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title: "Market competition research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “market competition” appeared in 820 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (322), economics (286) and management (83)."
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# Papers on “market competition”

[Browse research topics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/directory/page/4.md)

Research on “market competition” 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 “market competition” appeared in 820 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (322), economics (286) and management (83).
- 194 of them were published in 2025, against 41 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (18), Renmin University of China (17) and Xiamen University (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (91), International Review of Economics & Finance (42) and International Review of Financial Analysis (39).
- The most-cited of them is “How does environmental regulation promote technological innovations in the industrial sector? Evidence from Chinese provincial panel data” (Energy Policy, 2020), with 646 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 5 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 26 | 70 | 106 | 56 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 23 | 19 | 18 | 24 | 16 | 24 | 32 | 43 | 49 | 38 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 16 | 17 | 12 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 9 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 41 | 39 | 48 | 45 | 39 | 63 | 77 | 148 | 194 | 126 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 91 |
| 2 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 42 |
| 3 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 39 |
| 4 | [Pacific-Basin Finance Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pacific-basin-finance-journal.md) | 23 |
| 5 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 22 |
| 6 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 17 |
| 7 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 17 |
| 8 | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 15 |
| 9 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [International Journal of Industrial Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-industrial-organization.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Zhongnan University of Economics and Law](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhongnan-university-of-economics-and-law.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 17 |
| 3 | [Xiamen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xiamen-university.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [Capital University of Economics and Business](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/capital-university-of-economics-and-business.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [Nankai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nankai-university.md) | 12 |
| 7 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Jinan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/jinan-university.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 373 |
| 2 | United States | 69 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 38 |
| 4 | Australia | 25 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 21 |
| 6 | Germany | 19 |
| 7 | Italy | 16 |
| 8 | Japan | 12 |
| 9 | Macao | 11 |
| 10 | Canada | 10 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 125 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 94 |
| 3 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 88 |
| 4 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 81 |
| 5 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 49 |
| 6 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 41 |
| 7 | [listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/listed-companies.md) | 31 |
| 8 | [green innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/green-innovation.md) | 28 |
| 9 | corporate innovation | 23 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 646 | 8.0 | [How does environmental regulation promote technological innovations in the industrial sector? Evidence from Chinese provincial panel data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111310) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2020-02-24 | Xiaoling Ouyang, Qiong Li, Kerui Du |
| 2 | 273 | 3.1 | [The Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystem—a critique and reconfiguration](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00232-y) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 2019-07-26 | Abraham K. Song |
| 3 | 270 | 2.6 | [Determinants of innovation in tourism evidence from Australia](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2018.01.010) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2018-02-02 | Sarath Divisekera, Van K. Nguyen |
| 4 | 245 | 5.1 | [Breaking barriers to innovation: The power of digital transformation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.103457) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2022-11-06 | Yuhao Niu, Wen Wen, Sai Wang et al. |
| 5 | 245 | 5.2 | [Does digital finance matter for corporate green investment? Evidence from heavily polluting industries in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106476) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2022-12-14 | Qian Ding, Jianbai Huang, Jinyu Chen |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “market competition”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/market-competition

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