Papers on “R&D investment”
Research on “R&D investment” 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 “R&D investment” appeared in 1,862 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (731), finance (581) and management (338).
- 308 of them were published in 2025, against 112 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Xiamen University (32), Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (26) and Wuhan University (23).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (143), International Review of Economics & Finance (75) and International Review of Financial Analysis (59).
- The most-cited of them is “Dealing with endogeneity bias: The generalized method of moments (GMM) for panel data” (Industrial Marketing Management, 2018), with 1,101 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 47 | 51 | 54 | 56 | 71 | 68 | 89 | 101 | 111 | 83 |
| Finance | 22 | 20 | 24 | 32 | 30 | 41 | 78 | 108 | 140 | 86 |
| Management | 25 | 28 | 29 | 31 | 34 | 47 | 51 | 33 | 32 | 28 |
| Operations Research | 5 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 |
| Accounting | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Higher Education and Research | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Marketing | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 112 | 111 | 125 | 144 | 158 | 177 | 237 | 264 | 308 | 226 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 143 |
| 2 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 75 |
| 3 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 59 |
| 4 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 44 |
| 5 | Energy Economics | 43 |
| 6 | Resources Policy | 38 |
| 7 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 35 |
| 8 | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 28 |
| 9 | Research in International Business and Finance | 21 |
| 10 | Journal of Innovation & Knowledge | 20 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Xiamen University | 32 |
| 2 | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | 26 |
| 3 | Wuhan University | 23 |
| 4 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 22 |
| 5 | Renmin University of China | 22 |
| 6 | University of International Business and Economics | 19 |
| 7 | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 18 |
| 8 | Tsinghua University | 17 |
| 9 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 16 |
| 10 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 16 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 639 |
| 2 | United States | 128 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 83 |
| 4 | Italy | 52 |
| 5 | Australia | 43 |
| 6 | South Korea | 33 |
| 7 | Taiwan | 33 |
| 8 | France | 32 |
| 9 | Germany | 30 |
| 10 | Turkey | 26 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 175 |
| 2 | Chinese listed companies | 171 |
| 3 | financial constraints | 171 |
| 4 | state-owned enterprises | 130 |
| 5 | corporate governance | 84 |
| 6 | innovation | 82 |
| 7 | listed companies | 72 |
| 8 | business innovation | 62 |
| 9 | corporate innovation | 62 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,101 | 10.4 | Dealing with endogeneity bias: The generalized method of moments (GMM) for panel data | Industrial Marketing Management | 2018-01-09 | Subhan Ullah, Pervaiz Akhtar, Ghasem Zaefarian |
| 2 | 1,077 | 9.7 | China's manufacturing locus in 2025: With a comparison of “Made-in-China 2025” and “Industry 4.0” | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2017-08-10 | Ling Li |
| 3 | 1,038 | 9.8 | Board diversity, firm risk, and corporate policies | Journal of Financial Economics | 2017-12-24 | Gennaro Bernile, Vineet Bhagwat, Scott E. Yonker |
| 4 | 935 | 13.8 | Digitalization and energy: How does internet development affect China's energy consumption? | Energy Economics | 2021-03-18 | Siyu Ren, Yu Hao, Lu Xu et al. |
| 5 | 821 | 15.9 | Influence mechanism between green finance and green innovation: Exploring regional policy intervention effects in China | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2022-07-19 | Muhammad Faisal Irfan, Asif Razzaq, Arshian Sharif et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “R&D investment”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/r-d-investment
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