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title: "Geopolitical risk research: papers and trends"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# 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.

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

## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 4 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 13 | 36 | 130 | 91 | 142 | 123 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 18 | 40 | 68 | 98 | 154 | 121 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 16 | 18 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 7 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 139 |
| 2 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 126 |
| 3 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 110 |
| 4 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 46 |
| 5 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 44 |
| 6 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 40 |
| 7 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 31 |
| 8 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 27 |
| 9 | [The North American Journal of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-north-american-journal-of-economics-and-finance.md) | 26 |
| 10 | [Borsa Istanbul Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/borsa-istanbul-review.md) | 20 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Lebanese American University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lebanese-american-university.md) | 37 |
| 2 | Paris School of Business | 20 |
| 3 | [Central South University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-south-university.md) | 19 |
| 4 | [Qingdao University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/qingdao-university.md) | 18 |
| 5 | United Arab Emirates University | 18 |
| 6 | [Zhengzhou University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhengzhou-university.md) | 18 |
| 7 | [University of International Business and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-international-business-and-economics.md) | 16 |
| 8 | Ural Federal University | 16 |
| 9 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 14 |
| 10 | [Xiamen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xiamen-university.md) | 13 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Russian invasion of Ukraine](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/russian-invasion-of-ukraine.md) | 171 |
| 2 | [economic policy uncertainty](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-policy-uncertainty.md) | 128 |
| 3 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 99 |
| 4 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 67 |
| 5 | energy security | 67 |
| 6 | [oil prices](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/oil-prices.md) | 64 |
| 7 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 58 |
| 8 | [volatility spillovers](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/volatility-spillovers.md) | 49 |
| 9 | [energy transition](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-transition.md) | 48 |

## 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 | 692 | 12.4 | [The impact of the FinTech revolution on the future of banking: Opportunities and risks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102103) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2022-03-09 | Victor Murinde, Efthymios Rizopoulos, Markos Zachariadis |
| 3 | 485 | 4.6 | [Geopolitical risks and stock market dynamics of the BRICS](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2017.05.008) | [Economic Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-systems.md) | 2018-02-21 | Mehmet Balcılar, Matteo Bonato, Rıza Demirer et al. |
| 4 | 432 | 8.1 | [The impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the connectedness of financial markets](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.102976) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2022-05-16 | Zaghum Umar, Onur Polat, Sun‐Yong Choi et al. |
| 5 | 413 | 3.7 | [Geopolitical risks and the oil-stock nexus over 1899–2016](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2017.07.017) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2017-08-01 | Nikolaos Antonakakis, Rangan Gupta, Christos Kollias et al. |

## Research ideas that follow this keyword

- [Geopolitical risk and the re-routing of supply chains](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/geopolitical-risk-and-supply-chain-rerouting.md)

## 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

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  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}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).