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title: "Cross-national comparison research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “cross-national comparison” appeared in 2,640 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (933), finance (641) and management (358)."
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# Papers on “cross-national comparison”

Research on “cross-national comparison” 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 “cross-national comparison” appeared in 2,640 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (933), finance (641) and management (358).
- 276 of them were published in 2025, against 220 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Erasmus University Rotterdam (14), London School of Economics and Political Science (14) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (11).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (50), Health Policy (38) and International Review of Financial Analysis (25).
- The most-cited of them is “Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? International evidence” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2018), with 2,547 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) | 92 | 70 | 87 | 114 | 95 | 100 | 89 | 97 | 102 | 87 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 54 | 48 | 52 | 63 | 74 | 76 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 49 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 25 | 30 | 39 | 46 | 49 | 32 | 39 | 42 | 27 | 29 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 22 | 32 | 10 | 19 | 31 | 29 | 22 | 18 | 27 | 16 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 10 | 8 | 9 | 16 | 15 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 25 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 7 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 15 | 6 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 4 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 12 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 220 | 229 | 220 | 301 | 307 | 287 | 279 | 280 | 276 | 241 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 50 |
| 2 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 38 |
| 3 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 25 |
| 4 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 23 |
| 5 | [Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-financial-markets-institutions-and-money.md) | 23 |
| 6 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 22 |
| 7 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 22 |
| 8 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 20 |
| 9 | [Studies In Educational Evaluation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/studies-in-educational-evaluation.md) | 18 |
| 10 | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 18 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 14 |
| 2 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 14 |
| 3 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [Technische Universität Berlin](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/technische-universitat-berlin.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | 10 |
| 6 | [University of Bologna](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bologna.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-economics-ho-chi-minh-city.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [University of Toronto](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-toronto.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 245 |
| 2 | China | 160 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 158 |
| 4 | Italy | 101 |
| 5 | Germany | 87 |
| 6 | Australia | 79 |
| 7 | France | 72 |
| 8 | Spain | 64 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 62 |
| 10 | Canada | 53 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 74 |
| 2 | [institutional quality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/institutional-quality.md) | 47 |
| 3 | [United States](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/united-states.md) | 42 |
| 4 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 41 |
| 5 | [income inequality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/income-inequality.md) | 41 |
| 6 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 33 |
| 7 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 33 |
| 8 | [financial development](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-development.md) | 28 |
| 9 | [economic development](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-development.md) | 26 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,547 | 26.0 | [Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? International evidence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2018.08.013) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2018-09-04 | Alexander Dyck, Karl V. Lins, Lukas Roth et al. |
| 2 | 2,032 | 26.8 | [How many jobs can be done at home?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104235) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2020-07-09 | Jonathan I. Dingel, Brent Neiman |
| 3 | 1,415 | 18.8 | [Inequality in the impact of the coronavirus shock: Evidence from real time surveys](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104245) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2020-07-31 | Abi Adams‐Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin et al. |
| 4 | 1,254 | 16.2 | [Stock markets’ reaction to COVID-19: Cases or fatalities?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2020.101249) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 2020-05-22 | Badar Nadeem Ashraf |
| 5 | 1,084 | 11.4 | [Blockchain adoption challenges in supply chain: An empirical investigation of the main drivers in India and the USA](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.11.021) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2018-12-05 | Maciel Manoel de Queiroz, Samuel Fosso Wamba |

## Cite this page

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

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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