---
title: "CRSP Mutual Fund Database: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 15 archived papers mentioned CRSP Mutual Fund Database in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Feb 2025 (2)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/crsp-mutual-fund-database
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/crsp-mutual-fund-database.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 15 archived papers mentioned CRSP Mutual Fund Database in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Feb 2025 (2). (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)
---

# CRSP Mutual Fund Database

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/2.md)

Returns, holdings, flows and fees of mutual funds, ETFs and hedge funds.

- data category: Mutual fund and hedge fund data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: CRSP Mutual Fund, CRSP Survivor-Bias-Free, CRSP survivorship-bias-free

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Mutual fund and hedge fund data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mutual-fund-and-hedge-fund-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 15 archived papers mentioned CRSP Mutual Fund Database in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Feb 2025 (2).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned CRSP Mutual Fund Database in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), CRSP Mutual Fund Database was mentioned in 16 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (11), accounting (2) and economics (2).
- 7 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Barcelona School of Economics (1), CUNEF Universidad (1) and City St George's, University of London (1).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Banking & Finance (4), Journal of Empirical Finance (2) and Review of Accounting Studies (2).
- The most-cited of them is “Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2023), with 115 citations.
- Papers use CRSP Mutual Fund Database most often with CRSP (14), Morningstar (8) and S&P 500 (6); it has 6 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

## 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 1 | 4 | 10 | 15 |

## 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 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Banking & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-banking-finance.md) | 4 |
| 2 | [Journal of Empirical Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-empirical-finance.md) | 2 |
| 3 | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 2 |
| 4 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-dynamics-and-control.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-quantitative-finance-and-accounting.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Annals of Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-finance.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Barcelona School of Economics | 1 |
| 2 | CUNEF Universidad | 1 |
| 3 | City St George's, University of London | 1 |
| 4 | [City University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 1 |
| 5 | Deutsche Bundesbank | 1 |
| 6 | Georgia State University | 1 |
| 7 | IPAG Business School | 1 |
| 8 | Lincoln University | 1 |
| 9 | London Business School | 1 |
| 10 | Loughborough University | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 7 |
| 2 | United States | 6 |
| 3 | Australia | 2 |
| 4 | Germany | 1 |
| 5 | Spain | 1 |
| 6 | France | 1 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 1 |
| 8 | Israel | 1 |
| 9 | Italy | 1 |
| 10 | New Zealand | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | mutual funds | 4 |
| 2 | mutual fund performance | 3 |
| 3 | fund flows | 2 |
| 4 | fund manager skill | 2 |
| 5 | fund performance | 2 |
| 6 | Brexit | 1 |
| 7 | ESG investing | 1 |
| 8 | [ESG ratings](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/esg-ratings.md) | 1 |
| 9 | GPT-4 Turbo | 1 |
| 10 | Sharpe ratio | 1 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 115 | 3.2 | [Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2023.103737) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2023-10-26 | Victor DeMiguel, Javier Gil‐Bazo, Francisco J. Nogales et al. |
| 2 | 11 | 0.5 | [Something in the air: does air pollution affect fund managers’ carbon divestment?](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-025-09875-7) | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 2025-02-20 | Thanh Huynh, Frank Weikai Li, Ying Xia |
| 3 | 7 | 0.6 | [Active fund management when ESG matters](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2025.107597) | [Journal of Banking & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-banking-finance.md) | 2025-11-21 | Doron Avramov, Si Cheng, Andrea Tarelli |
| 4 | 2 | 0.1 | [Mutual fund performance and flow-performance relationship under ambiguity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2025.101655) | [Journal of Empirical Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-empirical-finance.md) | 2025-09-04 | Ariel Gu, Hong Il Yoo |
| 5 | 2 | 0.2 | [Who Invests, Who Gets Funded: Gender and Racial Bias in LLM-Generated Investment Advice](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-026-06251-6) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 2026-02-06 | Ye Emma Wang, Kexin Gu |

## Used together with

Papers use CRSP Mutual Fund Database most often with CRSP (14), Morningstar (8) and S&P 500 (6); it has 6 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

*What papers use CRSP Mutual Fund Database together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [CRSP](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/crsp.md) | Dataset | 14 | 98.3 |
| [Morningstar](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/morningstar.md) | Dataset | 8 | 167.3 |
| [S&P 500](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-500.md) | Dataset | 6 | 7.8 |
| [Marketization index (Fan Gang)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/marketization-index-fan-gang.md) | Dataset | 3 | 13.4 |
| [Russell 1000 / 2000 / 3000](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/russell-1000-2000-3000.md) | Dataset | 3 | 86.2 |
| [WRDS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wrds.md) | Dataset | 3 | 71.2 |

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

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). CRSP Mutual Fund Database. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/crsp-mutual-fund-database

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-crsp-mutual-fund-database,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {CRSP Mutual Fund Database},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/crsp-mutual-fund-database}},
  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/).