of Political Economy, 2019), with 416 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 51 | 58 | 56 | 76 | 71 | 72 | 84 | 76 | 70 | 65 |
| Management | 19 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 27 | 12 | 20 | 16 | 10 | 13 |
| Finance | 12 | 10 | 12 | 22 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 19 | 14 |
| Accounting | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 4 |
| Operations Research | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| AI | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 93 | 92 | 89 | 117 | 123 | 108 | 127 | 119 | 107 | 102 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Resources Policy | 36 |
| 2 | European Journal of Political Economy | 18 |
| 3 | Economic Change and Restructuring | 15 |
| 4 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 14 |
| 5 | World Development | 13 |
| 6 | Economic Modelling | 12 |
| 7 | Public Choice | 11 |
| 8 | Journal of Policy Modeling | 10 |
| 9 | Journal of Business Ethics | 10 |
| 10 | Finance research letters | 10 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Université de Yaoundé II | 13 |
| 2 | Université de Dschang | 12 |
| 3 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 10 |
| 4 | Shandong University | 7 |
| 5 | University of Manchester | 6 |
| 6 | University of Salerno | 6 |
| 7 | World Bank | 6 |
| 8 | Bocconi University | 5 |
| 9 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 5 |
| 10 | George Mason University | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 103 |
| 2 | China | 77 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 73 |
| 4 | Italy | 41 |
| 5 | Australia | 30 |
| 6 | Germany | 27 |
| 7 | France | 27 |
| 8 | India | 26 |
| 9 | Cameroon | 23 |
| 10 | Canada | 22 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | institutional quality | 60 |
| 2 | bribery | 40 |
| 3 | economic growth | 40 |
| 4 | developing countries | 39 |
| 5 | resource curse | 30 |
| 6 | anti-corruption policy | 24 |
| 7 | sub-Saharan Africa | 24 |
| 8 | China | 22 |
| 9 | natural resource rents | 20 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 416 | 4.8 | Corruption and economic growth: New empirical evidence | European Journal of Political Economy | 2019-08-22 | Klaus Gründler, Niklas Potrafke |
| 2 | 398 | 4.8 | Corruption in international business: A review and research agenda | International Business Review | 2019-12-31 | Salman Bahoo, Ilan Alon, Andrea Paltrinieri |
| 3 | 367 | 5.4 | Varieties in state capitalism and corporate innovation: Evidence from an emerging economy | Journal of Corporate Finance | 2021-02-27 | Yongjia Rebecca Lin, Xiaoqing Fu, Xiaolan Fu et al. |
| 4 | 353 | 3.7 | Natural resources and economic growth in Africa: The role of institutional quality and human capital | Resources Policy | 2018-11-28 | Oumarou Zallé |
| 5 | 329 | 4.2 | Female political representation and substantive effects on policies: A literature review | European Journal of Political Economy | 2020-05-04 | Zohal Hessami, Mariana Lopes da Fonseca |
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “corruption”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corruption
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