SDG 1: No poverty
Papers in the tracked journals on UN Sustainable Development Goal 1, No poverty. OpenAlex assigns a paper to each UN Sustainable Development Goal that its classifier scores above 0.4 from the paper's text; a paper can belong to several goals or to none. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), SDG 1 (No poverty) was addressed by 11,308 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (8,716), finance (884) and management (540).
- It is #11 of the 17 goals by papers from 2023 to 2025 (4,103).
- 1,512 of them were published in 2025, against 813 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were World Bank (117), Peking University (84) and IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (82).
- The journals publishing most of them were World Development (317), Energy Policy (270) and Finance research letters (245).
- The most-cited of them is “How many jobs can be done at home?” (Journal of Public Economics, 2020), with 2,032 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 672 | 721 | 715 | 894 | 908 | 876 | 948 | 996 | 1,073 | 913 |
| Finance | 32 | 26 | 34 | 42 | 52 | 62 | 92 | 162 | 240 | 142 |
| Management | 31 | 38 | 52 | 43 | 68 | 64 | 56 | 67 | 59 | 62 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 48 | 41 | 53 | 40 | 54 | 46 | 43 | 63 | 64 | 67 |
| Operations Research | 15 | 26 | 17 | 30 | 41 | 26 | 48 | 37 | 39 | 44 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 6 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 9 |
| Information Systems | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 7 |
| Marketing | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Statistics | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Accounting | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 |
| AI | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| All categories | 813 | 868 | 903 | 1,082 | 1,163 | 1,115 | 1,223 | 1,368 | 1,512 | 1,261 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | World Development | 317 |
| 2 | Energy Policy | 270 |
| 3 | Finance research letters | 245 |
| 4 | Journal of Development Economics | 202 |
| 5 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 202 |
| 6 | Food Policy | 179 |
| 7 | Energy Economics | 177 |
| 8 | World Development Perspectives | 144 |
| 9 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 136 |
| 10 | Ecological Economics | 119 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | World Bank | 117 |
| 2 | Peking University | 84 |
| 3 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 82 |
| 4 | International Food Policy Research Institute | 82 |
| 5 | Renmin University of China | 79 |
| 6 | Zhejiang University | 71 |
| 7 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 62 |
| 8 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 53 |
| 9 | University of Oxford | 48 |
| 10 | University of International Business and Economics | 46 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1,380 |
| 2 | United States | 1,351 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 529 |
| 4 | India | 361 |
| 5 | Germany | 360 |
| 6 | Italy | 350 |
| 7 | Australia | 238 |
| 8 | France | 227 |
| 9 | Spain | 218 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 170 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | income inequality | 601 |
| 2 | China | 597 |
| 3 | energy poverty | 259 |
| 4 | rural households | 239 |
| 5 | poverty reduction | 238 |
| 6 | household income | 216 |
| 7 | COVID-19 pandemic | 212 |
| 8 | poverty | 207 |
| 9 | low-income households | 200 |
| 10 | India | 199 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). SDG 1: No poverty. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/1-no-poverty
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title = {SDG 1: No poverty},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/1-no-poverty}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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