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Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis

Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis is a research topic within Accounting. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the importance of financial literacy, retirement planning, and household finance. It delves into topics such as consumer behavior, wealth inequality, investment decisions, asset allocation, income inequality, and the influence of behavioral economics on savings behavior.

  • Financial Literacy
  • Retirement Planning
  • Household Finance
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Investment Decisions
  • Asset Allocation
  • Income Inequality
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Savings Behavior
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+28%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis

Which countries lead Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (1.6k and 856 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 856 works
  3. 3 China 746 works
  4. 4 India 728 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 280 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 278 works
  7. 7 Australia 204 works
  8. 8 Brazil 200 works
  9. 9 Germany 186 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 158 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 30.6%Indonesia: 16.4%China: 14.3%India: 13.9%6 others listed: 24.9%31%largest
United States1,600 · 30.6%Indonesia856 · 16.4%China746 · 14.3%India728 · 13.9%6 others listed1,305 · 24.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universiti Teknologi MARA publishes the most Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis research, followed by Government of Western Australia and Northern University of Malaysia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 45 works
  2. 2 Government of Western AustraliaAustralia 35 works
  3. 3 Northern University of MalaysiaMalaysia 34 works
  4. 4 National Bureau of Economic ResearchUnited States 28 works
  5. 5 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 27 works
  6. 6 University of ChicagoUnited States 25 works
  7. 7 Federal Reserve Board of GovernorsUnited States 24 works
  8. 8 G.S. Science, Arts And Commerce CollegeIndia 23 works
  9. 9 Renmin University of ChinaChina 22 works
  10. 10 Southwestern University of Finance and EconomicsChina 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis include Daniel J. Kahneman, Donald B. Rubin and Eugene F. Fama.

  1. 1 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Donald B. Rubin United States 301k citations
  3. 3 Eugene F. Fama United States 262k citations
  4. 4 Andrei Shleifer United States 234k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis?

The most cited paper in Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis is "Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting" (David Laibson, 1997), with 6,232 citations. Next come "College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage" (5,986) and "Liquidity Risk and Expected Stock Returns" (5,707).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting David Laibson · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Open access May 1997 6,232
2 College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage D. Gale, L. S. Shapley · American Mathematical Monthly 1962 5,986
3 Liquidity Risk and Expected Stock Returns Ľuboš Pástor, Robert F. Stambaugh · Journal of Political Economy Jun 2003 5,707
4 Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment Brad M. Barber, Terry Odean · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Feb 2001 5,450
5 The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy: Theory and Evidence Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia S. Mitchell · Journal of Economic Literature Open access Mar 2014 4,610
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Washington D.C. (United States), Jakarta (Indonesia) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jitra, Akola and Shah Alam.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 170 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 146 works
  3. 3 JakartaIndonesia 117 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 102 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 77 works
  6. 6 SurabayaIndonesia 75 works
  7. 7 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 70 works
  8. 8 BengaluruIndia 60 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 60 works
  10. 10 CanberraAustralia 57 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JitraMY · 34.1 works25×
  2. AkolaIN · 23.7 works9.6×
  3. Shah AlamMY · 50.9 works7.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Chicago, Hiroshima University and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 18.84%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hiroshima UniversityUniversity of ChicagoSouthwestern Univers…University of Malaya
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of ChicagoUnited States 66.923.0%4.3×26 +2.6%
2Hiroshima UniversityJapan 60.233.9%3.3×8 +56.4%
3Southwestern University of Finance and EconomicsChina 59.518.1%20.9×21 +77.2%
4University of MalayaMalaysia 59.518.1%4.6×18 +43.3%
5University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 59.022.2%2.8×21 +5.4%
6Renmin University of ChinaChina 58.118.0%9.7×22 +74.9%
7Northern University of MalaysiaMalaysia 56.05.6%27.5×34 +118.3%
8Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 55.51.6%8.5×45 +89.7%
9University of GeorgiaUnited States 54.520.2%6.8×21 +4.1%
10University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 52.527.7%1.9×12 +0.6%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis, country by country

Is Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.034% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis0.036% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis10.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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