Geopolitical Risk index

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Text- and survey-based indices of policy uncertainty, geopolitical risk, investor sentiment and financial stress.

Names searched for: geopolitical risk index, GPR index, Caldara and Iacoviello

Key findings#

From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 215 archived papers mentioned Geopolitical Risk index in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2026 (21).
Geopolitical Risk index was mentioned in 9 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #36 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
By journal category: Finance (5), Economics (3) and Tourism and Hospitality (1).
Most of them appeared in International Review of Economics & Finance (2), Research in International Business and Finance (1) and Portuguese Economic Journal (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Geopolitical Risk index was mentioned in 239 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (120), economics (77) and management (25).
54 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Pretoria (7), Lebanese American University (6) and Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi (5).
The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (20), International Review of Economics & Finance (17) and Energy Economics (14).
The most-cited of them is “Effects of the geopolitical risks on Bitcoin returns and volatility” (Research in International Business and Finance, 2018), with 399 citations.
Papers use Geopolitical Risk index most often with Economic Policy Uncertainty index (143), VIX (60) and S&P 500 (48); it has 54 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

Mentions over 36 months#

Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)
Trend	Nov 23–Oct 24	Nov 24–Oct 25	Nov 25–Oct 26	36 months
	48	53	114	215

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
Finance	1	0	0	2	3	9	24	25	56
Economics	0	1	2	1	1	6	16	20	30
Management	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	5	12
Operations Research	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	2	5
Tourism and Hospitality	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Accounting	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Information Systems	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
AI	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
All categories	1	2	3	4	4	17	49	54	105

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Finance research letters	20
2	International Review of Economics & Finance	17
3	Energy Economics	14
4	Financial Innovation	12
5	Future Business Journal	10
6	Borsa Istanbul Review	9
7	Economics Letters	8
8	Resources Policy	7
9	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money	7
10	International Review of Financial Analysis	7

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	University of Pretoria	7
2	Lebanese American University	6
3	Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi	5
4	Paris School of Business	5
5	Poznań University of Economics and Business	5
6	Bucharest University of Economic Studies	4
7	Copenhagen Business School	4
8	Durham University	4
9	Swansea University	4
10	UCLouvain	4

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	United Kingdom	58
2	China	41
3	United States	26
4	Turkey	23
5	Italy	20
6	France	18
7	Australia	14
8	Germany	14
9	South Africa	10
10	South Korea	9

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	geopolitical risk	107
2	geopolitical risk index	28
3	economic policy uncertainty	23
4	COVID-19 pandemic	21
5	Russian invasion of Ukraine	20
6	climate policy uncertainty	11
7	oil prices	11
8	financial stability	10
9	hedging	10
10	safe-haven assets	10

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	399	4.1	Effects of the geopolitical risks on Bitcoin returns and volatility	Research in International Business and Finance	2018-09-27	Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Ender Demir, Giray Gözgör et al.
2	219	2.6	Does causality between geopolitical risk, tourism and economic growth matter? Evidence from Turkey	Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management	2019-09-11	Seyi Saint Akadırı, Kayode Kolawole Eluwole, Ada Chigozie Akadiri et al.
3	154	2.1	The GOLD market as a safe haven against the stock market uncertainty: Evidence from geopolitical risk	Resources Policy	2020-10-10	Mohamed Bilel Triki, Abderrazek Ben Maatoug
4	141	2.1	Volatility transmission and spillover dynamics across financial markets: the role of geopolitical risk	Annals of Operations Research	2021-05-03	Ahmed H. Elsayed, Mohamad Husam Helmi
5	137	3.0	How Do Political Tensions and Geopolitical Risks Impact Oil Prices?	Energy Economics	2023-01-01	Valérie Mignon, Jamel Saadaoui

Archive counts by publication year: a paper counts when its title, abstract or keywords name the dataset, or when OpenAlex's full-text search finds it there (searched for the last 30 days' papers and, by a pass over the past years, for older ones). Names added to the list later are looked for in older papers as the archive is read again.

Used together with#

Papers use Geopolitical Risk index most often with Economic Policy Uncertainty index (143), VIX (60) and S&P 500 (48); it has 54 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat. The whole network →

What papers use Geopolitical Risk index together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used with	Type	Papers using both	Lift
Economic Policy Uncertainty index	Dataset	143	12.0
VIX	Dataset	60	12.4
S&P 500	Dataset	48	4.2
WTI crude oil	Dataset	38	11.7
Trade Policy Uncertainty index	Dataset	36	23.1
Climate Policy Uncertainty index	Dataset	30	10.8
Brent crude oil	Dataset	25	11.4
Marketization index (Fan Gang)	Dataset	21	6.3
Refinitiv Datastream	Dataset	19	10.2
OVX (crude oil volatility index)	Dataset	17	39.6
Twitter / X	Dataset	17	0.8
World Development Indicators (World Bank)	Dataset	17	3.6

Papers mentioning Geopolitical Risk index in the last 30 days, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-24	Crypto to stablecoins: Digital money and exchange-rate volatility	Research in International Business and Finance	Joanna Darwiche, Moustapha Badran, Mohamed Awada et al.	Saint Joseph University; Université de Montpellier; Montpellier Recherche en Economie; …
2026-10-15	Geopolitical risk spillovers among GCC stock markets, non-renewable energy, and gold: evidence from a quantile connectedness approach	Portuguese Economic Journal	Nidhal Mgadmi, Fekria Belhouichet, Ştefan Cristian Gherghina et al.	University of Sfax; Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax; Bucharest University of Economic Studies; …
2026-10-14	Government-sourced categorical economic policy uncertainty	International Review of Economics & Finance	Khanh Cong Gia Hoang, Linh Pham, Thanh Ngo et al.
2026-10-13	The geopoliticization of Europe's energy transition: Geopolitical risk and selective transition adjustment across EU member states	Energy Policy	Shufeng Cong, Lee Chin, Ilhom Alimardonov et al.	University of Macau; Universiti Putra Malaysia; Tashkent State University of Economics; …
2026-10-08	Is the relationship between climate policy uncertainty and cash holding nonlinear?	The North American Journal of Economics and Finance	Augustinos I. Dimitras, Efstathios Magerakis, George Peppas	Hellenic Open University
2026-10-07	Geopolitical risk and the spatial convergence of renewable energy consumption: Evidence from 1996 to 2026	International Review of Economics & Finance	Liu He, 邹佰峰, Xing Chiang	Northeast Agricultural University; Northeast Forestry University; City University of Macau
2026-10-07	Testing for dominance in risk transmission mechanisms towards the European energy market	Finance research letters	Jone Ascorbebeitia, Eva Ferreira, Susan Orbe	University of the Basque Country
2026-10-07	Geopolitical risk and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from the U.S. hospitality industry	Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management	Junyoup Lee, Jae-Hyun Cho, Hail Jung et al.	Daegu University; Dongshin University; Seoul National University of Science and Technology
2026-10-06	Technology trade under uncertainty: sectoral heterogeneity across the US, China, and Europe	Economic Change and Restructuring	Ewa Cieślik, Anna Zamojska	Poznań University of Economics and Business; University of Gdańsk

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Geopolitical Risk index. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/geopolitical-risk-index

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