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title: "Oil prices research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “oil prices” appeared in 1,313 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (891), finance (339) and operations research (36)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “oil prices” appeared in 1,313 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (891), finance (339) and operations research (36). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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---

# Papers on “oil prices”

Research on “oil prices” 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 “oil prices” appeared in 1,313 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (891), finance (339) and operations research (36).
- 108 of them were published in 2025, against 106 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lebanese American University (18), Qingdao University (15) and Tunis El Manar University (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Economics (89), Resources Policy (89) and International Review of Economics & Finance (21).
- The most-cited of them is “Time and frequency dynamics of connectedness between renewable energy stocks and crude oil prices” (Energy Economics, 2018), with 644 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) | 74 | 76 | 87 | 100 | 117 | 120 | 122 | 91 | 60 | 44 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 27 | 34 | 32 | 31 | 39 | 41 | 35 | 29 | 42 | 29 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 106 | 112 | 125 | 145 | 166 | 167 | 170 | 136 | 108 | 78 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 89 |
| 2 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 89 |
| 3 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 21 |
| 4 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 16 |
| 7 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [The North American Journal of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-north-american-journal-of-economics-and-finance.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Economic Change and Restructuring](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-change-and-restructuring.md) | 12 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Lebanese American University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lebanese-american-university.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [Qingdao University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/qingdao-university.md) | 15 |
| 3 | Tunis El Manar University | 9 |
| 4 | Azerbaijan State University of Economics | 8 |
| 5 | University of Sousse | 8 |
| 6 | Pusan National University | 7 |
| 7 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Hunan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hunan-university.md) | 6 |
| 9 | Qatar University | 6 |
| 10 | [Southwest Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-jiaotong-university.md) | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 144 |
| 2 | United States | 60 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 54 |
| 4 | India | 42 |
| 5 | France | 39 |
| 6 | Turkey | 32 |
| 7 | Tunisia | 22 |
| 8 | Australia | 21 |
| 9 | Pakistan | 21 |
| 10 | Lebanon | 20 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 76 |
| 2 | [geopolitical risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/geopolitical-risk.md) | 64 |
| 3 | [Russian invasion of Ukraine](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/russian-invasion-of-ukraine.md) | 60 |
| 4 | natural gas prices | 49 |
| 5 | [inflation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/inflation.md) | 46 |
| 6 | oil price shocks | 42 |
| 7 | gold prices | 40 |
| 8 | [economic policy uncertainty](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-policy-uncertainty.md) | 38 |
| 9 | [volatility spillovers](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/volatility-spillovers.md) | 36 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 644 | 6.6 | [Time and frequency dynamics of connectedness between renewable energy stocks and crude oil prices](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2018.09.022) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2018-10-01 | Román Ferrer, Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad, Raquel López et al. |
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | 438 | 4.9 | [Machine learning in energy economics and finance: A review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.05.006) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2019-05-21 | Hamed Ghoddusi, Germán G. Creamer, Nima Rafizadeh |
| 4 | 422 | 4.0 | [Renewable energy, oil prices, and economic activity: A Granger-causality in quantiles analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2018.01.029) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2018-01-31 | Victor Troster, Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz, Gazi Salah Uddin |
| 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

- [Oil prices, inflation and the rise of electric vehicles](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/oil-prices-inflation-and-electric-vehicles.md)

## Cite this page

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

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  title = {Papers on “oil prices”},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).