From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 163 archived papers mentioned Kenneth French Data Library in their title, abstract, keywords or full text, most of them in Sep 2026 (10).
No paper of the tracked journals mentioned Kenneth French Data Library in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Kenneth French Data Library was mentioned in 165 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (95), economics (31) and operations research (11).
45 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Durham University (5), Monash University (5) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (4).
The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Banking & Finance (11), Journal of Asset Management (10) and Journal of Financial Economics (8).
The most-cited of them is “Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2023), with 115 citations.
Papers use Kenneth French Data Library most often with CRSP (58), S&P 500 (56) and Marketization index (Fan Gang) (35); it has 53 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.
Gianfranco Gianfrate, Mirco Rubin, Dario Ruzzi et al.
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.
Papers use Kenneth French Data Library most often with CRSP (58), S&P 500 (56) and Marketization index (Fan Gang) (35); it has 53 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat. The whole network →
What papers use Kenneth French Data Library together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Scholar4AI. (2026). Kenneth French Data Library. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kenneth-french-data-library
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