Papers on “total factor productivity”
Research on “total factor productivity” 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 “total factor productivity” appeared in 1,259 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (755), finance (318) and management (88).
- 244 of them were published in 2025, against 81 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (26), Central University of Finance and Economics (20) and Xiamen University (19).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (98), International Review of Economics & Finance (70) and Economic Analysis and Policy (57).
- The most-cited of them is “Digital economy: An innovation driver for total factor productivity” (Journal of Business Research, 2021), with 1,157 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 59 | 53 | 66 | 59 | 63 | 90 | 84 | 85 | 100 | 96 |
| Finance | 10 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 34 | 61 | 111 | 58 |
| Management | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 15 |
| Operations Research | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 8 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 81 | 70 | 83 | 73 | 82 | 128 | 142 | 171 | 244 | 185 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 98 |
| 2 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 70 |
| 3 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 57 |
| 4 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 30 |
| 5 | Economic Modelling | 26 |
| 6 | Energy Economics | 25 |
| 7 | Structural Change and Economic Dynamics | 18 |
| 8 | Journal of Asian Economics | 18 |
| 9 | Research in International Business and Finance | 16 |
| 10 | China Economic Review | 15 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | 26 |
| 2 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 20 |
| 3 | Xiamen University | 19 |
| 4 | Nanjing University of Finance and Economics | 17 |
| 5 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 17 |
| 6 | Shandong University | 16 |
| 7 | Peking University | 14 |
| 8 | Renmin University of China | 14 |
| 9 | Capital University of Economics and Business | 13 |
| 10 | Jinan University | 13 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 503 |
| 2 | United States | 79 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 43 |
| 4 | Italy | 30 |
| 5 | Spain | 29 |
| 6 | France | 26 |
| 7 | Australia | 23 |
| 8 | India | 19 |
| 9 | Japan | 18 |
| 10 | South Korea | 18 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 167 |
| 2 | Chinese listed companies | 124 |
| 3 | state-owned enterprises | 118 |
| 4 | financial constraints | 103 |
| 5 | firm productivity | 69 |
| 6 | digital transformation | 68 |
| 7 | manufacturing companies | 60 |
| 8 | listed companies | 59 |
| 9 | R&D investment | 56 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,157 | 19.0 | Digital economy: An innovation driver for total factor productivity | Journal of Business Research | 2021-10-11 | Wenrong Pan, Tao Xie, Zhuwang Wang et al. |
| 2 | 584 | 11.4 | Climate policy uncertainty and firm-level total factor productivity: Evidence from China | Energy Economics | 2022-07-27 | Xiaohang Ren, Xiao Zhang, Cheng Yan et al. |
| 3 | 583 | 5.4 | Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation: Evidence from a half million chinese manufacturing plants | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 2017-11-08 | Peng Zhang, Olivier Deschênes, Kyle C. Meng et al. |
| 4 | 569 | 4.8 | Identifying FDI spillovers | Journal of International Economics | 2017-01-20 | Yi Lu, Zhigang Tao, Lianming Zhu |
| 5 | 561 | 13.1 | Does digital transformation improve the firm’s performance? From the perspective of digitalization paradox and managerial myopia | Journal of Business Research | 2023-04-07 | Xiaochuan Guo, Mengmeng Li, Yanlin Wang et al. |
Research ideas that follow this keyword#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “total factor productivity”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/total-factor-productivity
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