American Community Survey
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US panel and cross-section surveys of households and workers: income, wealth, spending, health and work.
Key findings#
- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 245 archived papers mentioned American Community Survey in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Feb 2024 (12).
- American Community Survey was mentioned in 10 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #26 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Economics (4), Statistics (3), Finance (1), Tourism and Hospitality (1) and Marketing (1).
- Most of them appeared in Spatial Statistics (2), BMC Medical Research Methodology (1) and Journal of Economics Race and Policy (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), American Community Survey was mentioned in 296 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (161), health economics and policy (48) and operations research (27).
- 79 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (13), University of California, Berkeley (11) and Stanford University (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Population Economics (14), Transportation (12) and Review of Economics of the Household (12).
- The most-cited of them is “Public electric vehicle charger access disparities across race and income in California” (Transport Policy, 2020), with 271 citations.
- Papers use American Community Survey most often with IPUMS (49), Current Population Survey (44) and Bureau of Labor Statistics (42); it has 39 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….
Mentions over 36 months#
| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81 | 78 | 86 | 245 |
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 52 | 44 | 37 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 5 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 7 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 0 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 30 | 75 | 79 | 76 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Population Economics | 14 |
| 2 | Transportation | 12 |
| 3 | Review of Economics of the Household | 12 |
| 4 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 9 |
| 5 | Journal of Public Economics | 8 |
| 6 | The Annals of Regional Science | 8 |
| 7 | SSM - Population Health | 8 |
| 8 | Social Science & Medicine | 7 |
| 9 | Labour Economics | 7 |
| 10 | Journal of Economics Race and Policy | 7 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 13 |
| 2 | University of California, Berkeley | 11 |
| 3 | Stanford University | 7 |
| 4 | University of California, Los Angeles | 6 |
| 5 | University of Michigan | 6 |
| 6 | Arizona State University | 5 |
| 7 | Economic Research Service | 5 |
| 8 | Harvard University | 5 |
| 9 | National Bureau of Economic Research | 5 |
| 10 | United States Census Bureau | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 199 |
| 2 | Germany | 27 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 23 |
| 4 | China | 10 |
| 5 | Canada | 9 |
| 6 | Spain | 9 |
| 7 | Australia | 7 |
| 8 | Belgium | 6 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 6 |
| 10 | Italy | 6 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 19 |
| 2 | American Community Survey | 15 |
| 3 | educational attainment | 9 |
| 4 | labor market outcomes | 8 |
| 5 | household income | 7 |
| 6 | poverty | 7 |
| 7 | unemployment | 7 |
| 8 | working hours | 7 |
| 9 | United States | 6 |
| 10 | gender pay gap | 6 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 271 | 3.7 | Public electric vehicle charger access disparities across race and income in California | Transport Policy | 2020-10-20 | Chih-Wei Hsu, Kevin R. Fingerman |
| 2 | 81 | 2.5 | Rent control effects through the lens of empirical research: An almost complete review of the literature | Journal of Housing Economics | 2024-02-19 | Konstantin Arkadievich Kholodilin |
| 3 | 67 | 0.9 | Geographic disparities in COVID-19 infections and deaths: The role of transportation | Transport Policy | 2020-12-03 | Darrell J. Gaskin, Hossein Zare, Benjo A. Delarmente |
| 4 | 58 | 0.9 | The labour market outcomes of transgender individuals | Labour Economics | 2021-05-24 | Matthew Shannon |
| 5 | 42 | 0.7 | Commute distance and jobs-housing fit | Transportation | 2022-02-17 | Evelyn Blumenberg, Fariba Siddiq |
Used together with#
| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| IPUMS | Dataset | 49 | 52.8 |
| Current Population Survey | Dataset | 44 | 36.7 |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics | Dataset | 42 | 18.6 |
| US Census business data (LBD, CBP, QCEW) | Dataset | 23 | 37.5 |
| Bureau of Economic Analysis | Dataset | 21 | 16.8 |
| Gallup World Poll | Dataset | 12 | 7.6 |
| US health surveys (NHANES, BRFSS, MEPS) | Dataset | 12 | 6.8 |
| Twitter / X | Dataset | 10 | 0.4 |
| Dataset | 9 | 0.5 | |
| NOAA | Dataset | 9 | 6.3 |
| PSID | Dataset | 9 | 7.4 |
| SIPP | Dataset | 9 | 26.4 |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). American Community Survey. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/american-community-survey
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {American Community Survey},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/american-community-survey}},
urldate = {2026-11-04},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}