Papers on “cryptocurrency”
Research on “cryptocurrency” 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 “cryptocurrency” appeared in 799 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (494), economics (168) and management (51).
- 102 of them were published in 2025, against 11 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lebanese American University (20), Sunway University (14) and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (46), International Review of Economics & Finance (34) and Research in International Business and Finance (31).
- The most-cited of them is “Exploring the Dynamic Relationships between Cryptocurrencies and Other Financial Assets” (Economics Letters, 2017), with 1,342 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 6 | 22 | 37 | 44 | 66 | 62 | 72 | 70 | 69 | 46 |
| Economics | 4 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 25 | 21 | 27 | 23 | 20 | 16 |
| Management | 0 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| AI | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 11 | 35 | 60 | 80 | 106 | 96 | 119 | 116 | 102 | 74 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 46 |
| 2 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 34 |
| 3 | Research in International Business and Finance | 31 |
| 4 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 28 |
| 5 | Financial Innovation | 28 |
| 6 | The North American Journal of Economics and Finance | 18 |
| 7 | Computational Economics | 14 |
| 8 | Resources Policy | 13 |
| 9 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 9 |
| 10 | Energy Economics | 9 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lebanese American University | 20 |
| 2 | Sunway University | 14 |
| 3 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 12 |
| 4 | University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City | 12 |
| 5 | United Arab Emirates University | 11 |
| 6 | Abu Dhabi University | 7 |
| 7 | University of Lisbon | 7 |
| 8 | University of Oxford | 7 |
| 9 | University of Southampton | 7 |
| 10 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 81 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 59 |
| 3 | United States | 52 |
| 4 | India | 37 |
| 5 | France | 33 |
| 6 | Malaysia | 29 |
| 7 | Tunisia | 26 |
| 8 | Turkey | 26 |
| 9 | Italy | 24 |
| 10 | Lebanon | 23 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bitcoin | 146 |
| 2 | Ethereum | 69 |
| 3 | COVID-19 pandemic | 67 |
| 4 | gold | 53 |
| 5 | hedging | 48 |
| 6 | Russian invasion of Ukraine | 46 |
| 7 | portfolio diversification | 45 |
| 8 | safe-haven assets | 37 |
| 9 | blockchain | 35 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,342 | 11.4 | Exploring the Dynamic Relationships between Cryptocurrencies and Other Financial Assets | Economics Letters | 2017-01-01 | Shaen Corbet, Andrew Meegan, Charles James Larkin et al. |
| 2 | 1,208 | 14.0 | Fintech and banking: What do we know? | Journal of Financial Intermediation | 2019-08-21 | Anjan V. Thakor |
| 3 | 1,172 | 12.0 | RETRACTED: Cryptocurrencies as a financial asset: A systematic analysis | International Review of Financial Analysis | 2018-09-12 | Shaen Corbet, Brian M. Lucey, Andrew Urquhart et al. |
| 4 | 889 | 9.2 | Blockchain technology for enhancing supply chain resilience | Business Horizons | 2018-10-25 | Hokey Min |
| 5 | 880 | 11.3 | The contagion effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from gold and cryptocurrencies | Finance research letters | 2020-05-14 | Shaen Corbet, Charles James Larkin, Brian M. Lucey |
Research ideas that follow this keyword#
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Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “cryptocurrency”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cryptocurrency
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