---
title: "Inflation research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “inflation” appeared in 1,657 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,081), finance (422) and management (80)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “inflation” appeared in 1,657 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,081), finance (422) and management (80). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “inflation”

Research on “inflation” 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 “inflation” appeared in 1,657 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,081), finance (422) and management (80).
- 268 of them were published in 2025, against 103 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were International Monetary Fund (17), Centre for Economic Policy Research (16) and European Central Bank (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Economics (44), Journal of International Money and Finance (39) and Economic Modelling (37).
- The most-cited of them is “Does financial inclusion reduce poverty and income inequality in developing countries? A panel data analysis” (Journal of Economic Structures, 2020), with 699 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) | 64 | 85 | 82 | 90 | 89 | 99 | 142 | 145 | 173 | 112 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 35 | 29 | 31 | 24 | 22 | 38 | 58 | 64 | 68 | 53 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 18 | 13 | 15 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 2 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 103 | 123 | 116 | 118 | 126 | 150 | 222 | 239 | 268 | 192 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 44 |
| 2 | [Journal of International Money and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-money-and-finance.md) | 39 |
| 3 | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 37 |
| 4 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 33 |
| 5 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 33 |
| 6 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 33 |
| 7 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 30 |
| 8 | [Future Business Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/future-business-journal.md) | 30 |
| 9 | [Journal of Monetary Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-monetary-economics.md) | 28 |
| 10 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 27 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Monetary Fund](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/international-monetary-fund.md) | 17 |
| 2 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 16 |
| 3 | European Central Bank | 15 |
| 4 | Bank of Italy | 12 |
| 5 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 9 |
| 6 | Federal Reserve Board of Governors | 9 |
| 7 | [Korea University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/korea-university.md) | 9 |
| 8 | SGH Warsaw School of Economics | 9 |
| 9 | [University of Lisbon](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-lisbon.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Lebanese American University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lebanese-american-university.md) | 8 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 186 |
| 2 | China | 130 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 114 |
| 4 | Italy | 71 |
| 5 | Germany | 70 |
| 6 | India | 61 |
| 7 | France | 52 |
| 8 | Spain | 49 |
| 9 | Turkey | 48 |
| 10 | Australia | 32 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [monetary policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/monetary-policy.md) | 139 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 92 |
| 3 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 72 |
| 4 | [unemployment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/unemployment.md) | 66 |
| 5 | interest rates | 65 |
| 6 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 52 |
| 7 | [fiscal policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/fiscal-policy.md) | 52 |
| 8 | euro area | 48 |
| 9 | exchange rates | 47 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 699 | 8.9 | [Does financial inclusion reduce poverty and income inequality in developing countries? A panel data analysis](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40008-020-00214-4) | [Journal of Economic Structures](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-structures.md) | 2020-04-28 | Md Abdullah Omar, Kazuo Inaba |
| 2 | 552 | 5.0 | [Financial inclusion and stability in MENA: Evidence from poverty and inequality](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2017.09.007) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2017-09-20 | Simon Neaime, Isabelle Gaysset |
| 3 | 455 | 6.4 | [Measuring news sentiment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.07.053) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2020-11-24 | Adam Hale Shapiro, Moritz Sudhof, Daniel J. Wilson |
| 4 | 432 | 4.7 | [Institutions and FDI: evidence from developed and developing countries](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854-019-0123-7) | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | 2019-02-16 | Samina Sabir, Anum Rafique, Kamran Abbas |
| 5 | 416 | 4.8 | [Corruption and economic growth: New empirical evidence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2019.08.001) | [European Journal of Political Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-political-economy.md) | 2019-08-22 | Klaus Gründler, Niklas Potrafke |

## Research ideas that follow this keyword

- [Markups and the inflation of 2021–2023](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/markups-and-inflation.md)

## Cite this page

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

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@misc{scholar4ai-keywords-inflation,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “inflation”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/inflation}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).