World Development Indicators (World Bank)

data category: Macroeconomic and development indicators · 8 papers in the last 7 days

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Cross-country series on output, prices, trade, population and development.

Names searched for: World Development Indicators, WDI

Key findings#

From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 894 archived papers mentioned World Development Indicators (World Bank) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2026 (69).
World Development Indicators (World Bank) was mentioned in 37 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #2 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
By journal category: Economics (19), Management (9), Finance (5), Higher Education and Research (2), Operations Research (1) and Health Economics and Policy (1).
Most of them appeared in Ecological Economics (5), International Review of Economics & Finance (3) and Future Business Journal (3).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), World Development Indicators (World Bank) was mentioned in 933 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (487), finance (172) and management (171).
239 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (24), London School of Economics and Political Science (18) and University of Johannesburg (17).
The journals publishing most of them were Future Business Journal (72), World Development (35) and International Review of Economics & Finance (30).
The most-cited of them is “Health expenditure and economic growth - a review of the literature and an analysis between the economic community for central African states (CEMAC) and selected African countries” (Health Economics Review, 2017), with 239 citations.
Papers use World Development Indicators (World Bank) most often with Worldwide Governance Indicators (181), International Energy Agency (IEA) (92) and Economic Policy Uncertainty index (78); it has 122 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
	273	237	384	894

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
Economics	0	1	1	0	1	26	164	134	160
Finance	0	0	0	0	0	11	50	38	73
Management	0	1	0	1	0	17	36	39	77
Health Economics and Policy	1	0	0	1	0	6	8	8	14
Operations Research	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	7	4
AI	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	5	3
Accounting	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	4	3
Higher Education and Research	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	8
Statistics	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1
Information Systems	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Marketing	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Tourism and Hospitality	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
All categories	1	2	1	3	1	63	280	239	343

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Future Business Journal	72
2	World Development	35
3	International Review of Economics & Finance	30
4	Financial Innovation	29
5	Economic Change and Restructuring	26
6	Borsa Istanbul Review	24
7	Energy Economics	22
8	Energy Policy	21
9	International Economics and Economic Policy	19
10	Journal of Economic Structures	17

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	24
2	London School of Economics and Political Science	18
3	University of Johannesburg	17
4	Université Clermont Auvergne	17
5	Institut de Recherche pour le Développement	14
6	Monash University	14
7	University of Leeds	14
8	Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International	13
9	University of South Africa	13
10	World Bank	13

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	United Kingdom	207
2	United States	142
3	China	94
4	Germany	92
5	France	88
6	Italy	65
7	Australia	64
8	Spain	59
9	South Africa	51
10	Netherlands	45

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	economic growth	88
2	institutional quality	87
3	developing countries	71
4	foreign direct investment	64
5	sub-Saharan Africa	55
6	CO2 emissions	48
7	financial development	48
8	cross-national comparison	45
9	emerging markets	42
10	financial inclusion	38

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	239	2.1	Health expenditure and economic growth - a review of the literature and an analysis between the economic community for central African states (CEMAC) and selected African countries	Health Economics Review	2017-06-07	Serge Mandiefe Piabuo, Julius Chupezi Tieguhong
2	174	5.5	How does artificial intelligence promote renewable energy development? The role of climate finance	Energy Economics	2024-03-22	Congyu Zhao, Kangyin Y. Dong, Kun Wang et al.
3	128	3.6	Does increasing environmental policy stringency enhance renewable energy consumption in OECD countries?	Energy Economics	2023-11-27	Mahmoud Hassan, Marc Kouzez, Ji-Yong Lee et al.
4	124	1.6	The effects of health expenditure on infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from panel data analysis	Health Economics Review	2020-03-06	Girmay Tsegay, Catherine Chojenta, Daniel Barker et al.
5	114	3.6	A Task-Guided, Implicitly-Searched and Meta-Initialized Deep Model for Image Fusion	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2024-03-27	Risheng Liu, Zhu Liu, Jinyuan Liu 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 World Development Indicators (World Bank) most often with Worldwide Governance Indicators (181), International Energy Agency (IEA) (92) and Economic Policy Uncertainty index (78); it has 122 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy…. The whole network →

What papers use World Development Indicators (World Bank) together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used with	Type	Papers using both	Lift
Worldwide Governance Indicators	Dataset	181	18.3
International Energy Agency (IEA)	Dataset	92	4.4
Economic Policy Uncertainty index	Dataset	78	1.5
Eurostat	Dataset	75	2.3
Penn World Table	Dataset	69	15.7
IMF data (IFS, WEO, DOTS)	Dataset	62	14.6
V-Dem	Dataset	62	15.7
OECD statistics	Dataset	53	6.8
Economic freedom indices	Dataset	47	11.2
Global Financial Development Database	Dataset	47	23.3
Polity	Dataset	46	22.5
International Country Risk Guide (ICRG)	Dataset	43	19.8

