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title: "O*NET: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 89 archived papers mentioned O*NET in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Aug 2026 (8)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/o-net
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/o-net.md
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 89 archived papers mentioned O*NET in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Aug 2026 (8). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# O*NET

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/5.md)

Online job ads, occupational task descriptions, worker profiles and employer reviews.

- data category: Job postings and occupation data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: O*NET, Occupational Information Network

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Job postings and occupation data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/job-postings-and-occupation-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 89 archived papers mentioned O*NET in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Aug 2026 (8).
- O*NET was mentioned in 1 paper in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #165 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Economics (1).
- Most of them appeared in Labour Economics (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), O*NET was mentioned in 108 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (61), management (18) and AI (7).
- 32 of them were published in 2025, against 4 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Ghent University (5), IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (5) and UCLouvain (4).
- The journals publishing most of them were Labour Economics (8), Technological Forecasting and Social Change (5) and Journal of Public Economics (4).
- The most-cited of them is “Characterising green employment: The impacts of ‘greening’ on workforce composition” (Energy Economics, 2018), with 183 citations.
- Papers use O*NET most often with Bureau of Labor Statistics (14), Eurostat (11) and Current Population Survey (8); it has 16 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

## 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 22 | 31 | 36 | 89 |

## 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) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 19 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 32 | 33 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | 8 |
| 2 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 5 |
| 3 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 4 |
| 4 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 4 |
| 5 | [Journal for Labour Market Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-for-labour-market-research.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [Eurasian economic review :](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/eurasian-economic-review.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [Journal of International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-economics.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Ghent University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ghent-university.md) | 5 |
| 2 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 5 |
| 3 | UCLouvain | 4 |
| 4 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 3 |
| 5 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne | 3 |
| 6 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 3 |
| 7 | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung | 3 |
| 8 | University of Antwerp | 3 |
| 9 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 3 |
| 10 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 20 |
| 2 | Germany | 18 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 16 |
| 4 | Belgium | 9 |
| 5 | Italy | 9 |
| 6 | France | 7 |
| 7 | Australia | 6 |
| 8 | China | 6 |
| 9 | Spain | 5 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 5 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | O*NET | 12 |
| 2 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 10 |
| 3 | automation | 8 |
| 4 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 7 |
| 5 | labor demand | 6 |
| 6 | [generative AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generative-ai.md) | 5 |
| 7 | green jobs | 5 |
| 8 | skill complementarity | 5 |
| 9 | [gender differences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/gender-differences.md) | 4 |
| 10 | hiring discrimination | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 183 | 1.8 | [Characterising green employment: The impacts of ‘greening’ on workforce composition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2018.03.015) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2018-04-03 | Alex Bowen, Karlygash Kuralbayeva, Eileen Tipoe |
| 2 | 178 | 4.9 | [What is the price of a skill? The value of complementarity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104898) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2023-10-17 | Fabian Stephany, Ole Teutloff |
| 3 | 172 | 2.1 | [Italian Workers at Risk During the COVID-19 Epidemic](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40797-021-00164-1) | [Italian Economic Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/italian-economic-journal.md) | 2020-01-01 | TERESA F. BARBIERI, Gaetano Basso, Sergio Scicchitano |
| 4 | 172 | 8.7 | [Job demands-resources and conservation of resources theories: How do they help to explain employee well-being and future job design?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115296) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2025-03-10 | Evangelia Demerouti |
| 5 | 83 | 3.3 | [XAI-RACapsNet: Relevance aware capsule network-based breast cancer detection using mammography images via explainability O-net ROI segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.125461) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2024-09-26 | Ahmed Alhussen, Mohd Anul Haq, Arfat Ahmad Khan et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use O*NET most often with Bureau of Labor Statistics (14), Eurostat (11) and Current Population Survey (8); it has 16 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/bureau-of-labor-statistics.md) | Dataset | 14 | 17.0 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 11 | 3.4 |
| [Current Population Survey](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/current-population-survey.md) | Dataset | 8 | 18.3 |
| [Labour Force Surveys](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/labour-force-surveys.md) | Dataset | 8 | 10.7 |
| [American Community Survey](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/american-community-survey.md) | Dataset | 7 | 10.5 |
| [Compustat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/compustat.md) | Dataset | 6 | 4.2 |
| [LinkedIn](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/linkedin.md) | Dataset | 6 | 3.2 |
| [Facebook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facebook.md) | Dataset | 5 | 0.7 |
| [IPUMS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ipums.md) | Dataset | 5 | 14.8 |
| [NLSY](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/nlsy.md) | Dataset | 5 | 16.8 |
| [US Census business data (LBD, CBP, QCEW)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/us-census-business-data-lbd-cbp-qcew.md) | Dataset | 5 | 22.4 |
| [Amazon Mechanical Turk](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/amazon-mechanical-turk.md) | Dataset | 4 | 3.0 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning O*NET in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | [Artificial intelligence technologies, skills demand and employment: Evidence from linked job ads](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2026.102974) | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | Lennert Peede, Michael Stops | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). O*NET. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/o-net

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-o-net,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {O*NET},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/o-net}},
  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/).