Papers on “household income”
Research on “household income” 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 “household income” appeared in 1,144 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (659), health economics and policy (270) and finance (49).
- 124 of them were published in 2025, against 88 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Peking University (9), World Bank (9) and Renmin University of China (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Social Science & Medicine (30), Energy Policy (20) and International Journal for Equity in Health (18).
- The most-cited of them is “Socio-Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on Household Consumption and Poverty” (Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 2020), with 495 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 52 | 66 | 54 | 56 | 68 | 74 | 82 | 79 | 70 | 58 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 21 | 35 | 34 | 22 | 35 | 24 | 26 | 21 | 25 | 27 |
| Finance | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 8 |
| Management | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| Statistics | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 88 | 112 | 103 | 94 | 127 | 128 | 127 | 130 | 124 | 111 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Social Science & Medicine | 30 |
| 2 | Energy Policy | 20 |
| 3 | International Journal for Equity in Health | 18 |
| 4 | SSM - Population Health | 18 |
| 5 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 15 |
| 6 | Review of Economics of the Household | 13 |
| 7 | Transport Policy | 12 |
| 8 | Energy Economics | 11 |
| 9 | Finance research letters | 11 |
| 10 | Food Policy | 10 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peking University | 9 |
| 2 | World Bank | 9 |
| 3 | Renmin University of China | 8 |
| 4 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 8 |
| 5 | Zhejiang University | 8 |
| 6 | Beijing Normal University | 7 |
| 7 | International Food Policy Research Institute | 7 |
| 8 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 7 |
| 9 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 6 |
| 10 | The University of Texas at Austin | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 141 |
| 2 | United States | 116 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 43 |
| 4 | Germany | 27 |
| 5 | Italy | 26 |
| 6 | Australia | 25 |
| 7 | Spain | 23 |
| 8 | India | 23 |
| 9 | Canada | 21 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 16 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 67 |
| 2 | income inequality | 40 |
| 3 | educational attainment | 39 |
| 4 | rural households | 30 |
| 5 | gender differences | 29 |
| 6 | urban-rural differences | 23 |
| 7 | health disparities | 21 |
| 8 | socioeconomic status | 18 |
| 9 | COVID-19 pandemic | 17 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “household income”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/household-income
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