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title: "Asymptotic distribution research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “asymptotic distribution” appeared in 648 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (456), economics (140) and operations research (34)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “asymptotic distribution” appeared in 648 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (456), economics (140) and operations research (34). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “asymptotic distribution”

Research on “asymptotic distribution” 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “asymptotic distribution” appeared in 648 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (456), economics (140) and operations research (34).
- 79 of them were published in 2025, against 73 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Peking University (10), Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (9) and Northeast Normal University (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Econometrics (36), Journal of Multivariate Analysis (25) and Statistical Papers (25).
- The most-cited of them is “Feasible generalized least squares for panel data with cross-sectional and serial correlations” (Empirical Economics, 2020), with 322 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 47 | 45 | 40 | 47 | 40 | 52 | 38 | 42 | 56 | 49 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 23 | 12 | 12 | 26 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 16 | 5 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 73 | 62 | 57 | 78 | 57 | 67 | 54 | 62 | 79 | 59 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 36 |
| 2 | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | 25 |
| 3 | [Statistical Papers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-papers.md) | 25 |
| 4 | [Statistics & Probability Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-probability-letters.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-statistical-planning-and-inference.md) | 17 |
| 6 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Journal of the Korean Statistical Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-korean-statistical-society.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Metrika](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/metrika.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics-data-analysis.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Econometrics and Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/econometrics-and-statistics.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [Shanghai University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Northeast Normal University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northeast-normal-university.md) | 8 |
| 4 | Anhui Polytechnic University | 6 |
| 5 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Anhui University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/anhui-university.md) | 4 |
| 8 | [Capital University of Economics and Business](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/capital-university-of-economics-and-business.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-university-of-hong-kong-shenzhen.md) | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 94 |
| 2 | United States | 53 |
| 3 | Spain | 17 |
| 4 | India | 15 |
| 5 | Canada | 14 |
| 6 | Germany | 13 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 11 |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 10 |
| 9 | Italy | 9 |
| 10 | Japan | 8 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [consistency](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/consistency.md) | 25 |
| 2 | [convergence rate](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convergence-rate.md) | 20 |
| 3 | finite sample properties | 16 |
| 4 | hypothesis testing | 14 |
| 5 | statistical power | 12 |
| 6 | change point detection | 10 |
| 7 | nonparametric tests | 10 |
| 8 | [goodness-of-fit tests](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/goodness-of-fit-tests.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [stock returns](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/stock-returns.md) | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 322 | 4.5 | [Feasible generalized least squares for panel data with cross-sectional and serial correlations](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-020-01977-2) | [Empirical Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/empirical-economics.md) | 2020-11-09 | Jushan Bai, Sung Hoon Choi, Yuan Liao |
| 2 | 180 | 1.5 | [On time-varying factor models: Estimation and testing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2016.12.004) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2017-02-20 | Liangjun Su, Xia Wang |
| 3 | 128 | 1.1 | [Spatial dynamic panel data models with interactive fixed effects](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2016.12.001) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2017-01-11 | Wei Shi, Lung‐fei Lee |
| 4 | 87 | 0.7 | [Robust and sparse estimators for linear regression models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2017.02.002) | [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics-data-analysis.md) | 2017-02-16 | Ezequiel Smucler, Vı́ctor J. Yohai |
| 5 | 81 | 0.9 | [Optimal subsampling for softmax regression](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-018-01068-6) | [Statistical Papers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-papers.md) | 2018-12-18 | Yaqiong Yao, HaiYing Wang |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “asymptotic distribution”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/asymptotic-distribution

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “asymptotic distribution”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/asymptotic-distribution}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  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/).