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title: "Technology acceptance research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “technology acceptance” appeared in 1,250 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in higher education and research (398), management (258) and information systems (250)."
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# Papers on “technology acceptance”

[Browse research topics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/directory/page/6.md)

Research on “technology acceptance” 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.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “technology acceptance” appeared in 1,250 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in higher education and research (398), management (258) and information systems (250).
- 174 of them were published in 2025, against 52 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Johannesburg (12), Beijing Normal University (9) and Kyung Hee University (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Education and Information Technologies (133), Technological Forecasting and Social Change (37) and Technology in Society (29).
- The most-cited of them is “Re-examining the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT): Towards a Revised Theoretical Model” (Information Systems Frontiers, 2017), with 2,133 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 13 | 28 | 31 | 29 | 41 | 36 | 48 | 58 | 76 | 38 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 5 | 12 | 14 | 25 | 34 | 29 | 39 | 43 | 33 | 24 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 25 | 35 | 31 | 22 | 28 | 32 | 14 | 21 | 20 | 22 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 16 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 6 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 7 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 8 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 52 | 90 | 103 | 104 | 132 | 140 | 141 | 178 | 174 | 136 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Education and Information Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/education-and-information-technologies.md) | 133 |
| 2 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 37 |
| 3 | [Technology in Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technology-in-society.md) | 29 |
| 4 | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 18 |
| 5 | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 17 |
| 6 | [Telematics and Informatics Reports](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics-reports.md) | 17 |
| 7 | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 16 |
| 8 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 16 |
| 10 | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 14 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Johannesburg](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-johannesburg.md) | 12 |
| 2 | [Beijing Normal University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-normal-university.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Kyung Hee University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/kyung-hee-university.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [RMIT University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/rmit-university.md) | 8 |
| 6 | Sunway University | 8 |
| 7 | Taylor's University | 7 |
| 8 | [University of Central Florida](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-central-florida.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [University of Macau](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-macau.md) | 7 |
| 10 | University of Malaya | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 129 |
| 2 | United States | 70 |
| 3 | Germany | 53 |
| 4 | Australia | 50 |
| 5 | Malaysia | 43 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 41 |
| 7 | India | 37 |
| 8 | South Korea | 36 |
| 9 | Spain | 32 |
| 10 | Turkey | 32 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [perceived usefulness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/perceived-usefulness.md) | 128 |
| 2 | [behavioral intention](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/behavioral-intention.md) | 106 |
| 3 | [social influence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-influence.md) | 105 |
| 4 | perceived ease of use | 102 |
| 5 | performance expectancy | 95 |
| 6 | UTAUT | 87 |
| 7 | effort expectancy | 80 |
| 8 | facilitating conditions | 64 |
| 9 | intention to use | 61 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,133 | 18.9 | [Re-examining the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT): Towards a Revised Theoretical Model](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-017-9774-y) | [Information Systems Frontiers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-systems-frontiers.md) | 2017-06-07 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Nripendra Pratap Rana, Anand Jeyaraj et al. |
| 2 | 1,593 | 13.6 | [Factors influencing adoption of mobile banking by Jordanian bank customers: Extending UTAUT2 with trust](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2017.01.002) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2017-01-19 | Ali Abdallah Alalwan, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Nripendra Pratap Rana |
| 3 | 1,432 | 15.8 | [Consumers acceptance of artificially intelligent (AI) device use in service delivery](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.03.008) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-04-09 | Doğan Gürsoy, Oscar Hengxuan Chi, Lu Lu et al. |
| 4 | 1,084 | 11.4 | [Blockchain adoption challenges in supply chain: An empirical investigation of the main drivers in India and the USA](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.11.021) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2018-12-05 | Maciel Manoel de Queiroz, Samuel Fosso Wamba |
| 5 | 995 | 8.6 | [User preferences regarding autonomous vehicles](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2017.01.010) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2017-03-09 | Chana Joanne Haboucha, Robert Ishaq, Yoram Shiftan |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “technology acceptance”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/technology-acceptance

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