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title: "MSCI indices: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 157 archived papers mentioned MSCI indices in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Apr 2024 (10)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 157 archived papers mentioned MSCI indices in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Apr 2024 (10). (as of 2026-11-05)"
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# MSCI indices

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

Benchmark equity indices used as market returns, samples or index-membership designs.

- data category: Stock market indices
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: MSCI World, MSCI Emerging Markets, MSCI ACWI, MSCI EM

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Stock market indices datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/stock-market-indices.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 157 archived papers mentioned MSCI indices in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Apr 2024 (10).
- MSCI indices was mentioned in 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #51 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Finance (4), Management (1) and Economics (1).
- Most of them appeared in International Review of Economics & Finance (3), Future Business Journal (1) and Journal of commodity markets (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), MSCI indices was mentioned in 180 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (122), economics (24) and management (20).
- 47 of them were published in 2025, against 2 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Edinburgh Napier University (6), Swiss Finance Institute (6) and University of Southampton (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were Financial Innovation (16), International Review of Economics & Finance (12) and Journal of Asset Management (11).
- The most-cited of them is “The Effects of Central Bank Digital Currencies News on Financial Markets” (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022), with 180 citations.
- Papers use MSCI indices most often with Marketization index (Fan Gang) (70), S&P 500 (59) and Economic Policy Uncertainty index (35); it has 57 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

## 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 51 | 46 | 60 | 157 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 41 | 28 | 32 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 8 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 5 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 54 | 47 | 50 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | 16 |
| 2 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [Journal of Asset Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-asset-management.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Future Business Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/future-business-journal.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-financial-markets-institutions-and-money.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [Journal of Financial Stability](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-stability.md) | 5 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Edinburgh Napier University | 6 |
| 2 | Swiss Finance Institute | 6 |
| 3 | [University of Southampton](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-southampton.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [University of Zurich](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-zurich.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [KU Leuven](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ku-leuven.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [University of Nottingham](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-nottingham.md) | 4 |
| 7 | University of Łódź | 4 |
| 8 | [Guangzhou University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/guangzhou-university.md) | 3 |
| 9 | ICMA Centre | 3 |
| 10 | [Lebanese American University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lebanese-american-university.md) | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 47 |
| 2 | China | 22 |
| 3 | Italy | 17 |
| 4 | Germany | 16 |
| 5 | France | 15 |
| 6 | United States | 15 |
| 7 | Turkey | 11 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 10 |
| 9 | Australia | 9 |
| 10 | Spain | 8 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 25 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 23 |
| 3 | [portfolio diversification](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/portfolio-diversification.md) | 17 |
| 4 | [Bitcoin](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bitcoin.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [Russian invasion of Ukraine](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/russian-invasion-of-ukraine.md) | 11 |
| 6 | MSCI Emerging Markets Index | 10 |
| 7 | [spillover effects](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/spillover-effects.md) | 9 |
| 8 | gold | 8 |
| 9 | [hedging](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/hedging.md) | 8 |
| 10 | stock market | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 180 | 3.3 | [The Effects of Central Bank Digital Currencies News on Financial Markets](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121715) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2022-04-30 | Yizhi Wang, Brian M. Lucey, Samuel  Alexandre Vigne et al. |
| 2 | 180 | 5.6 | [Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and artificial intelligence in finance: State-of-the-art and research takeaways](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10708-3) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2024-02-28 | Tristan Lim |
| 3 | 157 | 5.2 | [How cheap talk in climate disclosures relates to climate initiatives, corporate emissions, and reputation risk](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2024.107191) | [Journal of Banking & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-banking-finance.md) | 2024-04-29 | Julia Bingler, Mathias Kraus, Markus Leippold et al. |
| 4 | 82 | 1.2 | [Immune or at-risk? Stock markets and the significance of the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2021.100477) | [Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-behavioral-and-experimental-finance.md) | 2021-02-21 | Niall O’Donnell, Darren Shannon, Barry Sheehan |
| 5 | 81 | 1.5 | [Gold, bonds, and epidemics: A safe haven study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.102978) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2022-05-16 | Tonmoy Toufic Choudhury, Harald Kinateder, Biwesh Neupane |

## Used together with

Papers use MSCI indices most often with Marketization index (Fan Gang) (70), S&P 500 (59) and Economic Policy Uncertainty index (35); it has 57 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

*What papers use MSCI indices together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Marketization index (Fan Gang)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/marketization-index-fan-gang.md) | Dataset | 70 | 27.6 |
| [S&P 500](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-500.md) | Dataset | 59 | 6.8 |
| [Economic Policy Uncertainty index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/economic-policy-uncertainty-index.md) | Dataset | 35 | 3.9 |
| [VIX](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/vix.md) | Dataset | 32 | 8.7 |
| [Refinitiv Datastream](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/refinitiv-datastream.md) | Dataset | 25 | 17.7 |
| [Refinitiv Eikon / LSEG Workspace](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/refinitiv-eikon-lseg-workspace.md) | Dataset | 25 | 17.4 |
| [WTI crude oil](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wti-crude-oil.md) | Dataset | 25 | 10.2 |
| [Brent crude oil](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/brent-crude-oil.md) | Dataset | 17 | 10.3 |
| [S&P GSCI / Bloomberg Commodity Index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-gsci-bloomberg-commodity-index.md) | Dataset | 16 | 74.2 |
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 16 | 1.0 |
| [MSCI ESG / KLD](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/msci-esg-kld.md) | Dataset | 15 | 31.7 |
| [Kenneth French Data Library](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kenneth-french-data-library.md) | Dataset | 13 | 20.8 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning MSCI indices in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | [Macro-financial conditions and volatility connectedness across industrial and precious metal markets](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2026.105971) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | Amelie Schischke, Andreas Rathgeber | University of Augsburg |
| 2026-10-27 | [Pledging patents for ESG: Evidence from China's listed companies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2026.105987) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | Ruoyu Zhu, Qipo Wang, Xiaohui Xin | Tsinghua University; Shandong University of Finance and Economics; Beijing Jiaotong University |
| 2026-10-21 | [Net zero benchmarks and carbon transition risk: A multi-index performance analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2026.105998) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | Eyyüp Ensari Şahin | Niğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi |
| 2026-10-15 | [Does entrepreneurship policy reform institutional conditions? Evidence from India’s Startup India programme](https://doi.org/10.1186/s43093-026-01023-0) | [Future Business Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/future-business-journal.md) | Gourav Aggarwal, Smita Kashiramka | O. P. Jindal Global University; Indian Institute of Technology Delhi |
| 2026-10-15 | [Analyzing the dynamic connectedness and quantile dependence between carbon and fossil energy markets](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomm.2026.100593) | [Journal of commodity markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-commodity-markets.md) | Walid Mensi, Salem Adel Ziadat, Bashar Yaser Almansour et al. | Sultan Qaboos University; Tunis El Manar University; University of Jordan; … |
| 2026-10-13 | [Capturing international influences in U.S. monetary policy through a Natural Language Processing approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2026.104344) | [Journal of International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-economics.md) | Laurent Ferrara, Nicolas de Roux | SKEMA Business School; Université Côte d'Azur |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). MSCI indices. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/msci-indices

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@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-msci-indices,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {MSCI indices},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/msci-indices}},
  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/).