Earnings call transcripts
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Annual reports and other regulatory filings, earnings calls, and the word lists used to read them.
Key findings#
- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 232 archived papers mentioned Earnings call transcripts in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (16).
- Earnings call transcripts was mentioned in 11 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #19 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Finance (5), Information Systems (2), Management (2), AI (1) and Operations Research (1).
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Business Research (2), Finance research letters (2) and Journal of Computational Social Science (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Earnings call transcripts was mentioned in 271 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (111), accounting (70) and management (40).
- 63 of them were published in 2025, against 2 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chulalongkorn University (8), Pennsylvania State University (8) and The University of Western Australia (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Review of Accounting Studies (21), International Review of Financial Analysis (14) and The British Accounting Review (13).
- The most-cited of them is “The economic effects of trade policy uncertainty” (Journal of Monetary Economics, 2019), with 738 citations.
- Papers use Earnings call transcripts most often with Compustat (77), Loughran-McDonald dictionary (56) and CRSP (48); it has 65 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.
Mentions over 36 months#
| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 | 65 | 107 | 232 |
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 29 | 24 | 39 |
| Accounting | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 15 | 27 |
| Management | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 16 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 6 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 59 | 63 | 100 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Review of Accounting Studies | 21 |
| 2 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 14 |
| 3 | The British Accounting Review | 13 |
| 4 | Finance research letters | 12 |
| 5 | Journal of Corporate Finance | 10 |
| 6 | Journal of Business Research | 9 |
| 7 | Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | 9 |
| 8 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 9 |
| 9 | Journal of Business Ethics | 7 |
| 10 | Research in International Business and Finance | 6 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chulalongkorn University | 8 |
| 2 | Pennsylvania State University | 8 |
| 3 | The University of Western Australia | 7 |
| 4 | Singapore Management University | 6 |
| 5 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 6 |
| 6 | University of Vaasa | 6 |
| 7 | Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen | 5 |
| 8 | New York University | 5 |
| 9 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | 5 |
| 10 | Aarhus University | 4 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 80 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 63 |
| 3 | China | 48 |
| 4 | Australia | 24 |
| 5 | Germany | 15 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 13 |
| 7 | Canada | 12 |
| 8 | Finland | 10 |
| 9 | France | 9 |
| 10 | Singapore | 9 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | earnings conference calls | 72 |
| 2 | corporate governance | 23 |
| 3 | earnings call transcripts | 22 |
| 4 | information asymmetry | 21 |
| 5 | climate risk | 15 |
| 6 | large language models | 15 |
| 7 | climate change exposure | 13 |
| 8 | organizational culture | 11 |
| 9 | Chinese listed companies | 10 |
| 10 | financial constraints | 10 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 738 | 8.8 | The economic effects of trade policy uncertainty | Journal of Monetary Economics | 2019-11-08 | Dario Caldara, Matteo M. Iacoviello, Patrick Molligo et al. |
| 2 | 232 | 2.0 | Managing the Narrative: Investor Relations Officers and Corporate Disclosure | Journal of Accounting and Economics | 2017-01-01 | Lawrence D. Brown, Andrew C. Call, Michael B. Clement et al. |
| 3 | 205 | 6.5 | Trade credit and the stability of supply chains | Journal of Financial Economics | 2024-03-21 | Nuri Ersahin, Mariassunta Giannetti, Ruidi Huang |
| 4 | 189 | 5.4 | When attention to climate change matters: The impact of climate risk disclosure on firm market value | Energy Policy | 2023-12-12 | Roberto Vestrelli, Andrea Fronzetti Colladon, Anna Laura Pisello |
| 5 | 135 | 1.4 | Manager-analyst conversations in earnings conference calls | Review of Accounting Studies | 2018-07-11 | Jason V. Chen, Venky Nagar, Jordan Schoenfeld |
Used together with#
| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compustat | Dataset | 77 | 21.6 |
| Loughran-McDonald dictionary | Dataset | 56 | 50.2 |
| CRSP | Dataset | 48 | 19.9 |
| I/B/E/S | Dataset | 32 | 22.4 |
| S&P 500 | Dataset | 30 | 2.3 |
| Twitter / X | Dataset | 30 | 1.2 |
| 10-K filings | Dataset | 29 | 18.1 |
| Economic Policy Uncertainty index | Dataset | 28 | 2.1 |
| Refinitiv Eikon / LSEG Workspace | Dataset | 20 | 9.3 |
| ExecuComp | Dataset | 18 | 37.0 |
| Climate Policy Uncertainty index | Dataset | 17 | 5.4 |
| WRDS | Dataset | 17 | 23.8 |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Earnings call transcripts. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/earnings-call-transcripts
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-earnings-call-transcripts,
author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Earnings call transcripts},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/earnings-call-transcripts}},
urldate = {2026-11-04},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}