Papers mentioning World Development Indicators (World Bank) in the last 30 days, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-11-01	A subnational approach to energy transition costs in Venezuela	Utilities Policy	Fabiola González Pérez, Esteban Ricardo García Clavel, Thomas Stringer	Polytechnique Montréal; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2026-10-31	Heterogeneous Decarbonization: Technology-Specific Renewable Shocks and Asymmetric Emissions Responses Across the Global Economy	Environmental Economics and Policy Studies	Wasiu Babajide Akintunde	Texas Tech University
2026-10-31	The impact of the transition and European Union membership on the returns to schooling in Europe	International Journal of Educational Development	Harry Anthony Patrinos, Angelica Rivera-Olvera	World Bank; University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
2026-10-30	Differentiated port fees and efficiency: evidence from Sino–U.S. liner shipping	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	Kevin X. Li, Xinping Zhao, YE Guanqiong et al.	Zhejiang University; Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University
2026-10-30	Foreign technology adoption, democracy and SME innovation	The Journal of Technology Transfer	Olufemi Aluko, Shima Amini, Rilwan Sakariyahu	University of South Africa; Heriot-Watt University; University of Leeds; …
2026-10-30	Does Corruption Erode Institutional Trust? Micro-level Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa”	Public Organization Review	Porto Bazie, Mamadou Abdoulaye Diallo, Ahmadou Tanou Diallo	Consortium pour la recherche économique et sociale; Cheikh Anta Diop University
2026-10-29	Debt, taxation and productivity in European industrial firms: System-GMM evidence and panel threshold robustness	International Review of Economics & Finance	Ons Hbaieb, Lyes Kermad, Kamel Helali	University of Sfax; Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax; Université Paris 8
2026-10-29	Enjoying more years of good life while reducing resource use and emissions? A global panel analysis 1990–2019	Ecological Economics	Helmut Haberl, Duro, Juan Antonio; Galiana, Pau; Soldevila, M. Victòria; Piñol, Josep M.; Martín, Mónica; Sardà, Jordi; Ponce-Alifonso, Xavier; Farré Albendea, Fco Javier, Benedikt Grammer et al.	BOKU University; Universitat Rovira i Virgili; University of Leeds; …
2026-10-28	Teaching quality and socioeconomic inequalities in student achievement: Meta-Analytic evidence from PISA 2022	Educational Research Review	Tamara Kastorff, Pia Todtenhöfer, Samuel Greiff	Technical University of Munich
2026-10-27	Unpacking the micro–macro transmission mechanism: how home-country culture selectively shapes cognitive orientations in entrepreneurial internationalization	Journal of International Business Studies	Razieh Rosie Sadraei, Vahid Sadeghi, Andrew Delios	Newcastle University; Aston University; National University of Singapore
2026-10-27	Government positions and climate change: paradigmatic conflict versus consensus in environmental performance	Ecological Economics	Detlef Jahn	Universität Greifswald
2026-10-25	The cultural roots of state-owned enterprises: evidence from Europe	Public Choice	Ákos Dombi, Piotr Matuszak, Katarzyna Szarzec	Eötvös Loránd University; Instytut Nauk Ekonomicznych; Polish Academy of Sciences; …
2026-10-25	Assessing the dynamic role of artificial intelligence in driving economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa	Future Business Journal	Emmanuel Baffour Gyau, Jodian J. Blake, Seidu Musah et al.	Jiangsu University; American College of Education
2026-10-24	Crypto to stablecoins: Digital money and exchange-rate volatility	Research in International Business and Finance	Joanna Darwiche, Moustapha Badran, Mohamed Awada et al.	Saint Joseph University; Université de Montpellier; Montpellier Recherche en Economie; …
2026-10-24	Physical disaster risk and sovereign debt distress	Economic Modelling	Edem Egnikpo	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Aix-Marseille Université; Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques
2026-10-23	Evaluating machine learning and econometric models for inflation forecasting: evidence from a Sub-Saharan African panel	Future Business Journal	Baffour Osei, Abigail Boatemaa, Isaac Nyame et al.	University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development; University of Bradford; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; …
2026-10-22	Globalization channels and business cycle synchronization: The roles of capital mobility and China's bilateral trade	International Review of Economics & Finance	Dong Yao, Wanyin Zhong, Liang Chen et al.	Chengdu Jincheng College
2026-10-22	Land-based climate policy, land prices, and the green transition trilemma: Evidence from Bolivia	Ecological Economics	Guilherme Magacho, Isabella Rodrigues de Brito, Danilo Spinola	Agence française de développement; Universidade Federal do ABC; Birmingham City University
