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Table 1.

Literature search process and number of articles identified

Query in Scopus	Query in Web of Science
TITLE-ABS-KEY(“risk discl”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (“risk info”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (“risk report”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(“risk factor discl”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (“risk factor report”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (“risk factor info*”) AND PUBYEAR > 1999 AND PUBYEAR < 2026 AND (LIMIT-TO (DOCTYPE, “ar”)) AND [LIMIT-TO (SUBJAREA, “BUSI”)] AND [LIMIT-TO (LANGUAGE, “English”)]	TS = (“risk discl” OR “risk infor” OR “risk report” OR “risk factor discl” OR “risk factor report” OR “risk factor info*”) AND LA = (English) AND WC = (“Business” OR “Management”) AND DT = (“Article” OR “Early Access”)
	Publication date: 2000-01-01 to 2025-09-30
1,004	338
No. of articles after merging the queries’ output	1,342
Less: Duplicated articles	–211
No. of articles after the initial search	1,131
Less: Studies that are not classified as articles	–23
Less: Articles not accessible in full text	–30
Less: Articles not written in the English language	–3
No. of articles after preliminary screening	1,075
Less: Commentary	–1
Less: Literature, regulation and historical reviews	–5
Less: Conceptual and modeling studies	–13
Less: Articles out of scope despite mentioning the selected keywords in the searched fields	–723
Less: Articles on financial firms as a sample	–124
No. of articles reviewed in this study	209

Query in Scopus	Query in Web of Science
TITLE-ABS-KEY(“risk discl”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (“risk info”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (“risk report”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(“risk factor discl”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (“risk factor report”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (“risk factor info*”) AND PUBYEAR > 1999 AND PUBYEAR < 2026 AND (LIMIT-TO (DOCTYPE, “ar”)) AND [LIMIT-TO (SUBJAREA, “BUSI”)] AND [LIMIT-TO (LANGUAGE, “English”)]	TS = (“risk discl” OR “risk infor” OR “risk report” OR “risk factor discl” OR “risk factor report” OR “risk factor info*”) AND LA = (English) AND WC = (“Business” OR “Management”) AND DT = (“Article” OR “Early Access”)
	Publication date: 2000-01-01 to 2025-09-30
1,004	338
No. of articles after merging the queries’ output	1,342
Less: Duplicated articles	–211
No. of articles after the initial search	1,131
Less: Studies that are not classified as articles	–23
Less: Articles not accessible in full text	–30
Less: Articles not written in the English language	–3
No. of articles after preliminary screening	1,075
Less: Commentary	–1
Less: Literature, regulation and historical reviews	–5
Less: Conceptual and modeling studies	–13
Less: Articles out of scope despite mentioning the selected keywords in the searched fields	–723
Less: Articles on financial firms as a sample	–124
No. of articles reviewed in this study	209

Note(s):

This table summarizes the multistep screening and selection process used to identify the 209 empirical RD articles included in the review

Source(s): Authors’ own work