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title: "Household income research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "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)."
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# Papers on “household income”

[Browse research topics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/directory/page/3.md)

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.

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

## 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

*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) | 52 | 66 | 54 | 56 | 68 | 74 | 82 | 79 | 70 | 58 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 21 | 35 | 34 | 22 | 35 | 24 | 26 | 21 | 25 | 27 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 8 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | 30 |
| 2 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 20 |
| 3 | [International Journal for Equity in Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-for-equity-in-health.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | 18 |
| 5 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [Review of Economics of the Household](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-economics-of-the-household.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | 10 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 9 |
| 2 | [World Bank](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/world-bank.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Beijing Normal University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-normal-university.md) | 7 |
| 7 | International Food Policy Research Institute | 7 |
| 8 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [The University of Texas at Austin](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-texas-at-austin.md) | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 67 |
| 2 | [income inequality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/income-inequality.md) | 40 |
| 3 | [educational attainment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/educational-attainment.md) | 39 |
| 4 | rural households | 30 |
| 5 | [gender differences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/gender-differences.md) | 29 |
| 6 | [urban-rural differences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/urban-rural-differences.md) | 23 |
| 7 | [health disparities](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-disparities.md) | 21 |
| 8 | [socioeconomic status](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/socioeconomic-status.md) | 18 |
| 9 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 17 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 495 | 6.6 | [Socio-Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on Household Consumption and Poverty](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41885-020-00070-3) | [Economics of Disasters and Climate Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-disasters-and-climate-change.md) | 2020-07-23 | Amory Martin, Maryia Markhvida, Stéphane Hallegatte A et al. |
| 2 | 327 | 2.8 | [Who are the World’s Food Insecure? New Evidence from the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Insecurity Experience Scale](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.01.006) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2017-01-28 | Michael Douglas Smith, Matthew P. Rabbitt, Alisha Coleman‐Jensen |
| 3 | 296 | 2.9 | [Socioeconomic Vulnerability to Disaster Risk: A Case Study of Flood and Drought Impact in a Rural Sri Lankan Community](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.05.010) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2018-06-13 | M.M.G.T. De Silva, Akiyuki Kawasaki |
| 4 | 252 | 2.6 | [The effectiveness of agricultural certification in developing countries: A systematic review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.08.001) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2018-09-05 | Carlos Oya, Florian Schaefer, Dafni Skalidou |
| 5 | 235 | 3.5 | [Which households are more energy vulnerable? Energy poverty and financial inclusion in Turkey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105306) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2021-04-28 | Eyup Dogan, Mara Madaleno, Dilvin Taşkın |

## 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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “household income”},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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