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title: "PISA: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 140 archived papers mentioned PISA in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Dec 2025 (9)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/pisa
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/pisa.md
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 140 archived papers mentioned PISA in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Dec 2025 (9). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# PISA

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

Surveys run in many countries on values, trust, well-being, financial inclusion and skills.

- data category: Cross-country social and attitude surveys
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Cross-country social and attitude surveys datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cross-country-social-and-attitude-surveys.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 140 archived papers mentioned PISA in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Dec 2025 (9).
- PISA was mentioned in 3 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #103 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Higher Education and Research (2) and Economics (1).
- Most of them appeared in Educational Research Review (1), Education and Information Technologies (1) and Ecological Economics (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), PISA was mentioned in 307 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in higher education and research (165), economics (69) and operations research (23).
- 36 of them were published in 2025, against 16 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Beijing Normal University (7), KU Leuven (6) and Politecnico di Milano (5).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Educational Development (28), Studies In Educational Evaluation (27) and Education and Information Technologies (21).
- The most-cited of them is “PromptCast: A New Prompt-Based Learning Paradigm for Time Series Forecasting” (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2023), with 312 citations.
- Papers use PISA most often with TIMSS / PIRLS (26), International Energy Agency (IEA) (7) and OECD statistics (6); it has 8 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 47 | 34 | 59 | 140 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 6 | 12 | 3 | 18 | 17 | 12 | 20 | 27 | 20 | 30 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 8 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 6 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 16 | 22 | 14 | 32 | 30 | 22 | 41 | 45 | 36 | 49 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Journal of Educational Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-development.md) | 28 |
| 2 | [Studies In Educational Evaluation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/studies-in-educational-evaluation.md) | 27 |
| 3 | [Education and Information Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/education-and-information-technologies.md) | 21 |
| 4 | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [Quality & Quantity](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/quality-quantity.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [Economics of Education Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-education-review.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Statistical Methods & Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-methods-applications.md) | 4 |
| 8 | [Socio-Economic Planning Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/socio-economic-planning-sciences.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [International Journal of STEM Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-stem-education.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 2 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Beijing Normal University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-normal-university.md) | 7 |
| 2 | [KU Leuven](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ku-leuven.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [Politecnico di Milano](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/politecnico-di-milano.md) | 5 |
| 4 | [University of Macau](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-macau.md) | 5 |
| 5 | [Chinese University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 4 |
| 7 | Universidad de Zaragoza | 4 |
| 8 | [Education University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/education-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 3 |
| 9 | Guangxi Normal University | 3 |
| 10 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 31 |
| 2 | United States | 24 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 20 |
| 4 | Italy | 16 |
| 5 | Spain | 15 |
| 6 | Turkey | 13 |
| 7 | Germany | 12 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 10 |
| 9 | Australia | 8 |
| 10 | Belgium | 7 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [academic performance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/academic-performance.md) | 47 |
| 2 | PISA | 39 |
| 3 | PISA 2018 | 37 |
| 4 | PISA 2022 | 34 |
| 5 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 24 |
| 6 | educational inequality | 23 |
| 7 | mathematics achievement | 23 |
| 8 | [gender differences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/gender-differences.md) | 16 |
| 9 | reading achievement | 14 |
| 10 | [socioeconomic status](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/socioeconomic-status.md) | 14 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 312 | 9.0 | [PromptCast: A New Prompt-Based Learning Paradigm for Time Series Forecasting](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2023.3342137) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2023-12-13 | Hao Xue, Flora Dilys Salim |
| 2 | 175 | 2.5 | [Stereotypes in financial literacy: Evidence from PISA](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101831) | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 2020-12-20 | Laura Bottazzi, Annamaria Lusardi |
| 3 | 138 | 1.2 | [The gender gap in mathematics achievement: Evidence from Italian data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2017.03.001) | [Economics of Education Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-education-review.md) | 2017-03-16 | Dalit Contini, Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Silvia Mendolia |
| 4 | 136 | 3.8 | [Global universal basic skills: Current deficits and implications for world development](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103205) | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 2023-11-03 | Sarah Gust, Eric Alan Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann |
| 5 | 122 | 1.1 | [What happens when econometrics and psychometrics collide? An example using the PISA data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2017.09.007) | [Economics of Education Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-education-review.md) | 2017-09-29 | John Jerrim, Luis Alejandro López-Agudo, Óscar David Marcenaro Gutiérrez et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use PISA most often with TIMSS / PIRLS (26), International Energy Agency (IEA) (7) and OECD statistics (6); it has 8 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [TIMSS / PIRLS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/timss-pirls.md) | Dataset | 26 | 26.9 |
| [International Energy Agency (IEA)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/international-energy-agency-iea.md) | Dataset | 7 | 1.2 |
| [OECD statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/oecd-statistics.md) | Dataset | 6 | 2.7 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 5 | 0.5 |
| [World Development Indicators (World Bank)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-development-indicators-world-bank.md) | Dataset | 5 | 0.8 |
| [Facebook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facebook.md) | Dataset | 3 | 0.2 |
| [V-Dem](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/v-dem.md) | Dataset | 3 | 2.5 |
| [WITS / TRAINS tariff data](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wits-trains-tariff-data.md) | Dataset | 3 | 0.7 |

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

## Papers

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

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | [Teaching quality and socioeconomic inequalities in student achievement: Meta-Analytic evidence from PISA 2022](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2026.100864) | [Educational Research Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/educational-research-review.md) | Tamara Kastorff, Pia Todtenhöfer, Samuel Greiff | Technical University of Munich |
| 2026-10-07 | [ICT use and academic performance in top-performing Asian educational systems: A multilevel latent profile analysis of students and schools](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-026-14168-w) | [Education and Information Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/education-and-information-technologies.md) | Tianshu Zhang, Huan Zhou, Kexin Qin et al. | Beijing Normal University |
| 2026-10-07 | [Is Europe a laggard? Comparing the EU and the US using an interdisciplinary well-being framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.109238) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | Annegeke Jansen, Ranran Wang, Jan-emmanuel De Neve A et al. | Leiden University; University of Oxford; State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). PISA. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/pisa

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-pisa,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {PISA},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/pisa}},
  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/).