An Empirical Regularity in the Market for Risk and Insurance Research Output

This study provides a means for evaluating the research productivity and output concentration of risk and insurance researchers by identifying an empirical regularity in the frequency distribution of article publications in six major risk and insurance journals. Our results reveal a strong bibliometric regularity, which provides a useful tool for assessing the likelihood of multiple publications in the insurance literature. Assuming that the publishing behavior of risk and insurance researchers is stable over time, we predict that less than four percent of all publishing risk and insurance researchers will publish six or more coauthored articles in the next fifteen years, and less than two percent will publish ten or more articles.