---
title: "Sustainalytics: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 76 archived papers mentioned Sustainalytics in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Mar 2026 (6)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/sustainalytics
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/sustainalytics.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 76 archived papers mentioned Sustainalytics in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Mar 2026 (6). (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)
---

# Sustainalytics

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

Environmental, social and governance scores, controversies and carbon data of companies.

- data category: ESG and sustainability ratings
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Sustainalytics

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All ESG and sustainability ratings datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/esg-and-sustainability-ratings.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 76 archived papers mentioned Sustainalytics in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Mar 2026 (6).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned Sustainalytics in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Sustainalytics was mentioned in 83 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (41), management (14) and economics (10).
- 23 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Technical University of Munich (4), Auckland University of Technology (3) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (3).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Review of Economics & Finance (9), Research in International Business and Finance (5) and Annals of Operations Research (4).
- The most-cited of them is “Climate change, ESG criteria and recent regulation: challenges and opportunities” (Eurasian economic review :, 2024), with 81 citations.
- Papers use Sustainalytics most often with MSCI ESG / KLD (22), Refinitiv ESG (ASSET4) (20) and Morningstar (17); it has 34 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 24 | 23 | 29 | 76 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 12 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 26 | 23 | 24 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 9 |
| 2 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 5 |
| 3 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 4 |
| 4 | [Journal of Asset Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-asset-management.md) | 4 |
| 5 | [Journal of Banking & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-banking-finance.md) | 3 |
| 6 | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [Borsa Istanbul Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/borsa-istanbul-review.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [Future Business Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/future-business-journal.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 2 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Technical University of Munich](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/technical-university-of-munich.md) | 4 |
| 2 | Auckland University of Technology | 3 |
| 3 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 2 |
| 5 | Iowa State University | 2 |
| 6 | [King's College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/king-s-college-london.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Monash University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/monash-university.md) | 2 |
| 8 | Swiss Finance Institute | 2 |
| 9 | University of Bari Aldo Moro | 2 |
| 10 | [University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-hong-kong.md) | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 17 |
| 2 | United States | 14 |
| 3 | Italy | 12 |
| 4 | China | 9 |
| 5 | Germany | 8 |
| 6 | Spain | 7 |
| 7 | Australia | 5 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 4 |
| 9 | New Zealand | 4 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 3 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [ESG ratings](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/esg-ratings.md) | 25 |
| 2 | [corporate social responsibility](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-social-responsibility.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [ESG performance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/esg-performance.md) | 11 |
| 4 | ESG disclosure | 10 |
| 5 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 9 |
| 6 | Sustainalytics | 7 |
| 7 | [climate risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-risk.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [institutional investors](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/institutional-investors.md) | 5 |
| 9 | ESG investing | 4 |
| 10 | credit rating agencies | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 81 | 2.5 | [Climate change, ESG criteria and recent regulation: challenges and opportunities](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40822-023-00251-x) | [Eurasian economic review :](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/eurasian-economic-review.md) | 2024-03-01 | Mónica Oliver Yébenes |
| 2 | 73 | 1.4 | [Take it with a pinch of salt—ESG rating of stocks and stock indices](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102308) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2022-07-25 | Szilárd Erhart |
| 3 | 63 | 1.6 | [ESG in the financial industry: What matters for rating analysts?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2023.102045) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 2023-07-27 | Marco Mandas, Oumaima Lahmar, Luca Piras et al. |
| 4 | 57 | 2.2 | [ESG rating disagreement: Implications and aggregation approaches](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2024.103532) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 2024-08-22 | Emawtee Bissoondoyal‐Bheenick, Scott Edward Bennett, Rob Lehnherr et al. |
| 5 | 56 | 3.9 | [AI-driven sustainable finance: computational tools, ESG metrics, and global implementation](https://doi.org/10.1186/s43093-025-00610-x) | [Future Business Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/future-business-journal.md) | 2025-08-25 | Abdelghafar M. Elhady, Samaa Mohammed Shohieb |

## Used together with

Papers use Sustainalytics most often with MSCI ESG / KLD (22), Refinitiv ESG (ASSET4) (20) and Morningstar (17); it has 34 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [MSCI ESG / KLD](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/msci-esg-kld.md) | Dataset | 22 | 101.4 |
| [Refinitiv ESG (ASSET4)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/refinitiv-esg-asset4.md) | Dataset | 20 | 57.1 |
| [Morningstar](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/morningstar.md) | Dataset | 17 | 68.5 |
| [S&P 500](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-500.md) | Dataset | 17 | 4.3 |
| [Compustat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/compustat.md) | Dataset | 12 | 11.0 |
| [Refinitiv Eikon / LSEG Workspace](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/refinitiv-eikon-lseg-workspace.md) | Dataset | 12 | 18.2 |
| [CRSP](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/crsp.md) | Dataset | 11 | 14.9 |
| [Kenneth French Data Library](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kenneth-french-data-library.md) | Dataset | 10 | 34.9 |
| [Bloomberg ESG](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/bloomberg-esg.md) | Dataset | 9 | 68.3 |
| [FactSet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/factset.md) | Dataset | 9 | 66.5 |
| [Marketization index (Fan Gang)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/marketization-index-fan-gang.md) | Dataset | 9 | 7.7 |
| [Euro Stoxx / DAX](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/euro-stoxx-dax.md) | Dataset | 8 | 11.0 |

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

## Cite this page

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

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