Papers on “stock returns”
Research on “stock returns” 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 “stock returns” appeared in 2,208 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (1,433), economics (477) and management (85).
- 228 of them were published in 2025, against 158 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (21), Xiamen University (15) and Hunan University (14).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (120), International Review of Financial Analysis (64) and International Review of Economics & Finance (49).
- The most-cited of them is “Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk?” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2019), with 3,369 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 100 | 113 | 115 | 144 | 154 | 175 | 172 | 171 | 158 | 131 |
| Economics | 36 | 37 | 55 | 48 | 59 | 52 | 56 | 55 | 44 | 35 |
| Management | 7 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 3 |
| Accounting | 6 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 8 |
| Operations Research | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 2 |
| Statistics | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| Marketing | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| AI | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 158 | 176 | 202 | 216 | 257 | 264 | 265 | 256 | 228 | 186 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 120 |
| 2 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 64 |
| 3 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 49 |
| 4 | Research in International Business and Finance | 48 |
| 5 | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 44 |
| 6 | Economics Letters | 36 |
| 7 | The North American Journal of Economics and Finance | 30 |
| 8 | Energy Economics | 25 |
| 9 | Journal of Banking & Finance | 23 |
| 10 | Journal of Empirical Finance | 23 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 21 |
| 2 | Xiamen University | 15 |
| 3 | Hunan University | 14 |
| 4 | Lebanese American University | 12 |
| 5 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 11 |
| 6 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 10 |
| 7 | Peking University | 10 |
| 8 | Renmin University of China | 10 |
| 9 | Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University | 10 |
| 10 | Capital University of Economics and Business | 9 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 272 |
| 2 | United States | 217 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 99 |
| 4 | South Korea | 46 |
| 5 | Australia | 43 |
| 6 | France | 43 |
| 7 | Germany | 42 |
| 8 | Italy | 39 |
| 9 | India | 38 |
| 10 | Taiwan | 37 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 86 |
| 2 | investor sentiment | 83 |
| 3 | Chinese stock market | 64 |
| 4 | stock market volatility | 50 |
| 5 | asset pricing | 47 |
| 6 | ESG ratings | 41 |
| 7 | return predictability | 39 |
| 8 | corporate governance | 37 |
| 9 | abnormal returns | 36 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,369 | 35.8 | Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk? | Journal of Financial Economics | 2019-01-01 | Patrick G M Bolton, Marcin T. Kacperczyk |
| 2 | 1,688 | 22.6 | The role of ESG performance during times of financial crisis: Evidence from COVID-19 in China | Finance research letters | 2020-08-13 | David C. Broadstock, Kalok Chan, Louis T. W. Cheng et al. |
| 3 | 1,481 | 18.0 | Corporate Immunity to the COVID-19 Pandemic | Journal of Financial Economics | 2020-01-01 | Wenzhi Ding, Ross Eric Levine, Chen Lin et al. |
| 4 | 1,436 | 18.2 | Death and contagious infectious diseases: Impact of the COVID-19 virus on stock market returns | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance | 2020-04-08 | Abdullah M. Al-Awadhi, Abdullah M. Al-Awadhi, Khaled Alsaifi et al. |
| 5 | 1,254 | 16.2 | Stock markets’ reaction to COVID-19: Cases or fatalities? | Research in International Business and Finance | 2020-05-22 | Badar Nadeem Ashraf |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “stock returns”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/stock-returns
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