Papers on “geopolitical risk”
Research on “geopolitical risk” 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.
← Top research keywords · Keyword trends
Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “geopolitical risk” appeared in 1,211 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (575), finance (522) and management (62).
- 328 of them were published in 2025, against 7 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lebanese American University (37), Paris School of Business (20) and Central South University (19).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (139), Resources Policy (126) and Energy Economics (110).
- 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#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 4 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 13 | 36 | 130 | 91 | 142 | 123 |
| Finance | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 18 | 40 | 68 | 98 | 154 | 121 |
| Management | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 16 | 18 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 7 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 7 | 11 | 20 | 33 | 35 | 81 | 209 | 210 | 328 | 277 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 139 |
| 2 | Resources Policy | 126 |
| 3 | Energy Economics | 110 |
| 4 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 46 |
| 5 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 44 |
| 6 | Energy Policy | 40 |
| 7 | Research in International Business and Finance | 31 |
| 8 | Economics Letters | 27 |
| 9 | The North American Journal of Economics and Finance | 26 |
| 10 | Borsa Istanbul Review | 20 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lebanese American University | 37 |
| 2 | Paris School of Business | 20 |
| 3 | Central South University | 19 |
| 4 | Qingdao University | 18 |
| 5 | United Arab Emirates University | 18 |
| 6 | Zhengzhou University | 18 |
| 7 | University of International Business and Economics | 16 |
| 8 | Ural Federal University | 16 |
| 9 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 14 |
| 10 | Xiamen University | 13 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 415 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 110 |
| 3 | United States | 98 |
| 4 | France | 88 |
| 5 | Turkey | 72 |
| 6 | India | 64 |
| 7 | South Korea | 54 |
| 8 | Australia | 49 |
| 9 | Italy | 46 |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia | 41 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian invasion of Ukraine | 171 |
| 2 | economic policy uncertainty | 128 |
| 3 | COVID-19 pandemic | 99 |
| 4 | China | 67 |
| 5 | energy security | 67 |
| 6 | oil prices | 64 |
| 7 | emerging markets | 58 |
| 8 | volatility spillovers | 49 |
| 9 | energy transition | 48 |
Most-cited papers#
Research ideas that follow this keyword#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “geopolitical risk”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/geopolitical-risk
@misc{scholar4ai-keywords-geopolitical-risk,
author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Papers on “geopolitical risk”},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/geopolitical-risk}},
urldate = {2026-11-03},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}