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title: "American Community Survey: research papers using this data"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-05)"
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# American Community Survey

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory.md)

US panel and cross-section surveys of households and workers: income, wealth, spending, health and work.

- data category: US household and labour surveys
- 2 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: American Community Survey

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All US household and labour surveys datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/us-household-and-labour-surveys.md



## 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 8 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #37 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Economics (4), Statistics (3) and Tourism and Hospitality (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

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 81 | 78 | 86 | 245 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 52 | 44 | 37 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 5 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 7 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Population Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-population-economics.md) | 14 |
| 2 | [Transportation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [Review of Economics of the Household](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-economics-of-the-household.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [The Annals of Regional Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-annals-of-regional-science.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Journal of Economics Race and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economics-race-and-policy.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 13 |
| 2 | [University of California, Berkeley](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-california-berkeley.md) | 11 |
| 3 | [Stanford University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/stanford-university.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [University of California, Los Angeles](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-california-los-angeles.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [University of Michigan](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-michigan.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [Arizona State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/arizona-state-university.md) | 5 |
| 7 | Economic Research Service | 5 |
| 8 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [National Bureau of Economic Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-bureau-of-economic-research.md) | 5 |
| 10 | United States Census Bureau | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 19 |
| 2 | American Community Survey | 15 |
| 3 | [educational attainment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/educational-attainment.md) | 9 |
| 4 | labor market outcomes | 8 |
| 5 | [household income](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/household-income.md) | 7 |
| 6 | poverty | 7 |
| 7 | [unemployment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/unemployment.md) | 7 |
| 8 | working hours | 7 |
| 9 | [United States](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/united-states.md) | 6 |
| 10 | gender pay gap | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 271 | 3.7 | [Public electric vehicle charger access disparities across race and income in California](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.10.003) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2024.101983) | [Journal of Housing Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-housing-economics.md) | 2024-02-19 | Konstantin Arkadievich Kholodilin |
| 3 | 67 | 0.9 | [Geographic disparities in COVID-19 infections and deaths: The role of transportation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.12.001) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 2020-12-03 | Darrell J. Gaskin, Hossein Zare, Benjo A. Delarmente |
| 4 | 58 | 0.9 | [The labour market outcomes of transgender individuals](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102006) | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | 2021-05-24 | Matthew Shannon |
| 5 | 42 | 0.7 | [Commute distance and jobs-housing fit](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-022-10264-1) | [Transportation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation.md) | 2022-02-17 | Evelyn Blumenberg, Fariba Siddiq |

## Used together with

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….

*What papers use American Community Survey together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [IPUMS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ipums.md) | Dataset | 49 | 52.8 |
| [Current Population Survey](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/current-population-survey.md) | Dataset | 44 | 36.7 |
| [Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/bureau-of-labor-statistics.md) | Dataset | 42 | 18.6 |
| [US Census business data (LBD, CBP, QCEW)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/us-census-business-data-lbd-cbp-qcew.md) | Dataset | 23 | 37.5 |
| [Bureau of Economic Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/bureau-of-economic-analysis.md) | Dataset | 21 | 16.8 |
| [Gallup World Poll](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/gallup-world-poll.md) | Dataset | 12 | 7.6 |
| [US health surveys (NHANES, BRFSS, MEPS)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/us-health-surveys-nhanes-brfss-meps.md) | Dataset | 12 | 6.8 |
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 10 | 0.4 |
| [Facebook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facebook.md) | Dataset | 9 | 0.5 |
| [NOAA](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/noaa.md) | Dataset | 9 | 6.3 |
| [PSID](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/psid.md) | Dataset | 9 | 7.4 |
| [SIPP](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/sipp.md) | Dataset | 9 | 26.4 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*Papers mentioning American Community Survey in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | [Validation of the Kythera Labs all-payer real-world data asset: a provenance-anchored nine-block framework for tokenized evidence generation](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-026-03070-1) | [BMC Medical Research Methodology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/bmc-medical-research-methodology.md) | Onur Başer | City University of New York; Boğaziçi University |
| 2026-10-31 | [What Do First Names Signal? Evidence on Race, Class, and Unobserved Characteristics from a New Dataset](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41996-026-00207-8) | [Journal of Economics Race and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economics-race-and-policy.md) | Deborah M. Weiss, Matthew L. Spitzer, Ethan Nourbash | Northwestern University |
| 2026-10-29 | [The Impact of Child Caregiving-Related Life Changes on Caregivers’ Well-Being in Rural and Urban U.S. Areas](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10834-026-10115-6) | [Journal of Family and Economic Issues](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-family-and-economic-issues.md) | Zuzana Bednarik, Stephan J. Goetz | Purdue University West Lafayette; Pennsylvania State University |
| 2026-10-25 | [Does policy advocacy generate good PR? Evidence from labor unions and minimum wages](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-026-01478-3) | [Public Choice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-choice.md) | Jeffrey P. Clemens, Michael R. Strain | University of California San Diego; American Enterprise Institute; Georgetown University |
| 2026-10-24 | [The intensive margin of food access and its association with health outcomes: evidence of heterogeneous effects across U.S. Communities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2026.103212) | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | Qingwei Qiao, Syed Badruddoza, Modhurima Dey Amin et al. | Washington State University; Texas Tech University; Economic Research Service |
| 2026-10-23 | [Global–local shrinkage priors for modeling random effects in multivariate spatial small area estimation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2026.101062) | [Spatial Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/spatial-statistics.md) | Shushi Nishina, Takahiro Onizuka, Shintaro Hashimoto | Hiroshima University; Chiba University |
| 2026-10-09 | [Gender earnings equity in local labor markets and hospitality establishment survival](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101568) | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | Zhen Richard Tang | Loyola Marymount University |
| 2026-10-09 | [Bayesian spatio-temporal disaggregation modeling using a diffusion-SPDE approach: A case study of Aerosol Optical Depth in India](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2026.101058) | [Spatial Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/spatial-statistics.md) | Fernando Rodriguez Avellaneda, Paula Moraga | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). American Community Survey. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 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 = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).