Figure 1
Articles produced from 2003-2010 related to financial planning
Sources for Financial Planning Research
The literature search encompassed articles from 379
scholarly journals, magazines and other publication sources.
Figure 2 shows, as a percentage of the total 1,982 articles, the
publication sources that have published the most research
related to financial planning since 2003. The majority of
articles have primarily come from, Journal of Financial
Planning (20%), Financial Analysts Journal (13%), Journal of
Financial Service Professionals (11%), Journal of Family and
Economic Issues (11%) and the Financial Services Review
(10%).
Geographic Source of Research
The source of the research is largely driven by the
location of the journal which published it, as it was not possible
to determine the domicile of authors. As is evident in Table 2,
the United States clearly dominates the source of research. The
Netherlands was an unexpected surprise largely as a result of