Papers on “social capital”
Research on “social capital” 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 “social capital” appeared in 1,319 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (490), management (356) and finance (129).
- 185 of them were published in 2025, against 108 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Peking University (10), Renmin University of China (9) and Sapienza University of Rome (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (20), World Development (14) and Journal of Business Research (12).
- The most-cited of them is “Identifying Digital Transformation Paths in the Business Model of SMEs during the COVID-19 Pandemic” (Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity, 2020), with 702 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 41 | 49 | 40 | 40 | 64 | 46 | 46 | 55 | 69 | 40 |
| Management | 33 | 38 | 35 | 46 | 37 | 36 | 32 | 34 | 33 | 32 |
| Finance | 4 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 32 | 16 |
| Higher Education and Research | 5 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 11 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 10 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
| Information Systems | 6 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Marketing | 1 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| Operations Research | 6 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Accounting | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 3 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| AI | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 108 | 126 | 110 | 146 | 144 | 125 | 111 | 142 | 185 | 122 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 20 |
| 2 | World Development | 14 |
| 3 | Journal of Business Research | 12 |
| 4 | Small Business Economics | 12 |
| 5 | Higher Education | 10 |
| 6 | Economics Letters | 10 |
| 7 | International Journal of Educational Development | 10 |
| 8 | Land Use Policy | 9 |
| 9 | Economic Modelling | 9 |
| 10 | The British Accounting Review | 9 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peking University | 10 |
| 2 | Renmin University of China | 9 |
| 3 | Sapienza University of Rome | 9 |
| 4 | Nanjing University of Finance and Economics | 8 |
| 5 | Sun Yat-sen University | 8 |
| 6 | Macquarie University | 7 |
| 7 | Politecnico di Milano | 7 |
| 8 | Wuhan University | 7 |
| 9 | Beijing Normal University | 6 |
| 10 | Nanjing Agricultural University | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 169 |
| 2 | United States | 97 |
| 3 | Italy | 74 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 63 |
| 5 | Australia | 53 |
| 6 | Germany | 36 |
| 7 | France | 25 |
| 8 | Spain | 22 |
| 9 | India | 16 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 15 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | human capital | 59 |
| 2 | China | 43 |
| 3 | trust | 36 |
| 4 | social networks | 33 |
| 5 | COVID-19 pandemic | 24 |
| 6 | moderating effect | 20 |
| 7 | cultural capital | 16 |
| 8 | innovation | 16 |
| 9 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 16 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “social capital”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-capital
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