Papers on “scale development”
Research on “scale development” 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 “scale development” appeared in 1,038 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (299), higher education and research (192) and tourism and hospitality (161).
- 143 of them were published in 2025, against 75 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (10), Sun Yat-sen University (9) and Beijing Normal University (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Education and Information Technologies (58), Journal of Business Research (42) and International Journal of Hospitality Management (22).
- The most-cited of them is “Assessing measurement model quality in PLS-SEM using confirmatory composite analysis” (Journal of Business Research, 2019), with 5,441 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management | 21 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 31 | 29 | 35 | 46 | 54 | 23 |
| Higher Education and Research | 11 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 16 | 25 | 28 | 35 | 29 | 24 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 8 | 18 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 15 | 14 | 25 | 16 | 19 |
| Information Systems | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 15 |
| Marketing | 8 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 16 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 11 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| Economics | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 13 |
| Statistics | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| AI | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 75 | 78 | 68 | 76 | 104 | 118 | 108 | 135 | 143 | 133 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Education and Information Technologies | 58 |
| 2 | Journal of Business Research | 42 |
| 3 | International Journal of Hospitality Management | 22 |
| 4 | Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management | 22 |
| 5 | Journal of Business and Psychology | 16 |
| 6 | Quality & Quantity | 15 |
| 7 | Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services | 14 |
| 8 | Journal of Happiness Studies | 14 |
| 9 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 12 |
| 10 | Technology in Society | 11 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 10 |
| 2 | Sun Yat-sen University | 9 |
| 3 | Beijing Normal University | 7 |
| 4 | Education University of Hong Kong | 7 |
| 5 | Macau University of Science and Technology | 7 |
| 6 | National Chiayi University | 7 |
| 7 | Tecnológico de Monterrey | 7 |
| 8 | University of Georgia | 7 |
| 9 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 6 |
| 10 | Edith Cowan University | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 119 |
| 2 | China | 116 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 45 |
| 4 | Australia | 39 |
| 5 | Germany | 35 |
| 6 | India | 31 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 30 |
| 8 | Turkey | 29 |
| 9 | Taiwan | 26 |
| 10 | Macao | 23 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | psychometric validation | 74 |
| 2 | scale validation | 69 |
| 3 | university students | 26 |
| 4 | measurement invariance | 23 |
| 5 | nomological network | 21 |
| 6 | factor structure | 20 |
| 7 | construct validity | 18 |
| 8 | psychometric properties | 18 |
| 9 | gender differences | 17 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “scale development”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/scale-development
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