---
title: "TIMSS / PIRLS: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/timss-pirls
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/timss-pirls.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "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). (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)
---

# TIMSS / PIRLS

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

Student assessments and school and college records.

- data category: Education data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: TIMSS, PIRLS

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Education data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/education-data.md



## 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)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 26 | 28 | 48 | 102 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 29 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 15 | 23 | 33 | 41 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Studies In Educational Evaluation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/studies-in-educational-evaluation.md) | 46 |
| 2 | [International Journal of Educational Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-development.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Economics of Education Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-education-review.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [Socio-Economic Planning Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/socio-economic-planning-sciences.md) | 3 |
| 5 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 3 |
| 6 | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 2 |
| 8 | [Journal of Population Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-population-economics.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [Statistical Methods & Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-methods-applications.md) | 2 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Gothenburg | 13 |
| 2 | University of Oslo | 11 |
| 3 | International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement | 6 |
| 4 | [KU Leuven](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ku-leuven.md) | 6 |
| 5 | Leuphana University of Lüneburg | 5 |
| 6 | [University of Pisa](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pisa.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Universidade do Porto](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universidade-do-porto.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [University of Bath](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bath.md) | 3 |
| 9 | Freie Universität Berlin | 2 |
| 10 | INESC TEC | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 18 |
| 2 | Sweden | 16 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 13 |
| 4 | Norway | 13 |
| 5 | Italy | 12 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 11 |
| 7 | United States | 11 |
| 8 | Belgium | 7 |
| 9 | Spain | 7 |
| 10 | Australia | 6 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [academic performance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/academic-performance.md) | 22 |
| 2 | mathematics achievement | 21 |
| 3 | TIMSS | 16 |
| 4 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 14 |
| 5 | educational inequality | 12 |
| 6 | TIMSS 2019 | 9 |
| 7 | reading achievement | 8 |
| 8 | PIRLS | 7 |
| 9 | fourth grade | 7 |
| 10 | international large-scale assessment | 7 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 110 | 3.6 | [A survey on interpretable reinforcement learning](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-024-06543-w) | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 2024-04-19 | Claire Glanois, Paul Weng, Matthieu Zimmer et al. |
| 2 | 82 | 4.6 | [A survey on physics informed reinforcement learning: Review and open problems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.128166) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2025-05-14 | Chayan Banerjee, Kien Nguyen, Clinton Fookes et al. |
| 3 | 54 | 1.5 | [Explainable reinforcement learning (XRL): a systematic literature review and taxonomy](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-023-06479-7) | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 2023-11-29 | Yanzhe Bekkemoen |
| 4 | 51 | 1.3 | [Global learning loss in student achievement: First estimates using comparable reading scores](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111313) | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 2023-08-18 | Maciej Jakubowski, Tomasz Janusz Gajderowicz, Harry Anthony Patrinos |
| 5 | 47 | 2.7 | [Teacher job satisfaction: International evidence on the role of school working conditions and teacher characteristics](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2025.101474) | [Studies In Educational Evaluation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/studies-in-educational-evaluation.md) | 2025-05-17 | Nurullah Eryılmaz, Alec Kennedy, Rolf Strietholt et al. |

## 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….

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [PISA](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/pisa.md) | Dataset | 26 | 26.9 |
| [International Energy Agency (IEA)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/international-energy-agency-iea.md) | Dataset | 15 | 5.1 |
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 4 | 0.5 |
| [World Development Indicators (World Bank)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-development-indicators-world-bank.md) | Dataset | 4 | 1.4 |
| [China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/china-family-panel-studies-cfps.md) | Dataset | 3 | 2.3 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 3 | 0.7 |
| [NAEP](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/naep.md) | Dataset | 3 | 87.0 |
| [StarCraft](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/starcraft.md) | Dataset | 3 | 6.7 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning TIMSS / PIRLS in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | [Investigating the determinants of gaming app disengagement: A mixed methods–grounded theory approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2026.104455) | [Information & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-management.md) | Haroon Iqbal Maseeh, Charles Jebarajakirthy | Griffith University; Sunway University |
| 2026-10-17 | [Teaching quality and socioeconomic achievement gaps: International evidence from two complementary processes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2026.101695) | [Studies In Educational Evaluation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/studies-in-educational-evaluation.md) | Zhijun Chen, Ana María Mejía Rodríguez, Rolf Strietholt et al. | University of Bath; Aarhus University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). TIMSS / PIRLS. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/timss-pirls

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