---
title: "Government subsidies research: papers and trends"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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# 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.

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

## 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

*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) | 26 | 15 | 15 | 23 | 40 | 30 | 38 | 37 | 57 | 35 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 6 | 10 | 15 | 14 | 25 | 31 | 40 | 33 | 38 | 29 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 4 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 20 | 40 | 78 | 30 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 12 | 11 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 62 |
| 2 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 35 |
| 3 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 27 |
| 4 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 24 |
| 5 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 22 |
| 6 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 22 |
| 7 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 19 |
| 8 | [Pacific-Basin Finance Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pacific-basin-finance-journal.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 16 |
| 10 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 15 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [University of International Business and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-international-business-and-economics.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 13 |
| 4 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [Capital University of Economics and Business](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/capital-university-of-economics-and-business.md) | 12 |
| 7 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 89 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 84 |
| 3 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 78 |
| 4 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 63 |
| 5 | [social welfare (welfare economics)](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-welfare-welfare-economics.md) | 43 |
| 6 | [R&D investment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/r-d-investment.md) | 34 |
| 7 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 33 |
| 8 | [Stackelberg game](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/stackelberg-game.md) | 30 |
| 9 | [listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/listed-companies.md) | 30 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 631 | 10.8 | [Who is financing corporate green innovation?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2021.12.011) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 2021-12-16 | Xiaojian Xiang, Chuanjiang Liu, Mian Yang |
| 2 | 565 | 6.3 | [Loaning scale and government subsidy for promoting green innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.04.023) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120122) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2020-06-19 | Jiangfeng Hu, Xinxin Pan, Qinghua Huang |
| 4 | 406 | 6.0 | [Does green investment improve energy firm performance?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112252) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2022.100203) | [Journal of Innovation & Knowledge](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-knowledge.md) | 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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “government subsidies”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/government-subsidies}},
  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/).