Papers on “university students”
Research on “university students” 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 “university students” appeared in 1,115 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in higher education and research (411), management (334) and economics (157).
- 171 of them were published in 2025, against 59 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Education University of Hong Kong (12), Chinese University of Hong Kong (9) and University of Hong Kong (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were The International Journal of Management Education (96), International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (51) and Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence (43).
- The most-cited of them is “Work organization and mental health problems in PhD students” (Research Policy, 2017), with 1,179 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Higher Education and Research | 17 | 27 | 28 | 22 | 42 | 49 | 37 | 62 | 79 | 48 |
| Management | 13 | 24 | 25 | 13 | 27 | 44 | 37 | 55 | 49 | 47 |
| Economics | 11 | 9 | 18 | 21 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 16 | 21 | 14 |
| Information Systems | 9 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 11 |
| Operations Research | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Marketing | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| AI | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Finance | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 59 | 86 | 90 | 77 | 112 | 132 | 102 | 151 | 171 | 135 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Education University of Hong Kong | 12 |
| 2 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 9 |
| 3 | University of Hong Kong | 9 |
| 4 | National Economics University | 8 |
| 5 | Hangzhou Normal University | 7 |
| 6 | Central China Normal University | 6 |
| 7 | Griffith University | 5 |
| 8 | Guangzhou University | 5 |
| 9 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 5 |
| 10 | Technical University of Munich | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 112 |
| 2 | United States | 98 |
| 3 | Spain | 48 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 39 |
| 5 | India | 32 |
| 6 | Germany | 31 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 31 |
| 8 | Italy | 31 |
| 9 | Australia | 29 |
| 10 | Malaysia | 18 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | entrepreneurial intention | 96 |
| 2 | entrepreneurship education | 91 |
| 3 | gender differences | 52 |
| 4 | theory of planned behavior | 48 |
| 5 | higher education | 41 |
| 6 | academic performance | 39 |
| 7 | generative AI | 39 |
| 8 | ChatGPT | 34 |
| 9 | COVID-19 pandemic | 31 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “university students”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/university-students
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