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title: "Risk aversion research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "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)."
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# 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.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## 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

*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) | 114 | 87 | 108 | 95 | 111 | 104 | 75 | 80 | 106 | 80 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 39 | 44 | 40 | 58 | 54 | 53 | 48 | 71 | 69 | 36 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 26 | 29 | 45 | 24 | 27 | 44 | 20 | 46 | 32 | 27 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 7 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 53 |
| 2 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 37 |
| 3 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 34 |
| 4 | [Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-behavioral-and-experimental-economics.md) | 27 |
| 5 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 25 |
| 6 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 22 |
| 7 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 19 |
| 8 | [Insurance Mathematics and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/insurance-mathematics-and-economics.md) | 19 |
| 9 | [Journal of Risk and Uncertainty](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-risk-and-uncertainty.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 17 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 23 |
| 2 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 15 |
| 3 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/institut-national-de-recherche-pour-l-agriculture-l-alimentation-et-l-environnem.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [University of Bologna](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bologna.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Sapienza University of Rome](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sapienza-university-of-rome.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 9 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [risk preferences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/risk-preferences.md) | 65 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 29 |
| 3 | conditional value at risk | 27 |
| 4 | ambiguity aversion | 25 |
| 5 | [gender differences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/gender-differences.md) | 25 |
| 6 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 20 |
| 7 | [portfolio optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/portfolio-optimization.md) | 20 |
| 8 | [uncertainty](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/uncertainty.md) | 20 |
| 9 | loss aversion | 19 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 601 | 5.2 | [Trust, Risk, and Time Preferences After a Natural Disaster: Experimental Evidence from Thailand](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.12.042) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2017-02-21 | Alessandra Cassar, Andrew Healy, Carl von Kessler |
| 2 | 380 | 5.6 | [Costs of resilience and disruptions in supply chain network design models: A review and future research directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108103) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2021-03-13 | Riccardo Aldrighetti, Daria Battini, Dmitry Ivanov et al. |
| 3 | 339 | 4.2 | [Optimal pricing in on-demand-service-platform-operations with hired agents and risk-sensitive customers in the blockchain era](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.01.049) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2020-01-29 | Tsan‐Ming Choi, Shu Jun Guo, Na Liu et al. |
| 4 | 328 | 3.8 | [Information disclosure structure in supply chains with rental service platforms in the blockchain technology era](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.08.008) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-08-29 | Tsan‐Ming Choi, Lipan Feng, Rong Li |
| 5 | 326 | 3.1 | [Data-driven risk-averse stochastic optimization with Wasserstein metric](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2018.01.011) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | 2018-02-09 | Chaoyue Zhao, Yongpei Guan |

## 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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