---
title: "Electric vehicles research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “electric vehicles” appeared in 923 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (366), economics (366) and management (98)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/electric-vehicles
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “electric vehicles” appeared in 923 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (366), economics (366) and management (98). (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-04T00:03:46+09:00
window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
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---

# Papers on “electric vehicles”

Research on “electric vehicles” 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 “electric vehicles” appeared in 923 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (366), economics (366) and management (98).
- 145 of them were published in 2025, against 55 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (14), Tongji University (13) and South China University of Technology (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Policy (45), Transport Policy (41) and Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (33).
- The most-cited of them is “The electric vehicle routing problem with nonlinear charging function” (Transportation Research Part B Methodological, 2017), with 637 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 21 | 27 | 25 | 25 | 32 | 30 | 38 | 50 | 58 | 60 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 28 | 31 | 37 | 23 | 39 | 39 | 30 | 43 | 48 | 48 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 5 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 13 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 9 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 55 | 69 | 78 | 61 | 89 | 90 | 89 | 116 | 145 | 131 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 45 |
| 2 | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 41 |
| 3 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 33 |
| 4 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 30 |
| 5 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 24 |
| 6 | [Research in Transportation Business & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-business-management.md) | 22 |
| 7 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 21 |
| 8 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 20 |
| 9 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 16 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 14 |
| 2 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [South China University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/south-china-university-of-technology.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [Central South University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-south-university.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [Norwegian University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/norwegian-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Delft University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/delft-university-of-technology.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Purdue University West Lafayette](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/purdue-university-west-lafayette.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 153 |
| 2 | United States | 73 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 41 |
| 4 | Germany | 36 |
| 5 | India | 28 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 26 |
| 7 | Australia | 25 |
| 8 | Norway | 19 |
| 9 | Italy | 18 |
| 10 | Canada | 17 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | charging infrastructure | 31 |
| 2 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 29 |
| 3 | sustainable transport | 29 |
| 4 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 26 |
| 5 | electric vehicle adoption | 24 |
| 6 | vehicle-to-grid | 23 |
| 7 | [energy transition](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-transition.md) | 21 |
| 8 | [purchase intention](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/purchase-intention.md) | 19 |
| 9 | [vehicle routing](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vehicle-routing.md) | 19 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 637 | 5.5 | [The electric vehicle routing problem with nonlinear charging function](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2017.02.004) | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 2017-03-01 | Alejandro Montoya, Christelle Guéret, Jorge E. Mendoza et al. |
| 2 | 597 | 8.2 | [Impact of digital transformation on the automotive industry](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120343) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2020-10-08 | Carlos Llopis‐Albert, Francisco J. Rubio, Francisco Valero |
| 3 | 489 | 8.0 | [Urban air mobility: A comprehensive review and comparative analysis with autonomous and electric ground transportation for informing future research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2021.103377) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2021-09-28 | Laurie A. Garrow, Brian German, Caroline E. Leonard |
| 4 | 414 | 3.9 | [Electric mobility in Europe: A comprehensive review of motivators and barriers in decision making processes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.01.017) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 2018-02-04 | Mehmet Efe Biresselioğlu, Melike Demirbağ Kaplan, Barbara Katharina Yilmaz |
| 5 | 405 | 3.5 | [The effect of fiscal incentives on market penetration of electric vehicles: A pairwise comparison of total cost of ownership](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.02.054) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2017-03-18 | Petra Zsuzsa Lévay, Yannis Drossinos, Christian Thiel |

## Research ideas that follow this keyword

- [Who gets EV chargers?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/who-gets-ev-chargers.md)

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “electric vehicles”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/electric-vehicles

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “electric vehicles”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/electric-vehicles}},
  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).