Papers on “resource allocation”
Research on “resource allocation” 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 “resource allocation” appeared in 1,388 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (416), economics (284) and AI (217).
- 240 of them were published in 2025, against 88 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (13), Shandong University (10) and City University of Hong Kong (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (58), Finance research letters (38) and Computers & Industrial Engineering (30).
- The most-cited of them is “Digitalization, business models, and SMEs: How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs?” (Telecommunications Policy, 2019), with 652 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 28 | 27 | 27 | 47 | 32 | 43 | 48 | 53 | 61 | 50 |
| Economics | 17 | 28 | 18 | 19 | 31 | 30 | 28 | 36 | 48 | 29 |
| AI | 11 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 18 | 24 | 36 | 45 | 29 |
| Management | 9 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 24 | 14 | 21 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 7 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 21 | 18 | 18 |
| Finance | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 20 | 34 | 29 |
| Information Systems | 6 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 |
| Marketing | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| Accounting | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 88 | 87 | 76 | 114 | 127 | 121 | 144 | 207 | 240 | 184 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 58 |
| 2 | Finance research letters | 38 |
| 3 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 30 |
| 4 | Annals of Operations Research | 23 |
| 5 | European Journal of Operational Research | 17 |
| 6 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 17 |
| 7 | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation | 17 |
| 8 | Socio-Economic Planning Sciences | 16 |
| 9 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 16 |
| 10 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 15 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 13 |
| 2 | Shandong University | 10 |
| 3 | City University of Hong Kong | 9 |
| 4 | Sichuan University | 9 |
| 5 | Southeast University | 9 |
| 6 | Tsinghua University | 9 |
| 7 | National University of Singapore | 8 |
| 8 | Peking University | 8 |
| 9 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 8 |
| 10 | Beijing Jiaotong University | 7 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 331 |
| 2 | United States | 93 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 65 |
| 4 | Australia | 39 |
| 5 | France | 37 |
| 6 | Iran | 34 |
| 7 | India | 32 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 31 |
| 9 | Italy | 31 |
| 10 | Canada | 28 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 46 |
| 2 | Chinese listed companies | 37 |
| 3 | financial constraints | 26 |
| 4 | energy efficiency | 21 |
| 5 | multi-objective optimization | 21 |
| 6 | state-owned enterprises | 21 |
| 7 | deep reinforcement learning | 19 |
| 8 | Internet of Things | 17 |
| 9 | corporate governance | 16 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “resource allocation”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/resource-allocation
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