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title: "NLI Research Institute (Japan): research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at NLI Research Institute (Japan) took part in 7 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (4), economics (2) and health economics and policy (1). 1 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017."
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# NLI Research Institute (Japan)

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Papers in the tracked journals with an author at NLI Research Institute (Japan): 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.

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## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at NLI Research Institute (Japan) took part in 7 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (4), economics (2) and health economics and policy (1).
- 1 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Musashi University (4), Osaka University of Economics (2) and University of Tsukuba (1).
- The journals publishing most of them were Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (1), International Review of Financial Analysis (1) and The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (1).
- The most-cited of them is “Investor response to Morningstar's ratings, category information, and alpha in the Japanese mutual fund market” (International Review of Financial Analysis, 2023), with 4 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 3 of its papers 4 times; 100% of those links came from papers with a university author and 25% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 40 times, 5% of them papers with a company author.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, NLI Research Institute (Japan) has 87 works with 1,147 citations (h-index 12).
- The tracked journals hold 7 of its 30 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (23.3%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (15), Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (14) and Insurance and Financial Risk Management (14).

## 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 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Pacific-Basin Finance Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pacific-basin-finance-journal.md) | 1 |
| 2 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 1 |
| 3 | [The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-quarterly-review-of-economics-and-finance.md) | 1 |
| 4 | [Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-behavioral-and-experimental-finance.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/asia-pacific-journal-of-regional-science.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Musashi University | 4 |
| 2 | Osaka University of Economics | 2 |
| 3 | University of Tsukuba | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Japan | 5 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | investor sophistication | 2 |
| 2 | retirement benefits | 2 |
| 3 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 1 |
| 4 | Japan | 1 |
| 5 | Japanese cities | 1 |
| 6 | Morningstar ratings | 1 |
| 7 | alpha | 1 |
| 8 | convexity | 1 |
| 9 | defined benefit pensions | 1 |
| 10 | defined contribution pensions | 1 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 0.1 | [Investor response to Morningstar's ratings, category information, and alpha in the Japanese mutual fund market](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2023.102758) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2023-07-05 | Kozo Omori, Tomoki Kitamura |
| 2 | 4 | 0.1 | [Impact of a new regulatory policy on thematic and monthly distribution funds in Japan](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2024.101891) | [The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-quarterly-review-of-economics-and-finance.md) | 2024-07-10 | Tomoki Kitamura, Kozo Omori |
| 3 | 4 | 0.2 | [Financial incentives for delaying the public pension claiming age](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2024.101009) | [Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-behavioral-and-experimental-finance.md) | 2024-11-29 | Tomoki Kitamura, Kunio Nakashima |
| 4 | 2 | 0.1 | [Measuring office attendance during the COVID-19 pandemic with mobility data to quantify local trends and characteristics](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41685-023-00324-4) | [Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/asia-pacific-journal-of-regional-science.md) | 2024-01-18 | Makoto Sakuma, Kazushi Matsuo, Morito Tsutsumi et al. |
| 5 | 1 | 0.0 | [Verifying reference-dependent utility and loss aversion with Fukushima nuclear-disaster natural experiment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jjie.2019.04.002) | [Journal of the Japanese and International Economies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-japanese-and-international-economies.md) | 2019-04-08 | Keiko Iwasaki, Myoung‐jae Lee, Yasuyuki Sawada |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Osaka University of Economics | University | Japan | 1 |
| 2 | Guizhou University of Finance and Economics | University | China | 1 |
| 3 | [UNSW Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/unsw-sydney.md) | University | Australia | 1 |
| 4 | Nomura Holdings (Japan) | Company | Japan | 1 |
| 5 | Osaka Metropolitan University | University | Japan | 1 |
| 6 | Guizhou University of Commerce | University | China | 1 |
| 7 | Musashi University | University | Japan | 1 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Chicago](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chicago.md) | University | United States | 6 |
| 2 | Center for Economic and Policy Research | Nonprofit | United States | 3 |
| 3 | [National Bureau of Economic Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-bureau-of-economic-research.md) | Nonprofit | United States | 3 |
| 4 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | University | United States | 3 |
| 5 | Princeton University | University | United States | 3 |
| 6 | [Columbia University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/columbia-university.md) | University | United States | 3 |
| 7 | Tulane University | University | United States | 2 |
| 8 | Ifo Institute for Economic Research | Research facility | Germany | 2 |
| 9 | [University of Toronto](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-toronto.md) | University | Canada | 2 |
| 10 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | Nonprofit | Germany | 2 |

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

## In OpenAlex

*NLI Research Institute (Japan) in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Company |
| Location | Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan |
| Also known as | NLI Research Institute, 株式会社ニッセイ基礎研究所 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 87 |
| Citations | 1,147 |
| h-index | 12 |
| i10-index | 14 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 1.11 |
| Website | [www.nli-research.co.jp](https://www.nli-research.co.jp) |
| ROR | [ror.org/05920nc59](https://ror.org/05920nc59) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I4405265604](https://openalex.org/I4405265604) |

*Works and citations per year in OpenAlex, and its papers in the tracked journals*

| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 2026 (so far) | 2 | 29 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2025 | 3 | 60 | 1 | 33.3% |
| 2024 | 4 | 63 | 3 | 75.0% |
| 2023 | 5 | 54 | 1 | 20.0% |
| 2022 | 2 | 56 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2021 | 4 | 87 | 1 | 25.0% |
| 2020 | 5 | 57 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2019 | 4 | 117 | 1 | 25.0% |
| 2018 | 2 | 40 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2017 | 1 | 47 | 0 | 0.0% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis | Business, Management and Accounting | 15 |
| 2 | Financial Markets and Investment Strategies | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 14 |
| 3 | Insurance and Financial Risk Management | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 14 |
| 4 | Stochastic processes and financial applications | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 13 |
| 5 | Corporate Finance and Governance | Business, Management and Accounting | 9 |

From OpenAlex's own record of the institution (CC0), read again monthly. Works and citations count everything OpenAlex indexes, not only the tracked journals; topics are OpenAlex's classification of those works.

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). NLI Research Institute (Japan). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/nli-research-institute-japan

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {NLI Research Institute (Japan)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/companies/nli-research-institute-japan}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference 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/).