VIX
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Option prices and implied volatilities, and volatility indices such as the VIX.
Key findings#
- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 627 archived papers mentioned VIX in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (39).
- VIX was mentioned in 18 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #9 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Finance (13), Economics (3), Operations Research (1) and Statistics (1).
- Most of them appeared in International Review of Economics & Finance (3), Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (1) and Digital Finance (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), VIX was mentioned in 948 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (604), economics (239) and operations research (39).
- 177 of them were published in 2025, against 29 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Pusan National University (16), Copenhagen Business School (12) and Lebanese American University (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (55), Financial Innovation (45) and International Review of Economics & Finance (40).
- The most-cited of them is “Does Bitcoin hedge global uncertainty? Evidence from wavelet-based quantile-in-quantile regressions” (Finance research letters, 2017), with 817 citations.
- Papers use VIX most often with S&P 500 (328), Economic Policy Uncertainty index (256) and Marketization index (Fan Gang) (114); it has 88 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.
Mentions over 36 months#
| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189 | 178 | 260 | 627 |
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 21 | 23 | 34 | 28 | 35 | 27 | 56 | 122 | 109 | 149 |
| Economics | 8 | 6 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 33 | 46 | 43 | 51 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 11 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 12 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 29 | 31 | 52 | 47 | 48 | 44 | 96 | 194 | 177 | 230 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 55 |
| 2 | Financial Innovation | 45 |
| 3 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 40 |
| 4 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 31 |
| 5 | Energy Economics | 28 |
| 6 | The North American Journal of Economics and Finance | 25 |
| 7 | Research in International Business and Finance | 24 |
| 8 | Computational Economics | 22 |
| 9 | Journal of International Money and Finance | 18 |
| 10 | Borsa Istanbul Review | 16 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pusan National University | 16 |
| 2 | Copenhagen Business School | 12 |
| 3 | Lebanese American University | 12 |
| 4 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 12 |
| 5 | University of Lisbon | 9 |
| 6 | University of Pretoria | 9 |
| 7 | Brunel University of London | 8 |
| 8 | Durham University | 8 |
| 9 | Istanbul University | 8 |
| 10 | University of Aberdeen | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 148 |
| 2 | China | 111 |
| 3 | United States | 94 |
| 4 | Turkey | 63 |
| 5 | Italy | 54 |
| 6 | France | 47 |
| 7 | Germany | 46 |
| 8 | Australia | 37 |
| 9 | South Korea | 33 |
| 10 | Spain | 31 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | VIX | 155 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 87 |
| 3 | geopolitical risk | 61 |
| 4 | economic policy uncertainty | 51 |
| 5 | volatility spillovers | 47 |
| 6 | investor sentiment | 45 |
| 7 | Bitcoin | 41 |
| 8 | Russian invasion of Ukraine | 39 |
| 9 | emerging markets | 39 |
| 10 | systemic risk | 38 |
Most-cited papers#
Used together with#
| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| S&P 500 | Dataset | 328 | 6.4 |
| Economic Policy Uncertainty index | Dataset | 256 | 4.8 |
| Marketization index (Fan Gang) | Dataset | 114 | 7.4 |
| WTI crude oil | Dataset | 78 | 5.2 |
| Twitter / X | Dataset | 66 | 0.8 |
| Geopolitical Risk index | Dataset | 60 | 11.0 |
| Euro Stoxx / DAX | Dataset | 52 | 5.5 |
| Google Trends | Dataset | 51 | 3.6 |
| Refinitiv Datastream | Dataset | 51 | 6.0 |
| OVX (crude oil volatility index) | Dataset | 48 | 24.7 |
| Brent crude oil | Dataset | 43 | 4.3 |
| Climate Policy Uncertainty index | Dataset | 39 | 3.1 |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | LLM-derived global risk metrics and cross-border capital flows: A pre-registered report | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | Qin Gou, Xingshen Li, Tiantian Tang et al. | Central University of Finance and Economics; Capital University of Economics and Business |
