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title: "Kauffman Firm Survey: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 13 archived papers mentioned Kauffman Firm Survey in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in May 2026 (2)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kauffman-firm-survey
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 13 archived papers mentioned Kauffman Firm Survey in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in May 2026 (2). (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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---

# Kauffman Firm Survey

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

Surveys and administrative records of firms and plants, including private firms.

- data category: Firm surveys and census data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Kauffman Firm Survey

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Firm surveys and census data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/firm-surveys-and-census-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 13 archived papers mentioned Kauffman Firm Survey in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in May 2026 (2).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned Kauffman Firm Survey in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Kauffman Firm Survey was mentioned in 24 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (17), management (5) and finance (2).
- 5 of them were published in 2025, against 4 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Notre Dame (2), Aalto University (1) and Babson College (1).
- The journals publishing most of them were Small Business Economics (4), Journal of Business Ethics (2) and Journal of Business Venturing (2).
- The most-cited of them is “A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Entrepreneurs’ Gender on their Access to Bank Finance” (Journal of Business Ethics, 2023), with 50 citations.
- Papers use Kauffman Firm Survey most often with Crunchbase (4) and PitchBook (3); it has 2 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok.

## 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 3 | 6 | 4 | 13 |

## 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) | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 4 |
| 2 | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 2 |
| 3 | [Journal of Business Venturing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing.md) | 2 |
| 4 | [Journal of Banking & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-banking-finance.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [The Annals of Regional Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-annals-of-regional-science.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [The Journal of Technology Transfer](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-technology-transfer.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [International Tax and Public Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-tax-and-public-finance.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Review of Economic Dynamics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-economic-dynamics.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Notre Dame | 2 |
| 2 | [Aalto University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/aalto-university.md) | 1 |
| 3 | Babson College | 1 |
| 4 | Bern University of Applied Sciences | 1 |
| 5 | Centre for European Economic Research | 1 |
| 6 | Chuo University | 1 |
| 7 | [Copenhagen Business School](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/copenhagen-business-school.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 1 |
| 9 | Hanken School of Economics | 1 |
| 10 | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 6 |
| 2 | Germany | 4 |
| 3 | Australia | 2 |
| 4 | Switzerland | 2 |
| 5 | Portugal | 2 |
| 6 | China | 1 |
| 7 | Denmark | 1 |
| 8 | Finland | 1 |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 10 | Italy | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | women entrepreneurs | 5 |
| 2 | access to finance | 3 |
| 3 | startups | 3 |
| 4 | young firms | 3 |
| 5 | [entrepreneurship](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/entrepreneurship.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [financial inclusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-inclusion.md) | 2 |
| 7 | gender discrimination | 2 |
| 8 | gender gap | 2 |
| 9 | gender norms | 2 |
| 10 | small business | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | 1.4 | [A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Entrepreneurs’ Gender on their Access to Bank Finance](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05542-6) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 2023-10-17 | Malin Malmström, Barbara Burkhard, Charlotta Agneta Sirén et al. |
| 2 | 29 | 0.3 | [Testing for racial bias in business credit scores](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-017-9878-2) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 2017-06-08 | Alicia Robb, David T. Robinson |
| 3 | 28 | 0.3 | [The Importance of Industry to Strategic Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10842-019-00310-7) | [Journal of Industry Competition and Trade](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-industry-competition-and-trade.md) | 2019-06-28 | Christopher John Boudreaux |
| 4 | 24 | 0.2 | [New directions in entrepreneurship research with the Kauffman Firm Survey](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-017-9905-3) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 2017-07-19 | Joseph B. Farhat, Sharon F. Matusik, Alicia Robb et al. |
| 5 | 24 | 0.3 | [Employee compensation and new venture performance: does benefit type matter?](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-020-00357-5) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 2020-06-02 | Christopher John Boudreaux |

## Used together with

Papers use Kauffman Firm Survey most often with Crunchbase (4) and PitchBook (3); it has 2 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok.

*What papers use Kauffman Firm Survey together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Crunchbase](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/crunchbase.md) | Dataset | 4 | 59.1 |
| [PitchBook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/pitchbook.md) | Dataset | 3 | 132.9 |

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

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Kauffman Firm Survey. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kauffman-firm-survey

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-kauffman-firm-survey,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Kauffman Firm Survey},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kauffman-firm-survey}},
  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/).