Papers on “social influence”
Research on “social influence” 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 influence” appeared in 1,105 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (204), information systems (194) and economics (159).
- 157 of them were published in 2025, against 80 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Beijing Normal University (7), Chinese University of Hong Kong (7) and Universiti Sains Malaysia (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Education and Information Technologies (52), Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (21) and Technological Forecasting and Social Change (17).
- The most-cited of them is “Consumers acceptance of artificially intelligent (AI) device use in service delivery” (International Journal of Information Management, 2019), with 1,432 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management | 11 | 8 | 9 | 23 | 21 | 20 | 25 | 37 | 24 | 26 |
| Information Systems | 24 | 18 | 20 | 23 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 16 | 24 | 14 |
| Economics | 16 | 11 | 12 | 18 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 12 | 24 | 21 |
| Higher Education and Research | 3 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 15 | 17 | 9 | 22 | 32 | 18 |
| Operations Research | 6 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 16 |
| Marketing | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 17 | 14 | 11 |
| AI | 7 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 10 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 7 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 4 |
| Finance | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 80 | 65 | 83 | 111 | 110 | 115 | 105 | 145 | 157 | 134 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing Normal University | 7 |
| 2 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 7 |
| 3 | Universiti Sains Malaysia | 7 |
| 4 | University of Johannesburg | 7 |
| 5 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 6 |
| 6 | Harvard University | 6 |
| 7 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 6 |
| 8 | King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals | 6 |
| 9 | Zhejiang University | 6 |
| 10 | British University in Dubai | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 144 |
| 2 | United States | 70 |
| 3 | India | 40 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 38 |
| 5 | Australia | 35 |
| 6 | Malaysia | 35 |
| 7 | Germany | 28 |
| 8 | France | 24 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 24 |
| 10 | Turkey | 21 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | performance expectancy | 148 |
| 2 | effort expectancy | 120 |
| 3 | behavioral intention | 115 |
| 4 | facilitating conditions | 112 |
| 5 | UTAUT | 109 |
| 6 | technology acceptance | 105 |
| 7 | technology adoption | 61 |
| 8 | UTAUT2 | 59 |
| 9 | hedonic motivation | 53 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “social influence”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-influence
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