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title: "Financial crisis research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “financial crisis” appeared in 1,698 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (893), economics (622) and management (62)."
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# Papers on “financial crisis”

[Browse research topics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/directory/page/3.md)

Research on “financial crisis” 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 “financial crisis” appeared in 1,698 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (893), economics (622) and management (62).
- 113 of them were published in 2025, against 220 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lebanese American University (10), Centre for Economic Policy Research (7) and Hunan University (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (34), International Review of Financial Analysis (31) and International Review of Economics & Finance (31).
- The most-cited of them is “The role of ESG performance during times of financial crisis: Evidence from COVID-19 in China” (Finance research letters, 2020), with 1,688 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) | 109 | 124 | 103 | 93 | 104 | 91 | 72 | 80 | 65 | 52 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 80 | 71 | 85 | 65 | 63 | 60 | 61 | 58 | 41 | 38 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 9 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 4 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 220 | 215 | 210 | 174 | 183 | 171 | 154 | 156 | 113 | 102 |

## 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) | 34 |
| 2 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 31 |
| 3 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 31 |
| 4 | [The North American Journal of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-north-american-journal-of-economics-and-finance.md) | 21 |
| 5 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 17 |
| 6 | [Journal of International Money and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-money-and-finance.md) | 16 |
| 7 | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | 16 |
| 8 | [The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-quarterly-review-of-economics-and-finance.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 12 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Lebanese American University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lebanese-american-university.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 7 |
| 3 | [Hunan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hunan-university.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [Southwest Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-jiaotong-university.md) | 7 |
| 6 | Corvinus University of Budapest | 6 |
| 7 | National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University | 6 |
| 8 | [The University of Queensland](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-queensland.md) | 6 |
| 9 | Bank of Canada | 5 |
| 10 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 116 |
| 2 | China | 112 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 70 |
| 4 | France | 46 |
| 5 | Italy | 30 |
| 6 | Australia | 28 |
| 7 | Germany | 28 |
| 8 | India | 25 |
| 9 | Vietnam | 20 |
| 10 | South Korea | 19 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 83 |
| 2 | [systemic risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/systemic-risk.md) | 32 |
| 3 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 31 |
| 4 | [financial stability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-stability.md) | 28 |
| 5 | [2008 financial crisis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/2008-financial-crisis.md) | 26 |
| 6 | [volatility spillovers](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/volatility-spillovers.md) | 25 |
| 7 | [monetary policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/monetary-policy.md) | 21 |
| 8 | [Russian invasion of Ukraine](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/russian-invasion-of-ukraine.md) | 20 |
| 9 | macroprudential policy | 17 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,688 | 22.6 | [The role of ESG performance during times of financial crisis: Evidence from COVID-19 in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101716) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2020-08-13 | David C. Broadstock, Kalok Chan, Louis T. W. Cheng et al. |
| 2 | 593 | 7.2 | [Rebirth of Industrial Policy and an Agenda for the Twenty-First Century](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10842-019-00322-3) | [Journal of Industry Competition and Trade](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-industry-competition-and-trade.md) | 2020-01-06 | Karl Aiginger, Dani Rodrik |
| 3 | 532 | 6.9 | [Does corporate social responsibility reduce financial distress risk?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2020.05.012) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 2020-05-20 | Sabri Boubaker, Alexis Cellier, Riadh Manita et al. |
| 4 | 414 | 9.2 | [Assessing oil price volatility co-movement with stock market volatility through quantile regression approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.103375) | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 2023-02-10 | Fang Liu, Muhammad Umair, Junjun Gao |
| 5 | 410 | 3.9 | [Bitcoin as a Safe Haven: Is It Even Worth Considering?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2018.11.002) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2018-01-01 | Lee A. Smales, Dirk G. Baur |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “financial crisis”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-crisis

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