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Papers on “public diplomacy”

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Research on “public diplomacy” 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 “public diplomacy” appeared in 251 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in marketing (244), higher education and research (3) and AI (2).
  • 16 of them were published in 2025, against 17 in 2017.
  • Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Southern California (5), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (4) and The University of Sydney (4).
  • The journals publishing most of them were Place Branding and Public Diplomacy (82), Public Relations Review (6) and Higher Education Policy (1).
  • The most-cited of them is “Place Branding and Public Diplomacy” (Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 2019), with 173 citations.

Papers per year#

2017: 17 papers2018: 27 papers2019: 30 papers2020: 17 papers2021: 46 papers2022: 25 papers2023: 16 papers2024: 37 papers2025: 16 papers2026 (so far): 20 papers
20172026 (so far)
Papers per publication year and category
Category2017201820192020202120222023202420252026 (so far)
Marketing17232916462515371620
Higher Education and Research0110001000
AI0200000000
Information Systems0001000000
Management0100000000
All categories17273017462516371620

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#JournalPapers
1Place Branding and Public Diplomacy82
2Public Relations Review6
3Higher Education Policy1
Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#InstitutionPapers
1University of Southern California5
2Ben-Gurion University of the Negev4
3The University of Sydney4
4University of Łódź4
5Lund University3
6University of Oxford3
7Chulalongkorn University2
8Georgetown University2
9Halmstad University2
10Miami University2
Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#CountryPapers
1United States23
2United Kingdom11
3Australia9
4Israel7
5Spain6
6China4
7Poland4
8Sweden4
9Denmark3
10Germany2
Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#KeywordPapers
1place branding32
2nation branding22
3soft power15
4strategic narratives11
5national image9
6national identity8
7tourism promotion8
8generative AI6
9cultural diplomacy5

Most-cited papers#

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “public diplomacy”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/public-diplomacy

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