International review of financial analysis: A retrospective evaluation between 1992 and 2020

H. Kent Baker, Satish Kumar, Kirti Goyal and Anuj Sharma
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Satish Kumar and Satish Kumar

International Review of Financial Analysis, 2021, vol. 78, issue C

Abstract: We provide a comprehensive analysis of the International Review of Financial Analysis (IRFA) between 1992 and 2020 using bibliometrics, regression analysis, and structural topic modeling (STM). Using bibliometric analysis, we find that IRFA's publications and their citations have grown considerably over the years. IRFA also experienced substantial growth in its authors' collaboration network. U.K. and U.S. authors are the journal's most frequent contributors. We use regression analysis to identify article age, a special issue, lead article, European author affiliation, title length and novelty, and the number of authors, figures, keywords, and references as critical predictors of IRFA's citations. Finally, using STM, we find that IRFA's conceptual structure reflects 12 major topics with corporate ownership and governance, and stock market volatility and spillover as the most prominent. The study contributes to the editorial board and other IRFA stakeholders as well as scholars alike. Awareness of IRFA's trends can be pivotal in understanding the patterns in the overall finance domain.

Keywords: International review of financial analysis; Bibliometric analysis; Regression analysis; Structural topic model; Citations analysis; Financial research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2021.101946

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