Papers on “government subsidies”
Research on “government subsidies” 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 “government subsidies” appeared in 913 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (316), operations research (241) and finance (211).
- 196 of them were published in 2025, against 43 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (22), University of International Business and Economics (16) and Sichuan University (13).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (62), International Review of Economics & Finance (35) and Computers & Industrial Engineering (27).
- The most-cited of them is “Who is financing corporate green innovation?” (International Review of Economics & Finance, 2021), with 631 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 26 | 15 | 15 | 23 | 40 | 30 | 38 | 37 | 57 | 35 |
| Operations Research | 6 | 10 | 15 | 14 | 25 | 31 | 40 | 33 | 38 | 29 |
| Finance | 4 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 20 | 40 | 78 | 30 |
| Management | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 12 | 11 |
| Accounting | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 43 | 35 | 49 | 48 | 90 | 86 | 113 | 136 | 196 | 117 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 62 |
| 2 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 35 |
| 3 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 27 |
| 4 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 24 |
| 5 | Annals of Operations Research | 22 |
| 6 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 22 |
| 7 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 19 |
| 8 | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 17 |
| 9 | Transport Policy | 16 |
| 10 | Energy Policy | 15 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 22 |
| 2 | University of International Business and Economics | 16 |
| 3 | Sichuan University | 13 |
| 4 | Sun Yat-sen University | 13 |
| 5 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 12 |
| 6 | Capital University of Economics and Business | 12 |
| 7 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 12 |
| 8 | Renmin University of China | 11 |
| 9 | Tsinghua University | 11 |
| 10 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 10 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 439 |
| 2 | United States | 49 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 31 |
| 4 | Australia | 25 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 21 |
| 6 | Italy | 16 |
| 7 | France | 14 |
| 8 | Canada | 13 |
| 9 | Taiwan | 11 |
| 10 | India | 10 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese listed companies | 89 |
| 2 | China | 84 |
| 3 | state-owned enterprises | 78 |
| 4 | financial constraints | 63 |
| 5 | social welfare (welfare economics) | 43 |
| 6 | R&D investment | 34 |
| 7 | digital transformation | 33 |
| 8 | Stackelberg game | 30 |
| 9 | listed companies | 30 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 631 | 10.8 | Who is financing corporate green innovation? | International Review of Economics & Finance | 2021-12-16 | Xiaojian Xiang, Chuanjiang Liu, Mian Yang |
| 2 | 565 | 6.3 | Loaning scale and government subsidy for promoting green innovation | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2019-04-28 | Zhehao Huang, Gaoke Liao, Zhenghui Li |
| 3 | 407 | 5.3 | Quantity or quality? The impacts of environmental regulation on firms’ innovation–Quasi-natural experiment based on China's carbon emissions trading pilot | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2020-06-19 | Jiangfeng Hu, Xinxin Pan, Qinghua Huang |
| 4 | 406 | 6.0 | Does green investment improve energy firm performance? | Energy Policy | 2021-03-30 | Yufeng Chen, Yanbai Ma |
| 5 | 391 | 7.3 | Substantive green innovation or symbolic green innovation? The impact of ER on enterprise green innovation based on the dual moderating effects | Journal of Innovation & Knowledge | 2022-05-20 | Ganghui Lian, Aiting Xu, Yuhan Zhu |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “government subsidies”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/government-subsidies
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note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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