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title: "Stock market volatility research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “stock market volatility” appeared in 865 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (574), economics (212) and management (23)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “stock market volatility” appeared in 865 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (574), economics (212) and management (23). (as of 2026-11-04)"
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# Papers on “stock market volatility”

Research on “stock market volatility” 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 “stock market volatility” appeared in 865 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (574), economics (212) and management (23).
- 83 of them were published in 2025, against 72 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Southwest Jiaotong University (19), University of Pretoria (16) and Lebanese American University (14).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (58), International Review of Financial Analysis (31) and Research in International Business and Finance (29).
- The most-cited of them is “COVID-19 pandemic, oil prices, stock market, geopolitical risk and policy uncertainty nexus in the US economy: Fresh evidence from the wavelet-based approach” (International Review of Financial Analysis, 2020), with 1,488 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) | 57 | 33 | 42 | 50 | 75 | 61 | 77 | 81 | 52 | 46 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 11 | 15 | 20 | 24 | 30 | 20 | 28 | 27 | 19 | 18 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 72 | 50 | 67 | 79 | 118 | 89 | 115 | 122 | 83 | 70 |

## 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) | 58 |
| 2 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 31 |
| 3 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 29 |
| 4 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 22 |
| 5 | [The North American Journal of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-north-american-journal-of-economics-and-finance.md) | 21 |
| 6 | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | 18 |
| 7 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-financial-markets-institutions-and-money.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Southwest Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-jiaotong-university.md) | 19 |
| 2 | [University of Pretoria](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pretoria.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [Lebanese American University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lebanese-american-university.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [Hunan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hunan-university.md) | 11 |
| 5 | University of Ibadan | 9 |
| 6 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Nanjing University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Xiamen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xiamen-university.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Capital University of Economics and Business](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/capital-university-of-economics-and-business.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 151 |
| 2 | United States | 48 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 40 |
| 4 | India | 22 |
| 5 | France | 21 |
| 6 | South Africa | 21 |
| 7 | Turkey | 20 |
| 8 | South Korea | 18 |
| 9 | Italy | 15 |
| 10 | Lebanon | 14 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 70 |
| 2 | volatility forecasting | 56 |
| 3 | [stock returns](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/stock-returns.md) | 50 |
| 4 | [Chinese stock market](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-stock-market.md) | 42 |
| 5 | [economic policy uncertainty](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-policy-uncertainty.md) | 40 |
| 6 | [geopolitical risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/geopolitical-risk.md) | 40 |
| 7 | [investor sentiment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/investor-sentiment.md) | 27 |
| 8 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 25 |
| 9 | [volatility spillovers](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/volatility-spillovers.md) | 25 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,488 | 19.2 | [COVID-19 pandemic, oil prices, stock market, geopolitical risk and policy uncertainty nexus in the US economy: Fresh evidence from the wavelet-based approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101496) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2020-05-15 | Arshian Sharif, Chaker Aloui, Larisa Yarovaya |
| 2 | 1,038 | 9.8 | [Board diversity, firm risk, and corporate policies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2017.12.009) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2017-12-24 | Gennaro Bernile, Vineet Bhagwat, Scott E. Yonker |
| 3 | 880 | 11.3 | [The contagion effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from gold and cryptocurrencies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101554) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2020-05-14 | Shaen Corbet, Charles James Larkin, Brian M. Lucey |
| 4 | 631 | 8.1 | [Infected Markets: Novel Coronavirus, Government Interventions, and Stock Return Volatility around the Globe](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101597) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2020-05-21 | Adam Zaremba, Renatas Kizys, David Y. Aharon et al. |
| 5 | 567 | 7.3 | [COVID-19: Media coverage and financial markets behavior—A sectoral inquiry](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2020.100343) | [Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-behavioral-and-experimental-finance.md) | 2020-05-15 | Omair Haroon, Syed Aun R. Rizvi |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “stock market volatility”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/stock-market-volatility

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “stock market volatility”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/stock-market-volatility}},
  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  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/).