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title: "Germany research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “Germany” appeared in 1,036 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (622), health economics and policy (161) and management (93)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “Germany” appeared in 1,036 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (622), health economics and policy (161) and management (93). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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---

# Papers on “Germany”

Research on “Germany” 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 “Germany” appeared in 1,036 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (622), health economics and policy (161) and management (93).
- 116 of them were published in 2025, against 113 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (16), Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung (15) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (14).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Policy (32), Health Policy (23) and Energy Economics (19).
- The most-cited of them is “Science, technology and innovation ecosystem transformation toward society 5.0” (International Journal of Production Economics, 2019), with 521 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 78 | 51 | 44 | 52 | 60 | 73 | 76 | 60 | 66 | 62 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 9 | 18 | 13 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 9 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 8 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 7 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 6 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 113 | 91 | 86 | 95 | 114 | 106 | 103 | 107 | 116 | 105 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 32 |
| 2 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 23 |
| 3 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 19 |
| 4 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 18 |
| 5 | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Journal for Labour Market Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-for-labour-market-research.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [Utilities Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/utilities-policy.md) | 10 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 16 |
| 2 | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung | 15 |
| 3 | [Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen.md) | 14 |
| 4 | RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research | 14 |
| 5 | University of Duisburg-Essen | 13 |
| 6 | Centre for European Economic Research | 12 |
| 7 | [Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg.md) | 12 |
| 8 | German Institute for Economic Research | 12 |
| 9 | [Technische Universität Berlin](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/technische-universitat-berlin.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Universität Hamburg](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universitat-hamburg.md) | 12 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 307 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 30 |
| 3 | United States | 30 |
| 4 | Switzerland | 22 |
| 5 | Italy | 22 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 22 |
| 7 | France | 21 |
| 8 | Spain | 19 |
| 9 | Austria | 18 |
| 10 | China | 17 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | France | 38 |
| 2 | [Italy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/italy.md) | 34 |
| 3 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 30 |
| 4 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 25 |
| 5 | Spain | 21 |
| 6 | [energy transition](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-transition.md) | 21 |
| 7 | [United States](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/united-states.md) | 19 |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 18 |
| 9 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 17 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 521 | 6.0 | [Science, technology and innovation ecosystem transformation toward society 5.0](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.07.033) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-07-29 | Kayano Fukuda |
| 2 | 319 | 3.0 | [The multiple roles of state investment banks in low-carbon energy finance: An analysis of Australia, the UK and Germany](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.01.009) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2018-01-28 | Anna Geddes, Tobias S. Schmidt, Bjarne Steffen |
| 3 | 313 | 3.2 | [The impacts of digital transformation on the labour market: Substitution potentials of occupations in Germany](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.09.024) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2018-10-04 | Katharina Dengler, Britta Katharina Matthes |
| 4 | 301 | 4.4 | [Transport mode use during the COVID-19 lockdown period in Germany: The car became more important, public transport lost ground](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.01.012) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 2021-01-29 | Christine Eisenmann, Claudia Nobis, Viktoriya Kolarova et al. |
| 5 | 254 | 2.4 | [How different policy instruments affect green product innovation: A differentiated perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.11.049) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2017-12-22 | Tobias Stucki, Martin Wörter, Spyros Arvanitis et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “Germany”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/germany

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  title = {Papers on “Germany”},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  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/).