Papers on “inverted U-shaped relationship”
Research on “inverted U-shaped relationship” 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 “inverted U-shaped relationship” appeared in 1,071 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (339), economics (335) and finance (167).
- 190 of them were published in 2025, against 64 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Renmin University of China (16), Xi'an Jiaotong University (15) and Sichuan University (14).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (51), Journal of Business Research (31) and International Review of Economics & Finance (29).
- The most-cited of them is “ICT and environmental sustainability: A global perspective” (Telematics and Informatics, 2017), with 633 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management | 19 | 19 | 20 | 17 | 38 | 35 | 46 | 46 | 50 | 49 |
| Economics | 31 | 19 | 25 | 37 | 26 | 30 | 39 | 33 | 57 | 38 |
| Finance | 5 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 25 | 36 | 42 | 28 |
| Marketing | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 10 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 9 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 4 |
| Operations Research | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Statistics | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 64 | 50 | 62 | 74 | 91 | 100 | 132 | 149 | 190 | 159 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 51 |
| 2 | Journal of Business Research | 31 |
| 3 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 29 |
| 4 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 27 |
| 5 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 22 |
| 6 | Technovation | 18 |
| 7 | Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services | 18 |
| 8 | Energy Economics | 16 |
| 9 | International Journal of Hospitality Management | 15 |
| 10 | Asia Pacific Journal of Management | 14 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Renmin University of China | 16 |
| 2 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 15 |
| 3 | Sichuan University | 14 |
| 4 | Jilin University | 13 |
| 5 | Nanjing University | 13 |
| 6 | Sun Yat-sen University | 13 |
| 7 | Peking University | 12 |
| 8 | Zhejiang University | 12 |
| 9 | Dalian University of Technology | 9 |
| 10 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 9 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 404 |
| 2 | United States | 82 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 39 |
| 4 | Australia | 31 |
| 5 | France | 24 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 21 |
| 7 | Canada | 20 |
| 8 | Germany | 20 |
| 9 | Italy | 19 |
| 10 | Spain | 18 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 55 |
| 2 | moderating effect | 52 |
| 3 | Chinese listed companies | 49 |
| 4 | nonlinear effects | 38 |
| 5 | economic growth | 32 |
| 6 | manufacturing companies | 22 |
| 7 | environmental regulation | 21 |
| 8 | firm performance | 21 |
| 9 | green innovation | 21 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 633 | 5.4 | ICT and environmental sustainability: A global perspective | Telematics and Informatics | 2017-01-10 | Dolores Añón Higón, Roya Gholami, Farid Shirazi |
| 2 | 512 | 4.5 | How does urbanization affect carbon dioxide emissions? A cross-country panel data analysis | Energy Policy | 2017-04-12 | Ning Zhang, Keren Yu, Zhongfei Chen |
| 3 | 435 | 4.4 | More is not always better: Effects of collaboration breadth and depth on radical and incremental innovation performance at the project level | Research Policy | 2018-08-22 | Sebastian Kobarg, Jutta Stumpf-Wollersheim, Isabell Melanie Welpe |
| 4 | 398 | 4.1 | The Environmental Kuznets Curve in the OECD: 1870–2014 | Energy Economics | 2018-09-01 | Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, John Nkwoma Inekwe, Kris Ivanovski et al. |
| 5 | 304 | 4.3 | The nexus between CO2 emissions, energy consumption, and economic growth in the U.S. | Economic Analysis and Policy | 2020-12-09 | Mahmoud Salari, Roxana J. Javid, Hamid Noghanibehambari |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “inverted U-shaped relationship”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/inverted-u-shaped-relationship
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