An Analysis of Risk, Insurance, And Actuarial Research: Citations from 1996 to 2000‪.‬

ABSTRACT This article evaluates the relative significance of research published in 16 risk, insurance, and actuarial journals by examining the frequency of citations in these risk, insurance, and actuarial journals and 16 of the leading finance journals during the years 1996 through 2000. First, the article provides the frequency with which each sample risk, insurance, and actuarial journal cites itself and the other sample journals so as to communicate the degree to which each journal's published research has had an influence on the other sample journals. Then the article divides the 16 journals into two groups: (1) the risk and insurance journal group, and (2) the actuarial journal group, and ranks them within their group based on their total number of citations, including and excluding self-citations. A ranking within each group is based on the journals' influence on a per article published basis. Finally, this study observes and reports on the most frequently cited articles from the sample risk, insurance, and act uarial journals.