Papers on “research agenda”
Research on “research agenda” 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 “research agenda” appeared in 1,028 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (510), information systems (134) and marketing (82).
- 103 of them were published in 2025, against 65 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Politecnico di Milano (10), University of Johannesburg (10) and University of Vaasa (10).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Business Research (40), Management Review Quarterly (25) and Technological Forecasting and Social Change (23).
- The most-cited of them is “Understanding digital transformation: A review and a research agenda” (The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 2019), with 7,304 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management | 27 | 30 | 37 | 44 | 70 | 70 | 81 | 61 | 50 | 40 |
| Information Systems | 8 | 8 | 15 | 10 | 20 | 15 | 20 | 12 | 17 | 9 |
| Marketing | 5 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 10 |
| Economics | 8 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 6 |
| Operations Research | 5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
| Finance | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Accounting | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| All categories | 65 | 65 | 87 | 95 | 130 | 134 | 139 | 123 | 103 | 87 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Business Research | 40 |
| 2 | Management Review Quarterly | 25 |
| 3 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 23 |
| 4 | Review of Managerial Science | 16 |
| 5 | Journal of Business Ethics | 12 |
| 6 | Journal of International Business Studies | 11 |
| 7 | Technovation | 10 |
| 8 | Information & Management | 9 |
| 9 | Electronic Markets | 9 |
| 10 | The Journal of Strategic Information Systems | 8 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Politecnico di Milano | 10 |
| 2 | University of Johannesburg | 10 |
| 3 | University of Vaasa | 10 |
| 4 | Copenhagen Business School | 9 |
| 5 | University of Reading | 9 |
| 6 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 8 |
| 7 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 7 |
| 8 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 6 |
| 9 | HEC Montréal | 6 |
| 10 | Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 93 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 83 |
| 3 | Germany | 52 |
| 4 | Italy | 50 |
| 5 | Australia | 44 |
| 6 | China | 41 |
| 7 | India | 37 |
| 8 | Spain | 35 |
| 9 | France | 32 |
| 10 | Canada | 29 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | research trends | 32 |
| 2 | artificial intelligence | 24 |
| 3 | digital transformation | 22 |
| 4 | research gaps | 20 |
| 5 | conceptual framework | 19 |
| 6 | sustainability | 18 |
| 7 | digitalization | 14 |
| 8 | innovation | 14 |
| 9 | corporate social responsibility | 13 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “research agenda”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/research-agenda
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