From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 114 archived papers mentioned World Bank Doing Business in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2024 (9).
World Bank Doing Business 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: Management (2).
Most of them appeared in Journal of International Business Studies (1) and Future Business Journal (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), World Bank Doing Business was mentioned in 150 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (54), management (53) and finance (21).
40 of them were published in 2025, against 3 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Durham University (5), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (4) and University of Twente (4).
The journals publishing most of them were Small Business Economics (8), Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (6) and Future Business Journal (5).
The most-cited of them is “Exploring the impact of digital transformation on technology entrepreneurship and technological market expansion: The role of technology readiness, exploration and exploitation” (Journal of Business Research, 2020), with 489 citations.
Papers use World Bank Doing Business most often with World Development Indicators (World Bank) (28), Economic freedom indices (14) and Worldwide Governance Indicators (14); it has 24 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….
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)
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.
Papers use World Bank Doing Business most often with World Development Indicators (World Bank) (28), Economic freedom indices (14) and Worldwide Governance Indicators (14); it has 24 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy…. The whole network →
What papers use World Bank Doing Business together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
O. P. Jindal Global University; Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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Scholar4AI. (2026). World Bank Doing Business. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-bank-doing-business
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