Papers on “entrepreneurship”
Research on “entrepreneurship” 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 “entrepreneurship” appeared in 1,396 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (639), economics (550) and finance (110).
- 181 of them were published in 2025, against 108 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Peking University (15), Villanova University (13) and Indiana University Bloomington (11).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Business Venturing Insights (55), Small Business Economics (38) and Finance research letters (32).
- The most-cited of them is “The digital transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship: Progress, challenges and key themes” (Research Policy, 2019), with 2,764 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management | 49 | 54 | 46 | 71 | 64 | 63 | 79 | 68 | 78 | 67 |
| Economics | 47 | 47 | 58 | 59 | 57 | 50 | 62 | 46 | 70 | 54 |
| Finance | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 31 | 19 | 16 |
| Information Systems | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 108 | 114 | 115 | 146 | 142 | 128 | 162 | 153 | 181 | 147 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Business Venturing Insights | 55 |
| 2 | Small Business Economics | 38 |
| 3 | Finance research letters | 32 |
| 4 | Journal of Business Venturing | 27 |
| 5 | International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal | 25 |
| 6 | Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship | 21 |
| 7 | The Review of Austrian Economics | 19 |
| 8 | Journal of global entrepreneurship research | 18 |
| 9 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 17 |
| 10 | The Journal of Technology Transfer | 17 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peking University | 15 |
| 2 | Villanova University | 13 |
| 3 | Indiana University Bloomington | 11 |
| 4 | Indiana University | 9 |
| 5 | Renmin University of China | 9 |
| 6 | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 9 |
| 7 | Sun Yat-sen University | 9 |
| 8 | Zhejiang University | 9 |
| 9 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 8 |
| 10 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 173 |
| 2 | United States | 155 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 72 |
| 4 | Spain | 52 |
| 5 | Germany | 49 |
| 6 | Italy | 41 |
| 7 | Australia | 36 |
| 8 | France | 27 |
| 9 | India | 27 |
| 10 | Canada | 26 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 92 |
| 2 | innovation | 67 |
| 3 | startups | 41 |
| 4 | economic growth | 31 |
| 5 | self-employment | 31 |
| 6 | human capital | 23 |
| 7 | artificial intelligence | 21 |
| 8 | regional heterogeneity | 20 |
| 9 | financial development | 19 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “entrepreneurship”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/entrepreneurship
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