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title: "SDG 2 Zero hunger: research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), SDG 2 (Zero hunger) was addressed by 8,732 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (5,783), AI (813) and operations research (742). It is #12 of the 17 goals by papers from 2023 to 2025 (3,071)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), SDG 2 (Zero hunger) was addressed by 8,732 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (5,783), AI (813) and operations research (742). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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# 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.

All 17 goals: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/sdgs.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), SDG 2 (Zero hunger) was addressed by 8,732 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (5,783), AI (813) and operations research (742).
- It is #12 of the 17 goals by papers from 2023 to 2025 (3,071).
- 1,137 of them were published in 2025, against 675 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were International Food Policy Research Institute (107), China Agricultural University (98) and Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (71).
- The journals publishing most of them were Food Policy (469), Land Use Policy (359) and Expert Systems with Applications (273).
- 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 551 | 600 | 547 | 611 | 608 | 573 | 558 | 529 | 622 | 584 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 14 | 12 | 22 | 27 | 47 | 77 | 140 | 155 | 189 | 130 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 39 | 50 | 49 | 44 | 74 | 72 | 92 | 105 | 112 | 105 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 20 | 26 | 26 | 29 | 53 | 65 | 50 | 63 | 54 | 49 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 19 | 15 | 28 | 14 | 20 | 24 | 38 | 76 | 96 | 56 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 15 | 23 | 23 | 30 | 29 | 29 | 19 | 29 | 26 | 30 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 3 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 22 | 13 | 10 | 20 | 11 | 16 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 16 | 22 | 19 | 18 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 675 | 741 | 729 | 787 | 868 | 867 | 930 | 1,004 | 1,137 | 994 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | 469 |
| 2 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 359 |
| 3 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 273 |
| 4 | [Agricultural and Food Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/agricultural-and-food-economics.md) | 252 |
| 5 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 152 |
| 6 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 148 |
| 7 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 135 |
| 8 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 104 |
| 9 | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 90 |
| 10 | [World Development Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development-perspectives.md) | 78 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | International Food Policy Research Institute | 107 |
| 2 | China Agricultural University | 98 |
| 3 | Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement | 71 |
| 4 | Wageningen University & Research | 70 |
| 5 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 66 |
| 6 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 54 |
| 7 | World Bank | 53 |
| 8 | Nanjing Agricultural University | 49 |
| 9 | Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs | 48 |
| 10 | Northwest A&F University | 46 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 1,115 |
| 2 | United States | 791 |
| 3 | India | 366 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 315 |
| 5 | Germany | 291 |
| 6 | Italy | 290 |
| 7 | France | 189 |
| 8 | Spain | 154 |
| 9 | Australia | 152 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 127 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | food security | 364 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 256 |
| 3 | smallholder farmers | 243 |
| 4 | sustainable agriculture | 131 |
| 5 | agricultural productivity | 126 |
| 6 | agricultural policy | 121 |
| 7 | [technology adoption](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/technology-adoption.md) | 121 |
| 8 | climate change adaptation | 111 |
| 9 | rural households | 98 |
| 10 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 89 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,202 | 2202.0 | [Let's Take the Con out of Econometrics](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41549-026-00137-2) | [Journal of Business Cycle Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-cycle-research.md) | 2026-10-07 | Edward E. Leamer |
| 2 | 1,018 | 11.4 | [Achieving sustainable performance in a data-driven agriculture supply chain: A review for research and applications](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.05.022) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-05-30 | Sachin Kamble, Angappa Gunasekaran, Shradha Ashok Gawankar |
| 3 | 964 | 10.0 | [Climate risks and market efficiency](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2018.09.015) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2018-10-16 | Harrison G. Hong, Frank Weikai Li, Jiangmin Xu |
| 4 | 964 | 10.9 | [Modeling the blockchain enabled traceability in agriculture supply chain](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.05.023) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-06-15 | Sachin Kamble, Angappa Gunasekaran, Rohit Sharma |
| 5 | 772 | 9.6 | [A systematic literature review on machine learning applications for sustainable agriculture supply chain performance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2020.104926) | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 2020-02-24 | Rohit Sharma, Sachin Kamble, Angappa Gunasekaran et al. |
| 6 | 672 | 7.6 | [Boundary conditions for traceability in food supply chains using blockchain technology](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.05.025) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-06-13 | Kay Behnke, Marijn Janssen |
| 7 | 630 | 8.6 | [COVID-19 implications on household income and food security in Kenya and Uganda: Findings from a rapid assessment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105199) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2020-09-18 | Monica Kagorora Kansiime, Justice Akpene Tambo, Idah Mugambi et al. |
| 8 | 615 | 9.5 | [Adoption of agricultural technology in the developing world: A meta-analysis of the empirical literature](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105599) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2021-06-17 | Sacha Walde Ruzzante, Ricardo Labarta, Amy M. Bilton |
| 9 | 539 | 4.7 | [Sustainable consumption and production in the food supply chain: A conceptual framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.03.003) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2017-03-23 | Kannan Govindan |
| 10 | 519 | 8.6 | [Viewpoint: The case for a six-dimensional food security framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102164) | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | 2021-10-27 | Jennifer A. Clapp (University of Waterloo), William G. Moseley, Barbara Burlingame et al. |

## 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},
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  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).