Papers on “financial performance”
Research on “financial performance” 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 “financial performance” appeared in 925 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (317), finance (189) and economics (124).
- 153 of them were published in 2025, against 68 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (10), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (6) and City University of Macau (5).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (30), Future Business Journal (22) and Journal of Business Research (20).
- The most-cited of them is “Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Scores and Financial Performance of Multilatinas: Moderating Effects of Geographic International Diversification and Financial Slack” (Journal of Business Ethics, 2019), with 1,104 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management | 21 | 20 | 21 | 29 | 44 | 45 | 29 | 33 | 45 | 30 |
| Finance | 11 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 19 | 39 | 50 | 20 |
| Economics | 11 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 15 | 13 | 21 | 8 |
| Operations Research | 9 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 4 |
| Marketing | 5 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 4 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
| Accounting | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| AI | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 68 | 56 | 71 | 82 | 110 | 99 | 90 | 118 | 153 | 78 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 30 |
| 2 | Future Business Journal | 22 |
| 3 | Journal of Business Research | 20 |
| 4 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 20 |
| 5 | Research in International Business and Finance | 14 |
| 6 | Industrial Marketing Management | 13 |
| 7 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 12 |
| 8 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 12 |
| 9 | International Journal of Production Economics | 11 |
| 10 | International Journal of Hospitality Management | 9 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 10 |
| 2 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 6 |
| 3 | City University of Macau | 5 |
| 4 | NEOMA Business School | 5 |
| 5 | Pôle Léonard de Vinci | 5 |
| 6 | Sun Yat-sen University | 5 |
| 7 | The University of Queensland | 5 |
| 8 | Tianjin University | 5 |
| 9 | Universiti Sains Malaysia | 5 |
| 10 | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 100 |
| 2 | United States | 65 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 50 |
| 4 | Spain | 34 |
| 5 | India | 34 |
| 6 | Italy | 33 |
| 7 | Australia | 30 |
| 8 | France | 24 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 15 |
| 10 | Brazil | 14 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | firm performance | 58 |
| 2 | corporate governance | 57 |
| 3 | corporate social responsibility | 40 |
| 4 | environmental performance | 37 |
| 5 | moderating effect | 33 |
| 6 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 29 |
| 7 | Chinese listed companies | 27 |
| 8 | COVID-19 pandemic | 25 |
| 9 | return on assets | 24 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “financial performance”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-performance
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