---
title: "Risk management research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “risk management” appeared in 1,344 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (518), economics (330) and operations research (175)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “risk management” appeared in 1,344 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (518), economics (330) and operations research (175). (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# Papers on “risk management”

Research on “risk management” 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 management” appeared in 1,344 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (518), economics (330) and operations research (175).
- 226 of them were published in 2025, against 76 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (15), Lebanese American University (12) and Renmin University of China (11).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (43), International Review of Financial Analysis (36) and Computational Economics (32).
- The most-cited of them is “Economic policy uncertainty: A literature review” (The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 2019), with 630 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) | 23 | 27 | 33 | 36 | 39 | 39 | 50 | 81 | 114 | 76 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 24 | 28 | 36 | 23 | 35 | 29 | 32 | 45 | 46 | 32 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 11 | 10 | 17 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 20 | 31 | 20 | 20 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 7 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 18 | 18 | 15 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 6 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 3 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 76 | 82 | 110 | 104 | 127 | 118 | 134 | 199 | 226 | 168 |

## 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) | 43 |
| 2 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 36 |
| 3 | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | 32 |
| 4 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 26 |
| 5 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 26 |
| 6 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 24 |
| 7 | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | 23 |
| 8 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 20 |
| 9 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 20 |
| 10 | [The North American Journal of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-north-american-journal-of-economics-and-finance.md) | 18 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 15 |
| 2 | [Lebanese American University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lebanese-american-university.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 9 |
| 5 | Tunis El Manar University | 9 |
| 6 | United Arab Emirates University | 9 |
| 7 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [Johns Hopkins University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/johns-hopkins-university.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [Monash University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/monash-university.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-information-science-and-technology.md) | 8 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 234 |
| 2 | United States | 99 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 87 |
| 4 | India | 40 |
| 5 | Italy | 39 |
| 6 | France | 38 |
| 7 | Australia | 36 |
| 8 | Germany | 33 |
| 9 | Spain | 33 |
| 10 | Turkey | 29 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 57 |
| 2 | [portfolio diversification](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/portfolio-diversification.md) | 34 |
| 3 | [volatility spillovers](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/volatility-spillovers.md) | 34 |
| 4 | [geopolitical risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/geopolitical-risk.md) | 30 |
| 5 | [portfolio optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/portfolio-optimization.md) | 30 |
| 6 | conditional value at risk | 29 |
| 7 | [hedging](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/hedging.md) | 28 |
| 8 | value at risk | 27 |
| 9 | [Bitcoin](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bitcoin.md) | 26 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 630 | 7.4 | [Economic policy uncertainty: A literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeca.2019.e00133) | [The Journal of Economic Asymmetries](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-economic-asymmetries.md) | 2019-09-23 | Saud Asaad Althaqeb, Barrak Ghanim Algharabali |
| 2 | 562 | 7.5 | [COVID-19 and the United States financial markets’ volatility](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101699) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2020-07-25 | Claudiu Tiberiu Albulescu |
| 3 | 536 | 5.4 | [Herding behaviour in cryptocurrencies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2018.07.008) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2018-07-25 | Elie I. Bouri, Rangan Gupta, David Roubaud |
| 4 | 526 | 6.1 | [Price connectedness between green bond and financial markets](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2019.09.004) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 2019-09-13 | Juan C. Reboredo, Andrea Ugolini |
| 5 | 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 |

## Cite this page

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

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