---
title: "BankFocus / BankScope: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 75 archived papers mentioned BankFocus / BankScope in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2024 (5)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/bankfocus-bankscope
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/bankfocus-bankscope.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 75 archived papers mentioned BankFocus / BankScope in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2024 (5). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# BankFocus / BankScope

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

Supervisory filings and balance sheets of banks, deposits by branch and credit registers.

- data category: Bank regulatory data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: BankFocus, BankScope, Fitch Connect

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Bank regulatory data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/bank-regulatory-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 75 archived papers mentioned BankFocus / BankScope in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2024 (5).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned BankFocus / BankScope in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), BankFocus / BankScope was mentioned in 83 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (51), economics (17) and management (9).
- 18 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (4), Centre for Economic Policy Research (4) and Brunel University of London (3).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Banking Regulation (6), Journal of International Money and Finance (4) and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (4).
- The most-cited of them is “Fintech adoption, the regulatory environment and bank stability: An empirical investigation from GCC economies” (Borsa Istanbul Review, 2023), with 99 citations.
- Papers use BankFocus / BankScope most often with World Development Indicators (World Bank) (17), Global Financial Development Database (15) and Economic Policy Uncertainty index (10); it has 18 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 34 | 20 | 21 | 75 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 23 | 9 | 12 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 32 | 18 | 20 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Banking Regulation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-banking-regulation.md) | 6 |
| 2 | [Journal of International Money and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-money-and-finance.md) | 4 |
| 3 | [Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-quantitative-finance-and-accounting.md) | 4 |
| 4 | [Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-financial-markets-institutions-and-money.md) | 4 |
| 5 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | 4 |
| 7 | [Borsa Istanbul Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/borsa-istanbul-review.md) | 4 |
| 8 | [Journal of Banking & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-banking-finance.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [Journal of Financial Services Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-services-research.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 3 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 4 |
| 2 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 4 |
| 3 | [Brunel University of London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/brunel-university-of-london.md) | 3 |
| 4 | European Central Bank | 3 |
| 5 | [International Monetary Fund](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/international-monetary-fund.md) | 3 |
| 6 | Lille Économie Management | 3 |
| 7 | [Sapienza University of Rome](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sapienza-university-of-rome.md) | 3 |
| 8 | University of Ghana | 3 |
| 9 | [Université de Lille](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universite-de-lille.md) | 3 |
| 10 | Bangor University | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 31 |
| 2 | Italy | 16 |
| 3 | United States | 13 |
| 4 | China | 12 |
| 5 | France | 11 |
| 6 | Germany | 9 |
| 7 | Portugal | 5 |
| 8 | Belgium | 4 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 4 |
| 10 | South Africa | 4 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | bank competition | 11 |
| 2 | bank profitability | 11 |
| 3 | [2008 financial crisis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/2008-financial-crisis.md) | 9 |
| 4 | bank stability | 8 |
| 5 | [financial stability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-stability.md) | 8 |
| 6 | macroprudential policy | 8 |
| 7 | banking regulation | 7 |
| 8 | bank performance | 6 |
| 9 | European banks | 5 |
| 10 | [bank lending](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bank-lending.md) | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 99 | 2.7 | [Fintech adoption, the regulatory environment and bank stability: An empirical investigation from GCC economies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bir.2023.10.010) | [Borsa Istanbul Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/borsa-istanbul-review.md) | 2023-11-01 | Habib Hussain Khan, Shoaib Khan, Abdul Ghafoor |
| 2 | 51 | 1.8 | [Bank sustainability, climate change initiatives and financial performance: The role of corporate governance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2024.103438) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2024-07-04 | Douglas A. Adu, Mohammad Zoynul Abedin, Vida  Yamoah Saa et al. |
| 3 | 50 | 1.6 | [The dark side of the moon? Fintech and financial stability](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12232-024-00449-8) | [International Review of Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics.md) | 2024-03-25 | Serhan Cevik |
| 4 | 37 | 1.3 | [Bank ownership around the world](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2024.107255) | [Journal of Banking & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-banking-finance.md) | 2024-06-25 | Ugo G. Panizza |
| 5 | 34 | 1.6 | [A hybrid framework for assessing Pakistani commercial bank performance using multi-criteria decision-making](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854-024-00728-x) | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | 2025-01-11 | Özcan Işık, Mohsin Shabir, Gülay Demir et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use BankFocus / BankScope most often with World Development Indicators (World Bank) (17), Global Financial Development Database (15) and Economic Policy Uncertainty index (10); it has 18 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

*What papers use BankFocus / BankScope together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [World Development Indicators (World Bank)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-development-indicators-world-bank.md) | Dataset | 17 | 10.4 |
| [Global Financial Development Database](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/global-financial-development-database.md) | Dataset | 15 | 96.1 |
| [Economic Policy Uncertainty index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/economic-policy-uncertainty-index.md) | Dataset | 10 | 2.4 |
| [Worldwide Governance Indicators](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/worldwide-governance-indicators.md) | Dataset | 7 | 9.0 |
| [Credit registers (e.g. AnaCredit)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/credit-registers-e-g-anacredit.md) | Dataset | 6 | 42.2 |
| [Marketization index (Fan Gang)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/marketization-index-fan-gang.md) | Dataset | 6 | 5.2 |
| [Orbis (Bureau van Dijk)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/orbis-bureau-van-dijk.md) | Dataset | 6 | 20.3 |
| [Compustat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/compustat.md) | Dataset | 5 | 4.6 |
| [IMF data (IFS, WEO, DOTS)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imf-data-ifs-weo-dots.md) | Dataset | 5 | 15.2 |
| [Refinitiv Eikon / LSEG Workspace](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/refinitiv-eikon-lseg-workspace.md) | Dataset | 5 | 7.6 |
| [BoardEx](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/boardex.md) | Dataset | 4 | 19.4 |
| [CRSP](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/crsp.md) | Dataset | 4 | 5.4 |

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

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). BankFocus / BankScope. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/bankfocus-bankscope

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-bankfocus-bankscope,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {BankFocus / BankScope},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/bankfocus-bankscope}},
  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/).