---
title: "World Bank Doing Business: research papers using this data"
description: "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)."
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markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-bank-doing-business.md
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share_text: "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). (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
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---

# World Bank Doing Business

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/7.md)

Country indices of governance, democracy, corruption, economic freedom, political risk and capital openness.

- data category: Governance and institutional indicators
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Doing Business report, Doing Business indicators, World Bank Doing Business, ease of doing business

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Governance and institutional indicators datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/governance-and-institutional-indicators.md



## Key findings

- 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….

## 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 42 | 45 | 27 | 114 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 15 | 7 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 9 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 43 | 40 | 24 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 8 |
| 2 | [Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-and-entrepreneurship.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [Future Business Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/future-business-journal.md) | 5 |
| 4 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 4 |
| 5 | [International Tax and Public Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-tax-and-public-finance.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [Journal of International Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-management.md) | 4 |
| 7 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [Empirica](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/empirica.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [The British Accounting Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-british-accounting-review.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [Management International Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/management-international-review.md) | 3 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Durham University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/durham-university.md) | 5 |
| 2 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | 4 |
| 3 | [University of Twente](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-twente.md) | 4 |
| 4 | [University of Birmingham](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-birmingham.md) | 3 |
| 5 | University of Dundee | 3 |
| 6 | University of Split | 3 |
| 7 | [University of Vaasa](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-vaasa.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [Aalto University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/aalto-university.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [Arizona State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/arizona-state-university.md) | 2 |
| 10 | Aston University | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 35 |
| 2 | United States | 20 |
| 3 | China | 18 |
| 4 | Spain | 13 |
| 5 | France | 10 |
| 6 | Germany | 8 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 8 |
| 8 | South Africa | 8 |
| 9 | Finland | 7 |
| 10 | Greece | 6 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [entrepreneurship](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/entrepreneurship.md) | 12 |
| 2 | ease of doing business | 11 |
| 3 | [institutional quality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/institutional-quality.md) | 10 |
| 4 | entrepreneurship policy | 9 |
| 5 | business environment | 8 |
| 6 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 8 |
| 7 | entrepreneurial ecosystems | 8 |
| 8 | [foreign direct investment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/foreign-direct-investment.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [corruption](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corruption.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 7 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 489 | 6.9 | [Exploring the impact of digital transformation on technology entrepreneurship and technological market expansion: The role of technology readiness, exploration and exploitation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.11.020) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-12-05 | Vahid Jafari‐Sadeghi, Alexeis García-Pérez, Elena Candelo et al. |
| 2 | 238 | 5.1 | [Fintech and big tech credit: Drivers of the growth of digital lending](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2022.106742) | [Journal of Banking & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-banking-finance.md) | 2022-12-05 | Giulio Cornelli, Jon Frost, Leonardo Gambacorta et al. |
| 3 | 199 | 1.8 | [Institutional quality and FDI inflows in Arab economies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2017.10.026) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2017-10-26 | Omar Ghazy Aziz |
| 4 | 110 | 1.2 | [Well-being effects of self-employment: A spatial inquiry](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2018.11.001) | [Journal of Business Venturing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing.md) | 2018-11-20 | Maria Abreu, Özge Öner, Aleid Brouwer et al. |
| 5 | 99 | 2.7 | [Fintech adoption, the regulatory environment and bank stability: An empirical investigation from GCC economies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bir.2023.10.010) | [Borsa Istanbul Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/borsa-istanbul-review.md) | 2023-11-01 | Habib Hussain Khan, Shoaib Khan, Abdul Ghafoor |

## Used together with

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….

*What papers use World Bank Doing Business together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [World Development Indicators (World Bank)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-development-indicators-world-bank.md) | Dataset | 28 | 9.5 |
| [Economic freedom indices](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/economic-freedom-indices.md) | Dataset | 14 | 23.6 |
| [Worldwide Governance Indicators](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/worldwide-governance-indicators.md) | Dataset | 14 | 9.9 |
| [Corruption Perceptions Index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/corruption-perceptions-index.md) | Dataset | 13 | 20.3 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 13 | 2.9 |
| [World Bank Enterprise Surveys](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-bank-enterprise-surveys.md) | Dataset | 9 | 9.6 |
| [European Patent Office / WIPO](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/european-patent-office-wipo.md) | Dataset | 6 | 5.3 |
| [Facebook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facebook.md) | Dataset | 6 | 0.6 |
| [World Values Survey](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-values-survey.md) | Dataset | 6 | 6.5 |
| [Global Findex](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/global-findex.md) | Dataset | 5 | 11.3 |
| [LinkedIn](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/linkedin.md) | Dataset | 5 | 1.9 |
| [Penn World Table](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/penn-world-table.md) | Dataset | 5 | 8.1 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning World Bank Doing Business in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | [Unpacking the micro–macro transmission mechanism: how home-country culture selectively shapes cognitive orientations in entrepreneurial internationalization](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-026-00915-1) | [Journal of International Business Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-studies.md) | Razieh Rosie Sadraei, Vahid Sadeghi, Andrew Delios | Newcastle University; Aston University; National University of Singapore |
| 2026-10-15 | [Does entrepreneurship policy reform institutional conditions? Evidence from India’s Startup India programme](https://doi.org/10.1186/s43093-026-01023-0) | [Future Business Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/future-business-journal.md) | Gourav Aggarwal, Smita Kashiramka | O. P. Jindal Global University; Indian Institute of Technology Delhi |

## Cite this page

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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@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-world-bank-doing-business,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {World Bank Doing Business},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-bank-doing-business}},
  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/).