2026-10-21	When bargaining power matters: foreign direct investment and bilateral GDP disparities	Empirical Economics	Xing Xu, Emin Gahramanov, Qinglai Meng et al.	Shanghai Institute of Technology; American University of Sharjah; Oregon State University; …
2026-10-16	Economic sanctions’ ‘blind spot’: the power of internalized markets of MNEs	Journal of International Business Policy	Igor V. Filatotchev, Jan Hendrik Fisch, Jelena Graneros et al.	King's College London; Vienna University of Economics and Business; James Cook University; …
2026-10-16	Sustainable finance versus non-sustainable finance and environmental sustainability: evidence from selected OECD economies	Financial Innovation	Daniel Balsalobre‐Lorente, Magdalena Radulescu, Niu Rong et al.	Azerbaijan State University of Economics; Universidad Ecotec; University of Castilla-La Mancha; …
2026-10-15	Economic Inequality Reduces Sustainable Consumption: Cross-National and Experimental Evidence and Psychological Mechanisms	Journal of Business Ethics	Steven A. Brieger, Jacob Hörisch, Xinyu Zhang	NEOMA Business School; Leuphana University of Lüneburg; University of Sussex
2026-10-14	Financial frictions and climate policy in a small open economy	Economic Modelling	Emilie Rosenlund Soysal, Hendrik Schuldt, Kai Lessmann	Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; Technische Universität Berlin
2026-10-12	Correction: Trade and local labor market outcomes in Mexico: disentangling the channels and the role of geography, sectors, and trade types	Review of World Economics	Emmanuel Vázquez, Deborah Elisabeth Winkler	Universidad Nacional de La Plata; World Bank Group
2026-10-10	Economic, social, environmental, and institutional factors shaping onshore wind LCOE in Europe: Evidence from spatial panel models	Energy Policy	Ömer Kara, Hakan Acaroğlu	Eskişehir Osmangazi University
2026-10-09	State ownership, media sentiment, and the completion of cross-border acquisitions	Journal of Business Research	Yan Gao, Chao Zhang	Northumbria University
2026-10-09	An agenda for plastics crisis research in the synthetic age	Ecological Economics	Borja Nogué-Algueró, Richard York, Stefano B. Longo et al.	University of Gothenburg; University of Oregon; Lund University; …
2026-10-09	Why do people migrate irregularly? Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in West Africa	Journal of Public Economics	Tijan L. Bah, Cátia Batista	World Bank Group; NOVA School of Business and Economics; Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2026-10-08	Analyzing Female Employment Trends in South Asia	Journal of Economics Race and Policy	Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Matías Morales, Fatima Najeeb	World Bank; Tulane University; Universidad Andrés Bello; …
2026-10-08	Entrepreneurship development, corruption perception, and sustainable development outcomes in emerging economies: the moderating role of digital financial inclusion	Future Business Journal	Seun Adebowale Adebanjo
2026-10-08	Wealth and weight revisited: A Bayesian model averaging approach to the Obesity Kuznets Curve	The European Journal of Health Economics	Katerine Restrepo Gómez, H. Du, C. Mendez	Nagoya University
2026-10-07	Geopolitical risk and the spatial convergence of renewable energy consumption: Evidence from 1996 to 2026	International Review of Economics & Finance	Liu He, 邹佰峰, Xing Chiang	Northeast Agricultural University; Northeast Forestry University; City University of Macau
2026-10-07	Is Europe a laggard? Comparing the EU and the US using an interdisciplinary well-being framework	Ecological Economics	Annegeke Jansen, Ranran Wang, Jan-emmanuel De Neve A et al.	Leiden University; University of Oxford; State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse; …
2026-10-07	The lithium bubble in the aftermath of COVID and the energy transition hype	Resources Policy	Pablo Agnese, Francisco Ríos Muñoz	United Arab Emirates University; Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educación
2026-10-07	Estimation of health convergence in Central Europe using β co-efficient	Journal of Economic Structures	Shailender Singh, Meenakshi Kaul, Chandrashekhar J Rawandale et al.	Symbiosis International University; Federal University Dutse
2026-10-06	Green hydrogen promotion in Cameroon: Implications for sustainable development	Energy Policy	Anja Brumme, Alexander Golub, Anil Markandya et al.	TU Bergakademie Freiberg; American University; University of the Basque Country; …
2026-10-06	Impacts of the digital economy on industrial employment and CO2 emissions: a comparison between developed and developing countries	Journal of Economic Structures	Ahlem Hcine, Olfa Zarrad, Kamel Helali	University of Sfax; Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax; Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University

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Scholar4AI. (2026). World Development Indicators (World Bank). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-development-indicators-world-bank

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