Papers on “well-being”
Research on “well-being” 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 “well-being” appeared in 1,095 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (407), health economics and policy (260) and management (148).
- 120 of them were published in 2025, against 74 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Harvard University (9), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (9) and The University of Melbourne (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Happiness Studies (96), Social Science & Medicine (59) and Computers in Human Behavior (18).
- The most-cited of them is “The public value of E-Government – A literature review” (Government Information Quarterly, 2019), with 965 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 33 | 30 | 51 | 42 | 36 | 39 | 41 | 55 | 41 | 39 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 13 | 35 | 17 | 30 | 28 | 29 | 22 | 30 | 27 | 29 |
| Management | 10 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 15 | 17 | 24 | 18 | 18 |
| Information Systems | 6 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 7 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 6 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| Operations Research | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| AI | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| Statistics | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 74 | 96 | 97 | 115 | 102 | 115 | 115 | 137 | 120 | 124 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Happiness Studies | 96 |
| 2 | Social Science & Medicine | 59 |
| 3 | Computers in Human Behavior | 18 |
| 4 | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes | 13 |
| 5 | AI & Society | 11 |
| 6 | Journal of Vocational Behavior | 9 |
| 7 | Quality & Quantity | 9 |
| 8 | Ecological Economics | 8 |
| 9 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 7 |
| 10 | Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management | 7 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | 9 |
| 2 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 9 |
| 3 | The University of Melbourne | 8 |
| 4 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 7 |
| 5 | McMaster University | 7 |
| 6 | University College London | 7 |
| 7 | University of Michigan | 7 |
| 8 | University of Toronto | 7 |
| 9 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 6 |
| 10 | Renmin University of China | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 118 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 77 |
| 3 | China | 63 |
| 4 | Germany | 39 |
| 5 | Canada | 37 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 37 |
| 7 | Spain | 31 |
| 8 | Italy | 31 |
| 9 | Australia | 29 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 24 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | life satisfaction | 58 |
| 2 | mental health | 51 |
| 3 | COVID-19 pandemic | 46 |
| 4 | gender differences | 32 |
| 5 | older adults | 32 |
| 6 | happiness | 27 |
| 7 | resilience | 24 |
| 8 | depression | 21 |
| 9 | loneliness | 21 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 965 | 10.4 | The public value of E-Government – A literature review | Government Information Quarterly | 2019-02-14 | Jean Damascene Twizeyimana, Annika Andersson |
| 2 | 681 | 7.3 | Entrepreneurship and well-being: Past, present, and future | Journal of Business Venturing | 2019-01-22 | Johan Wiklund, Boris Nikolaev, Nadav Shir et al. |
| 3 | 637 | 9.0 | COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being: Evidence from Google Trends | Journal of Public Economics | 2020-11-30 | Abel Brodeur, Andrew Eric Clark, Sarah Flèche et al. |
| 4 | 597 | 5.3 | Tourism and wellbeing | Annals of Tourism Research | 2017-06-08 | Melanie Smith, Anya Diekmann |
| 5 | 559 | 7.5 | Paradoxes of artificial intelligence in consumer markets: Ethical challenges and opportunities | Journal of Business Research | 2020-08-28 | Shuili Du, Chunyan Xie |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “well-being”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/well-being
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