| 2026-10-27 | Macro-financial conditions and volatility connectedness across industrial and precious metal markets | International Review of Economics & Finance | Amelie Schischke, Andreas Rathgeber | University of Augsburg |
| 2026-10-26 | Regime-dependent bitcoin volatility forecasting under alternative information sets: evidence from econometric, deep learning, and hybrid models | Digital Finance | Ahmed Soliman Wafi, Sherif Ismail El-Halaby, Sameh Abd-el Maksoud Mohamed Aboul-Dahab | Cairo University; EU Business School, Munich; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; … |
| 2026-10-24 | Programmable spreads: Indicators of financial conditions? | Journal of Financial Stability | Kwamie Dunbar, Eugene Yeboah, Victor Zhu | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| 2026-10-24 | Optimal Portfolio Allocation with Gromov-Wasserstein Barycenter | Computational Economics | Alessandro Spelta, Nicoló Pecora, Mario Maggi | University of Pavia; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| 2026-10-23 | Sentiment-Driven Forecasting of Fractional Trading Activity Using LSTM Networks | Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability | Christina Erlwein‐Sayer, Sakir Kepezkaya, Natalie Packham et al. | HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences; Berlin School of Economics and Law; Bucharest University of Economic Studies |
| 2026-10-22 | To what extent does weather influence stock market dynamics | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance | Yiqi Wang, Ting Liu, Shaosong Wang | Macau University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-17 | The resilience of sentiment: VIX-led connectedness and monetary decoupling in a high-inflation regime | Journal of Economics and Finance | Sayed Akif Hussain, Syed Atif Hussain, Syed Atif Hussain et al. | Shihezi University; Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications; National University of Sciences and Technology |
| 2026-10-17 | U.S.-China tensions and systemic risk transmission across asset classes: New evidence from a TVP-VAR connectedness framework | Emerging Markets Review | David Y. Aharon, Martin M. Bojaj, Arie Jacobi | Ono Academic College; Peres Academic Center |
| 2026-10-16 | Resilient or unstable? Real rate regimes in emerging markets | Empirical Economics | Türker BATMAZ, Alper Gormus, Elif Hilal Nazlıoğlu | Balıkesir University; Coastal Carolina University; Pamukkale University |
| 2026-10-16 | The magnificent seven and bitcoin: Time-varying predictability, dynamic conditional correlation, and multi-scale co-movement | International Review of Economics & Finance | Fuzuli Aliyev, Neman Eylasov, Nijat Gasim | ADA University; Baku Engineering University; National Observatory on Labour Market and Social Protection Affairs; … |
| 2026-10-13 | Climate disclosure and risk premium in the European bond market | Eurasian economic review : | Matteo Mazzarano, Gianni Guastella, Stefano Pareglio et al. | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Athens University of Economics and Business; University of Bologna; … |
| 2026-10-12 | Beyond words: FOMC text, voice, and facial tone in crypto markets | International Review of Financial Analysis | Yhlas Sovbetov | Istanbul Aydın University |
| 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 | 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 |
| 2026-10-06 | Is bitcoin a hedge against central banking? Evidence from AI-driven monetary policy expectations | Journal of International Money and Finance | Maxime L. D. Nicolas, François Sicard, Marion Labouré et al. | University College London; Deutsche Bank (United Kingdom) |
| 2026-10-06 | Sentiment interactions in financial markets: Conditional volatility, feedback, and shock propagation | International Review of Economics & Finance | Md Tanvir Hasan | University of Dhaka; University of Glasgow |
| 2026-10-06 | Bayesian modelling of clustered extreme events using a nonparametric Hawkes process | Statistics and Computing | Gordon J. Ross, Dean Markwick | University of Edinburgh; University College London |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). VIX. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/vix
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {VIX},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/vix}},
urldate = {2026-11-04},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}