Papers on “fintech”
Research on “fintech” 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 “fintech” appeared in 1,041 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (490), economics (275) and management (128).
- 198 of them were published in 2025, against 9 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Peking University (20), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (16) and Lebanese American University (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Resources Policy (140), Finance research letters (130) and Research in International Business and Finance (44).
- The most-cited of them is “Digital Finance and FinTech: current research and future research directions” (Journal of Business Economics, 2017), with 1,736 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 3 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 21 | 32 | 63 | 114 | 128 | 100 |
| Economics | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 16 | 61 | 124 | 27 | 27 |
| Management | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 23 | 23 | 21 |
| Information Systems | 3 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 4 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Marketing | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Accounting | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 9 | 21 | 20 | 35 | 55 | 89 | 162 | 282 | 198 | 170 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Resources Policy | 140 |
| 2 | Finance research letters | 130 |
| 3 | Research in International Business and Finance | 44 |
| 4 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 41 |
| 5 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 34 |
| 6 | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 26 |
| 7 | Financial Innovation | 25 |
| 8 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 21 |
| 9 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 20 |
| 10 | Future Business Journal | 15 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peking University | 20 |
| 2 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 16 |
| 3 | Lebanese American University | 15 |
| 4 | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | 15 |
| 5 | King Saud University | 13 |
| 6 | Renmin University of China | 13 |
| 7 | Tashkent State University of Economics | 13 |
| 8 | University of International Business and Economics | 13 |
| 9 | Nanjing University of Finance and Economics | 12 |
| 10 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 11 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 455 |
| 2 | United States | 77 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 67 |
| 4 | India | 55 |
| 5 | Saudi Arabia | 52 |
| 6 | Italy | 50 |
| 7 | Australia | 48 |
| 8 | Pakistan | 48 |
| 9 | Malaysia | 47 |
| 10 | United Arab Emirates | 23 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 117 |
| 2 | financial inclusion | 107 |
| 3 | green finance | 65 |
| 4 | Chinese listed companies | 63 |
| 5 | financial constraints | 62 |
| 6 | CO2 emissions | 55 |
| 7 | sustainable development | 50 |
| 8 | regional heterogeneity | 49 |
| 9 | blockchain | 45 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 1,703 | 15.7 | Fintech: Ecosystem, business models, investment decisions, and challenges | Business Horizons | 2017-10-12 | In Lee, Yong Jae Shin |
| 3 | 1,208 | 14.0 | Fintech and banking: What do we know? | Journal of Financial Intermediation | 2019-08-21 | Anjan V. Thakor |
| 4 | 802 | 8.5 | Blockchain Disruption and Decentralized Finance: The Rise of Decentralized Business Models | Journal of Business Venturing Insights | 2019-01-01 | Yan Chen, Cristiano Bellavitis |
| 5 | 753 | 7.3 | The emergence of the global fintech market: economic and technological determinants | Small Business Economics | 2018-03-27 | Christian Haddad, Lars Hornuf |
Research ideas that follow this keyword#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “fintech”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/fintech
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