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TIMSS / PIRLS

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Names searched for: TIMSS, PIRLS

Key findings#

  • From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 102 archived papers mentioned TIMSS / PIRLS in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (7).
  • TIMSS / PIRLS 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: Information Systems (1) and Higher Education and Research (1).
  • Most of them appeared in Information & Management (1) and Studies In Educational Evaluation (1).
  • From 2017 to 2026 (so far), TIMSS / PIRLS was mentioned in 149 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in higher education and research (94), economics (22) and AI (14).
  • 33 of them were published in 2025, against 3 in 2017.
  • Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Gothenburg (13), University of Oslo (11) and International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (6).
  • The journals publishing most of them were Studies In Educational Evaluation (46), International Journal of Educational Development (9) and Economics of Education Review (6).
  • The most-cited of them is “A survey on interpretable reinforcement learning” (Machine Learning, 2024), with 110 citations.
  • Papers use TIMSS / PIRLS most often with PISA (26), International Energy Agency (IEA) (15) and ImageNet (4); it has 8 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)
TrendNov 23–Oct 24Nov 24–Oct 25Nov 25–Oct 2636 months
262848102

Papers per year#

2017: 3 papers2018: 4 papers2019: 2 papers2020: 3 papers2021: 5 papers2022: 20 papers2023: 15 papers2024: 23 papers2025: 33 papers2026 (so far): 41 papers
20172026 (so far)
Papers per publication year and category
Category2017201820192020202120222023202420252026 (so far)
Higher Education and Research22124187121729
Economics1111124353
AI0000003344
Operations Research0100000222
Statistics0000000221
Management0000000120
Health Economics and Policy0000001010
Information Systems0000000001
Finance0000000001
All categories342352015233341

Where the papers come from#

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#InstitutionPapers
1University of Gothenburg13
2University of Oslo11
3International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement6
4KU Leuven6
5Leuphana University of Lüneburg5
6University of Pisa5
7Universidade do Porto3
8University of Bath3
9Freie Universität Berlin2
10INESC TEC2
Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#CountryPapers
1Germany18
2Sweden16
3United Kingdom13
4Norway13
5Italy12
6Netherlands11
7United States11
8Belgium7
9Spain7
10Australia6
Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#KeywordPapers
1academic performance22
2mathematics achievement21
3TIMSS16
4cross-national comparison14
5educational inequality12
6TIMSS 20199
7reading achievement8
8PIRLS7
9fourth grade7
10international large-scale assessment7

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#CitationsPer monthTitleJournalPublishedAuthors
11103.6A survey on interpretable reinforcement learningMachine Learning2024-04-19Claire Glanois, Paul Weng, Matthieu Zimmer et al.
2824.6A survey on physics informed reinforcement learning: Review and open problemsExpert Systems with Applications2025-05-14Chayan Banerjee, Kien Nguyen, Clinton Fookes et al.
3541.5Explainable reinforcement learning (XRL): a systematic literature review and taxonomyMachine Learning2023-11-29Yanzhe Bekkemoen
4511.3Global learning loss in student achievement: First estimates using comparable reading scoresEconomics Letters2023-08-18Maciej Jakubowski, Tomasz Janusz Gajderowicz, Harry Anthony Patrinos
5472.7Teacher job satisfaction: International evidence on the role of school working conditions and teacher characteristicsStudies In Educational Evaluation2025-05-17Nurullah Eryılmaz, Alec Kennedy, Rolf Strietholt et al.

Archive counts by publication year: a paper counts when its title, abstract or keywords name the dataset, or when OpenAlex's full-text search finds it there (searched for the last 30 days' papers and, by a pass over the past years, for older ones). Names added to the list later are looked for in older papers as the archive is read again.

Used together with#

Papers use TIMSS / PIRLS most often with PISA (26), International Energy Agency (IEA) (15) and ImageNet (4); it has 8 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy…. The whole network →

What papers use TIMSS / PIRLS together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used withTypePapers using bothLift
PISADataset2626.9
International Energy Agency (IEA)Dataset155.1
ImageNetDataset40.5
World Development Indicators (World Bank)Dataset41.4
China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)Dataset32.3
EurostatDataset30.7
NAEPDataset387.0
StarCraftDataset36.7
Papers mentioning TIMSS / PIRLS in the last 30 days, newest first.
DateTitleJournalAuthorsAffiliations
2026-10-21Investigating the determinants of gaming app disengagement: A mixed methods–grounded theory approachInformation & ManagementHaroon Iqbal Maseeh, Charles JebarajakirthyGriffith University; Sunway University
2026-10-17Teaching quality and socioeconomic achievement gaps: International evidence from two complementary processesStudies In Educational EvaluationZhijun Chen, Ana María Mejía Rodríguez, Rolf Strietholt et al.University of Bath; Aarhus University
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Scholar4AI. (2026). TIMSS / PIRLS. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/timss-pirls

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  title = {TIMSS / PIRLS},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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