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title: "Nash equilibrium research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "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)."
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# 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.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 43 | 46 | 39 | 44 | 50 | 36 | 40 | 45 | 52 | 38 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 44 | 44 | 43 | 40 | 33 | 32 | 43 | 39 | 53 | 21 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 8 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 13 | 21 | 24 | 18 | 22 | 13 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 6 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | 21 |
| 2 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 20 |
| 3 | [Games and Economic Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/games-and-economic-behavior.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [International Journal of Game Theory](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-game-theory.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [Mathematical Social Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-social-sciences.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 12 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 15 |
| 2 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 7 |
| 3 | [Central South University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-south-university.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [University of Bologna](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bologna.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [Université Côte d'Azur](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universite-cote-d-azur.md) | 7 |
| 7 | Ashoka University | 6 |
| 8 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [Maastricht University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/maastricht-university.md) | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Stackelberg game](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/stackelberg-game.md) | 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)](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-welfare-welfare-economics.md) | 12 |
| 9 | evolutionary game theory | 11 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 328 | 3.8 | [Information disclosure structure in supply chains with rental service platforms in the blockchain technology era](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.08.008) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-08-29 | Tsan‐Ming Choi, Lipan Feng, Rong Li |
| 2 | 244 | 3.1 | [Competitive pricing of substitute products under supply disruption](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2020.102279) | [Omega](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/omega.md) | 2020-05-19 | Varun Gupta, Dmitry Ivanov, Tsan‐Ming Choi |
| 3 | 199 | 1.7 | [Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Synchronization in Multiagent Graphical Games](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2016.2609500) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2017-04-17 | Jinna Li, Hamidreza Modares, Tianyou Chai et al. |
| 4 | 170 | 1.7 | [Optimal Synchronization Control of Multiagent Systems With Input Saturation via Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2832025) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2018-05-24 | Jiahu Qin, Man Li, Yang Shi et al. |
| 5 | 166 | 2.3 | [Competition in dual-channel supply chains: The manufacturers' channel selection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.09.031) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2020-10-01 | Yumeng Zhang, Behzad Hezarkhani |

## 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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “Nash equilibrium”},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).