Hot and Cold Areas of Finance Research

What topics are hot and cold in finance research? In their October 2024 paper entitled “Tracing the Evolution of Finance Research: A Topic Modeling Analysis of AJG-Ranked Journals”, Yang Su, Brian Lucey and Ashish Jha provide an overview of academic finance research trends since 2000. They identify the hottest and coldest topics based on publication volume, citation counts and outlier analysis. Using the content and citations for 78,822 articles published across 110 finance journals during 2000 through 2022, they find that:

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