Papers on “risk aversion”
Research on “risk aversion” 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 “risk aversion” appeared in 1,991 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (960), finance (512) and operations research (320).
- 235 of them were published in 2025, against 192 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (23), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (15) and Central University of Finance and Economics (14).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (53), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (37) and Economics Letters (34).
- The most-cited of them is “Trust, Risk, and Time Preferences After a Natural Disaster: Experimental Evidence from Thailand” (World Development, 2017), with 601 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 114 | 87 | 108 | 95 | 111 | 104 | 75 | 80 | 106 | 80 |
| Finance | 39 | 44 | 40 | 58 | 54 | 53 | 48 | 71 | 69 | 36 |
| Operations Research | 26 | 29 | 45 | 24 | 27 | 44 | 20 | 46 | 32 | 27 |
| Management | 7 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 4 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| AI | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| Accounting | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Marketing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 192 | 177 | 204 | 195 | 216 | 227 | 166 | 216 | 235 | 163 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 53 |
| 2 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 37 |
| 3 | Economics Letters | 34 |
| 4 | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics | 27 |
| 5 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 25 |
| 6 | European Journal of Operational Research | 22 |
| 7 | Energy Economics | 19 |
| 8 | Insurance Mathematics and Economics | 19 |
| 9 | Journal of Risk and Uncertainty | 17 |
| 10 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 17 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 23 |
| 2 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 15 |
| 3 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 14 |
| 4 | Peking University | 13 |
| 5 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 11 |
| 6 | Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement | 11 |
| 7 | University of Bologna | 11 |
| 8 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 10 |
| 9 | Sapienza University of Rome | 10 |
| 10 | Renmin University of China | 9 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 251 |
| 2 | United States | 178 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 68 |
| 4 | Germany | 67 |
| 5 | Italy | 53 |
| 6 | France | 52 |
| 7 | Canada | 40 |
| 8 | Spain | 40 |
| 9 | Australia | 38 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 27 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | risk preferences | 65 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 29 |
| 3 | conditional value at risk | 27 |
| 4 | ambiguity aversion | 25 |
| 5 | gender differences | 25 |
| 6 | China | 20 |
| 7 | portfolio optimization | 20 |
| 8 | uncertainty | 20 |
| 9 | loss aversion | 19 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “risk aversion”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/risk-aversion
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