Papers on “digital finance”
Research on “digital finance” 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 “digital finance” appeared in 566 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (359), economics (116) and management (64).
- 187 of them were published in 2025, against 2 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (17), Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (15) and University of International Business and Economics (13).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (167), International Review of Economics & Finance (57) and International Review of Financial Analysis (30).
- The most-cited of them is “Impact of digital finance on financial inclusion and stability” (Borsa Istanbul Review, 2018), with 2,128 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 39 | 76 | 140 | 81 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 22 | 30 | 30 | 16 |
| Management | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 10 | 16 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 36 | 79 | 123 | 187 | 121 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 167 |
| 2 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 57 |
| 3 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 30 |
| 4 | Research in International Business and Finance | 22 |
| 5 | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 22 |
| 6 | Journal of the Knowledge Economy | 22 |
| 7 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 15 |
| 8 | Economic Change and Restructuring | 14 |
| 9 | Resources Policy | 12 |
| 10 | Global Finance Journal | 11 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 17 |
| 2 | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | 15 |
| 3 | University of International Business and Economics | 13 |
| 4 | Capital University of Economics and Business | 11 |
| 5 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 11 |
| 6 | Jilin University | 11 |
| 7 | Peking University | 11 |
| 8 | Renmin University of China | 11 |
| 9 | Nanjing University of Finance and Economics | 10 |
| 10 | Liaoning University | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 420 |
| 2 | United States | 25 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 21 |
| 4 | Malaysia | 21 |
| 5 | Australia | 16 |
| 6 | India | 16 |
| 7 | France | 8 |
| 8 | South Korea | 8 |
| 9 | Macao | 8 |
| 10 | Pakistan | 6 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 132 |
| 2 | regional heterogeneity | 81 |
| 3 | financial constraints | 70 |
| 4 | fintech | 50 |
| 5 | Chinese listed companies | 49 |
| 6 | moderating effect | 46 |
| 7 | state-owned enterprises | 44 |
| 8 | financial inclusion | 42 |
| 9 | digital financial inclusion | 40 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,128 | 20.5 | Impact of digital finance on financial inclusion and stability | Borsa Istanbul Review | 2018-03-18 | Peterson K Ozili |
| 2 | 1,736 | 14.9 | Digital Finance and FinTech: current research and future research directions | Journal of Business Economics | 2017-02-25 | Peter Gomber, Jascha-Alexander Koch, Michael Siering |
| 3 | 961 | 11.2 | The impact of digital finance on household consumption: Evidence from China | Economic Modelling | 2019-09-21 | Jie Li, Yu Wu, Jing Jian Xiao |
| 4 | 822 | 14.5 | Environmental decentralization, digital finance and green technology innovation | Structural Change and Economic Dynamics | 2022-02-12 | Suling Feng, Rong Zhang, Guoxiang Li |
| 5 | 522 | 7.8 | Fintech and access to finance | Journal of Corporate Finance | 2021-03-26 | Helen Bollaert, Florencio López‐de‐Silanes, Armin Schwienbacher |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “digital finance”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-finance
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note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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