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title: "Economic policy uncertainty research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “economic policy uncertainty” appeared in 1,446 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (828), economics (496) and management (53)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “economic policy uncertainty” appeared in 1,446 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (828), economics (496) and management (53). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “economic policy uncertainty”

Research on “economic policy uncertainty” 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 “economic policy uncertainty” appeared in 1,446 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (828), economics (496) and management (53).
- 232 of them were published in 2025, against 36 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hunan University (21), Lebanese American University (20) and Central University of Finance and Economics (19).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (125), International Review of Economics & Finance (60) and International Review of Financial Analysis (57).
- The most-cited of them is “COVID-19 pandemic, oil prices, stock market, geopolitical risk and policy uncertainty nexus in the US economy: Fresh evidence from the wavelet-based approach” (International Review of Financial Analysis, 2020), with 1,488 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 17 | 21 | 44 | 72 | 91 | 98 | 126 | 150 | 140 | 69 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 16 | 14 | 21 | 29 | 72 | 56 | 82 | 77 | 76 | 53 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 5 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 7 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 36 | 38 | 69 | 106 | 172 | 169 | 232 | 254 | 232 | 138 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 125 |
| 2 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 60 |
| 3 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 57 |
| 4 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 40 |
| 5 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 38 |
| 6 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 37 |
| 7 | [Pacific-Basin Finance Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pacific-basin-finance-journal.md) | 34 |
| 8 | [The North American Journal of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-north-american-journal-of-economics-and-finance.md) | 34 |
| 9 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 33 |
| 10 | [Economic Change and Restructuring](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-change-and-restructuring.md) | 28 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hunan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hunan-university.md) | 21 |
| 2 | [Lebanese American University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lebanese-american-university.md) | 20 |
| 3 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 19 |
| 4 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 18 |
| 5 | [Southwest Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-jiaotong-university.md) | 18 |
| 6 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 18 |
| 7 | [University of International Business and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-international-business-and-economics.md) | 17 |
| 8 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Zhongnan University of Economics and Law](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhongnan-university-of-economics-and-law.md) | 13 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 477 |
| 2 | United States | 83 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 68 |
| 4 | India | 46 |
| 5 | France | 41 |
| 6 | South Korea | 37 |
| 7 | Australia | 33 |
| 8 | Turkey | 32 |
| 9 | Canada | 29 |
| 10 | Vietnam | 28 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [geopolitical risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/geopolitical-risk.md) | 128 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 96 |
| 3 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 91 |
| 4 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 88 |
| 5 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 63 |
| 6 | climate policy uncertainty | 48 |
| 7 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 42 |
| 8 | [stock market volatility](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/stock-market-volatility.md) | 40 |
| 9 | [oil prices](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/oil-prices.md) | 38 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,488 | 19.2 | [COVID-19 pandemic, oil prices, stock market, geopolitical risk and policy uncertainty nexus in the US economy: Fresh evidence from the wavelet-based approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101496) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2020-05-15 | Arshian Sharif, Chaker Aloui, Larisa Yarovaya |
| 2 | 717 | 8.5 | [Measuring economic policy uncertainty in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2019.101367) | [China Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/china-economic-review.md) | 2019-11-03 | Yun Huang, Paul Luk |
| 3 | 694 | 6.6 | [Does economic policy uncertainty predict the Bitcoin returns? An empirical investigation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2018.01.005) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2018-01-31 | Ender Demir, Giray Gözgör, Chi Keung Marco Lau et al. |
| 4 | 678 | 6.9 | [The effect of economic policy uncertainty on investor information asymmetry and management disclosures](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2018.08.011) | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 2018-08-21 | Venky Nagar, Jordan Schoenfeld, Laura A. Wellman |
| 5 | 630 | 7.4 | [Economic policy uncertainty: A literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeca.2019.e00133) | [The Journal of Economic Asymmetries](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-economic-asymmetries.md) | 2019-09-23 | Saud Asaad Althaqeb, Barrak Ghanim Algharabali |

## Research ideas that follow this keyword

- [Uncertainty indices built by language models](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/llm-built-uncertainty-indices.md)

## Cite this page

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

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
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