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title: "CRU climate data: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 31 archived papers mentioned CRU climate data in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Oct 2024 (4)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 31 archived papers mentioned CRU climate data in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Oct 2024 (4). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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# CRU climate data

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

Weather observations, climate reanalyses and projections, and disaster records.

- data category: Weather, climate and disaster data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Climatic Research Unit, CRU TS

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Weather, climate and disaster data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/weather-climate-and-disaster-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 31 archived papers mentioned CRU climate data in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Oct 2024 (4).
- CRU climate data was mentioned in 1 paper in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #165 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Economics (1).
- Most of them appeared in The Annals of Regional Science (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), CRU climate data was mentioned in 31 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (28), health economics and policy (2) and operations research (1).
- 8 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were World Bank (3), Brunel University of London (2) and Centre for Economic Policy Research (2).
- The journals publishing most of them were World Development (5), Environmental and Resource Economics (5) and European Economic Review (2).
- The most-cited of them is “The effects of physical and transition climate risk on stock markets: Some multi-Country evidence” (International Economics, 2024), with 37 citations.
- Papers use CRU climate data most often with NOAA (7), World Development Indicators (World Bank) (6) and V-Dem (5); it has 9 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 12 | 7 | 12 | 31 |

## 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 10 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 10 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 5 |
| 2 | [Environmental and Resource Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-and-resource-economics.md) | 5 |
| 3 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 2 |
| 4 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [Economics & Human Biology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-human-biology.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Journal of Comparative Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-comparative-economics.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-dynamics-and-control.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [OR Spectrum](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/or-spectrum.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [World Bank](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/world-bank.md) | 3 |
| 2 | [Brunel University of London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/brunel-university-of-london.md) | 2 |
| 3 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 2 |
| 4 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | 2 |
| 5 | University of Luxembourg | 2 |
| 6 | [University of Southampton](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-southampton.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Université Paris-Saclay](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universite-paris-saclay.md) | 2 |
| 8 | World Bank Group | 2 |
| 9 | AgroParisTech | 1 |
| 10 | Atatürk University | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 9 |
| 2 | United States | 8 |
| 3 | France | 5 |
| 4 | Switzerland | 3 |
| 5 | Spain | 3 |
| 6 | Italy | 3 |
| 7 | Belgium | 2 |
| 8 | China | 2 |
| 9 | Germany | 2 |
| 10 | Luxembourg | 2 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [climate change](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-change.md) | 5 |
| 2 | [climate change adaptation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-change-adaptation.md) | 5 |
| 3 | [climate policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-policy.md) | 3 |
| 4 | climate shocks | 3 |
| 5 | [developing countries](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/developing-countries.md) | 3 |
| 6 | drought | 3 |
| 7 | [low- and middle-income countries](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/low-and-middle-income-countries.md) | 3 |
| 8 | GDP per capita | 2 |
| 9 | Spain | 2 |
| 10 | climate change impacts | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 37 | 1.6 | [The effects of physical and transition climate risk on stock markets: Some multi-Country evidence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inteco.2024.100571) | [International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-economics.md) | 2024-11-28 | Marina Albanese, Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Ida Colella et al. |
| 2 | 18 | 0.7 | [The distributional effects of climate change. An empirical analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104828) | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 2024-08-22 | Haroon Mumtaz, Angeliki Theophilopoulou |
| 3 | 14 | 0.4 | [Leaving Home: Cumulative Climate Shocks and Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-023-00826-x) | [Environmental and Resource Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-and-resource-economics.md) | 2023-11-22 | Salvatore Di Falco, Anna B. Kis, Martina G. Viarengo et al. |
| 4 | 12 | 0.4 | [Climate change and economic prosperity: Evidence from a flexible damage function](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102974) | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 2024-03-21 | Rodolphe Desbordes, Markus Eberhardt |
| 5 | 11 | 0.7 | [Internal migration and labor market adjustments in the presence of non-wage compensation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103534) | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 2025-06-08 | Raphael Corbi, Tiago Pontes Ferraz, Renata Del Tedesco Narita |

## Used together with

Papers use CRU climate data most often with NOAA (7), World Development Indicators (World Bank) (6) and V-Dem (5); it has 9 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [NOAA](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/noaa.md) | Dataset | 7 | 46.8 |
| [World Development Indicators (World Bank)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-development-indicators-world-bank.md) | Dataset | 6 | 9.8 |
| [V-Dem](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/v-dem.md) | Dataset | 5 | 41.5 |
| [CMIP climate projections](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cmip-climate-projections.md) | Dataset | 4 | 74.4 |
| [EM-DAT disaster database](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/em-dat-disaster-database.md) | Dataset | 4 | 76.2 |
| [ERA5 reanalysis](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/era5-reanalysis.md) | Dataset | 4 | 57.7 |
| [Night-time lights (VIIRS, DMSP)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/night-time-lights-viirs-dmsp.md) | Dataset | 4 | 18.1 |
| [Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/living-standards-measurement-study-lsms.md) | Dataset | 3 | 33.3 |
| [Penn World Table](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/penn-world-table.md) | Dataset | 3 | 23.6 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning CRU climate data in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | [Asymmetric decentralization and inequality](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-026-01586-4) | [The Annals of Regional Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-annals-of-regional-science.md) | Melissa Ziegler Rogers, Melissa Ziegler Rogers | Duke University; Claremont Graduate University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). CRU climate data. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cru-climate-data

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