Abstract
This paper provides a description of the nature, trends, and changing patterns of references cited in the Journal of Risk and Insurance (JRI) in three sample volumes: 1980, 1984, and 1988. Findings reveal that (1) over one-half of the references in the JRI are from noninsurance fields (primarily finance and economics), (2) journals are the most frequently cited communications media, and (3) authors of JRI articles cite it more than any other journal. An important conclusion is that insurance is a still emerging field without a strong identity or a strong bonding between the contributors to its literature. Scholars in the field of insurance often discuss and debate the structure and boundaries of their discipline. To a large extent, these introspective contributions have been of the normative-polemic type based on subjective views and casual empiricism. Participants in these discourses have shown little interest in factual evaluation of insurance source literature to ascertain the structure of the discipline and the changes that have taken place therein. In the matter of developing literature on the origins of its research, insurance is lagging behind other business disciplines. For example, the disciplines of accounting, marketing, economics, and finance have developed a research tradition based on analyses of research contributions of different authors, institutions, and forms of communication. Several citational analysis research articles have been reported in the top journals of each of these fields. This genre of articles has yielded valuable information about the structure and boundaries of the respective disciplines (see all references).
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