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title: "Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 28 archived papers mentioned Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2024 (3)."
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# Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/3.md)

Phone-based foot traffic and movement data, public transit feeds and trip records of shared mobility.

- data category: Mobility and location data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Community Mobility Reports, Community Mobility Report, Google mobility data, Google Mobility Reports

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Mobility and location data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mobility-and-location-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 28 archived papers mentioned Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2024 (3).
- Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports 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: Operations Research (1).
- Most of them appeared in Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports was mentioned in 50 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (24), health economics and policy (8) and operations research (6).
- 9 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Arizona State University (2), Collegio Carlo Alberto (2) and IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (2).
- The journals publishing most of them were European Journal of Political Economy (3), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2) and Social Science & Medicine (2).
- The most-cited of them is “Causal impact of masks, policies, behavior on early covid-19 pandemic in the U.S.” (Journal of Econometrics, 2020), with 403 citations.
- Papers use Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports most often with Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (9), American Time Use Survey (4) and Eurostat (4); it has 6 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 13 | 10 | 5 | 28 |

## 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 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 5 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [European Journal of Political Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-political-economy.md) | 3 |
| 2 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 2 |
| 3 | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | 2 |
| 4 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [Economics & Human Biology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-human-biology.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Quality & Quantity](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/quality-quantity.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Journal of Urban Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-urban-economics.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Arizona State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/arizona-state-university.md) | 2 |
| 2 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | 2 |
| 3 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 2 |
| 4 | [International Monetary Fund](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/international-monetary-fund.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [Johns Hopkins University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/johns-hopkins-university.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [The University of Tokyo](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-tokyo.md) | 2 |
| 8 | [University of Turin](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-turin.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [World Bank](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/world-bank.md) | 2 |
| 10 | Alexandru Ioan Cuza University | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 10 |
| 2 | United States | 9 |
| 3 | Italy | 7 |
| 4 | Germany | 5 |
| 5 | Spain | 3 |
| 6 | France | 3 |
| 7 | Austria | 2 |
| 8 | Australia | 2 |
| 9 | Finland | 2 |
| 10 | Japan | 2 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 21 |
| 2 | Google mobility data | 8 |
| 3 | human mobility | 5 |
| 4 | COVID-19 lockdown | 4 |
| 5 | COVID-19 mortality | 4 |
| 6 | Google Mobility Reports | 4 |
| 7 | lockdown | 4 |
| 8 | mobility | 3 |
| 9 | non-pharmaceutical interventions | 3 |
| 10 | Italy | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 403 | 5.6 | [Causal impact of masks, policies, behavior on early covid-19 pandemic in the U.S.](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.09.003) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2020-10-17 | Victor Chernozhukov, Hiroyuki Kasahara, Paul Schrimpf |
| 2 | 117 | 1.7 | [Poverty and COVID-19 in Africa and Latin America](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105422) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2021-02-17 | Olivier Bargain, Ulugbek Aminjonov |
| 3 | 98 | 1.5 | [COVID-19 lockdown and domestic violence: Evidence from internet-search behavior in 11 countries](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103775) | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 2021-05-24 | Inés Berniell, Gabriel Facchini |
| 4 | 94 | 1.7 | [Impact of working from home on activity-travel behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An aggregate structural analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2022.03.003) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 2022-03-14 | Rezwana Rafiq, Michael G. McNally, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin et al. |
| 5 | 80 | 1.7 | [Urban density and COVID-19: understanding the US experience](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-022-01193-z) | [The Annals of Regional Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-annals-of-regional-science.md) | 2022-11-28 | Felipe Carozzi, Sandro Provenzano, Sefi Roth |

## Used together with

Papers use Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports most often with Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (9), American Time Use Survey (4) and Eurostat (4); it has 6 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

*What papers use Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/oxford-covid-19-government-response-tracker.md) | Dataset | 9 | 46.0 |
| [American Time Use Survey](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/american-time-use-survey.md) | Dataset | 4 | 37.5 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 4 | 2.6 |
| [Facebook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facebook.md) | Dataset | 4 | 1.3 |
| [Our World in Data](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/our-world-in-data.md) | Dataset | 3 | 12.8 |
| [Sentinel / Copernicus](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/sentinel-copernicus.md) | Dataset | 3 | 10.4 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-12 | [From traffic-flow capacity to recovery capacity: An episode-based framework for multi-sector urban resilience](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106063) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | F. C. Tang, Xuesong Simon Zhou, Edward Zhu et al. | Arizona State University; Johns Hopkins University; Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/google-covid-19-community-mobility-reports

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-google-covid-19-community-mobility-reports,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/google-covid-19-community-mobility-reports}},
  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/).