Loughran-McDonald dictionary
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Annual reports and other regulatory filings, earnings calls, and the word lists used to read them.
Key findings#
- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 193 archived papers mentioned Loughran-McDonald dictionary in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (14).
- Loughran-McDonald dictionary was mentioned in 8 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #43 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Finance (7) and Management (1).
- Most of them appeared in International Review of Economics & Finance (2), International Review of Financial Analysis (2) and Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Loughran-McDonald dictionary was mentioned in 197 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (101), accounting (35) and management (22).
- 49 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Durham University (6), Monash University (6) and Athens University of Economics and Business (5).
- The journals publishing most of them were Review of Accounting Studies (14), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (13) and International Review of Economics & Finance (13).
- The most-cited of them is “A scoping review of ChatGPT research in accounting and finance” (International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, 2024), with 128 citations.
- Papers use Loughran-McDonald dictionary most often with Twitter / X (61), Earnings call transcripts (56) and Compustat (55); it has 70 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.
Mentions over 36 months#
| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65 | 50 | 78 | 193 |
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 33 | 19 | 47 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 14 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 63 | 49 | 75 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Review of Accounting Studies | 14 |
| 2 | Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | 13 |
| 3 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 13 |
| 4 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 11 |
| 5 | Journal of Banking & Finance | 7 |
| 6 | Financial Innovation | 7 |
| 7 | Annals of Operations Research | 6 |
| 8 | The British Accounting Review | 6 |
| 9 | Journal of Corporate Finance | 6 |
| 10 | Finance research letters | 6 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Durham University | 6 |
| 2 | Monash University | 6 |
| 3 | Athens University of Economics and Business | 5 |
| 4 | Queen's University Belfast | 5 |
| 5 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 5 |
| 6 | University of Birmingham | 5 |
| 7 | Ajman University | 4 |
| 8 | Mansoura University | 4 |
| 9 | Pennsylvania State University | 4 |
| 10 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | 4 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 59 |
| 2 | United States | 51 |
| 3 | China | 35 |
| 4 | Germany | 20 |
| 5 | Australia | 18 |
| 6 | Italy | 12 |
| 7 | France | 10 |
| 8 | Turkey | 8 |
| 9 | Canada | 7 |
| 10 | Ireland | 7 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | corporate governance | 17 |
| 2 | sentiment analysis | 17 |
| 3 | information asymmetry | 15 |
| 4 | large language models | 13 |
| 5 | 10-K filings | 12 |
| 6 | corporate disclosure | 12 |
| 7 | investor sentiment | 12 |
| 8 | stock returns | 10 |
| 9 | initial public offerings | 9 |
| 10 | FinBERT | 8 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 128 | 5.1 | A scoping review of ChatGPT research in accounting and finance | International Journal of Accounting Information Systems | 2024-10-07 | Mengming Dong, Theophanis C. Stratopoulos, Victor Xiaoqi Wang |
| 2 | 115 | 3.6 | Sentiment trading with large language models | Finance research letters | 2024-03-15 | Kemal Kirtac, Guido Germano |
| 3 | 64 | 1.9 | Analysis of customer reviews with an improved VADER lexicon classifier | Journal Of Big Data | 2024-01-07 | Kousik Barik, Sanjay Misra |
| 4 | 64 | 2.4 | Climate change exposure, financial development, and the cost of debt: Evidence from EU countries | Journal of Financial Stability | 2024-08-03 | Vu Quang Trinh, Hai Hong Trinh, Teng Li et al. |
| 5 | 63 | 2.2 | Selecting textual analysis tools to classify sustainability information in corporate reporting | Decision Support Systems | 2024-06-12 | Frederik Maibaum, Johannes Kriebel, J. Nils Foege |
Used together with#
| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twitter / X | Dataset | 61 | 3.4 |
| Earnings call transcripts | Dataset | 56 | 50.2 |
| Compustat | Dataset | 55 | 21.2 |
| 10-K filings | Dataset | 47 | 40.3 |
| CRSP | Dataset | 46 | 26.2 |
| S&P 500 | Dataset | 31 | 3.3 |
| Economic Policy Uncertainty index | Dataset | 27 | 2.7 |
| I/B/E/S | Dataset | 24 | 23.1 |
| Refinitiv Eikon / LSEG Workspace | Dataset | 24 | 15.4 |
| Dataset | 21 | 1.7 | |
| CSMAR | Dataset | 20 | 11.1 |
| Baker-Wurgler investor sentiment | Dataset | 19 | 28.3 |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | Governance Complexity Index (GCI) Pakistan: Quantifying Organizational Structure Capacity | Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity | Asif Iqbal, Rafia Haider, Imran Ali Sultan et al. | Urban Unit; Government of Punjab; Government of Pakistan; … |
| 2026-10-16 | Public technical disclosure of AI implementation in finance: Python-framed evidence from 253 NYSE-listed financial companies | Financial Innovation | Veliota Drakopoulou | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach Florida Campus; Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide & Online; Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University |
| 2026-10-15 | Corporate board oversight and disclosure complexity | Finance research letters | Habeeb Yahya, Toufiq Nazrul | University of Turku; Washburn University |
| 2026-10-15 | Scripted and unscripted disclosure: Tone in Brazilian earnings calls and short-window market reactions | International Review of Economics & Finance | Rodrigo Dos Reis Maia, Jorge Miguel Bravo | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| 2026-10-13 | Can central bankers' talk predict bank stock returns? A machine learning approach | International Review of Financial Analysis | Apostolos G. Katsafados, George N. Leledakis, Nikolaos P. Panagiotou et al. | Athens University of Economics and Business; University College Dublin |
| 2026-10-09 | Executive sustainability cognition and corporate innovation: Evidence from China | International Review of Economics & Finance | Qian Cheng, Yuhao Yang, Jianyu Zhao | Renmin University of China; Macquarie University; Central University of Finance and Economics |
| 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 |
| 2026-10-06 | Chronologically consistent large language models | Journal of Financial Economics | Songrun He, Linying Lv, Asaf Manela et al. | Chinese University of Hong Kong; Washington University in St. Louis; University of Iowa |
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Scholar4AI. (2026). Loughran-McDonald dictionary. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/loughran-mcdonald-dictionary
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