SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Papers in the tracked journals on UN Sustainable Development Goal 9, Industry, innovation and infrastructure. 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 9 (Industry, innovation and infrastructure) was addressed by 66,427 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (23,569), economics (17,221) and management (9,583).
- It is #1 of the 17 goals by papers from 2023 to 2025 (26,588).
- 10,750 of them were published in 2025, against 4,003 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (768), Beijing Jiaotong University (575) and Tongji University (483).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (2,493), Computers & Industrial Engineering (1,957) and Finance research letters (1,511).
- The most-cited of them is “Understanding digital transformation: A review and a research agenda” (The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 2019), with 7,304 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 1,554 | 1,737 | 1,808 | 1,877 | 2,234 | 2,505 | 2,482 | 2,893 | 3,329 | 3,150 |
| Economics | 1,323 | 1,384 | 1,327 | 1,540 | 1,541 | 1,520 | 1,737 | 1,993 | 2,518 | 2,338 |
| Management | 547 | 605 | 622 | 787 | 1,065 | 1,150 | 1,146 | 1,167 | 1,251 | 1,243 |
| AI | 198 | 224 | 275 | 375 | 585 | 892 | 1,031 | 1,233 | 1,603 | 1,203 |
| Finance | 93 | 61 | 79 | 131 | 154 | 219 | 445 | 941 | 1,632 | 1,126 |
| Information Systems | 131 | 135 | 166 | 180 | 180 | 213 | 173 | 218 | 196 | 199 |
| Marketing | 41 | 33 | 56 | 67 | 70 | 68 | 59 | 80 | 56 | 40 |
| Higher Education and Research | 66 | 35 | 48 | 47 | 54 | 51 | 35 | 70 | 62 | 64 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 23 | 27 | 34 | 34 | 28 | 30 | 27 | 42 | 51 | 43 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 17 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 21 | 10 | 25 | 29 |
| Accounting | 8 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 25 | 35 |
| Statistics | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| All categories | 4,003 | 4,257 | 4,438 | 5,061 | 5,942 | 6,667 | 7,171 | 8,667 | 10,750 | 9,471 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 2,493 |
| 2 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 1,957 |
| 3 | Finance research letters | 1,511 |
| 4 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 1,422 |
| 5 | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 1,265 |
| 6 | Energy Economics | 1,210 |
| 7 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 1,177 |
| 8 | Energy Policy | 1,060 |
| 9 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 1,010 |
| 10 | Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice | 780 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 768 |
| 2 | Beijing Jiaotong University | 575 |
| 3 | Tongji University | 483 |
| 4 | Tsinghua University | 479 |
| 5 | Southeast University | 468 |
| 6 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 390 |
| 7 | Zhejiang University | 386 |
| 8 | Southwest Jiaotong University | 354 |
| 9 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 347 |
| 10 | Wuhan University | 328 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 16,900 |
| 2 | United States | 4,051 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 3,001 |
| 4 | India | 1,829 |
| 5 | Italy | 1,712 |
| 6 | Australia | 1,550 |
| 7 | Germany | 1,540 |
| 8 | France | 1,474 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 1,386 |
| 10 | Canada | 1,116 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 2,627 |
| 2 | digital transformation | 1,401 |
| 3 | Chinese listed companies | 1,306 |
| 4 | financial constraints | 1,051 |
| 5 | state-owned enterprises | 1,028 |
| 6 | green innovation | 1,023 |
| 7 | regional heterogeneity | 871 |
| 8 | CO2 emissions | 828 |
| 9 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 790 |
| 10 | mixed-integer linear programming | 775 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/9-industry-innovation-and-infrastructure
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/9-industry-innovation-and-infrastructure}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}