Papers on “developed countries”
Research on “developed countries” 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 “developed countries” appeared in 993 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (567), finance (321) and management (72).
- 114 of them were published in 2025, against 87 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were International Monetary Fund (21), IPAG Business School (11) and World Bank (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Review of Economics & Finance (29), Resources Policy (20) and Journal of International Money and Finance (18).
- The most-cited of them is “Barriers to the adoption of industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing sector: An inter-country comparative perspective” (International Journal of Production Economics, 2019), with 1,045 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 47 | 51 | 52 | 68 | 53 | 55 | 64 | 71 | 61 | 45 |
| Finance | 32 | 24 | 30 | 28 | 30 | 36 | 25 | 46 | 43 | 27 |
| Management | 5 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 3 |
| Operations Research | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 87 | 87 | 93 | 105 | 97 | 106 | 101 | 126 | 114 | 77 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 29 |
| 2 | Resources Policy | 20 |
| 3 | Journal of International Money and Finance | 18 |
| 4 | Economic Modelling | 18 |
| 5 | Finance research letters | 16 |
| 6 | Energy Economics | 14 |
| 7 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 13 |
| 8 | Research in International Business and Finance | 12 |
| 9 | European Economic Review | 11 |
| 10 | Economic Change and Restructuring | 11 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | International Monetary Fund | 21 |
| 2 | IPAG Business School | 11 |
| 3 | World Bank | 9 |
| 4 | ISEG - Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão | 8 |
| 5 | University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City | 8 |
| 6 | University of Lisbon | 8 |
| 7 | Korea University | 7 |
| 8 | NOVA School of Business and Economics | 7 |
| 9 | Universidade Nova de Lisboa | 7 |
| 10 | Asian Development Bank | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 93 |
| 2 | China | 91 |
| 3 | France | 41 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 41 |
| 5 | Australia | 22 |
| 6 | Germany | 21 |
| 7 | India | 21 |
| 8 | Italy | 21 |
| 9 | Turkey | 17 |
| 10 | Spain | 14 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | emerging markets | 140 |
| 2 | developing countries | 95 |
| 3 | economic growth | 44 |
| 4 | COVID-19 pandemic | 35 |
| 5 | institutional quality | 30 |
| 6 | inflation | 29 |
| 7 | geopolitical risk | 24 |
| 8 | monetary policy | 22 |
| 9 | 2008 financial crisis | 20 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,045 | 12.4 | Barriers to the adoption of industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing sector: An inter-country comparative perspective | International Journal of Production Economics | 2019-11-02 | Alok Raj, Gourav Dwivedi, Ankit Sharma et al. |
| 2 | 740 | 7.0 | ICT and economic growth – Comparing developing, emerging and developed countries | World Development | 2017-12-22 | Thomas Niebel |
| 3 | 701 | 6.0 | Measuring the natural rate of interest: International trends and determinants | Journal of International Economics | 2017-01-09 | Kathryn Holston, Thomas Laubach, John C. Williams |
| 4 | 633 | 5.4 | ICT and environmental sustainability: A global perspective | Telematics and Informatics | 2017-01-10 | Dolores Añón Higón, Roya Gholami, Farid Shirazi |
| 5 | 610 | 9.1 | The role of green finance in reducing CO2 emissions: An empirical analysis | Borsa Istanbul Review | 2021-03-23 | Muhammad Saeed Meo, Mohd Zaini Abd Karim |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “developed countries”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/developed-countries
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