Papers on “investor sentiment”
Research on “investor sentiment” 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 “investor sentiment” appeared in 1,292 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (957), economics (207) and management (39).
- 191 of them were published in 2025, against 56 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Central University of Finance and Economics (16), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (16) and Hunan University (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (100), International Review of Financial Analysis (59) and International Review of Economics & Finance (57).
- The most-cited of them is “Manager sentiment and stock returns” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2018), with 734 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 44 | 53 | 64 | 76 | 85 | 104 | 118 | 158 | 141 | 114 |
| Economics | 10 | 11 | 14 | 21 | 18 | 26 | 23 | 30 | 30 | 24 |
| Management | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| AI | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 1 |
| Accounting | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Marketing | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 56 | 71 | 86 | 109 | 118 | 141 | 158 | 210 | 191 | 152 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 100 |
| 2 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 59 |
| 3 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 57 |
| 4 | Research in International Business and Finance | 46 |
| 5 | The North American Journal of Economics and Finance | 39 |
| 6 | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 31 |
| 7 | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance | 30 |
| 8 | Energy Economics | 18 |
| 9 | Journal of Banking & Finance | 18 |
| 10 | Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | 16 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 16 |
| 2 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 16 |
| 3 | Hunan University | 15 |
| 4 | Xiamen University | 15 |
| 5 | Nanjing University of Science and Technology | 12 |
| 6 | Nankai University | 12 |
| 7 | Shandong University | 11 |
| 8 | Tianjin University | 11 |
| 9 | Shenzhen University | 10 |
| 10 | Sungkyunkwan University | 10 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 320 |
| 2 | United States | 97 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 70 |
| 4 | Australia | 34 |
| 5 | France | 34 |
| 6 | South Korea | 33 |
| 7 | India | 29 |
| 8 | Italy | 29 |
| 9 | Turkey | 26 |
| 10 | Taiwan | 25 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | stock returns | 83 |
| 2 | Chinese stock market | 74 |
| 3 | COVID-19 pandemic | 68 |
| 4 | behavioral finance | 61 |
| 5 | Chinese listed companies | 39 |
| 6 | retail investors | 37 |
| 7 | investor attention | 36 |
| 8 | cryptocurrency market | 35 |
| 9 | Bitcoin | 33 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 734 | 7.6 | Manager sentiment and stock returns | Journal of Financial Economics | 2018-10-12 | Fuwei Jiang, Joshua A. Lee, Xiumin Martin et al. |
| 2 | 505 | 6.2 | Deaths, Panic, Lockdowns and US Equity Markets: The Case of COVID-19 Pandemic | Finance research letters | 2020-01-01 | Ahmed S. Baig, Hassan Anjum Butt, Omair Haroon et al. |
| 3 | 441 | 3.9 | Intraday online investor sentiment and return patterns in the U.S. stock market | Journal of Banking & Finance | 2017-07-12 | Thomas Renault |
| 4 | 436 | 5.1 | Stock closing price prediction based on sentiment analysis and LSTM | Neural Computing and Applications | 2019-09-19 | Zhigang Jin, Yang Yang, Yuhong Liu |
| 5 | 390 | 3.7 | Big Data: Deep Learning for financial sentiment analysis | Journal Of Big Data | 2018-01-25 | Sahar Sohangir, Dingding Wang, Anna Pomeranets et al. |
Research ideas that follow this keyword#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “investor sentiment”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/investor-sentiment
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