Papers on “research trends”
Research on “research trends” 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 trends” appeared in 1,460 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (462), AI (181) and higher education and research (178).
- 170 of them were published in 2025, against 89 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Symbiosis International University (14), University of Technology Sydney (14) and Sunway University (10).
- The journals publishing most of them were Future Business Journal (52), Technological Forecasting and Social Change (24) and Artificial Intelligence Review (24).
- The most-cited of them is “How to conduct a bibliometric analysis: An overview and guidelines” (Journal of Business Research, 2021), with 14,382 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management | 19 | 23 | 19 | 43 | 64 | 60 | 62 | 72 | 58 | 42 |
| AI | 7 | 10 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 21 | 25 | 35 | 23 | 19 |
| Higher Education and Research | 27 | 22 | 21 | 36 | 17 | 14 | 15 | 7 | 10 | 9 |
| Operations Research | 10 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 17 | 28 | 22 | 20 | 24 | 12 |
| Economics | 4 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 8 |
| Information Systems | 5 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 8 |
| Finance | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 22 | 12 | 14 | 20 | 9 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 6 |
| Marketing | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 3 |
| Accounting | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| All categories | 89 | 102 | 94 | 144 | 165 | 188 | 189 | 198 | 170 | 121 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Future Business Journal | 52 |
| 2 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 24 |
| 3 | Artificial Intelligence Review | 24 |
| 4 | Expert Systems with Applications | 24 |
| 5 | Journal of Business Research | 23 |
| 6 | Management Review Quarterly | 23 |
| 7 | Scientometrics | 21 |
| 8 | Journal of Innovation & Knowledge | 16 |
| 9 | Journal of global entrepreneurship research | 15 |
| 10 | Resources Policy | 13 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Symbiosis International University | 14 |
| 2 | University of Technology Sydney | 14 |
| 3 | Sunway University | 10 |
| 4 | Universitat de València | 10 |
| 5 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 9 |
| 6 | Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus | 9 |
| 7 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 9 |
| 8 | Universitat de Barcelona | 8 |
| 9 | Abu Dhabi University | 7 |
| 10 | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham | 7 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 131 |
| 2 | China | 123 |
| 3 | United States | 87 |
| 4 | Spain | 61 |
| 5 | Australia | 59 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 53 |
| 7 | Italy | 48 |
| 8 | Malaysia | 36 |
| 9 | France | 29 |
| 10 | Canada | 27 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | research gaps | 74 |
| 2 | bibliometric analysis | 51 |
| 3 | artificial intelligence | 48 |
| 4 | citation analysis | 42 |
| 5 | future research directions | 39 |
| 6 | sustainability | 37 |
| 7 | research collaboration | 36 |
| 8 | machine learning | 35 |
| 9 | blockchain | 32 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14,382 | 219.0 | How to conduct a bibliometric analysis: An overview and guidelines | Journal of Business Research | 2021-05-14 | Naveen Donthu, Satish Kumar, Debmalya Mukherjee et al. |
| 2 | 3,012 | 26.3 | Industry 4.0: A survey on technologies, applications and open research issues | Journal of Industrial Information Integration | 2017-04-17 | Yang Lu |
| 3 | 2,012 | 47.5 | Artificial intelligence in higher education: the state of the field | International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education | 2023-04-23 | Helen Crompton, Diane Burke |
| 4 | 1,323 | 13.2 | Cultural tourism: A review of recent research and trends | Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management | 2018-07-03 | Greg Richards |
| 5 | 1,126 | 9.9 | Social media in marketing: A review and analysis of the existing literature | Telematics and Informatics | 2017-05-25 | Ali Abdallah Alalwan, Nripendra Pratap Rana, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “research trends”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/research-trends
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