From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 119 archived papers mentioned MSCI ESG / KLD in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (7).
No paper of the tracked journals mentioned MSCI ESG / KLD in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), MSCI ESG / KLD was mentioned in 125 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (69), management (26) and accounting (16).
41 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Durham University (6), Bocconi University (4) and Technical University of Munich (4).
The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Business Ethics (10), International Review of Financial Analysis (10) and Research in International Business and Finance (9).
The most-cited of them is “Do high-ability managers choose ESG projects that create shareholder value? Evidence from employee opinions” (Review of Accounting Studies, 2022), with 196 citations.
Papers use MSCI ESG / KLD most often with Compustat (46), Refinitiv ESG (ASSET4) (36) and S&P 500 (31); it has 57 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.
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)
Luca Simone Macca, Jacopo Ballerini, Gabriele Santoro 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 MSCI ESG / KLD most often with Compustat (46), Refinitiv ESG (ASSET4) (36) and S&P 500 (31); it has 57 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat. The whole network →
What papers use MSCI ESG / KLD together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Scholar4AI. (2026). MSCI ESG / KLD. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/msci-esg-kld
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