---
title: "SEC EDGAR: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 84 archived papers mentioned SEC EDGAR in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (9)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/sec-edgar
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/sec-edgar.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 84 archived papers mentioned SEC EDGAR in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (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
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# SEC EDGAR

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/6.md)

Annual reports and other regulatory filings, earnings calls, and the word lists used to read them.

- data category: Corporate filings and text
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: SEC EDGAR, EDGAR database, EDGAR filings, EDGAR system, EDGAR full-text

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Corporate filings and text datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/corporate-filings-and-text.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 84 archived papers mentioned SEC EDGAR in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (9).
- SEC EDGAR 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: Accounting (1) and Economics (1).
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (1) and Computational Economics (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), SEC EDGAR was mentioned in 91 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in accounting (31), finance (29) and economics (13).
- 24 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Nottingham (4), Bocconi University (3) and Concordia University (3).
- The journals publishing most of them were Review of Accounting Studies (18), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (9) and Journal of Accounting and Economics (4).
- The most-cited of them is “IQ from IP: Simplifying search in portfolio choice” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2020), with 165 citations.
- Papers use SEC EDGAR most often with Compustat (47), CRSP (37) and 10-K filings (36); it has 38 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

## 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 19 | 26 | 39 | 84 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 18 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 9 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.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 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 24 | 36 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-quantitative-finance-and-accounting.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 4 |
| 4 | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 3 |
| 5 | [Journal of Banking & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-banking-finance.md) | 3 |
| 6 | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [Long Range Planning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/long-range-planning.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 2 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Nottingham](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-nottingham.md) | 4 |
| 2 | [Bocconi University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/bocconi-university.md) | 3 |
| 3 | [Concordia University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/concordia-university.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [Durham University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/durham-university.md) | 3 |
| 5 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 3 |
| 6 | [Singapore Management University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/singapore-management-university.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [University of Southern California](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-southern-california.md) | 3 |
| 8 | Constructor University | 2 |
| 9 | Corvinus University of Budapest | 2 |
| 10 | [Duke University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/duke-university.md) | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 36 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 19 |
| 3 | China | 10 |
| 4 | Germany | 10 |
| 5 | Australia | 8 |
| 6 | France | 6 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 6 |
| 8 | Italy | 5 |
| 9 | Canada | 4 |
| 10 | Finland | 4 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | 10-K filings | 9 |
| 2 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [institutional investors](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/institutional-investors.md) | 6 |
| 5 | disclosure requirements | 4 |
| 6 | financial disclosure | 4 |
| 7 | [greenhouse gas emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/greenhouse-gas-emissions.md) | 4 |
| 8 | information environment | 4 |
| 9 | [stock returns](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/stock-returns.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [BERT](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bert.md) | 3 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 165 | 2.1 | [IQ from IP: Simplifying search in portfolio choice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2020.04.014) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2020-05-12 | Huaizhi Chen, Lauren H. Cohen, Umit G. Gurun et al. |
| 2 | 111 | 2.1 | [On index investing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2022.05.007) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2022-06-17 | Jeffrey L. Coles, Davidson Heath, Matthew C. Ringgenberg |
| 3 | 63 | 2.2 | [Selecting textual analysis tools to classify sustainability information in corporate reporting](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2024.114269) | [Decision Support Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-support-systems.md) | 2024-06-12 | Frederik Maibaum, Johannes Kriebel, J. Nils Foege |
| 4 | 62 | 0.6 | [Earnings notifications, investor attention, and the earnings announcement premium](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2018.05.002) | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 2018-05-25 | Kimball L. Chapman |
| 5 | 53 | 1.7 | [Accounting fraud detection using contextual language learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accinf.2024.100682) | [International Journal of Accounting Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-accounting-information-systems.md) | 2024-03-11 | Indranil Bhattacharya, Ana Mićković |

## Used together with

Papers use SEC EDGAR most often with Compustat (47), CRSP (37) and 10-K filings (36); it has 38 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Compustat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/compustat.md) | Dataset | 47 | 39.2 |
| [CRSP](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/crsp.md) | Dataset | 37 | 45.7 |
| [10-K filings](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/10-k-filings.md) | Dataset | 36 | 66.9 |
| [I/B/E/S](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/i-b-e-s.md) | Dataset | 21 | 43.8 |
| [Loughran-McDonald dictionary](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/loughran-mcdonald-dictionary.md) | Dataset | 18 | 48.0 |
| [Earnings call transcripts](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/earnings-call-transcripts.md) | Dataset | 16 | 31.0 |
| [S&P 500](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-500.md) | Dataset | 15 | 3.5 |
| [XBRL filings](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/xbrl-filings.md) | Dataset | 12 | 94.2 |
| [WRDS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wrds.md) | Dataset | 10 | 41.7 |
| [Audit Analytics](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/audit-analytics.md) | Dataset | 8 | 61.0 |
| [Thomson Reuters 13F holdings](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/thomson-reuters-13f-holdings.md) | Dataset | 8 | 38.6 |
| [Kenneth French Data Library](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kenneth-french-data-library.md) | Dataset | 7 | 22.3 |

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

## Papers

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

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | [Human resources governance and human capital management disclosure following the SEC mandate](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2026.107484) | [Journal of Accounting and Public Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-public-policy.md) | Cynthia Melhem, MICHEL L. MAGNAN, Rucsandra Moldovan | Lebanese American University; Concordia University |
| 2026-10-21 | [Leveraging Machine Learning for Profit Forecasting and Cost Optimization Using Public Financial Data](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-026-11455-z) | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | Bilal Ahmad, Abdu Salam, Mian Abdulbasit et al. | University of Peshawar; Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan; Yeungnam University; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). SEC EDGAR. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/sec-edgar

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