SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals
Papers in the tracked journals on UN Sustainable Development Goal 17, Partnerships for the goals. 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 17 (Partnerships for the goals) was addressed by 2,683 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,137), management (596) and finance (291).
- It is #14 of the 17 goals by papers from 2023 to 2025 (943).
- 361 of them were published in 2025, against 203 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (19), World Bank (18) and University of Manchester (16).
- The journals publishing most of them were World Development (81), Scientometrics (46) and Finance research letters (42).
- The most-cited of them is “Financial inclusion and economic growth in OIC countries” (Research in International Business and Finance, 2017), with 699 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 94 | 94 | 104 | 126 | 106 | 107 | 114 | 123 | 153 | 116 |
| Management | 43 | 37 | 44 | 58 | 64 | 76 | 65 | 71 | 63 | 75 |
| Finance | 19 | 17 | 11 | 18 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 36 | 65 | 53 |
| Higher Education and Research | 20 | 26 | 24 | 35 | 16 | 22 | 20 | 34 | 25 | 36 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 10 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 21 | 19 |
| Operations Research | 7 | 11 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 13 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 15 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 3 |
| Marketing | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| AI | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Accounting | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 203 | 203 | 207 | 274 | 258 | 267 | 269 | 313 | 361 | 328 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | World Development | 81 |
| 2 | Scientometrics | 46 |
| 3 | Finance research letters | 42 |
| 4 | Energy Policy | 35 |
| 5 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 33 |
| 6 | Higher Education | 32 |
| 7 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 32 |
| 8 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 30 |
| 9 | Energy Economics | 28 |
| 10 | World Development Perspectives | 27 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 19 |
| 2 | World Bank | 18 |
| 3 | University of Manchester | 16 |
| 4 | University of International Business and Economics | 15 |
| 5 | University of Oxford | 15 |
| 6 | Copenhagen Business School | 14 |
| 7 | University College London | 14 |
| 8 | University of Vaasa | 13 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science | 12 |
| 10 | Wuhan University | 10 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 295 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 208 |
| 3 | United States | 197 |
| 4 | Germany | 83 |
| 5 | France | 72 |
| 6 | Australia | 64 |
| 7 | India | 64 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 63 |
| 9 | Italy | 61 |
| 10 | Canada | 49 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | developing countries | 145 |
| 2 | Sustainable Development Goals | 118 |
| 3 | foreign direct investment | 87 |
| 4 | sustainable development | 82 |
| 5 | financial development | 59 |
| 6 | COVID-19 pandemic | 57 |
| 7 | emerging markets | 55 |
| 8 | institutional quality | 54 |
| 9 | economic growth | 49 |
| 10 | foreign aid | 49 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/17-partnerships-for-the-goals
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title = {SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/17-partnerships-for-the-goals}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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