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SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

Papers in the tracked journals on UN Sustainable Development Goal 16, Peace, justice and strong institutions. 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 16 (Peace, justice and strong institutions) was addressed by 27,183 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (13,378), finance (3,963) and management (3,617).
  • It is #6 of the 17 goals by papers from 2023 to 2025 (9,643).
  • 3,727 of them were published in 2025, against 1,975 in 2017.
  • Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (176), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (175) and Renmin University of China (170).
  • The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (723), World Development (455) and Journal of Business Ethics (404).
  • The most-cited of them is “Stop explaining black box machine learning models for high stakes decisions and use interpretable models instead” (Nature Machine Intelligence, 2019), with 10,516 citations.

Papers per year#

2017: 1975 papers2018: 2097 papers2019: 2158 papers2020: 2491 papers2021: 2634 papers2022: 2675 papers2023: 2704 papers2024: 3212 papers2025: 3727 papers2026 (so far): 3510 papers
20172026 (so far)
Papers per publication year and category
Category2017201820192020202120222023202420252026 (so far)
Economics1,0961,1421,1801,3491,2821,3331,2941,4621,6311,609
Finance205191204301311326394649790592
Management273313288293426358367393450456
Accounting8111597119147142142151181177
Information Systems809310594114134122124150131
AI2927487875117107120180189
Operations Research624556878359918111497
Health Economics and Policy47595560664749817367
Marketing52544844567955546558
Tourism and Hospitality32304636385044484356
Higher Education and Research18283127352737474673
Statistics0003132245
All categories1,9752,0972,1582,4912,6342,6752,7043,2123,7273,510

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#JournalPapers
1Finance research letters723
2World Development455
3Journal of Business Ethics404
4Public Choice325
5International Review of Economics & Finance323
6Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization322
7AI & Society282
8European Journal of Political Economy272
9International Review of Financial Analysis257
10Economic Analysis and Policy237
Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#InstitutionPapers
1Zhongnan University of Economics and Law176
2Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique175
3Renmin University of China170
4Xiamen University135
5Peking University127
6Sun Yat-sen University125
7Southwestern University of Finance and Economics123
8University of International Business and Economics122
9Central University of Finance and Economics121
10Xi'an Jiaotong University120
Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#CountryPapers
1China3,465
2United States3,033
3United Kingdom1,614
4Germany892
5Italy788
6Australia759
7France703
8Canada523
9Spain453
10Netherlands437
Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#KeywordPapers
1corporate governance1,008
2China847
3Chinese listed companies497
4state-owned enterprises478
5corruption352
6financial constraints326
7institutional quality317
8geopolitical risk313
9emerging markets272
10information asymmetry272

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#CitationsPer monthTitleJournalPublishedAuthors
110,516117.3Stop explaining black box machine learning models for high stakes decisions and use interpretable models insteadNature Machine Intelligence2019-05-13Cynthia D Rudin
21,98022.4Defining digital transformation: Results from expert interviewsGovernment Information Quarterly2019-06-25Ines A. Mergel, Noella Edelmann, Nathalie Haug
31,18711.6Just transition: Integrating climate, energy and environmental justiceEnergy Policy2018-04-24Darren McCauley, Raphael James Heffron
41,16211.1The consequences of spatially differentiated water pollution regulation in ChinaJournal of Environmental Economics and Management2018-02-01Zhao Chen, Matthew E. Kahn, Yu Liu et al.
51,13814.0Greenwashing in environmental, social and governance disclosuresResearch in International Business and Finance2020-01-27Ellen Pei‐yi Yu, Bac Van Luu, Catherine Huirong Chen
61,10910.1Blockchain in government: Benefits and implications of distributed ledger technology for information sharingGovernment Information Quarterly2017-09-01Svein Ølnes, Jolien Ubacht, Marijn Janssen
71,0589.1Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens DemocracyBusiness Economics2017-03-10Apurv Jain
89479.8Mapping the challenges of Artificial Intelligence in the public sector: Evidence from public healthcareGovernment Information Quarterly2018-10-09Tara Qian Sun, Rony Medaglia
992012.8Trust and compliance to public health policies in times of COVID-19Journal of Public Economics2020-10-29Olivier Bargain, Ulugbek Aminjonov
108867.7Political uncertainty and investment: Causal evidence from U.S. gubernatorial electionsJournal of Financial Economics2017-04-08Candace E. Jens
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Scholar4AI. (2026). SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/16-peace-justice-and-strong-institutions

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  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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