Google Trends

data category: Search, news and web data · 0 papers in the last 7 days

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Search volumes, news archives and web content used to measure attention, news and sentiment.

Names searched for: Google Trends, Google search volume

Key findings#

From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 412 archived papers mentioned Google Trends in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (19).
Google Trends was mentioned in 10 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #26 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
By journal category: Economics (4), Finance (4), Marketing (1) and Management (1).
Most of them appeared in International Tax and Public Finance (1), Journal of Marketing Analytics (1) and Computational Economics (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Google Trends was mentioned in 651 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (236), economics (190) and management (57).
115 of them were published in 2025, against 19 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (6), IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (6) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (6).
The journals publishing most of them were Financial Innovation (35), International Review of Economics & Finance (20) and Finance research letters (18).
The most-cited of them is “COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being: Evidence from Google Trends” (Journal of Public Economics, 2020), with 637 citations.
Papers use Google Trends most often with Twitter / X (123), S&P 500 (83) and Economic Policy Uncertainty index (64); it has 100 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
	154	115	143	412

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
Finance	3	5	10	6	14	24	14	60	42	58
Economics	9	7	11	14	15	9	15	41	34	35
Management	2	3	0	4	7	3	6	15	6	11
AI	0	4	3	5	2	2	4	11	11	2
Operations Research	0	0	3	1	2	2	2	10	5	1
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	1	1	4	2	3	5	1	3
Tourism and Hospitality	3	1	1	0	0	2	4	1	3	3
Information Systems	1	0	1	1	1	0	3	7	3	0
Statistics	0	1	0	2	3	2	0	2	4	1
Marketing	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	2	5
Accounting	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	4	1
Higher Education and Research	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	1
All categories	19	23	32	35	49	46	53	158	115	121

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Financial Innovation	35
2	International Review of Economics & Finance	20
3	Finance research letters	18
4	International Review of Financial Analysis	16
5	Research in International Business and Finance	14
6	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	13
7	Computational Economics	10
8	Energy Economics	9
9	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	9
10	Empirical Economics	9

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	6
2	IZA - Institute of Labor Economics	6
3	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	6
4	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics	6
5	University of Birmingham	6
6	University of Bologna	6
7	Chinese Academy of Sciences	5
8	London School of Economics and Political Science	5
9	Monash University	5
10	Nankai University	5

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	United States	84
2	United Kingdom	83
3	China	54
4	Germany	51
5	Italy	51
6	Spain	31
7	France	31
8	Australia	25
9	Turkey	24
10	India	17

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	Google Trends	109
2	COVID-19 pandemic	61
3	investor sentiment	31
4	Bitcoin	30
5	investor attention	30
6	Google search volume	27
7	cryptocurrency market	20
8	stock returns	20
9	Google Search Volume Index	18
10	Russian invasion of Ukraine	18

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	637	9.0	COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being: Evidence from Google Trends	Journal of Public Economics	2020-11-30	Abel Brodeur, Andrew Eric Clark, Sarah Flèche et al.
2	532	5.0	Ten years of research change using Google Trends: From the perspective of big data utilizations and applications	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	2017-11-24	Seung‐pyo Jun, Hyoung Sun Yoo, San Choi
3	499	6.7	Forecasting and planning during a pandemic: COVID-19 growth rates, supply chain disruptions, and governmental decisions	European Journal of Operational Research	2020-08-07	Konstantinos I. Nikolopoulos, Sushil Punia, Andreas Schäfers et al.
4	436	5.0	Supply chain digitisation trends: An integration of knowledge management	International Journal of Production Economics	2019-07-16	Dara G. Schniederjans, Carla Curado, Mehrnaz Khalaj Hedayati
5	306	3.1	What can explain the price, volatility and trading volume of Bitcoin?	Finance research letters	2018-08-16	Halvor Aarhus Aalborg, Péter Molnár, Jon Erik de Vries

Archive counts by publication year: a paper counts when its title, abstract or keywords name the dataset, or when OpenAlex's full-text search finds it there (searched for the last 30 days' papers and, by a pass over the past years, for older ones). Names added to the list later are looked for in older papers as the archive is read again.

Used together with#

Papers use Google Trends most often with Twitter / X (123), S&P 500 (83) and Economic Policy Uncertainty index (64); it has 100 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat. The whole network →

What papers use Google Trends together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used with	Type	Papers using both	Lift
Twitter / X	Dataset	123	2.0
S&P 500	Dataset	83	2.7
Economic Policy Uncertainty index	Dataset	64	2.0
VIX	Dataset	51	3.9
Facebook	Dataset	41	1.0
Marketization index (Fan Gang)	Dataset	39	4.3
YouTube / TikTok	Dataset	29	1.1
Wikipedia	Dataset	27	1.9
Baker-Wurgler investor sentiment	Dataset	26	11.7
WTI crude oil	Dataset	24	2.7
Reddit	Dataset	23	2.8
Dow Jones Industrial Average	Dataset	22	5.2

Papers mentioning Google Trends in the last 30 days, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-24	Fiscal information and stated willingness to pay taxes: evidence from a survey experiment	International Tax and Public Finance	JosÃ© MarÃa DurÃ¡n-CabrÃ©, Alejandro Esteller Moré, Riccardo Secomandi	Barcelona Institute of Economics; Universitat de Barcelona; University of Ferrara
2026-10-24	From AI boyfriends to AI shopping agents? The emerging convergence of relational AI and AI-assisted commerce	Journal of Marketing Analytics	Thomas Schöley, Niklas Mergner	FernUniversität in Hagen
2026-10-24	Optimal Portfolio Allocation with Gromov-Wasserstein Barycenter	Computational Economics	Alessandro Spelta, Nicoló Pecora, Mario Maggi	University of Pavia; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
2026-10-19	Firm-level effects of AI attention on wages and productivity: A global comparative study	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	Swapnanil SenGupta	Goethe University Frankfurt; Halle Institute for Economic Research
2026-10-12	Productivity convergence for the capable? Endogenous capabilities, the great recession, and the effectiveness of EU Cohesion Policy	The Annals of Regional Science	Federico Colozza, Massimo Bagarani, Luigi Salvati	University of Pavia; Marconi University; University of Messina
2026-10-08	Forecasting the S&P 500 materials volatility via the dual climate risk: A hybrid machine learning approach	Finance research letters	Jinzuo He, Chi Xie, Weiyiqing Wang et al.	Hunan University
2026-10-08	Behavioral drivers of cryptocurrency markets: A systematic review	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	Sebastian Steindl, Hans Rüdiger Kaufmann, Bernd Britzelmaier	University of Nicosia; University of Applied Management Studies; Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences
2026-10-06	From coast to cost: Mispricing and reform scenarios in Italy’s coastal concession system	Land Use Policy	Emanuele Caggiano, Stefano d’Addona, Filippo Maurici et al.	Roma Tre University
2026-10-06	Is bitcoin a hedge against central banking? Evidence from AI-driven monetary policy expectations	Journal of International Money and Finance	Maxime L. D. Nicolas, François Sicard, Marion Labouré et al.	University College London; Deutsche Bank (United Kingdom)
2026-10-06	Attention-amplified sentiment and jump risk in Bitcoin and Ethereum markets: A text-augmented Hawkes framework	International Review of Financial Analysis	Alev Atak, Philip Hans Franses	Middle East Technical University; Erasmus University Rotterdam

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Google Trends. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/google-trends

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  title = {Google Trends},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/google-trends}},
  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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