Papers on “international trade”
Research on “international trade” 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 “international trade” appeared in 1,004 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (801), finance (93) and management (56).
- 138 of them were published in 2025, against 95 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Dartmouth College (25), University of Wisconsin–Madison (24) and International Monetary Fund (10).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Economics (44), Journal of International Economics (25) and Resources Policy (25).
- The most-cited of them is “Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange: Implications for sustainability in the 21st century” (Ecological Economics, 2020), with 548 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 84 | 73 | 67 | 75 | 75 | 83 | 95 | 101 | 104 | 44 |
| Finance | 8 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 21 | 7 |
| Management | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 7 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 95 | 88 | 81 | 92 | 90 | 110 | 118 | 129 | 138 | 63 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | International Economics | 44 |
| 2 | Journal of International Economics | 25 |
| 3 | Resources Policy | 25 |
| 4 | Energy Economics | 16 |
| 5 | Ecological Economics | 15 |
| 6 | Structural Change and Economic Dynamics | 13 |
| 7 | Finance research letters | 13 |
| 8 | Review of World Economics | 13 |
| 9 | Journal of Policy Modeling | 11 |
| 10 | European Economic Review | 9 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dartmouth College | 25 |
| 2 | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 24 |
| 3 | International Monetary Fund | 10 |
| 4 | Renmin University of China | 10 |
| 5 | Centre for Economic Policy Research | 8 |
| 6 | ETH Zurich | 6 |
| 7 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 5 |
| 8 | City University of Hong Kong | 5 |
| 9 | Dalian Maritime University | 5 |
| 10 | Fordham University | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 132 |
| 2 | United States | 123 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 36 |
| 4 | Italy | 33 |
| 5 | France | 25 |
| 6 | Germany | 24 |
| 7 | Japan | 19 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 18 |
| 9 | Australia | 12 |
| 10 | Canada | 12 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | trade policy | 36 |
| 2 | China | 30 |
| 3 | economic growth | 26 |
| 4 | developing countries | 24 |
| 5 | global value chains | 24 |
| 6 | exports | 22 |
| 7 | gravity model | 21 |
| 8 | COVID-19 pandemic | 20 |
| 9 | foreign direct investment | 20 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 548 | 7.4 | Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange: Implications for sustainability in the 21st century | Ecological Economics | 2020-09-04 | Christian Dorninger, Alf Hornborg, David J. Abson et al. |
| 2 | 398 | 4.8 | Corruption in international business: A review and research agenda | International Business Review | 2019-12-31 | Salman Bahoo, Ilan Alon, Andrea Paltrinieri |
| 3 | 378 | 8.5 | Do green finance and innovation matter for environmental protection? A case of OECD economies | Energy Economics | 2023-02-12 | Muhammad Umar, Adnan Safi |
| 4 | 341 | 4.9 | Economic complexity and greenhouse gas emissions | World Development | 2020-12-25 | João Prates Romero, Camila Gramkow |
| 5 | 340 | 3.7 | The role of trade and FDI for CO2 emissions in Turkey: Nonlinear relationships | Energy Economics | 2019-04-10 | Alfred A. Haug, Meltem Ucal |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “international trade”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/international-trade
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