Papers on “green bonds”
Research on “green bonds” 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 “green bonds” appeared in 647 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (372), economics (215) and management (42).
- 166 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lebanese American University (23), Tunis El Manar University (16) and Qingdao University (13).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (60), International Review of Economics & Finance (43) and Energy Economics (42).
- The most-cited of them is “The effect of pro-environmental preferences on bond prices: Evidence from green bonds” (Journal of Banking & Finance, 2018), with 1,378 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 42 | 46 | 73 | 112 | 65 |
| Economics | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 37 | 42 | 45 | 42 | 19 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 7 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 1 | 7 | 9 | 21 | 35 | 90 | 94 | 129 | 166 | 95 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 60 |
| 2 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 43 |
| 3 | Energy Economics | 42 |
| 4 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 35 |
| 5 | Research in International Business and Finance | 32 |
| 6 | Resources Policy | 26 |
| 7 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 21 |
| 8 | The North American Journal of Economics and Finance | 21 |
| 9 | Financial Innovation | 14 |
| 10 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 11 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lebanese American University | 23 |
| 2 | Tunis El Manar University | 16 |
| 3 | Qingdao University | 13 |
| 4 | Pusan National University | 12 |
| 5 | Sultan Qaboos University | 12 |
| 6 | Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya | 10 |
| 7 | Swansea University | 10 |
| 8 | Central South University | 9 |
| 9 | University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City | 8 |
| 10 | University of Ghana | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 225 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 52 |
| 3 | Italy | 41 |
| 4 | France | 36 |
| 5 | India | 32 |
| 6 | United States | 30 |
| 7 | Turkey | 29 |
| 8 | South Korea | 26 |
| 9 | Lebanon | 24 |
| 10 | Tunisia | 23 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | green finance | 146 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 77 |
| 3 | China | 51 |
| 4 | sustainable finance | 50 |
| 5 | portfolio diversification | 40 |
| 6 | hedging | 38 |
| 7 | spillover effects | 36 |
| 8 | Russian invasion of Ukraine | 35 |
| 9 | geopolitical risk | 30 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,378 | 14.3 | The effect of pro-environmental preferences on bond prices: Evidence from green bonds | Journal of Banking & Finance | 2018-10-25 | Olivier David Zerbib |
| 2 | 1,159 | 10.9 | Do Shareholders Benefit from Green Bonds? | Journal of Corporate Finance | 2018-01-01 | Dragon Yongjun Tang, Yupu Zhang |
| 3 | 1,133 | 22.3 | Dissecting green returns | Journal of Financial Economics | 2022-08-12 | Ľuboš Pástor, Robert F. Stambaugh, Lucian A. Taylor |
| 4 | 772 | 7.6 | Green bond and financial markets: Co-movement, diversification and price spillover effects | Energy Economics | 2018-05-29 | Juan C. Reboredo |
| 5 | 562 | 6.0 | Where's the Greenium? | Journal of Accounting and Economics | 2019-01-01 | David F. Larcker, Edward M. Watts |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “green bonds”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/green-bonds
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