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title: "Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 161 archived papers mentioned Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2024 (9)."
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# Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker

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

Population health statistics, disease burden, health surveys and pandemic trackers.

- data category: Health data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker, OxCGRT, Government Response Tracker, stringency index

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Health data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/health-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 161 archived papers mentioned Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2024 (9).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker was mentioned in 187 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (104), finance (34) and health economics and policy (27).
- 51 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (7), London School of Economics and Political Science (6) and University of Oxford (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Economics (8), Public Choice (6) and Journal of International Money and Finance (5).
- The most-cited of them is “Does increasing environmental policy stringency enhance renewable energy consumption in OECD countries?” (Energy Economics, 2023), with 128 citations.
- Papers use Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker most often with Our World in Data (30), Eurostat (26) and World Development Indicators (World Bank) (22); it has 56 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 66 | 52 | 43 | 161 |

## 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) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 39 | 32 | 19 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 11 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 4 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 19 | 65 | 51 | 35 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 8 |
| 2 | [Public Choice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-choice.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [Journal of International Money and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-money-and-finance.md) | 5 |
| 4 | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 5 |
| 5 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [European Journal of Political Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-political-economy.md) | 4 |
| 7 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 4 |
| 8 | [Empirical Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/empirical-economics.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [Environmental and Resource Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-and-resource-economics.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | 4 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 7 |
| 2 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [International Monetary Fund](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/international-monetary-fund.md) | 5 |
| 5 | European Central Bank | 4 |
| 6 | [University of Newcastle Australia](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-newcastle-australia.md) | 4 |
| 7 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 3 |
| 8 | Karolinska Institutet | 3 |
| 9 | [Universitat de Barcelona](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universitat-de-barcelona.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [University of Edinburgh](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-edinburgh.md) | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 39 |
| 2 | Italy | 31 |
| 3 | Germany | 27 |
| 4 | United States | 24 |
| 5 | France | 19 |
| 6 | China | 16 |
| 7 | Spain | 16 |
| 8 | Australia | 14 |
| 9 | Canada | 12 |
| 10 | Sweden | 9 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 85 |
| 2 | environmental policy stringency | 16 |
| 3 | [environmental regulation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/environmental-regulation.md) | 13 |
| 4 | [environmental policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/environmental-policy.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [green innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/green-innovation.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [institutional quality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/institutional-quality.md) | 8 |
| 8 | lockdown | 8 |
| 9 | COVID-19 mortality | 7 |
| 10 | [OECD countries](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/oecd-countries.md) | 7 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 128 | 3.6 | [Does increasing environmental policy stringency enhance renewable energy consumption in OECD countries?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2023.107198) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2023-11-27 | Mahmoud Hassan, Marc Kouzez, Ji-Yong Lee et al. |
| 2 | 88 | 1.5 | [Trade impact of maximum residue limits in fresh fruits and vegetables](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102203) | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | 2021-12-06 | Mina Hejazi, Jason H. Grant, Everett Peterson |
| 3 | 78 | 2.3 | [The impact of environmental regulation on innovation and international competitiveness](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-024-00852-y) | [Journal of Evolutionary Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-evolutionary-economics.md) | 2024-01-01 | Andrea Fabrizi, Marco Gentile, Giulio Guarini et al. |
| 4 | 67 | 1.9 | [Environmental Policies and directed technological change](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2023.102916) | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 2023-12-19 | Klaus Peter Gugler, Florian Szücs, Thomas Wiedenhofer |
| 5 | 48 | 0.8 | [Lockdown strictness and mental health effects among older populations in Europe](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101116) | [Economics & Human Biology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-human-biology.md) | 2022-02-01 | Ariadna García‐Prado, Paula González, Yolanda F. Rebollo‐Sanz |

## Used together with

Papers use Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker most often with Our World in Data (30), Eurostat (26) and World Development Indicators (World Bank) (22); it has 56 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

*What papers use Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Our World in Data](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/our-world-in-data.md) | Dataset | 30 | 34.3 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 26 | 4.6 |
| [World Development Indicators (World Bank)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-development-indicators-world-bank.md) | Dataset | 22 | 6.0 |
| [Economic Policy Uncertainty index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/economic-policy-uncertainty-index.md) | Dataset | 19 | 2.0 |
| [Worldwide Governance Indicators](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/worldwide-governance-indicators.md) | Dataset | 17 | 9.7 |
| [International Energy Agency (IEA)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/international-energy-agency-iea.md) | Dataset | 15 | 4.1 |
| [S&P 500](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-500.md) | Dataset | 14 | 1.6 |
| [Google Trends](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/google-trends.md) | Dataset | 11 | 4.3 |
| [Compustat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/compustat.md) | Dataset | 10 | 4.1 |
| [VIX](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/vix.md) | Dataset | 10 | 2.6 |
| [Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/google-covid-19-community-mobility-reports.md) | Dataset | 9 | 46.0 |
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 8 | 0.5 |

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

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/oxford-covid-19-government-response-tracker

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-oxford-covid-19-government-response-tracker,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/oxford-covid-19-government-response-tracker}},
  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/).