SDG 5: Gender equality
Papers in the tracked journals on UN Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality. 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 5 (Gender equality) was addressed by 6,296 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (3,352), management (1,148) and finance (467).
- It is #13 of the 17 goals by papers from 2023 to 2025 (2,465).
- 917 of them were published in 2025, against 373 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (71), World Bank (42) and Peking University (40).
- The journals publishing most of them were World Development (129), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (117) and Journal of Development Economics (95).
- The most-cited of them is “Inequality in the impact of the coronavirus shock: Evidence from real time surveys” (Journal of Public Economics, 2020), with 1,415 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 205 | 238 | 248 | 294 | 345 | 364 | 351 | 443 | 478 | 386 |
| Management | 68 | 84 | 85 | 88 | 111 | 123 | 139 | 148 | 171 | 131 |
| Finance | 21 | 13 | 26 | 31 | 52 | 53 | 53 | 83 | 81 | 54 |
| Higher Education and Research | 22 | 29 | 20 | 33 | 39 | 40 | 47 | 58 | 52 | 40 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 19 | 8 | 12 | 25 | 25 | 14 | 17 | 31 | 31 | 18 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 10 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 18 | 11 | 12 | 25 | 28 | 20 |
| Accounting | 7 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 24 | 16 | 15 | 25 | 19 | 21 |
| Marketing | 8 | 10 | 2 | 14 | 20 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 19 |
| AI | 5 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 23 | 15 |
| Operations Research | 3 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 13 | 19 |
| Information Systems | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 11 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| All categories | 373 | 416 | 442 | 536 | 662 | 665 | 682 | 866 | 917 | 737 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | World Development | 129 |
| 2 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 117 |
| 3 | Journal of Development Economics | 95 |
| 4 | Review of Economics of the Household | 89 |
| 5 | Labour Economics | 88 |
| 6 | Journal of Business Ethics | 74 |
| 7 | Journal of Population Economics | 71 |
| 8 | Indian Journal of Labour Economics | 65 |
| 9 | Finance research letters | 65 |
| 10 | Scientometrics | 58 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 71 |
| 2 | World Bank | 42 |
| 3 | Peking University | 40 |
| 4 | Monash University | 35 |
| 5 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 29 |
| 6 | Harvard University | 26 |
| 7 | University of Oxford | 26 |
| 8 | International Food Policy Research Institute | 24 |
| 9 | University of Johannesburg | 23 |
| 10 | Zhejiang University | 23 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 887 |
| 2 | China | 417 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 383 |
| 4 | Germany | 273 |
| 5 | India | 260 |
| 6 | Italy | 240 |
| 7 | Spain | 236 |
| 8 | Australia | 188 |
| 9 | France | 157 |
| 10 | Canada | 119 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | gender differences | 413 |
| 2 | gender pay gap | 210 |
| 3 | corporate governance | 202 |
| 4 | women's employment | 195 |
| 5 | board gender diversity | 193 |
| 6 | women entrepreneurs | 188 |
| 7 | gender equality | 166 |
| 8 | gender inequality | 164 |
| 9 | women's empowerment | 162 |
| 10 | gender gap | 138 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). SDG 5: Gender equality. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/5-gender-equality
@misc{scholar4ai-sdgs-5-gender-equality,
author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {SDG 5: Gender equality},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/5-gender-equality}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}