Most-cited Economics papers of 2025, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Economics research papers published in 2025, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

  1. Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance: Past, Present, and Future
    Robert L. Axtell, J. Doyne Farmer · 2025 · 240 citations
  2. sdmTMB : An R Package for Fast, Flexible, and User-Friendly Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Models with Spatial and Spatiotemporal Random Fields
    Sean C. Anderson, Eric J. Ward et al. · 2025 · 211 citations · Free PDF
  3. Introducing the New ESG ‐Based Sustainability Uncertainty Index ( ESGUI )
    Serdar Ongan, İsmet Göçer et al. · 2025 · 209 citations
  4. Financial Inclusion and Economic Growth in Nigeria
    Jeffrey Ogie Eguavoen, Simon Ayo Adekunle · 2025 · 201 citations
  5. A Study of Contemporaneous Residential Real Estate Price Causation Across Major Jiangsu Province Cities: Methodology Using Vector Error-Correction Models and Directed Acyclic Graphs
    Bingzi Jin, Xiaojie Xu · 2025 · 179 citations
  6. Contemporaneous causal orderings among prices of retail properties: evidence from Chinese cities through vector error-correction modeling and directed acyclic graphs
    Bingzi Jin, Xiaojie Xu · 2025 · 178 citations
  7. A Practical Guide to Shift-Share Instruments
    Kirill Borusyak, Peter Hull et al. · 2025 · 158 citations · Free PDF
  8. FinTech: a literature review of emerging financial technologies and applications
    Gang Kou, Yang Lu · 2025 · 141 citations · Free PDF
  9. Is policy pilot a viable path to sustainable development? Attention allocation perspective
    Jiapeng Dai · 2025 · 129 citations
  10. Can green finance policy promote inclusive green growth?- Based on the quasi-natural experiment of China's green finance reform and innovation pilot zone
    Aiting Xu, Yujie Dai et al. · 2025 · 127 citations
  11. Harnessing technological innovation and renewable energy and their impact on environmental pollution in G-20 countries
    Siwei Han, Dong Peng et al. · 2025 · 126 citations · Free PDF
  12. AI integration in financial services: a systematic review of trends and regulatory challenges
    Darko B. Vukovic, Senanu Dekpo-Adza et al. · 2025 · 115 citations · Free PDF
  13. Rising infrastructure inequalities accompany urbanization and economic development
    Bhartendu Pandey, Christa M. Brelsford et al. · 2025 · 107 citations · Free PDF
  14. The role of green finance in attaining environmental sustainability within a country's ESG performance
    Aleksy S. Kwilinski, Oleksii Valentynovych Lyulyov et al. · 2025 · 102 citations · Free PDF
  15. Regulating Conglomerates: Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program in China
    Qiaoyi Chen, Chen Zhao et al. · 2025 · 100 citations
  16. Green macrofinancial regimes
    Daniela Gabor, Benjamin Braun · 2025 · 99 citations · Free PDF
  17. Forecasts of wholesale food price indices through Gaussian process regressions
    Bingzi Jin, Xiaojie Xu · 2025 · 96 citations
  18. Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Sustainability: Investigating the AI ‐ EKC Nexus for SDG 7 and SDG 13
    Qiang Wang, Tong Liu et al. · 2025 · 94 citations
  19. Demand-side strategies enable rapid and deep cuts in buildings and transport emissions to 2050
    Rik van Heerden, Oreane Y. Edelenbosch et al. · 2025 · 91 citations · Free PDF
  20. Private Information and Price Regulation in the US Credit Card Market
    Scott T. Nelson · 2025 · 88 citations
  21. A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage
    Matthew Gidden, Siddharth Joshi et al. · 2025 · 85 citations
  22. How Does AI Technology Innovation Drive Carbon Emission Efficiency? A Machine Learning–Based Meta‐Frontier Analysis Across 75 Countries
    Fuyu Zhang, Rongrong Li et al. · 2025 · 85 citations
  23. Innovations and barriers in sustainable and green finance for advancing sustainable development goals
    Raghu Raman R, Suparna Ray et al. · 2025 · 83 citations · Free PDF
  24. The Timing of New Technology Adoption: The Case of MRI
    Philipp Schmidt‐Dengler · 2025 · 81 citations
  25. Testing the Impact of Renewable Energy and Institutional Quality on Consumption-Based CO2 Emissions: Fresh Insights from MMQR Approach
    Abdulateif A. Almulhim, Nasiru Inuwa et al. · 2025 · 81 citations · Free PDF

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