---
title: "Google Trends: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/google-trends
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/google-trends.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "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). (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
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---

# Google Trends

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

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

- data category: Search, news and web data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Google Trends, Google search volume

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Search, news and web data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/search-news-and-web-data.md



## 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 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #43 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Economics (3), Finance (2), 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

*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) | 3 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 24 | 14 | 60 | 42 | 58 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 9 | 7 | 11 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 41 | 34 | 35 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 11 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 2 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | 35 |
| 2 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 20 |
| 3 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 16 |
| 5 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Empirical Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/empirical-economics.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 6 |
| 2 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [University of Birmingham](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-birmingham.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [University of Bologna](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bologna.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [Monash University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/monash-university.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Nankai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nankai-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 61 |
| 3 | [investor sentiment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/investor-sentiment.md) | 31 |
| 4 | [Bitcoin](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bitcoin.md) | 30 |
| 5 | investor attention | 30 |
| 6 | Google search volume | 27 |
| 7 | cryptocurrency market | 20 |
| 8 | [stock returns](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/stock-returns.md) | 20 |
| 9 | Google Search Volume Index | 18 |
| 10 | [Russian invasion of Ukraine](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/russian-invasion-of-ukraine.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104346) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.11.009) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.08.001) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.07.012) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 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?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2018.08.010) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2018-08-16 | Halvor Aarhus Aalborg, Péter Molnár, Jon Erik de Vries |

## 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.

*What papers use Google Trends together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 123 | 2.0 |
| [S&P 500](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-500.md) | Dataset | 83 | 2.7 |
| [Economic Policy Uncertainty index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/economic-policy-uncertainty-index.md) | Dataset | 64 | 2.0 |
| [VIX](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/vix.md) | Dataset | 51 | 3.9 |
| [Facebook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facebook.md) | Dataset | 41 | 1.0 |
| [Marketization index (Fan Gang)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/marketization-index-fan-gang.md) | Dataset | 39 | 4.3 |
| [YouTube / TikTok](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/youtube-tiktok.md) | Dataset | 29 | 1.1 |
| [Wikipedia](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wikipedia.md) | Dataset | 27 | 1.9 |
| [Baker-Wurgler investor sentiment](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/baker-wurgler-investor-sentiment.md) | Dataset | 26 | 11.7 |
| [WTI crude oil](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wti-crude-oil.md) | Dataset | 24 | 2.7 |
| [Reddit](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/reddit.md) | Dataset | 23 | 2.8 |
| [Dow Jones Industrial Average](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/dow-jones-industrial-average.md) | Dataset | 22 | 5.2 |

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

## Papers

*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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-026-10007-3) | [International Tax and Public Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-tax-and-public-finance.md) | José María Durán-Cabré, 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](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41270-026-00556-1) | [Journal of Marketing Analytics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-marketing-analytics.md) | Thomas Schöley, Niklas Mergner | FernUniversität in Hagen |
| 2026-10-24 | [Optimal Portfolio Allocation with Gromov-Wasserstein Barycenter](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-026-11445-1) | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2026.124913) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-026-01569-5) | [The Annals of Regional Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-annals-of-regional-science.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.110887) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | Jinzuo He, Chi Xie, Weiyiqing Wang et al. | Hunan University |
| 2026-10-08 | [Behavioral drivers of cryptocurrency markets: A systematic review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101265) | [Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-behavioral-and-experimental-finance.md) | Sebastian Steindl, Hans Rüdiger Kaufmann, Bernd Britzelmaier | University of Nicosia; University of Applied Management Studies; Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Google Trends. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/google-trends

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@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-google-trends,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Google Trends},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/google-trends}},
  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/).