SDG 2: Zero hunger
Papers in the tracked journals on UN Sustainable Development Goal 2, Zero hunger. 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 2 (Zero hunger) was addressed by 7,217 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (4,378), AI (813) and operations research (742).
- It is #12 of the 17 goals by papers from 2023 to 2025 (2,747).
- 1,034 of them were published in 2025, against 499 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were International Food Policy Research Institute (102), China Agricultural University (77) and Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (59).
- The journals publishing most of them were Food Policy (469), Expert Systems with Applications (273) and Agricultural and Food Economics (252).
- The most-cited of them is “Let's Take the Con out of Econometrics” (Journal of Business Cycle Research, 2026), with 2,202 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 381 | 396 | 385 | 431 | 443 | 440 | 443 | 454 | 540 | 465 |
| AI | 14 | 12 | 22 | 27 | 47 | 77 | 140 | 155 | 189 | 130 |
| Operations Research | 39 | 50 | 49 | 44 | 74 | 72 | 92 | 105 | 112 | 105 |
| Management | 18 | 23 | 23 | 27 | 50 | 55 | 43 | 59 | 47 | 44 |
| Finance | 19 | 15 | 28 | 14 | 20 | 24 | 38 | 76 | 96 | 56 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 14 | 21 | 21 | 29 | 27 | 27 | 17 | 24 | 24 | 30 |
| Marketing | 3 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 22 | 13 | 10 | 20 | 11 | 16 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 11 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Statistics | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 499 | 532 | 562 | 603 | 697 | 717 | 802 | 911 | 1,034 | 860 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Food Policy | 469 |
| 2 | Expert Systems with Applications | 273 |
| 3 | Agricultural and Food Economics | 252 |
| 4 | Ecological Economics | 152 |
| 5 | World Development | 148 |
| 6 | Neural Computing and Applications | 135 |
| 7 | Finance research letters | 104 |
| 8 | Journal of Development Economics | 90 |
| 9 | World Development Perspectives | 78 |
| 10 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 76 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | International Food Policy Research Institute | 102 |
| 2 | China Agricultural University | 77 |
| 3 | Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement | 59 |
| 4 | Wageningen University & Research | 55 |
| 5 | Zhejiang University | 50 |
| 6 | World Bank | 46 |
| 7 | Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs | 43 |
| 8 | Nanjing Agricultural University | 43 |
| 9 | Northwest A&F University | 41 |
| 10 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 40 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 963 |
| 2 | United States | 736 |
| 3 | India | 351 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 264 |
| 5 | Italy | 259 |
| 6 | Germany | 239 |
| 7 | France | 169 |
| 8 | Australia | 140 |
| 9 | Spain | 132 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 100 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | food security | 295 |
| 2 | China | 218 |
| 3 | smallholder farmers | 207 |
| 4 | sustainable agriculture | 111 |
| 5 | agricultural productivity | 110 |
| 6 | technology adoption | 106 |
| 7 | agricultural policy | 94 |
| 8 | rural households | 87 |
| 9 | COVID-19 pandemic | 86 |
| 10 | climate change adaptation | 86 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). SDG 2: Zero hunger. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/2-zero-hunger
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {SDG 2: Zero hunger},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/2-zero-hunger}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}