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title: "R&D investment research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-04)"
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# 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.

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

## 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

*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) | 47 | 51 | 54 | 56 | 71 | 68 | 89 | 101 | 111 | 83 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 22 | 20 | 24 | 32 | 30 | 41 | 78 | 108 | 140 | 86 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 25 | 28 | 29 | 31 | 34 | 47 | 51 | 33 | 32 | 28 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 5 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 143 |
| 2 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 75 |
| 3 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 59 |
| 4 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 44 |
| 5 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 43 |
| 6 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 38 |
| 7 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 35 |
| 8 | [Pacific-Basin Finance Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pacific-basin-finance-journal.md) | 28 |
| 9 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 21 |
| 10 | [Journal of Innovation & Knowledge](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-knowledge.md) | 20 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Xiamen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xiamen-university.md) | 32 |
| 2 | [Zhongnan University of Economics and Law](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhongnan-university-of-economics-and-law.md) | 26 |
| 3 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 23 |
| 4 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 22 |
| 5 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 22 |
| 6 | [University of International Business and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-international-business-and-economics.md) | 19 |
| 7 | [Shanghai University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 18 |
| 8 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 16 |
| 10 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 16 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 175 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 171 |
| 3 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 171 |
| 4 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 130 |
| 5 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 84 |
| 6 | [innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/innovation.md) | 82 |
| 7 | [listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/listed-companies.md) | 72 |
| 8 | [business innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/business-innovation.md) | 62 |
| 9 | [corporate innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-innovation.md) | 62 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2017.11.010) | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 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”](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.05.028) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2017-08-10 | Ling Li |
| 3 | 1,038 | 9.8 | [Board diversity, firm risk, and corporate policies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2017.12.009) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 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?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105220) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121882) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 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 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/r-d-investment

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