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V-Dem

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data category: Governance and institutional indicators · 0 papers in the last 7 days

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Names searched for: V-Dem, Varieties of Democracy

Key findings#

  • From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 170 archived papers mentioned V-Dem in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2024 (11).
  • V-Dem was mentioned in 5 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #68 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
  • By journal category: Economics (4) and Finance (1).
  • Most of them appeared in Public Choice (1), The Annals of Regional Science (1) and Telecommunications Policy (1).
  • From 2017 to 2026 (so far), V-Dem was mentioned in 186 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (144), management (14) and finance (10).
  • 52 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
  • Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (8), Universität Hamburg (7) and Aarhus University (6).
  • The journals publishing most of them were Public Choice (29), World Development (13) and European Journal of Political Economy (9).
  • The most-cited of them is “The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature” (World Development, 2024), with 112 citations.
  • Papers use V-Dem most often with World Development Indicators (World Bank) (64), Polity (36) and Worldwide Governance Indicators (33); it has 40 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
464876170

Papers per year#

2017: 0 papers2018: 2 papers2019: 1 paper2020: 2 papers2021: 3 papers2022: 3 papers2023: 10 papers2024: 47 papers2025: 52 papers2026 (so far): 66 papers
20172026 (so far)
Papers per publication year and category
Category2017201820192020202120222023202420252026 (so far)
Economics0211129393950
Management0000000257
Finance0000000235
Higher Education and Research0000001032
Health Economics and Policy0000100021
Statistics0001010001
Information Systems0000100100
Accounting0000000100
AI0000000100
Operations Research0000000100
All categories02123310475266

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#JournalPapers
1Public Choice29
2World Development13
3European Journal of Political Economy9
4Constitutional Political Economy8
5Economics of Governance6
6European Economic Review5
7Journal of Comparative Economics5
8Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization5
9Journal of International Business Studies4
10Energy Economics3
Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#InstitutionPapers
1Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique8
2Universität Hamburg7
3Aarhus University6
4University of Manchester6
5Copenhagen Business School5
6George Mason University5
7Research Institute of Industrial Economics5
8London School of Economics and Political Science4
9University of Johannesburg4
10WZB Berlin Social Science Center4
Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#CountryPapers
1United Kingdom36
2United States36
3Germany31
4Denmark15
5France15
6Italy15
7Netherlands13
8Sweden11
9South Africa11
10Austria8
Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#KeywordPapers
1democracy27
2institutional quality20
3authoritarian regimes14
4corruption14
5foreign direct investment13
6COVID-19 pandemic12
7cross-national comparison11
8developing countries11
9income inequality10
10state capacity9

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#CitationsPer monthTitleJournalPublishedAuthors
11124.8The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literatureWorld Development2024-11-23Paola Vesco, Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück et al.
21063.4Climate policies and legislation for renewable energy transition: The roles of financial sector and political institutionsTechnological Forecasting and Social Change2024-03-23Anis Omri, Sami Ben Jabeur
3771.3Corruption and growth: Historical evidence, 1790–2010Journal of Comparative Economics2021-11-02Luca Jacopo Uberti
4481.4Academic freedom growth and decline episodesHigher Education2023-12-18Lars Lott
5440.6New evidence on the oil-democracy nexus utilising the Varieties of Democracy dataResources Policy2020-10-31Brahim Bergougui, Syed Mansoob Murshed

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 V-Dem most often with World Development Indicators (World Bank) (64), Polity (36) and Worldwide Governance Indicators (33); it has 40 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy…. The whole network →

What papers use V-Dem together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used withTypePapers using bothLift
World Development Indicators (World Bank)Dataset6417.5
PolityDataset36100.7
Worldwide Governance IndicatorsDataset3318.9
Freedom HouseDataset2791.4
Penn World TableDataset1722.3
Economic freedom indicesDataset1520.4
Corruption Perceptions IndexDataset1417.6
International Country Risk Guide (ICRG)Dataset1231.8
Afrobarometer / LatinobarometroDataset1133.7
Maddison ProjectDataset1149.6
Twitter / XDataset110.6
World Values SurveyDataset119.6
Papers mentioning V-Dem in the last 30 days, newest first.
DateTitleJournalAuthorsAffiliations
2026-10-25Nonviolent protest and ideological change in education: a public choice approachPublic ChoiceJoshua Ammons, Ali Palida, Ilia MurtazashviliUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Institute for Humane Studies; University of Pittsburgh
2026-10-22Asymmetric decentralization and inequalityThe Annals of Regional ScienceMelissa Ziegler Rogers, Melissa Ziegler RogersDuke University; Claremont Graduate University
2026-10-15Institutional context and the employment effects of artificial intelligence in European SMEsTelecommunications PolicyAnabela Santos, Francesco MolicaUniversité Libre de Bruxelles
2026-10-08Political polarization, public debt, and sovereign rating downgradesFinance research lettersMaría José Quinteros, Mauricio G. VillenaUniversidad de Santiago de Chile; Universidad Diego Portales
2026-10-07Is Europe a laggard? Comparing the EU and the US using an interdisciplinary well-being frameworkEcological EconomicsAnnegeke Jansen, Ranran Wang, Jan-emmanuel De Neve A et al.Leiden University; University of Oxford; State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse; …
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Scholar4AI. (2026). V-Dem. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/v-dem

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  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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