Papers on “Nash equilibrium”
Research on “Nash equilibrium” 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 “Nash equilibrium” appeared in 1,066 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (433), economics (392) and AI (155).
- 136 of them were published in 2025, against 102 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (15), Beijing Institute of Technology (7) and Central South University (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (21), European Journal of Operational Research (20) and Games and Economic Behavior (16).
- The most-cited of them is “Information disclosure structure in supply chains with rental service platforms in the blockchain technology era” (International Journal of Production Economics, 2019), with 328 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 43 | 46 | 39 | 44 | 50 | 36 | 40 | 45 | 52 | 38 |
| Economics | 44 | 44 | 43 | 40 | 33 | 32 | 43 | 39 | 53 | 21 |
| AI | 8 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 13 | 21 | 24 | 18 | 22 | 13 |
| Finance | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 6 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Statistics | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 102 | 104 | 100 | 110 | 102 | 98 | 116 | 115 | 136 | 83 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications | 21 |
| 2 | European Journal of Operational Research | 20 |
| 3 | Games and Economic Behavior | 16 |
| 4 | Annals of Operations Research | 15 |
| 5 | Expert Systems with Applications | 15 |
| 6 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 15 |
| 7 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 14 |
| 8 | International Journal of Game Theory | 13 |
| 9 | Mathematical Social Sciences | 13 |
| 10 | Economics Letters | 12 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 15 |
| 2 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 7 |
| 3 | Central South University | 7 |
| 4 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 7 |
| 5 | University of Bologna | 7 |
| 6 | Université Côte d'Azur | 7 |
| 7 | Ashoka University | 6 |
| 8 | Beihang University | 6 |
| 9 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 6 |
| 10 | Maastricht University | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 168 |
| 2 | United States | 74 |
| 3 | France | 43 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 36 |
| 5 | Italy | 36 |
| 6 | India | 22 |
| 7 | Germany | 21 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 20 |
| 9 | Canada | 19 |
| 10 | Japan | 19 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stackelberg game | 23 |
| 2 | existence of equilibrium | 18 |
| 3 | mean field games | 16 |
| 4 | non-cooperative game | 16 |
| 5 | mechanism design | 14 |
| 6 | game theory | 12 |
| 7 | price of anarchy | 12 |
| 8 | social welfare (welfare economics) | 12 |
| 9 | evolutionary game theory | 11 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “Nash equilibrium”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/nash-equilibrium
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