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title: "Private enterprises research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “private enterprises” appeared in 848 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (432), economics (222) and management (134)."
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# Papers on “private enterprises”

[Browse research topics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/directory/page/5.md)

Research on “private enterprises” 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 “private enterprises” appeared in 848 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (432), economics (222) and management (134).
- 196 of them were published in 2025, against 47 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (18), Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (17) and University of International Business and Economics (16).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (157), International Review of Economics & Finance (60) and International Review of Financial Analysis (44).
- The most-cited of them is “Demand for green finance: Resolving financing constraints on green innovation in China” (Energy Policy, 2021), with 1,243 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 14 | 8 | 9 | 23 | 20 | 24 | 54 | 80 | 150 | 50 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 18 | 10 | 26 | 17 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 36 | 28 | 21 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 12 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 14 | 22 | 20 | 11 | 12 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 47 | 33 | 56 | 50 | 62 | 67 | 106 | 143 | 196 | 88 |

## 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) | 157 |
| 2 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 60 |
| 3 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 44 |
| 4 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 18 |
| 5 | [Pacific-Basin Finance Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pacific-basin-finance-journal.md) | 17 |
| 6 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 16 |
| 7 | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [Journal of the Knowledge Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-knowledge-economy.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [China Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/china-economic-review.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Journal of Asian Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-asian-economics.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Zhongnan University of Economics and Law](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhongnan-university-of-economics-and-law.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [Shanghai University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 17 |
| 3 | [University of International Business and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-international-business-and-economics.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [Jilin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/jilin-university.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Xiamen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xiamen-university.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Nanjing University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Shandong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shandong-university.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 11 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 422 |
| 2 | United States | 41 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 30 |
| 4 | South Korea | 16 |
| 5 | Australia | 13 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 11 |
| 7 | Italy | 11 |
| 8 | Macao | 11 |
| 9 | Japan | 10 |
| 10 | Malaysia | 8 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 200 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 140 |
| 3 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 114 |
| 4 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 106 |
| 5 | [listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/listed-companies.md) | 63 |
| 6 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 55 |
| 7 | [moderating effect](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/moderating-effect.md) | 41 |
| 8 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 31 |
| 9 | [green innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/green-innovation.md) | 29 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,243 | 18.6 | [Demand for green finance: Resolving financing constraints on green innovation in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112255) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2021-04-08 | Chin‐Hsien Yu, Xiuqin Wu, Dayong Zhang et al. |
| 2 | 446 | 4.2 | [Managerial foreign experience and corporate innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.12.015) | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 2017-12-13 | Rongli Yuan, Wen Wen |
| 3 | 348 | 3.1 | [Does environmental regulation affect labor demand in China? Evidence from the textile printing and dyeing industry](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2017.05.008) | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 2017-05-31 | Mengdi Liu, Ronald J. Shadbegian, Bing Zhang |
| 4 | 347 | 8.4 | [Digital finance and enterprise financing constraints: Structural characteristics and mechanism identification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114074) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2023-06-03 | Chengming Li, Yilin Wang, Zhihan Zhou et al. |
| 5 | 328 | 5.2 | [Does digital finance promote manufacturing servitization: Micro evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2021.07.018) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 2021-08-09 | Shengqi Chen, Hong Zhang |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “private enterprises”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/private-enterprises

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