---
title: "Preqin: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 13 archived papers mentioned Preqin in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Apr 2024 (2)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/preqin
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/preqin.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 13 archived papers mentioned Preqin in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Apr 2024 (2). (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
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Preqin

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

Deal-level data on mergers and acquisitions, equity and bond issues, venture capital and private equity.

- data category: M&A, IPO and private capital data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Preqin

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All M&A, IPO and private capital data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/m-a-ipo-and-private-capital-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 13 archived papers mentioned Preqin in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Apr 2024 (2).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned Preqin in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Preqin was mentioned in 13 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (6), finance (6) and management (1).
- 4 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Abdelmalek Essaâdi University (1), Austral University (1) and Bank of England (1).
- The journals publishing most of them were The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics (2), Journal of International Economics (1) and Journal of Financial Economics (1).
- The most-cited of them is “Technology-driven transformations in agri-food global value chains: The role of incumbent firms from a corporate venture capital perspective” (Food Policy, 2024), with 28 citations.
- Papers use Preqin most often with PitchBook (3); it has 1 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok.

## 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 |

## 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 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-real-estate-finance-and-economics.md) | 2 |
| 2 | [Journal of International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-economics.md) | 1 |
| 3 | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 1 |
| 4 | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [Journal of Financial Services Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-services-research.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [SERIEs](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/series.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Financial markets and portfolio management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-markets-and-portfolio-management.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Abdelmalek Essaâdi University | 1 |
| 2 | Austral University | 1 |
| 3 | Bank of England | 1 |
| 4 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 1 |
| 5 | City St George's, University of London | 1 |
| 6 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | 1 |
| 7 | HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management | 1 |
| 8 | Heriot-Watt University | 1 |
| 9 | [Imperial College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/imperial-college-london.md) | 1 |
| 10 | Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 5 |
| 2 | Germany | 2 |
| 3 | Spain | 2 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 2 |
| 6 | Argentina | 1 |
| 7 | Canada | 1 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 1 |
| 9 | Finland | 1 |
| 10 | Hungary | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | private equity | 3 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 2 |
| 3 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 2 |
| 4 | private equity performance | 2 |
| 5 | risk-adjusted returns | 2 |
| 6 | [2008 financial crisis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/2008-financial-crisis.md) | 1 |
| 7 | Crunchbase | 1 |
| 8 | Finland | 1 |
| 9 | [R&D investment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/r-d-investment.md) | 1 |
| 10 | Spain | 1 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28 | 1.0 | [Technology-driven transformations in agri-food global value chains: The role of incumbent firms from a corporate venture capital perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102684) | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | 2024-07-24 | Pablo Mac Clay, Roberto Feeney, Jorge Sellare |
| 2 | 24 | 0.7 | [Nonbank lenders as global shock absorbers: Evidence from US monetary policy spillovers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103908) | [Journal of International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-economics.md) | 2024-02-23 | David T. Elliott, Ralf R. Meisenzahl, José‐Luis Peydró |
| 3 | 6 | 0.2 | [Investing in Your Alumni: Endowments’ Investment Choices in Private Equity](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10693-023-00419-1) | [Journal of Financial Services Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-services-research.md) | 2023-11-21 | Roland Füss, Stefan Morkoetter, Maria De Oliveira |
| 4 | 6 | 0.2 | [Are private investors overcompensated in infrastructure projects?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2024.04.009) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 2024-04-24 | Jonas Spohr, Kim Wikström, Niko-Matti Ronikonmäki et al. |
| 5 | 4 | 0.2 | [Productivity, technology and intangible assets](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13209-025-00310-3) | [SERIEs](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/series.md) | 2025-06-01 | Matilde Mas, Francisco Pérez García, Dirk Pilat |

## Used together with

Papers use Preqin most often with PitchBook (3); it has 1 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok.

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [PitchBook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/pitchbook.md) | Dataset | 3 | 245.3 |

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

## Cite this page

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

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