Papers on “foreign direct investment”
Research on “foreign direct investment” 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 “foreign direct investment” appeared in 1,996 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,153), management (441) and finance (330).
- 220 of them were published in 2025, against 175 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Nankai University (16), Renmin University of China (16) and International Monetary Fund (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were Resources Policy (113), Finance research letters (48) and International Review of Economics & Finance (42).
- The most-cited of them is “Environmental degradation in France: The effects of FDI, financial development, and energy innovations” (Energy Economics, 2018), with 1,193 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 106 | 97 | 91 | 91 | 94 | 131 | 154 | 148 | 133 | 108 |
| Management | 35 | 45 | 44 | 38 | 48 | 55 | 50 | 40 | 25 | 61 |
| Finance | 30 | 19 | 17 | 35 | 23 | 27 | 34 | 45 | 48 | 52 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
| Accounting | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Marketing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 175 | 166 | 155 | 172 | 172 | 219 | 242 | 246 | 220 | 229 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Resources Policy | 113 |
| 2 | Finance research letters | 48 |
| 3 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 42 |
| 4 | Future Business Journal | 33 |
| 5 | Energy Economics | 31 |
| 6 | Economic Change and Restructuring | 31 |
| 7 | Journal of International Business Policy | 22 |
| 8 | Energy Policy | 20 |
| 9 | International Economics | 20 |
| 10 | International Economics and Economic Policy | 19 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nankai University | 16 |
| 2 | Renmin University of China | 16 |
| 3 | International Monetary Fund | 12 |
| 4 | University of International Business and Economics | 12 |
| 5 | Xiamen University | 12 |
| 6 | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | 12 |
| 7 | Université de Yaoundé II | 11 |
| 8 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 11 |
| 9 | Azerbaijan State University of Economics | 10 |
| 10 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 10 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 353 |
| 2 | United States | 131 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 100 |
| 4 | France | 55 |
| 5 | India | 43 |
| 6 | Turkey | 39 |
| 7 | Italy | 38 |
| 8 | Germany | 34 |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 30 |
| 10 | Australia | 29 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | economic growth | 131 |
| 2 | multinational corporations | 95 |
| 3 | China | 87 |
| 4 | CO2 emissions | 75 |
| 5 | institutional quality | 71 |
| 6 | developing countries | 64 |
| 7 | trade openness | 58 |
| 8 | sustainable development | 55 |
| 9 | human capital | 51 |
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “foreign direct investment”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/foreign-direct-investment
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