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title: "Value creation research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “value creation” appeared in 950 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (464), marketing (108) and information systems (92)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/value-creation
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “value creation” appeared in 950 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (464), marketing (108) and information systems (92). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “value creation”

Research on “value creation” 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 “value creation” appeared in 950 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (464), marketing (108) and information systems (92).
- 104 of them were published in 2025, against 68 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Vaasa (13), Copenhagen Business School (12) and Queensland University of Technology (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Technological Forecasting and Social Change (32), Journal of Business Research (29) and Technovation (25).
- The most-cited of them is “Understanding digital transformation: A review and a research agenda” (The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 2019), with 7,304 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 33 | 34 | 39 | 55 | 51 | 46 | 66 | 51 | 45 | 44 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 8 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 15 | 15 | 8 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 6 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 14 | 7 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 5 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 5 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 5 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 9 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 68 | 90 | 86 | 91 | 101 | 96 | 117 | 112 | 104 | 85 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 32 |
| 2 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 29 |
| 3 | [Technovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technovation.md) | 25 |
| 4 | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 22 |
| 5 | [Review of Managerial Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-managerial-science.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [Journal of Engineering and Technology Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-engineering-and-technology-management.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [Journal of Innovation & Knowledge](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-knowledge.md) | 8 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Vaasa](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-vaasa.md) | 13 |
| 2 | [Copenhagen Business School](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/copenhagen-business-school.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [Queensland University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/queensland-university-of-technology.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [NEOMA Business School](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/neoma-business-school.md) | 7 |
| 5 | Polytechnic University of Bari | 7 |
| 6 | University of St.Gallen | 7 |
| 7 | [Aarhus University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/aarhus-university.md) | 6 |
| 8 | HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management | 6 |
| 9 | Tampere University | 6 |
| 10 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 69 |
| 2 | Germany | 61 |
| 3 | United States | 59 |
| 4 | China | 49 |
| 5 | Italy | 49 |
| 6 | France | 41 |
| 7 | Finland | 36 |
| 8 | Sweden | 32 |
| 9 | Spain | 30 |
| 10 | Australia | 29 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | value capture | 62 |
| 2 | business model innovation | 37 |
| 3 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 37 |
| 4 | business models | 24 |
| 5 | [competitive advantage](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/competitive-advantage.md) | 20 |
| 6 | [firm performance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/firm-performance.md) | 20 |
| 7 | digital platforms | 18 |
| 8 | [dynamic capabilities](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/dynamic-capabilities.md) | 18 |
| 9 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 17 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,304 | 78.8 | [Understanding digital transformation: A review and a research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2019.01.003) | [The Journal of Strategic Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-strategic-information-systems.md) | 2019-02-10 | Grégory Vial |
| 2 | 2,764 | 30.4 | [The digital transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship: Progress, challenges and key themes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.03.018) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2019-04-05 | Satish Nambisan, Mike Wright, Maryann P. Feldman |
| 3 | 1,232 | 11.6 | [Fortune favors the prepared: How SMEs approach business model innovations in Industry 4.0](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.12.019) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2018-01-05 | Julian Marius Müller, Oana Buliga, Kai‐Ingo Voigt |
| 4 | 1,060 | 10.3 | [Dynamic and integrative capabilities for profiting from innovation in digital platform-based ecosystems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.01.019) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2018-04-05 | Constance E. Helfat, Ruth S. Raubitschek |
| 5 | 995 | 10.7 | [A Stakeholder Theory Perspective on Business Models: Value Creation for Sustainability](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04112-z) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 2019-02-08 | Birte Freudenreich, Florian Lüdeke‐Freund, Stefan Schaltegger |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “value creation”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/value-creation

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “value creation”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/value-creation}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).