---
title: "Polity: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 87 archived papers mentioned Polity in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Nov 2025 (8)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/polity
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/polity.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 87 archived papers mentioned Polity in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Nov 2025 (8). (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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---

# Polity

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

Country indices of governance, democracy, corruption, economic freedom, political risk and capital openness.

- data category: Governance and institutional indicators
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Polity IV, Polity 5, Polity5, Polity2, Polity score, Polity project

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Governance and institutional indicators datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/governance-and-institutional-indicators.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 87 archived papers mentioned Polity in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Nov 2025 (8).
- Polity was mentioned in 2 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #127 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Economics (2).
- Most of them appeared in Public Choice (1) and Economic Modelling (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Polity was mentioned in 91 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (68), finance (11) and management (10).
- 32 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 (8), Université Clermont Auvergne (5) and Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques (4).
- The journals publishing most of them were Public Choice (9), World Development (8) and European Economic Review (3).
- The most-cited of them is “Climate policies and legislation for renewable energy transition: The roles of financial sector and political institutions” (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2024), with 106 citations.
- Papers use Polity most often with World Development Indicators (World Bank) (46), V-Dem (36) and Freedom House (23); it has 26 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 28 | 28 | 31 | 87 |

## 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 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 25 | 16 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 31 | 32 | 21 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Public Choice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-choice.md) | 9 |
| 2 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 3 |
| 5 | [Empirical Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/empirical-economics.md) | 3 |
| 6 | [Constitutional Political Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/constitutional-political-economy.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [Economics of Governance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-governance.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [The Journal of Economic Inequality](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-economic-inequality.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [Journal of Financial Stability](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-stability.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [International Economics and Economic Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-economics-and-economic-policy.md) | 3 |

*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) | 8 |
| 2 | Université Clermont Auvergne | 5 |
| 3 | Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques | 4 |
| 4 | Aix-Marseille Université | 4 |
| 5 | Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International | 4 |
| 6 | Institut de Recherche pour le Développement | 4 |
| 7 | [University of Leeds](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-leeds.md) | 4 |
| 8 | Florida Atlantic University | 3 |
| 9 | University of Cape Town | 3 |
| 10 | University of Dundee | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 24 |
| 2 | United States | 21 |
| 3 | Germany | 18 |
| 4 | France | 15 |
| 5 | Italy | 7 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 7 |
| 7 | South Africa | 7 |
| 8 | Australia | 6 |
| 9 | China | 4 |
| 10 | Spain | 4 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | democracy | 23 |
| 2 | [institutional quality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/institutional-quality.md) | 12 |
| 3 | authoritarian regimes | 10 |
| 4 | [developing countries](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/developing-countries.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 9 |
| 6 | political institutions | 8 |
| 7 | [foreign direct investment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/foreign-direct-investment.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [financial development](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-development.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [income inequality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/income-inequality.md) | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 106 | 3.4 | [Climate policies and legislation for renewable energy transition: The roles of financial sector and political institutions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123347) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2024-03-23 | Anis Omri, Sami Ben Jabeur |
| 2 | 55 | 3.5 | [Optimal expenditure decentralization for sustainable development: evidence from a 52-country panel analysis](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854-025-00780-1) | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | 2025-07-15 | Hui Jin, Fu-Sheng Tsai, Jorge Martínez-Vázquez |
| 3 | 34 | 1.2 | [Higher economic growth in poor countries, lower migration flows to the OECD – Revisiting the migration hump with panel data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106655) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2024-06-12 | David Benček, Claas Schneiderheinze |
| 4 | 26 | 0.8 | [Original sin: Fiscal rules and government debt in foreign currency in developing countries](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2024.103600) | [Journal of Macroeconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-macroeconomics.md) | 2024-03-26 | Ablam Estel Apeti, Bao-We-Wal Bambe, Jean‐Louis Combes et al. |
| 5 | 23 | 0.8 | [Agricultural commodities’ price transmission from international to local markets in developing countries](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102652) | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | 2024-05-31 | Lotanna Emediegwu, Marco Rogna |

## Used together with

Papers use Polity most often with World Development Indicators (World Bank) (46), V-Dem (36) and Freedom House (23); it has 26 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [World Development Indicators (World Bank)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-development-indicators-world-bank.md) | Dataset | 46 | 25.4 |
| [V-Dem](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/v-dem.md) | Dataset | 36 | 100.7 |
| [Freedom House](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/freedom-house.md) | Dataset | 23 | 157.4 |
| [Worldwide Governance Indicators](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/worldwide-governance-indicators.md) | Dataset | 16 | 18.5 |
| [Penn World Table](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/penn-world-table.md) | Dataset | 15 | 39.8 |
| [International Country Risk Guide (ICRG)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/international-country-risk-guide-icrg.md) | Dataset | 13 | 69.7 |
| [Chinn-Ito financial openness index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/chinn-ito-financial-openness-index.md) | Dataset | 8 | 77.0 |
| [Economic Policy Uncertainty index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/economic-policy-uncertainty-index.md) | Dataset | 8 | 1.7 |
| [World Values Survey](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-values-survey.md) | Dataset | 8 | 14.2 |
| [Corruption Perceptions Index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/corruption-perceptions-index.md) | Dataset | 7 | 17.8 |
| [EM-DAT disaster database](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/em-dat-disaster-database.md) | Dataset | 7 | 44.9 |
| [Maddison Project](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/maddison-project.md) | Dataset | 7 | 63.9 |

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

## Papers

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

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-25 | [The cultural roots of state-owned enterprises: evidence from Europe](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-026-01474-7) | [Public Choice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-choice.md) | Ákos Dombi, Piotr Matuszak, Katarzyna Szarzec | Eötvös Loránd University; Instytut Nauk Ekonomicznych; Polish Academy of Sciences; … |
| 2026-10-24 | [Physical disaster risk and sovereign debt distress](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2026.107900) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | Edem Egnikpo | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Aix-Marseille Université; Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques |

## Cite this page

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

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