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title: "World Uncertainty Index: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 75 archived papers mentioned World Uncertainty Index in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in May 2025 (7)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 75 archived papers mentioned World Uncertainty Index in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in May 2025 (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
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# World Uncertainty Index

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

Text- and survey-based indices of policy uncertainty, geopolitical risk, investor sentiment and financial stress.

- data category: Uncertainty and sentiment indices
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: World Uncertainty Index

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Uncertainty and sentiment indices datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/uncertainty-and-sentiment-indices.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 75 archived papers mentioned World Uncertainty Index in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in May 2025 (7).
- World Uncertainty Index 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: Finance (2).
- Most of them appeared in International Review of Economics & Finance (1) and The North American Journal of Economics and Finance (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), World Uncertainty Index was mentioned in 95 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (46), economics (40) and management (3).
- 25 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Palermo (4), IPAG Business School (3) and International Monetary Fund (3).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of International Money and Finance (7), Finance research letters (7) and International Review of Economics & Finance (5).
- The most-cited of them is “Energy consumption, economic policy uncertainty and carbon emissions; causality evidence from resource rich economies” (Economic Analysis and Policy, 2020), with 391 citations.
- Papers use World Uncertainty Index most often with Economic Policy Uncertainty index (44), Geopolitical Risk index (17) and Climate Policy Uncertainty index (9); it has 24 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

## 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 20 | 20 | 35 | 75 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 12 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 21 | 25 | 27 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of International Money and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-money-and-finance.md) | 7 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 7 |
| 3 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 5 |
| 4 | [Economic Change and Restructuring](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-change-and-restructuring.md) | 4 |
| 5 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 3 |
| 6 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [Asia-Pacific Financial Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/asia-pacific-financial-markets.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [Borsa Istanbul Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/borsa-istanbul-review.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [Journal of International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-economics.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Palermo | 4 |
| 2 | IPAG Business School | 3 |
| 3 | [International Monetary Fund](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/international-monetary-fund.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [Lebanese American University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lebanese-american-university.md) | 3 |
| 5 | [University of Lisbon](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-lisbon.md) | 3 |
| 6 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 2 |
| 7 | ISEG - Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão | 2 |
| 8 | [Lund University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lund-university.md) | 2 |
| 9 | Manouba University | 2 |
| 10 | NOVA School of Business and Economics | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 15 |
| 2 | Italy | 11 |
| 3 | China | 10 |
| 4 | United States | 8 |
| 5 | France | 7 |
| 6 | Spain | 6 |
| 7 | Germany | 5 |
| 8 | Greece | 5 |
| 9 | India | 4 |
| 10 | Portugal | 4 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | World Uncertainty Index | 27 |
| 2 | [economic policy uncertainty](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-policy-uncertainty.md) | 14 |
| 3 | economic uncertainty | 13 |
| 4 | [geopolitical risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/geopolitical-risk.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [uncertainty](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/uncertainty.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 8 |
| 9 | uncertainty shocks | 6 |
| 10 | asymmetric effects | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 391 | 5.3 | [Energy consumption, economic policy uncertainty and carbon emissions; causality evidence from resource rich economies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2020.09.012) | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 2020-09-24 | Samuel Adams, Festus Fatai Adedoyin, Eniola Olaniran et al. |
| 2 | 241 | 2.9 | [Determinants of foreign direct investment inflows: The role of economic policy uncertainty](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inteco.2019.11.012) | [International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-economics.md) | 2019-12-05 | Canh Phuc Nguyen, Binh Nguyen Thanh, Thanh Dinh Su et al. |
| 3 | 158 | 1.9 | [Economic Uncertainty and Bank Stability: Conventional vs. Islamic Banking](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2021.100911) | [Journal of Financial Stability](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-stability.md) | 2020-01-01 | Mehmet Hüseyin Bilgin, Gamze Ozturk Danisman, Ender Demir et al. |
| 4 | 92 | 1.1 | [Does economic uncertainty affect domestic credits? an empirical investigation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2019.101147) | [Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-financial-markets-institutions-and-money.md) | 2019-11-01 | Giray Gözgör, Ender Demir, Jaroslav Belás et al. |
| 5 | 54 | 0.9 | [The role of economic uncertainty in the rise of EU populism](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-021-00933-7) | [Public Choice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-choice.md) | 2021-10-24 | Giray Gözgör |

## Used together with

Papers use World Uncertainty Index most often with Economic Policy Uncertainty index (44), Geopolitical Risk index (17) and Climate Policy Uncertainty index (9); it has 24 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

*What papers use World Uncertainty Index together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Economic Policy Uncertainty index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/economic-policy-uncertainty-index.md) | Dataset | 44 | 9.3 |
| [Geopolitical Risk index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/geopolitical-risk-index.md) | Dataset | 17 | 35.8 |
| [Climate Policy Uncertainty index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/climate-policy-uncertainty-index.md) | Dataset | 9 | 8.1 |
| [IMF data (IFS, WEO, DOTS)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imf-data-ifs-weo-dots.md) | Dataset | 8 | 21.3 |
| [World Development Indicators (World Bank)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-development-indicators-world-bank.md) | Dataset | 8 | 4.3 |
| [Worldwide Governance Indicators](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/worldwide-governance-indicators.md) | Dataset | 8 | 9.0 |
| [Marketization index (Fan Gang)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/marketization-index-fan-gang.md) | Dataset | 7 | 5.3 |
| [VIX](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/vix.md) | Dataset | 7 | 3.6 |
| [S&P 500](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-500.md) | Dataset | 6 | 1.3 |
| [Trade Policy Uncertainty index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/trade-policy-uncertainty-index.md) | Dataset | 6 | 9.7 |
| [Compustat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/compustat.md) | Dataset | 5 | 4.0 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 5 | 1.7 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning World Uncertainty Index in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-14 | [Government-sourced categorical economic policy uncertainty](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2026.105966) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | Khanh Cong Gia Hoang, Linh Pham, Thanh Ngo et al. |  |
| 2026-10-08 | [Is the relationship between climate policy uncertainty and cash holding nonlinear?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2026.102730) | [The North American Journal of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-north-american-journal-of-economics-and-finance.md) | Augustinos I. Dimitras, Efstathios Magerakis, George Peppas | Hellenic Open University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). World Uncertainty Index. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-uncertainty-index

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-world-uncertainty-index,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {World Uncertainty Index},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-uncertainty-index}},
  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/).