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title: "Financial performance research: papers and trends"
description: "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)."
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# 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.

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

## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 21 | 20 | 21 | 29 | 44 | 45 | 29 | 33 | 45 | 30 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 11 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 19 | 39 | 50 | 20 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 11 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 15 | 13 | 21 | 8 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 9 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 4 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 5 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 30 |
| 2 | [Future Business Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/future-business-journal.md) | 22 |
| 3 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 20 |
| 4 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [City University of Macau](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-macau.md) | 5 |
| 4 | [NEOMA Business School](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/neoma-business-school.md) | 5 |
| 5 | Pôle Léonard de Vinci | 5 |
| 6 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [The University of Queensland](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-queensland.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-university.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [Universiti Sains Malaysia](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universiti-sains-malaysia.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Zhongnan University of Economics and Law](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhongnan-university-of-economics-and-law.md) | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [firm performance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/firm-performance.md) | 58 |
| 2 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 57 |
| 3 | [corporate social responsibility](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-social-responsibility.md) | 40 |
| 4 | [environmental performance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/environmental-performance.md) | 37 |
| 5 | [moderating effect](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/moderating-effect.md) | 33 |
| 6 | [small and medium-sized enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/small-and-medium-sized-enterprises.md) | 29 |
| 7 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 27 |
| 8 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 25 |
| 9 | return on assets | 24 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,104 | 12.3 | [Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Scores and Financial Performance of Multilatinas: Moderating Effects of Geographic International Diversification and Financial Slack](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04177-w) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 2019-05-16 | Eduardo Alexander Duque Grisales, Javier Aguilera‐Caracuel |
| 2 | 1,038 | 9.4 | [Relationship between innovation capability, innovation type, and firm performance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2017.06.002) | [Journal of Innovation & Knowledge](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-knowledge.md) | 2017-08-31 | R.P. Jayani Rajapathirana, Yan Hui |
| 3 | 969 | 10.6 | [How entrepreneurial SMEs compete through digital platforms: The roles of digital platform capability, network capability and ambidexterity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.03.035) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2019-04-03 | Javier Cenamor, Vinit Parida, Joakim Wincent |
| 4 | 851 | 10.7 | [Antecedents, consequences, and challenges of small and medium-sized enterprise digitalization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.03.004) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-03-14 | Robert Eller, Philip Alford, Andreas Kallmuenzer et al. |
| 5 | 721 | 8.7 | [The relationship between digitalization and servitization: The role of servitization in capturing the financial potential of digitalization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119804) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2019-12-02 | Marko Kohtamäki, Vinit Parida, Pankaj C. Patel et al. |

## 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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “financial performance”},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  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/).