---
title: "Population aging research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# 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.

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

## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 23 | 29 | 23 | 39 | 34 | 34 | 33 | 55 | 68 | 58 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 29 | 51 | 22 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 10 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 17 | 26 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 3 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 12 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 11 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 55 |
| 2 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 27 |
| 3 | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 24 |
| 4 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 18 |
| 5 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 17 |
| 6 | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [China Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/china-economic-review.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [Japanese Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/japanese-economic-review.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Review of Economics of the Household](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-economics-of-the-household.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Economic Change and Restructuring](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-change-and-restructuring.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Shanghai University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 11 |
| 2 | [Capital University of Economics and Business](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/capital-university-of-economics-and-business.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Fudan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fudan-university.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [Nankai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nankai-university.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Korea University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/korea-university.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Sungkyunkwan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sungkyunkwan-university.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [The University of Tokyo](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-tokyo.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [UNSW Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/unsw-sydney.md) | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 114 |
| 2 | [older adults](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/older-adults.md) | 75 |
| 3 | demographic change | 40 |
| 4 | Japan | 26 |
| 5 | overlapping generations model | 24 |
| 6 | [regional heterogeneity](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/regional-heterogeneity.md) | 24 |
| 7 | [moderating effect](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/moderating-effect.md) | 20 |
| 8 | [health care costs](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-care-costs.md) | 16 |
| 9 | labor supply | 16 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 409 | 4.5 | [A survey on wearable sensor modality centred human activity recognition in health care](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.04.057) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.11.001) | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | 2017-11-16 | Daniel Howdon, Nigel Rice |
| 3 | 264 | 2.3 | [Late-career entrepreneurship, income and quality of life](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2017.02.005) | [Journal of Business Venturing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing.md) | 2017-03-03 | Teemu Kautonen, Ewald Kibler, Maria Minniti |
| 4 | 225 | 2.4 | [How population and energy price affect China's environmental pollution?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.02.020) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105356) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2021-06-02 | Jianshuang Fan, Lin Cong Zhou, Yan Zhang et al. |

## Research ideas that follow this keyword

- [Ageing populations and asset prices](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/ageing-populations-and-asset-prices.md)

## 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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “population aging”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/population-aging}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).