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title: "Developed countries research: papers and trends"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# 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.

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

## 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

*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) | 47 | 51 | 52 | 68 | 53 | 55 | 64 | 71 | 61 | 45 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 32 | 24 | 30 | 28 | 30 | 36 | 25 | 46 | 43 | 27 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 5 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 3 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 29 |
| 2 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 20 |
| 3 | [Journal of International Money and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-money-and-finance.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 18 |
| 5 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [Economic Change and Restructuring](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-change-and-restructuring.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Monetary Fund](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/international-monetary-fund.md) | 21 |
| 2 | IPAG Business School | 11 |
| 3 | [World Bank](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/world-bank.md) | 9 |
| 4 | ISEG - Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão | 8 |
| 5 | [University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-economics-ho-chi-minh-city.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [University of Lisbon](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-lisbon.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Korea University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/korea-university.md) | 7 |
| 8 | NOVA School of Business and Economics | 7 |
| 9 | Universidade Nova de Lisboa | 7 |
| 10 | Asian Development Bank | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 140 |
| 2 | [developing countries](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/developing-countries.md) | 95 |
| 3 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 44 |
| 4 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 35 |
| 5 | [institutional quality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/institutional-quality.md) | 30 |
| 6 | [inflation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/inflation.md) | 29 |
| 7 | [geopolitical risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/geopolitical-risk.md) | 24 |
| 8 | [monetary policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/monetary-policy.md) | 22 |
| 9 | [2008 financial crisis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/2008-financial-crisis.md) | 20 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.107546) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.11.024) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2017-12-22 | Thomas Niebel |
| 3 | 701 | 6.0 | [Measuring the natural rate of interest: International trends and determinants](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2017.01.004) | [Journal of International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-economics.md) | 2017-01-09 | Kathryn Holston, Thomas Laubach, John C. Williams |
| 4 | 633 | 5.4 | [ICT and environmental sustainability: A global perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.01.001) | [Telematics and Informatics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bir.2021.03.002) | [Borsa Istanbul Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/borsa-istanbul-review.md) | 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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “developed countries”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/developed-countries}},
  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/).