Papers on “risk preferences”
Research on “risk preferences” 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 preferences” appeared in 1,079 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (620), finance (173) and operations research (133).
- 129 of them were published in 2025, against 101 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (18), Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (13) and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (31), Finance research letters (30) and Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (27).
- The most-cited of them is “Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Risk” (Journal of Business Ethics, 2017), with 382 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 70 | 43 | 74 | 73 | 49 | 82 | 51 | 57 | 60 | 61 |
| Finance | 7 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 45 | 33 | 17 |
| Operations Research | 8 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 18 | 20 | 11 |
| AI | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
| Management | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Marketing | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Statistics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 101 | 80 | 107 | 113 | 88 | 122 | 97 | 139 | 129 | 103 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics | 31 |
| 2 | Finance research letters | 30 |
| 3 | Journal of Risk and Uncertainty | 27 |
| 4 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 22 |
| 5 | Expert Systems with Applications | 15 |
| 6 | Economics Letters | 14 |
| 7 | Theory and Decision | 11 |
| 8 | Journal of Economic Psychology | 11 |
| 9 | China Economic Review | 11 |
| 10 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 11 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 173 |
| 2 | United States | 91 |
| 3 | Germany | 51 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 48 |
| 5 | France | 42 |
| 6 | Italy | 35 |
| 7 | Australia | 23 |
| 8 | Japan | 19 |
| 9 | Canada | 16 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 16 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | risk aversion | 65 |
| 2 | time preference | 38 |
| 3 | financial literacy | 27 |
| 4 | prospect theory | 27 |
| 5 | gender differences | 22 |
| 6 | COVID-19 pandemic | 20 |
| 7 | risk-taking | 19 |
| 8 | loss aversion | 18 |
| 9 | China | 17 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 382 | 3.4 | Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Risk | Journal of Business Ethics | 2017-08-08 | Brigitte Hoogendoorn, Peter van der Zwan, Roy Thurik |
| 2 | 242 | 2.9 | Farm households’ risk perception, attitude and adaptation strategies in dealing with climate change: Promise and perils from rural Pakistan | Land Use Policy | 2019-12-03 | Imran Khan, Hongdou Lei, Irshad Ali Shah et al. |
| 3 | 237 | 2.4 | Economic behavior of children and adolescents – A first survey of experimental economics results | European Economic Review | 2018-10-08 | Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller, Daniela Glätzle‐Rützler |
| 4 | 203 | 1.9 | Natural disasters, social protection, and risk perceptions | World Development | 2017-12-28 | Philip H. Brown, Adam Daigneault, Emilia Tjernström et al. |
| 5 | 195 | 2.4 | Terrorist attacks and investor risk preference: Evidence from mutual fund flows | Journal of Financial Economics | 2020-02-18 | Albert Y. Wang, Michael Young |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “risk preferences”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/risk-preferences
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