---
title: "CHARLS: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 132 archived papers mentioned CHARLS in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Oct 2024 (8)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/charls
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/charls.md
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 132 archived papers mentioned CHARLS in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Oct 2024 (8). (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
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---

# CHARLS

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

Chinese household, ageing, health and social surveys.

- data category: China household and social surveys
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, CHARLS

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All China household and social surveys datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/china-household-and-social-surveys.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 132 archived papers mentioned CHARLS in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Oct 2024 (8).
- CHARLS was mentioned in 4 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #79 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Health Economics and Policy (4).
- Most of them appeared in International Journal for Equity in Health (1), Population Health Metrics (1) and Social Science & Medicine (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), CHARLS was mentioned in 212 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (138), economics (45) and finance (11).
- 43 of them were published in 2025, against 3 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Peking University (11), Sun Yat-sen University (8) and Central University of Finance and Economics (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were SSM - Population Health (24), Social Science & Medicine (19) and Health Economics Review (11).
- The most-cited of them is “A comprehensive review on financial explainable AI” (Artificial Intelligence Review, 2025), with 138 citations.
- Papers use CHARLS most often with Health and Retirement Study (15), SHARE (8) and National Bureau of Statistics of China (7); it has 10 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 41 | 43 | 48 | 132 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 3 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 22 | 19 | 22 | 29 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 6 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 3 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 16 | 27 | 43 | 43 | 40 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | 24 |
| 2 | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | 19 |
| 3 | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [International Journal for Equity in Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-for-equity-in-health.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Population Health Metrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/population-health-metrics.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [The Journal of the Economics of Ageing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-the-economics-of-ageing.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [China Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/china-economic-review.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Japanese Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/japanese-economic-review.md) | 4 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 11 |
| 2 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 6 |
| 5 | Nanjing Medical University | 5 |
| 6 | [Zhongnan University of Economics and Law](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhongnan-university-of-economics-and-law.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Fudan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fudan-university.md) | 4 |
| 8 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Shandong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shandong-university.md) | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 103 |
| 2 | United States | 21 |
| 3 | Australia | 15 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 14 |
| 5 | Singapore | 9 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 8 |
| 7 | Germany | 6 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 6 |
| 9 | Japan | 4 |
| 10 | Austria | 3 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study | 62 |
| 2 | [older adults](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/older-adults.md) | 46 |
| 3 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 45 |
| 4 | middle-aged and older adults | 26 |
| 5 | [urban-rural differences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/urban-rural-differences.md) | 19 |
| 6 | health care utilization | 14 |
| 7 | [population aging](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/population-aging.md) | 14 |
| 8 | cognitive function | 13 |
| 9 | [depression](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/depression.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [gender differences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/gender-differences.md) | 12 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 138 | 7.2 | [A comprehensive review on financial explainable AI](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-11077-7) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2025-03-29 | Wei Jie Yeo, Wihan van der Heever, Rui Mao et al. |
| 2 | 128 | 5.1 | [A scoping review of ChatGPT research in accounting and finance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accinf.2024.100715) | [International Journal of Accounting Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-accounting-information-systems.md) | 2024-10-07 | Mengming Dong, Theophanis C. Stratopoulos, Victor Xiaoqi Wang |
| 3 | 121 | 1.6 | [Health impacts of cooking fuel choice in rural China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104811) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2020-06-01 | Ziming Liu, Jia Li, Jens Rommel et al. |
| 4 | 118 | 4.4 | [A brief review of hypernetworks in deep learning](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10862-8) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2024-08-13 | Vinod Kumar Chauhan, Jiandong Zhou, Ping Lü et al. |
| 5 | 88 | 1.0 | [Retirement effect on health status and health behaviors in urban China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104702) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2019-10-11 | Jin Feng, Qin Li, James Patrick Smith |

## Used together with

Papers use CHARLS most often with Health and Retirement Study (15), SHARE (8) and National Bureau of Statistics of China (7); it has 10 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Health and Retirement Study](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/health-and-retirement-study.md) | Dataset | 15 | 12.3 |
| [SHARE](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/share.md) | Dataset | 8 | 15.0 |
| [National Bureau of Statistics of China](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/national-bureau-of-statistics-of-china.md) | Dataset | 7 | 9.6 |
| [China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/china-family-panel-studies-cfps.md) | Dataset | 6 | 3.2 |
| [China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/china-health-and-nutrition-survey-chns.md) | Dataset | 5 | 5.1 |
| [China Household Finance Survey (CHFS)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/china-household-finance-survey-chfs.md) | Dataset | 5 | 2.8 |
| [CLHLS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/clhls.md) | Dataset | 4 | 22.6 |
| [Global Burden of Disease](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/global-burden-of-disease.md) | Dataset | 3 | 1.3 |
| [India National Sample Survey](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/india-national-sample-survey.md) | Dataset | 3 | 8.6 |
| [S&P 500](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-500.md) | Dataset | 3 | 0.3 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning CHARLS in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | [Associations of different health check-up types with healthcare utilization and its inequalities among older adults in China: evidence from a nationally representative survey](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-026-03086-5) | [International Journal for Equity in Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-for-equity-in-health.md) | Yingying Qian, Ying Liu, Rui Zhu et al. | Nanjing Medical University |
| 2026-10-21 | [Independent and joint associations of loneliness and household fuel use with cognitive function and functional dependency among middle-aged and older Chinese adults: a cross-sectional study using CHARLS 2015](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-026-00516-y) | [Population Health Metrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/population-health-metrics.md) | Xiaoyu Zhang, Xiaoyu Tao, Ying Xiao | Macau University of Science and Technology; Wuhan University; Macao University of Tourism |
| 2026-10-09 | [Bringing it home: Couple health behavior discordance and the physiological returns to social participation in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119920) | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | Anqi Chen, Shannon Ang | Nanyang Technological University |
| 2026-10-08 | [Cognitively healthy life expectancy of older women and men in India](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101981) | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | Sneha Sarah Mani, Yuan S Zhang, Lindsay C. Kobayashi et al. | Johns Hopkins University; Columbia University; University of Michigan; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). CHARLS. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/charls

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