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title: "India research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “India” appeared in 2,481 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,523), management (277) and finance (202)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “India” appeared in 2,481 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,523), management (277) and finance (202). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “India”

Research on “India” 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 “India” appeared in 2,481 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,523), management (277) and finance (202).
- 323 of them were published in 2025, against 191 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Delhi (30), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (29) and Reserve Bank of India (24).
- The journals publishing most of them were Indian Journal of Labour Economics (81), Journal of Quantitative Economics (47) and Resources Policy (37).
- The most-cited of them is “Determinants of Consumers' Green Purchase Behavior in a Developing Nation: Applying and Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior” (Ecological Economics, 2017), with 1,317 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) | 119 | 125 | 107 | 161 | 167 | 156 | 178 | 182 | 191 | 137 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 34 | 19 | 24 | 14 | 27 | 41 | 25 | 35 | 30 | 28 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 12 | 9 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 21 | 21 | 32 | 30 | 29 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 19 | 17 | 11 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 12 | 23 | 14 | 21 | 7 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 13 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 4 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 4 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 191 | 176 | 179 | 232 | 283 | 260 | 286 | 307 | 323 | 244 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Indian Journal of Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/indian-journal-of-labour-economics.md) | 81 |
| 2 | [Journal of Quantitative Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-quantitative-economics.md) | 47 |
| 3 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 37 |
| 4 | [Indian Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/indian-economic-review.md) | 36 |
| 5 | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 33 |
| 6 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 31 |
| 7 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 29 |
| 8 | [Asia-Pacific Financial Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/asia-pacific-financial-markets.md) | 23 |
| 9 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 22 |
| 10 | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 21 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Delhi | 30 |
| 2 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi | 29 |
| 3 | Reserve Bank of India | 24 |
| 4 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | 23 |
| 5 | Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani | 22 |
| 6 | Indian Institute of Management Lucknow | 22 |
| 7 | Jawaharlal Nehru University | 22 |
| 8 | O. P. Jindal Global University | 21 |
| 9 | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad | 20 |
| 10 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay | 20 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | India | 801 |
| 2 | United States | 200 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 127 |
| 4 | China | 59 |
| 5 | Australia | 54 |
| 6 | Germany | 39 |
| 7 | France | 31 |
| 8 | Canada | 26 |
| 9 | Turkey | 20 |
| 10 | United Arab Emirates | 19 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 78 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 76 |
| 3 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 72 |
| 4 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 42 |
| 5 | [developing countries](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/developing-countries.md) | 33 |
| 6 | Brazil | 26 |
| 7 | [inflation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/inflation.md) | 26 |
| 8 | [United States](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/united-states.md) | 23 |
| 9 | urban-rural differences | 23 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,317 | 11.2 | [Determinants of Consumers' Green Purchase Behavior in a Developing Nation: Applying and Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.12.019) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2017-01-21 | Rambalak Yadav, Govind Swaroop Pathak |
| 2 | 1,084 | 11.4 | [Blockchain adoption challenges in supply chain: An empirical investigation of the main drivers in India and the USA](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.11.021) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2018-12-05 | Maciel Manoel de Queiroz, Samuel Fosso Wamba |
| 3 | 964 | 10.9 | [Modeling the blockchain enabled traceability in agriculture supply chain](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.05.023) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-06-15 | Sachin Kamble, Angappa Gunasekaran, Rohit Sharma |
| 4 | 741 | 7.0 | [Impact of culture, behavior and gender on green purchase intention](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2017.12.002) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2017-12-28 | Naman Sreen, Shankar Purbey, Pradip Sadarangani |
| 5 | 678 | 11.7 | [Personalized education and Artificial Intelligence in the United States, China, and India: A systematic review using a Human-In-The-Loop model](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2022.100068) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2022-01-01 | Aditi Bhutoria |

## Cite this page

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

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  title = {Papers on “India”},
  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/).