Landscape of Academic Finance with the Structural Topic Model
88 Citations•2021•
David Ardia, Keven Bluteau, M. Meghani
SSRN Electronic Journal
Using the structural topic model, this work identifies the research topics and explores their relation and prevalence over time and across journals, revealing that most journals have covered more topics over time, thus becoming more generalist.
Abstract
Using the structural topic model, we present a landscape of academic finance. We analyze more than 40,000 titles and abstracts published in 32 finance journals over a period ranging from 1992 to 2020. We identify the research topics and explore their relation and prevalence over time and across journals. Our analyses reveal that most journals have covered more topics over time, thus becoming more generalist.