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title: "Unemployment research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “unemployment” appeared in 1,281 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (976), finance (112) and management (84)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “unemployment” appeared in 1,281 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (976), finance (112) and management (84). (as of 2026-11-04)"
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---

# Papers on “unemployment”

Research on “unemployment” 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 “unemployment” appeared in 1,281 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (976), finance (112) and management (84).
- 137 of them were published in 2025, against 101 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (15), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (10) and Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Economic Modelling (23), Resources Policy (18) and Labour Economics (18).
- The most-cited of them is “Unemployment in the time of COVID-19: A research agenda” (Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2020), with 559 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 87 | 110 | 91 | 105 | 97 | 82 | 108 | 103 | 105 | 88 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 4 | 11 | 6 | 21 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 14 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 2 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 10 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 6 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 101 | 138 | 115 | 152 | 139 | 107 | 141 | 132 | 137 | 119 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 23 |
| 2 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 16 |
| 5 | [Indian Journal of Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/indian-journal-of-labour-economics.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-dynamics-and-control.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [Empirical Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/empirical-economics.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Structural Change and Economic Dynamics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/structural-change-and-economic-dynamics.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [Journal of Monetary Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-monetary-economics.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 15 |
| 2 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 10 |
| 3 | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung | 7 |
| 4 | [International Monetary Fund](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/international-monetary-fund.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 6 |
| 6 | Universitat Jaume I | 6 |
| 7 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Zhongnan University of Economics and Law](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhongnan-university-of-economics-and-law.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Brunel University of London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/brunel-university-of-london.md) | 5 |
| 10 | Georgetown University | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 126 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 65 |
| 3 | Germany | 60 |
| 4 | China | 50 |
| 5 | Spain | 48 |
| 6 | Italy | 43 |
| 7 | France | 25 |
| 8 | India | 24 |
| 9 | Australia | 23 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 14 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [inflation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/inflation.md) | 66 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 51 |
| 3 | [income inequality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/income-inequality.md) | 39 |
| 4 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 34 |
| 5 | labor market outcomes | 27 |
| 6 | [monetary policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/monetary-policy.md) | 23 |
| 7 | [business cycles](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/business-cycles.md) | 22 |
| 8 | job creation | 17 |
| 9 | labor force participation | 17 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 559 | 7.2 | [Unemployment in the time of COVID-19: A research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103436) | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | 2020-05-07 | David L. Blustein, Ryan D. Duffy, Joaquim Armando Ferreira et al. |
| 2 | 559 | 7.5 | [Paradoxes of artificial intelligence in consumer markets: Ethical challenges and opportunities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.08.024) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-08-28 | Shuili Du, Chunyan Xie |
| 3 | 533 | 7.1 | [Sheltering in place and domestic violence: Evidence from calls for service during COVID-19](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104241) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2020-07-23 | Emily Leslie, Riley Wilson |
| 4 | 496 | 9.7 | [An Overview of Artificial Intelligence Ethics](https://doi.org/10.1109/tai.2022.3194503) | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2022-07-28 | Changwu Huang, Zeqi Zhang, Bifei Mao et al. |
| 5 | 333 | 3.2 | [Population norms for the EQ-5D-3L: a cross-country analysis of population surveys for 20 countries](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-018-0955-5) | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 2018-02-14 | Mathieu F. Janssen, Ágota Szende, Juan Manuel Cabasés Hita et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “unemployment”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/unemployment

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “unemployment”},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).