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title: "BlackRock (United States): research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at BlackRock (United States) took part in 14 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (8), operations research (4) and economics (1). 4 of them were published in 2025, against 2 in 2017."
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# BlackRock (United States)

Papers in the tracked journals with an author at BlackRock (United States): per year and category, where they are published, the institutions its researchers write with, and its most-cited papers. A paper counts as corporate when at least one of its authors is affiliated with an institution that OpenAlex classifies as a company; it counts once for each company among its authors' affiliations. Universities are the institutions OpenAlex classifies as education.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at BlackRock (United States) took part in 14 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (8), operations research (4) and economics (1).
- 4 of them were published in 2025, against 2 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of California, Berkeley (4), Florida State University (2) and University of California, Los Angeles (2).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Asset Management (6), Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (1) and Annals of Operations Research (1).
- The most-cited of them is “The great wall of debt: Real estate, political risk, and Chinese local government financing cost” (The Journal of Finance and Data Science, 2023), with 122 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 8 of its papers 52 times; 98% of those links came from papers with a university author and 4% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 17 times, 12% of them papers with a company author.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Asset Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-asset-management.md) | 6 |
| 2 | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | 1 |
| 3 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 1 |
| 4 | [Finance and Stochastics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-and-stochastics.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [The Journal of Finance and Data Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-finance-and-data-science.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of California, Berkeley | 4 |
| 2 | Florida State University | 2 |
| 3 | University of California, Los Angeles | 2 |
| 4 | Georgetown University | 1 |
| 5 | National Bureau of Economic Research | 1 |
| 6 | Old Dominion University | 1 |
| 7 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | 1 |
| 8 | Southern University of Science and Technology | 1 |
| 9 | Stanford University | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 10 |
| 2 | China | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | portfolio optimization | 3 |
| 2 | ESG ratings | 1 |
| 3 | ESG risk | 1 |
| 4 | James-Stein estimator | 1 |
| 5 | S&P 500 | 1 |
| 6 | after-tax returns | 1 |
| 7 | asset allocation | 1 |
| 8 | assets under management | 1 |
| 9 | backtesting | 1 |
| 10 | benchmark comparison | 1 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 122 | 2.9 | [The great wall of debt: Real estate, political risk, and Chinese local government financing cost](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfds.2023.100098) | [The Journal of Finance and Data Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-finance-and-data-science.md) | 2023-04-25 | Andrew Ang, Jennie Bai, Hao Zhou |
| 2 | 93 | 0.8 | [Small cues change savings choices](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.08.010) | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 2017-08-25 | James J. Choi, Emily Celia Haisley, Jennifer Kurkoski et al. |
| 3 | 69 | 0.6 | [Asset volatility](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-017-9431-1) | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 2017-12-21 | Maria M. Correia, Johnny Kang, Scott Anthony Richardson |
| 4 | 13 | 0.2 | [Tax-Aware Portfolio Construction via Convex Optimization](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-021-01823-0) | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | 2021-02-25 | Nicholas Moehle, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Stephen Boyd et al. |
| 5 | 7 | 0.3 | [Portfolio selection revisited](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-024-06340-7) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 2024-11-04 | Alex Shkolnik, Alec N. Kercheval, Hubeyb Gurdogan et al. |
| 6 | 5 | 0.2 | [ESG risk and returns implied by demand-based asset pricing models](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41260-024-00354-3) | [Journal of Asset Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-asset-management.md) | 2024-05-01 | Chi Zhang, Xinyang Li, Andrea Tamoni et al. |
| 7 | 2 | 0.0 | [Portfolio construction as linearly constrained separable optimization](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11081-022-09748-x) | [Optimization and Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/optimization-and-engineering.md) | 2022-11-11 | Nicholas Moehle, Jack Gindi, Stephen Boyd et al. |
| 8 | 2 | 0.1 | [Portfolio optimisation via strategy-specific eigenvector shrinkage](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00780-025-00566-4) | [Finance and Stochastics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-and-stochastics.md) | 2025-05-21 | Lisa R. Goldberg, Hubeyb Gurdogan, Alec N. Kercheval |
| 9 | 1 | 0.0 | [Ownership of ESG characteristics](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41260-023-00335-y) | [Journal of Asset Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-asset-management.md) | 2023-11-04 | Mark Bateman, Lisa R. Goldberg |
| 10 | 1 | 0.0 | [A guide to 130/30 loss harvesting](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41260-024-00374-z) | [Journal of Asset Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-asset-management.md) | 2024-09-01 | Lisa R. Goldberg, Taotao Cai, Ben Schneider |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | University | China | 4 |
| 2 | [University of International Business and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-international-business-and-economics.md) | University | China | 4 |
| 3 | Capital University of Economics and Business | University | China | 4 |
| 4 | Beijing Foreign Studies University | University | China | 2 |
| 5 | University of Technology Sydney | University | Australia | 2 |
| 6 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | University | China | 2 |
| 7 | University of Southern California | University | United States | 2 |
| 8 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | University | Hong Kong | 2 |
| 9 | Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance | University | China | 2 |
| 10 | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | University | China | 2 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | Nonprofit | United Kingdom | 4 |
| 2 | National Bureau of Economic Research | Nonprofit | United States | 3 |
| 3 | Columbia University | University | United States | 3 |
| 4 | University of Chicago | University | United States | 2 |
| 5 | National Bank of Slovakia | Other | Slovakia | 2 |
| 6 | University of Pennsylvania | University | United States | 2 |
| 7 | Florida State University | University | United States | 1 |
| 8 | University of Notre Dame | University | United States | 1 |
| 9 | Leibniz University Hannover | University | Germany | 1 |

More: https://scholar4ai.com/corporate-citations.md · https://scholar4ai.com/industry-university.md

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). BlackRock (United States). Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/blackrock-united-states

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {BlackRock (United States)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/companies/blackrock-united-states}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).