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title: "World Values Survey: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 226 archived papers mentioned World Values Survey in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Nov 2023 (11)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 226 archived papers mentioned World Values Survey in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Nov 2023 (11). (as of 2026-11-05)"
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# World Values Survey

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

Surveys run in many countries on values, trust, well-being, financial inclusion and skills.

- data category: Cross-country social and attitude surveys
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: World Values Survey, WVS

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Cross-country social and attitude surveys datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cross-country-social-and-attitude-surveys.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 226 archived papers mentioned World Values Survey in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Nov 2023 (11).
- World Values Survey was mentioned in 5 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #64 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Economics (5).
- Most of them appeared in International Review of Economics (2), Small Business Economics (1) and Public Choice (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), World Values Survey was mentioned in 293 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (177), management (44) and finance (29).
- 72 of them were published in 2025, against 5 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (8), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (7) and University College London (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (15), Small Business Economics (11) and Journal of International Business Studies (8).
- The most-cited of them is “Do dimensions of culture exist objectively? A validation of the revised Minkov-Hofstede model of culture with World Values Survey items and scores for 102 countries” (Journal of International Management, 2022), with 314 citations.
- Papers use World Values Survey most often with World Development Indicators (World Bank) (34), European Social Survey (28) and Gallup World Poll (28); it has 50 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 71 | 72 | 83 | 226 |

## 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) | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 18 | 38 | 45 | 48 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 10 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 8 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 5 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 30 | 67 | 72 | 72 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 15 |
| 2 | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 11 |
| 3 | [Journal of International Business Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-studies.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [Public Choice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-choice.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [European Journal of Political Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-political-economy.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Journal of Population Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-population-economics.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [International Review of Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-behavioral-and-experimental-economics.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 5 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 8 |
| 2 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 7 |
| 3 | [University College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-london.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [University of Groningen](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-groningen.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [Aalto University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/aalto-university.md) | 4 |
| 7 | [Brunel University of London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/brunel-university-of-london.md) | 4 |
| 8 | EM Strasbourg Business School | 4 |
| 9 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [University of Exeter](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-exeter.md) | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 63 |
| 2 | United States | 53 |
| 3 | Germany | 40 |
| 4 | Italy | 32 |
| 5 | France | 27 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 24 |
| 7 | Australia | 20 |
| 8 | China | 18 |
| 9 | Spain | 17 |
| 10 | Finland | 9 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 33 |
| 2 | World Values Survey | 25 |
| 3 | [trust](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/trust.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [subjective well-being](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/subjective-well-being.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [gender differences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/gender-differences.md) | 12 |
| 7 | happiness | 12 |
| 8 | individualism | 12 |
| 9 | life satisfaction | 12 |
| 10 | religiosity | 12 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 314 | 6.2 | [Do dimensions of culture exist objectively? A validation of the revised Minkov-Hofstede model of culture with World Values Survey items and scores for 102 countries](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2022.100971) | [Journal of International Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-management.md) | 2022-08-10 | Michael Minkov, Anneli Kaasa |
| 2 | 221 | 2.0 | [Age diversity, directors' personal values, and bank performance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2017.10.007) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2017-10-19 | Oleksandr Talavera, Shuxing Yin, Mao Zhang |
| 3 | 155 | 1.8 | [Trust and financial inclusion: A cross-country study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2019.101310) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2019-10-09 | Xiaoyan Xu |
| 4 | 136 | 1.3 | [Does Individualism Promote Gender Equality?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104627) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2018-01-01 | Lewis Davis, Claudia R. Williamson |
| 5 | 117 | 1.4 | [Tax Morale and International Tax Evasion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2019.101052) | [Journal of World Business](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-world-business.md) | 2019-12-10 | David M. Kemme, Bhavik Parikh, Tanja Steigner |

## Used together with

Papers use World Values Survey most often with World Development Indicators (World Bank) (34), European Social Survey (28) and Gallup World Poll (28); it has 50 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

*What papers use World Values Survey 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 | 34 | 5.9 |
| [European Social Survey](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/european-social-survey.md) | Dataset | 28 | 20.3 |
| [Gallup World Poll](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/gallup-world-poll.md) | Dataset | 28 | 17.9 |
| [Worldwide Governance Indicators](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/worldwide-governance-indicators.md) | Dataset | 26 | 9.4 |
| [Eurobarometer](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurobarometer.md) | Dataset | 16 | 13.6 |
| [Economic freedom indices](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/economic-freedom-indices.md) | Dataset | 14 | 12.1 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 14 | 1.6 |
| [Facebook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facebook.md) | Dataset | 12 | 0.7 |
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 12 | 0.4 |
| [Afrobarometer / Latinobarometro](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/afrobarometer-latinobarometro.md) | Dataset | 11 | 21.3 |
| [V-Dem](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/v-dem.md) | Dataset | 11 | 9.6 |
| [World Bank Enterprise Surveys](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-bank-enterprise-surveys.md) | Dataset | 10 | 5.4 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning World Values Survey in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | [Should I stay or should I go: intentions to freelance across 16 countries](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-026-01276-7) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | Adam Ferris, Stefania Innocenti | University of Oxford; Institute for New Economic Thinking |
| 2026-10-25 | [The cultural roots of state-owned enterprises: evidence from Europe](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-026-01474-7) | [Public Choice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-choice.md) | Ákos Dombi, Piotr Matuszak, Katarzyna Szarzec | Eötvös Loránd University; Instytut Nauk Ekonomicznych; Polish Academy of Sciences; … |
| 2026-10-21 | [A coalition game approach to migration governance in Pakistan](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12232-026-00558-6) | [International Review of Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics.md) | Shahla Akram | University of Peshawar; National College of Business Administration and Economics |
| 2026-10-21 | [Social comparison and well-being in Macau: the mediating roles of income inequality acceptance, generalized trust, and control perceptions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12232-026-00557-7) | [International Review of Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics.md) | Jiansong Zheng | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 2026-10-13 | [Economic experiences and positive-sum beliefs](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40822-026-00400-y) | [Eurasian economic review :](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/eurasian-economic-review.md) | Leonardo Becchetti, Lorenzo Semplici, Francesco Salustri | University of Rome Tor Vergata; Roma Tre University; University College London |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). World Values Survey. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-values-survey

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {World Values Survey},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-values-survey}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).