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title: "Hedging research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “hedging” appeared in 967 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (543), economics (310) and operations research (58)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “hedging” appeared in 967 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (543), economics (310) and operations research (58). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “hedging”

Research on “hedging” 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 “hedging” appeared in 967 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (543), economics (310) and operations research (58).
- 124 of them were published in 2025, against 43 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lebanese American University (28), Pusan National University (18) and Tunis El Manar University (16).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Economics (42), Finance research letters (41) and The North American Journal of Economics and Finance (34).
- The most-cited of them is “Bitcoin is not the New Gold – A comparison of volatility, correlation, and portfolio performance” (International Review of Financial Analysis, 2018), with 832 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) | 24 | 42 | 39 | 34 | 62 | 49 | 81 | 90 | 75 | 47 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 12 | 17 | 23 | 36 | 29 | 47 | 41 | 46 | 38 | 21 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 4 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 43 | 65 | 71 | 93 | 99 | 108 | 131 | 151 | 124 | 82 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 42 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 41 |
| 3 | [The North American Journal of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-north-american-journal-of-economics-and-finance.md) | 34 |
| 4 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 31 |
| 5 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 27 |
| 6 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 26 |
| 7 | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | 23 |
| 8 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 18 |
| 9 | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | 16 |
| 10 | [Journal of commodity markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-commodity-markets.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Lebanese American University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lebanese-american-university.md) | 28 |
| 2 | Pusan National University | 18 |
| 3 | Tunis El Manar University | 16 |
| 4 | Sultan Qaboos University | 14 |
| 5 | Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya | 12 |
| 6 | [University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-economics-ho-chi-minh-city.md) | 12 |
| 7 | United Arab Emirates University | 10 |
| 8 | University of Jordan | 9 |
| 9 | [University of Lisbon](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-lisbon.md) | 9 |
| 10 | University of Sousse | 9 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 162 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 61 |
| 3 | United States | 60 |
| 4 | Tunisia | 42 |
| 5 | Pakistan | 37 |
| 6 | France | 34 |
| 7 | South Korea | 34 |
| 8 | India | 33 |
| 9 | Lebanon | 30 |
| 10 | Turkey | 29 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 103 |
| 2 | [portfolio diversification](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/portfolio-diversification.md) | 91 |
| 3 | [Bitcoin](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bitcoin.md) | 75 |
| 4 | gold | 70 |
| 5 | [Russian invasion of Ukraine](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/russian-invasion-of-ukraine.md) | 59 |
| 6 | safe-haven assets | 59 |
| 7 | [cryptocurrency](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cryptocurrency.md) | 48 |
| 8 | [volatility spillovers](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/volatility-spillovers.md) | 48 |
| 9 | [geopolitical risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/geopolitical-risk.md) | 45 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 832 | 8.3 | [Bitcoin is not the New Gold – A comparison of volatility, correlation, and portfolio performance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2018.07.010) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2018-07-06 | Tony Klein, Hien Pham Thu, Thomas Walther |
| 2 | 817 | 7.0 | [Does Bitcoin hedge global uncertainty? Evidence from wavelet-based quantile-in-quantile regressions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2017.02.009) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2017-02-07 | Elie I. Bouri, Rangan Gupta, Aviral Kumar Tiwari et al. |
| 3 | 552 | 5.2 | [Is Bitcoin a Hedge or Safe-Haven for Currencies? An Intraday Analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2019.02.009) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2018-01-01 | Andrew Urquhart, Hanxiong Zhang |
| 4 | 526 | 5.3 | [Is Bitcoin a hedge, a safe haven or a diversifier for oil price movements? A comparison with gold](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2018.07.007) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2018-07-30 | Refk Selmi, Walid Mensi, Shawkat M. Hammoudeh et al. |
| 5 | 526 | 6.4 | [Is Gold a Hedge or a Safe-Haven Asset in the COVID–19 Crisis?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2021.105588) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 2020-01-01 | Md Akhtaruzzaman, Sabri Boubaker, Brian M. Lucey et al. |

## Cite this page

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

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@misc{scholar4ai-keywords-hedging,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “hedging”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/hedging}},
  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/).