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Depreciation: what the evidence base looks like

11 publications, 0 of them trials and 0 syntheses. This page describes the shape of that literature rather than summarising its conclusions.

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What the evidence on depreciation is made of Of 11 publications on this topic, the breakdown by study type: 11 other. 11other (11)
11 publications, by study type. Volume is not strength — the same count can be a settled question or a pile of commentary, and which one it is depends almost entirely on this breakdown. Harvested from PubMed and Crossref; publication type as recorded by the source.

What this literature is made of

A reasonable volume of literature, but weighted towards reviews and observational work rather than trials. That is enough to describe a phenomenon and rarely enough to establish that an intervention works.

The distinction that matters most is between synthesis and primary research. A meta-analysis pools trials and is the closest thing to a settled answer a field produces. A narrative review is one group's reading of the same material and can be selective without being dishonest. Counting them together, which most citation counts do, obscures exactly the thing you want to know.

When the depreciation literature was published Publication years for the 11 papers on this topic, grouped into bands from before 2015 through to 2023 onwards. 2023 onwards6 papers2020-20223 papers2015-20191 papersBefore 20151 papers
Still active. The most recent paper here is from 2026, so this is a field where an answer written today may not hold for long. Publication years as recorded by PubMed and Crossref.

How this page is built

Everything above is computed from the citations this site harvested from PubMed and Crossref, not written by hand. When the weekly harvest finds a new paper on this topic, these counts change and the characterisation changes with them. That is the point: a hand-written claim about how strong an evidence base is starts decaying the day it is written.

Publication type is taken as the source records it. That is imperfect — journals label inconsistently, and a paper indexed as a "review" may be a systematic one — so treat the bands as approximate. They are accurate enough to distinguish a trial literature from a commentary literature, which is the distinction that matters.

The strongest work on this topic

Ordered by study design first, then recency. The full set is listed in the references below.

  1. Depreciation Patterns in the UAE Used Car Market: Evidence from Dubizzle Listings — Miranda A, Alavi A, Gella M, 2026, journal article
  2. Fair Market Value of Used Capacity Assets: Forecasts for Repurposed Electric Vehicle Batteries — Bach A, Onori S, Reichelstein S et al., 2026, journal article
  3. Determinants of Perceived Risk in the Luxurious Used-Car Market of Hangzhou, China — Jacquline Tham, S. M. Ferdous Azam C, 2025, journal article
  4. Modeling the Used Vehicle Market Share in the Electric Vehicle Transition — Diouf B, 2025, journal article
  5. Analysis Report on the Used Car Market Pricing — Yang H, 2025, journal article
  6. Depreciation in the Electric Vehicle Transition: Sustainability of the Second-Hand Electric Vehicle Market — Gautam P, Pode G, Pode R et al., 2024, journal article
  7. When Franchisee Service Affects Demand: An Application to the Car Radiator Market and Resale Price Maintenance — Kim T, 2021, journal article
  8. Optimized Hyperparameter Tuned Random Forest Regressor Algorithm in Predicting Resale Car Value based on Grid Search Method — M A, Anjana M, Chauhan H et al., 2021, journal article
  9. Prediction of Resale Value of the Car Using Linear Regression Algorithm — S K, 2020, journal article
  10. Vehicle Lifetime and Scrappage Behavior: Trends in the U.S. Used Car Market — Bento A, Roth K, Zuo Y, 2018, journal article
How much research is there on depreciation?
11 publications are indexed here, of which 0 are trials and 0 are syntheses.
Does more research mean a stronger conclusion?
No. Composition matters more than volume — five randomised trials support a claim far better than fifty commentaries, and citation counts do not distinguish between them.
How current is this?
The most recent paper indexed here is from 2026. The set is refreshed weekly from PubMed and Crossref.
Why does this page not tell me the answer?
Because summarising a literature into a conclusion requires reading it, and doing that automatically is how confident nonsense gets published. This page tells you how much weight a conclusion could bear; the articles on this site do the interpreting.

References

Every citation below links to the original peer-reviewed record on PubMed or via DOI. Nothing here is a substitute for medical advice.

  1. Fair Market Value of Used Capacity Assets: Forecasts for Repurposed Electric Vehicle Batteries Bach A, Onori S, Reichelstein S, et al. · The Accounting Review · 2026 · Journal article DOI
  2. Depreciation Patterns in the UAE Used Car Market: Evidence from Dubizzle Listings Miranda A, Alavi A, Gella M · Journal of Business Insight and Innovation · 2026 · Journal article DOI
  3. Modeling the Used Vehicle Market Share in the Electric Vehicle Transition Diouf B · World Electric Vehicle Journal · 2025 · Journal article DOI
  4. Analysis Report on the Used Car Market Pricing Yang H · Finance & Economics · 2025 · Journal article DOI
  5. Determinants of Perceived Risk in the Luxurious Used-Car Market of Hangzhou, China Jacquline Tham, S. M. Ferdous Azam C · International Journal on Research and Development - A Management Review · 2025 · Journal article DOI
  6. Depreciation in the Electric Vehicle Transition: Sustainability of the Second-Hand Electric Vehicle Market Gautam P, Pode G, Pode R, et al. · Vehicles · 2024 · Journal article DOI
  7. When Franchisee Service Affects Demand: An Application to the Car Radiator Market and Resale Price Maintenance Kim T · Marketing Science · 2021 · Journal article DOI
  8. Optimized Hyperparameter Tuned Random Forest Regressor Algorithm in Predicting Resale Car Value based on Grid Search Method M A, Anjana M, Chauhan H, et al. · International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Communication and Technology · 2021 · Journal article DOI
  9. Prediction of Resale Value of the Car Using Linear Regression Algorithm S K · International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology · 2020 · Journal article DOI
  10. Vehicle Lifetime and Scrappage Behavior: Trends in the U.S. Used Car Market Bento A, Roth K, Zuo Y · The Energy Journal · 2018 · Journal article DOI
  11. Stochastic optimization approach of car value depreciation Alshamary B, Calin O · Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry · 2012 · Journal article DOI

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