Papers on “population aging”
Research on “population aging” 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 “population aging” appeared in 826 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (396), finance (131) and health economics and policy (120).
- 163 of them were published in 2025, against 47 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (11), Capital University of Economics and Business (9) and Fudan University (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (55), International Review of Economics & Finance (27) and Economic Modelling (24).
- The most-cited of them is “A survey on wearable sensor modality centred human activity recognition in health care” (Expert Systems with Applications, 2019), with 409 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 23 | 29 | 23 | 39 | 34 | 34 | 33 | 55 | 68 | 58 |
| Finance | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 29 | 51 | 22 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 10 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 17 | 26 |
| Operations Research | 3 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 12 |
| Management | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 11 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 4 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Marketing | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Statistics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 47 | 53 | 51 | 54 | 56 | 65 | 81 | 116 | 163 | 140 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 55 |
| 2 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 27 |
| 3 | Economic Modelling | 24 |
| 4 | Health Policy | 18 |
| 5 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 17 |
| 6 | Health Economics Review | 15 |
| 7 | China Economic Review | 12 |
| 8 | Japanese Economic Review | 12 |
| 9 | Review of Economics of the Household | 12 |
| 10 | Economic Change and Restructuring | 11 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 11 |
| 2 | Capital University of Economics and Business | 9 |
| 3 | Fudan University | 9 |
| 4 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 8 |
| 5 | Nankai University | 8 |
| 6 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 8 |
| 7 | Korea University | 6 |
| 8 | Sungkyunkwan University | 6 |
| 9 | The University of Tokyo | 6 |
| 10 | UNSW Sydney | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 230 |
| 2 | United States | 55 |
| 3 | Japan | 43 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 39 |
| 5 | Australia | 32 |
| 6 | Italy | 30 |
| 7 | South Korea | 24 |
| 8 | Spain | 16 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 15 |
| 10 | Portugal | 12 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 114 |
| 2 | older adults | 75 |
| 3 | demographic change | 40 |
| 4 | Japan | 26 |
| 5 | overlapping generations model | 24 |
| 6 | regional heterogeneity | 24 |
| 7 | moderating effect | 20 |
| 8 | health care costs | 16 |
| 9 | labor supply | 16 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 409 | 4.5 | A survey on wearable sensor modality centred human activity recognition in health care | Expert Systems with Applications | 2019-04-25 | Yan Wang, Shuang Cang, Hongnian Yu |
| 2 | 269 | 2.5 | Health care expenditures, age, proximity to death and morbidity: Implications for an ageing population | Journal of Health Economics | 2017-11-16 | Daniel Howdon, Nigel Rice |
| 3 | 264 | 2.3 | Late-career entrepreneurship, income and quality of life | Journal of Business Venturing | 2017-03-03 | Teemu Kautonen, Ewald Kibler, Maria Minniti |
| 4 | 225 | 2.4 | How population and energy price affect China's environmental pollution? | Energy Policy | 2019-02-20 | Kunming Li, Liting Fang, Lerong He |
| 5 | 211 | 3.2 | How does population aging affect household carbon emissions? Evidence from Chinese urban and rural areas | Energy Economics | 2021-06-02 | Jianshuang Fan, Lin Cong Zhou, Yan Zhang et al. |
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “population aging”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/population-aging
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