Papers on “political connections”
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Research on “political connections” 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 “political connections” appeared in 847 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (387), economics (206) and management (172).
- 134 of them were published in 2025, against 46 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Xi'an Jiaotong University (17), Central University of Finance and Economics (12) and Chongqing University (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (39), International Review of Financial Analysis (32) and International Review of Economics & Finance (29).
- The most-cited of them is “The real effect of legal institutions: Environmental courts and firm environmental protection expenditure” (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2019), with 574 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 15 | 27 | 27 | 36 | 42 | 44 | 35 | 55 | 73 | 33 |
| Economics | 16 | 5 | 12 | 20 | 26 | 29 | 18 | 23 | 37 | 20 |
| Management | 11 | 25 | 17 | 12 | 21 | 15 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 18 |
| Accounting | 4 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| Marketing | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 46 | 67 | 62 | 81 | 96 | 96 | 82 | 108 | 134 | 75 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 39 |
| 2 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 32 |
| 3 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 29 |
| 4 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 21 |
| 5 | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 16 |
| 6 | Research in International Business and Finance | 14 |
| 7 | Journal of Business Ethics | 13 |
| 8 | Asia Pacific Journal of Management | 12 |
| 9 | Journal of Corporate Finance | 12 |
| 10 | Emerging Markets Review | 12 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 17 |
| 2 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 12 |
| 3 | Chongqing University | 12 |
| 4 | Guangdong University of Foreign Studies | 12 |
| 5 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 12 |
| 6 | Tianjin University | 12 |
| 7 | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | 12 |
| 8 | Central South University | 11 |
| 9 | Renmin University of China | 11 |
| 10 | Xiamen University | 11 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 293 |
| 2 | United States | 49 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 34 |
| 4 | Australia | 33 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 19 |
| 6 | Canada | 14 |
| 7 | France | 14 |
| 8 | India | 10 |
| 9 | Macao | 10 |
| 10 | New Zealand | 10 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 92 |
| 2 | Chinese listed companies | 85 |
| 3 | state-owned enterprises | 81 |
| 4 | corporate governance | 55 |
| 5 | financial constraints | 52 |
| 6 | private enterprises | 27 |
| 7 | Chinese enterprises | 24 |
| 8 | information asymmetry | 22 |
| 9 | emerging markets | 21 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 574 | 6.6 | The real effect of legal institutions: Environmental courts and firm environmental protection expenditure | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 2019-08-13 | Qi Zhang, Yu Zhi, Dongmin Kong |
| 2 | 546 | 11.5 | Can enterprise digitization improve ESG performance? | Economic Modelling | 2022-11-14 | Mingyue Fang, Huihua Nie, Xinyi Shen |
| 3 | 372 | 5.0 | COVID-19 and business failures: The paradoxes of experience, scale, and scope for theory and practice | European Management Journal | 2020-09-06 | Joseph Amankwah‐Amoah, Zaheer Khan, Geoffrey Wood |
| 4 | 349 | 3.0 | Political connections and corporate investments: Evidence from the recent anti-corruption campaign in China | Journal of Banking & Finance | 2017-03-06 | Xiaofei Pan, Gary Gang Tian |
| 5 | 302 | 4.4 | Senior management's academic experience and corporate green innovation | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2021-02-06 | Kang He, Wanyi Chen, Liguang Zhang |
Research ideas that follow this keyword#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “political connections”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/political-connections
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