Refinitiv Datastream
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Commercial terminals and data services with prices, fundamentals and economic series.
Key findings#
- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 347 archived papers mentioned Refinitiv Datastream in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (17).
- Refinitiv Datastream was mentioned in 8 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #43 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Finance (5), Operations Research (1), Economics (1) and Management (1).
- Most of them appeared in International Review of Economics & Finance (3), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (1) and Financial markets and portfolio management (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Refinitiv Datastream was mentioned in 374 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (188), economics (65) and management (61).
- 101 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Southampton (13), University of Essex (8) and Brunel University of London (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Financial Innovation (23), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (17) and International Review of Financial Analysis (16).
- The most-cited of them is “Artificial intelligence-powered electronic skin” (Nature Machine Intelligence, 2023), with 260 citations.
- Papers use Refinitiv Datastream most often with S&P 500 (91), Refinitiv Eikon / LSEG Workspace (87) and Marketization index (Fan Gang) (81); it has 92 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.
Mentions over 36 months#
| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 149 | 102 | 96 | 347 |
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 84 | 45 | 42 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 26 | 17 | 15 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 17 | 22 | 14 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 5 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Statistics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 36 | 141 | 101 | 86 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Financial Innovation | 23 |
| 2 | Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | 17 |
| 3 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 16 |
| 4 | Borsa Istanbul Review | 14 |
| 5 | Future Business Journal | 13 |
| 6 | Research in International Business and Finance | 12 |
| 7 | Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money | 12 |
| 8 | Finance research letters | 12 |
| 9 | Journal of International Money and Finance | 11 |
| 10 | Energy Economics | 9 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Southampton | 13 |
| 2 | University of Essex | 8 |
| 3 | Brunel University of London | 7 |
| 4 | Centre for Economic Policy Research | 7 |
| 5 | Durham University | 7 |
| 6 | Edinburgh Napier University | 7 |
| 7 | Nottingham Trent University | 7 |
| 8 | University College Dublin | 7 |
| 9 | University of Nottingham | 7 |
| 10 | Azerbaijan State University of Economics | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 125 |
| 2 | Germany | 53 |
| 3 | Italy | 47 |
| 4 | United States | 34 |
| 5 | France | 28 |
| 6 | Australia | 27 |
| 7 | China | 25 |
| 8 | Spain | 24 |
| 9 | United Arab Emirates | 20 |
| 10 | Malaysia | 16 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | corporate governance | 40 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 28 |
| 3 | financial stability | 20 |
| 4 | emerging markets | 17 |
| 5 | volatility spillovers | 16 |
| 6 | systemic risk | 15 |
| 7 | ESG performance | 14 |
| 8 | stock returns | 14 |
| 9 | geopolitical risk | 13 |
| 10 | moderating effect | 13 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 260 | 7.5 | Artificial intelligence-powered electronic skin | Nature Machine Intelligence | 2023-12-18 | Changhao Xu, Samuel A. Solomon, Wei Feng Gao |
| 2 | 130 | 4.0 | How does environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance determine investment mix? New empirical evidence from BRICS | Borsa Istanbul Review | 2024-02-28 | Zhichao Yu, Umar Farooq, Mohammad Mahtab Alam et al. |
| 3 | 127 | 3.5 | The importance of climate policy uncertainty in forecasting the green, clean and sustainable financial markets volatility | International Review of Financial Analysis | 2023-10-12 | Syed Ali Raza, Komal Akram Khan, Ramzi Benkraiem et al. |
| 4 | 114 | 3.2 | Active learning for data streams: a survey | Machine Learning | 2023-11-20 | Davide Cacciarelli, Murat Külahçı |
| 5 | 109 | 5.0 | What you see is not what you get: ESG scores and greenwashing risk | Finance research letters | 2025-01-07 | Manuel C. Kathan, Sebastian Utz, Gregor Dorfleitner et al. |
Used together with#
| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| S&P 500 | Dataset | 91 | 5.1 |
| Refinitiv Eikon / LSEG Workspace | Dataset | 87 | 29.4 |
| Marketization index (Fan Gang) | Dataset | 81 | 15.5 |
| Economic Policy Uncertainty index | Dataset | 63 | 3.4 |
| VIX | Dataset | 51 | 6.7 |
| Euro Stoxx / DAX | Dataset | 37 | 11.3 |
| Refinitiv ESG (ASSET4) | Dataset | 35 | 22.2 |
| Compustat | Dataset | 34 | 6.9 |
| Worldscope | Dataset | 33 | 57.8 |
| FTSE indices | Dataset | 29 | 13.0 |
| Twitter / X | Dataset | 28 | 0.8 |
| CRSP | Dataset | 25 | 7.5 |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Refinitiv Datastream. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/refinitiv-datastream
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-refinitiv-datastream,
author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Refinitiv Datastream},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/refinitiv-datastream}},
urldate = {2026-11-04},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}