Papers on “abnormal returns”
Research on “abnormal returns” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “abnormal returns” appeared in 1,165 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (807), economics (168) and accounting (60).
- 137 of them were published in 2025, against 104 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Monash University (8), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (8) and University of Liverpool (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (91), International Review of Financial Analysis (31) and International Review of Economics & Finance (28).
- The most-cited of them is “Are institutional investors with multiple blockholdings effective monitors?” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2018), with 417 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 78 | 57 | 67 | 83 | 99 | 68 | 84 | 90 | 95 | 86 |
| Economics | 13 | 14 | 17 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 17 |
| Accounting | 3 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 7 |
| Management | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| AI | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 104 | 93 | 106 | 110 | 131 | 121 | 115 | 128 | 137 | 120 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 91 |
| 2 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 31 |
| 3 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 28 |
| 4 | Economics Letters | 23 |
| 5 | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 22 |
| 6 | Research in International Business and Finance | 20 |
| 7 | Journal of Banking & Finance | 17 |
| 8 | Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | 15 |
| 9 | Journal of Corporate Finance | 14 |
| 10 | The North American Journal of Economics and Finance | 11 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monash University | 8 |
| 2 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 8 |
| 3 | University of Liverpool | 8 |
| 4 | Xiamen University | 8 |
| 5 | Capital University of Economics and Business | 7 |
| 6 | Magadh University | 7 |
| 7 | Nanjing University | 7 |
| 8 | Technische Universität Darmstadt | 7 |
| 9 | Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics | 7 |
| 10 | Centro de Estudos de Economia Aplicada do Atlântico | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 132 |
| 2 | United States | 104 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 56 |
| 4 | Germany | 45 |
| 5 | France | 31 |
| 6 | Australia | 30 |
| 7 | Italy | 29 |
| 8 | India | 23 |
| 9 | Taiwan | 23 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 16 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | stock market reaction | 61 |
| 2 | stock returns | 36 |
| 3 | Chinese stock market | 35 |
| 4 | COVID-19 pandemic | 30 |
| 5 | corporate governance | 28 |
| 6 | ESG ratings | 21 |
| 7 | information asymmetry | 21 |
| 8 | market reaction | 21 |
| 9 | insider trading | 19 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 417 | 4.0 | Are institutional investors with multiple blockholdings effective monitors? | Journal of Financial Economics | 2018-03-20 | Jun‐Koo Kang, Juan Luo, Hyun Seung Na |
| 2 | 384 | 6.2 | Banking sector performance during the COVID-19 crisis | Journal of Banking & Finance | 2021-08-29 | Asli Demirgüç‐Kunt, Álvaro Pedraza, Claudia Ruiz‐Ortega |
| 3 | 377 | 7.3 | The reaction of G20+ stock markets to the Russia–Ukraine conflict “black-swan” event: Evidence from event study approach | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance | 2022-07-22 | Imran Yousaf, Ritesh Jayantibhai Patel, Larisa Yarovaya |
| 4 | 335 | 6.7 | Impact of Russian-Ukraine war on clean energy, conventional energy, and metal markets: Evidence from event study approach | Resources Policy | 2022-08-28 | Muhammad Umar, Yasir Riaz, Imran Yousaf |
| 5 | 305 | 2.9 | Persistence in the cryptocurrency market | Research in International Business and Finance | 2018-02-07 | Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Luis A. Gil‐Alana, Alex Plastun |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “abnormal returns”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/abnormal-returns
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