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title: "International Country Risk Guide (ICRG): papers using it"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 87 archived papers mentioned International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (7)."
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# International Country Risk Guide (ICRG)

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/4.md)

Country indices of governance, democracy, corruption, economic freedom, political risk and capital openness.

- data category: Governance and institutional indicators
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: International Country Risk Guide, ICRG

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Governance and institutional indicators datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/governance-and-institutional-indicators.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 87 archived papers mentioned International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (7).
- International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) 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: Management (1).
- Most of them appeared in Journal of International Management (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) was mentioned in 97 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (49), finance (29) and management (17).
- 24 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Université Clermont Auvergne (7), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (6) and University of Birmingham (5).
- The journals publishing most of them were World Development (5), Management International Review (5) and Public Choice (4).
- The most-cited of them is “The global economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic” (Economic Modelling, 2023), with 116 citations.
- Papers use International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) most often with World Development Indicators (World Bank) (43), Worldwide Governance Indicators (31) and Economic Policy Uncertainty index (15); it has 36 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 28 | 24 | 35 | 87 |

## 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) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 17 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 10 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 26 | 24 | 33 |

## 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 | [Management International Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/management-international-review.md) | 5 |
| 3 | [Public Choice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-choice.md) | 4 |
| 4 | [Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-financial-markets-institutions-and-money.md) | 4 |
| 5 | [Future Business Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/future-business-journal.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [Journal of International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-economics.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [International Tax and Public Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-tax-and-public-finance.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [Mineral Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mineral-economics.md) | 3 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Université Clermont Auvergne | 7 |
| 2 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [University of Birmingham](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-birmingham.md) | 5 |
| 4 | Aston University | 4 |
| 5 | Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International | 4 |
| 6 | [Durham University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/durham-university.md) | 4 |
| 7 | Institut de Recherche pour le Développement | 4 |
| 8 | Pepperdine University | 4 |
| 9 | [University of Bath](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bath.md) | 4 |
| 10 | Coventry University | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 30 |
| 2 | United States | 22 |
| 3 | France | 19 |
| 4 | China | 11 |
| 5 | Germany | 11 |
| 6 | Australia | 8 |
| 7 | South Africa | 6 |
| 8 | Italy | 5 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 5 |
| 10 | Qatar | 5 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [institutional quality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/institutional-quality.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [corruption](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corruption.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [developing countries](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/developing-countries.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [multinational corporations](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multinational-corporations.md) | 9 |
| 6 | political risk | 8 |
| 7 | [financial development](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-development.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [foreign direct investment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/foreign-direct-investment.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [moderating effect](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/moderating-effect.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 116 | 3.2 | [The global economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106551) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 2023-10-14 | Warwick J. McKibbin, Roshen Fernando |
| 2 | 84 | 2.5 | [Aid effectiveness and donor motives](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106501) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2024-01-15 | Axel Dreher, Valentin Lang, Bernhard Reinsberg |
| 3 | 68 | 2.4 | [Board gender diversity reform and corporate carbon emissions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2024.102616) | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 2024-06-11 | Raúl Barroso, Tinghua Duan, Siyue Guo et al. |
| 4 | 64 | 2.6 | [Sustainable development goals and environmental performance: Exploring the contribution of governance, energy, and growth](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102646) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 2024-10-30 | Mirza Muhammad Naseer, Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Alessia Palma et al. |
| 5 | 50 | 1.6 | [The dark side of the moon? Fintech and financial stability](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12232-024-00449-8) | [International Review of Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics.md) | 2024-03-25 | Serhan Cevik |

## Used together with

Papers use International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) most often with World Development Indicators (World Bank) (43), Worldwide Governance Indicators (31) and Economic Policy Uncertainty index (15); it has 36 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

*What papers use International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [World Development Indicators (World Bank)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-development-indicators-world-bank.md) | Dataset | 43 | 22.5 |
| [Worldwide Governance Indicators](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/worldwide-governance-indicators.md) | Dataset | 31 | 34.0 |
| [Economic Policy Uncertainty index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/economic-policy-uncertainty-index.md) | Dataset | 15 | 3.1 |
| [Polity](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/polity.md) | Dataset | 13 | 69.7 |
| [Economic freedom indices](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/economic-freedom-indices.md) | Dataset | 12 | 31.3 |
| [V-Dem](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/v-dem.md) | Dataset | 12 | 31.8 |
| [Corruption Perceptions Index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/corruption-perceptions-index.md) | Dataset | 11 | 26.6 |
| [Penn World Table](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/penn-world-table.md) | Dataset | 10 | 25.2 |
| [S&P 500](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-500.md) | Dataset | 9 | 1.9 |
| [Compustat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/compustat.md) | Dataset | 7 | 5.5 |
| [Geopolitical Risk index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/geopolitical-risk-index.md) | Dataset | 7 | 14.4 |
| [Refinitiv Datastream](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/refinitiv-datastream.md) | Dataset | 7 | 9.2 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-20 | [Dynamic political risk and international investment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2026.101432) | [Journal of International Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-management.md) | Vera Kunczer, Thomas Lindner, Jonas F Puck | Copenhagen Business School; Vienna University of Economics and Business; Universität Innsbruck |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). International Country Risk Guide (ICRG). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/international-country-risk-guide-icrg

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-international-country-risk-guide-icrg,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {International Country Risk Guide (ICRG)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/international-country-risk-guide-icrg}},
  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/).