---
title: "WRDS: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 121 archived papers mentioned WRDS in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2026 (10)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wrds
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wrds.md
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 121 archived papers mentioned WRDS in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2026 (10). (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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---

# WRDS

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

Commercial terminals and data services with prices, fundamentals and economic series.

- data category: Financial data platforms
- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Wharton Research Data Services, WRDS

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Financial data platforms datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/financial-data-platforms.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 121 archived papers mentioned WRDS in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2026 (10).
- WRDS was mentioned in 3 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #103 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Finance (2) and Economics (1).
- Most of them appeared in Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (1), Journal of Economics and Finance (1) and Computational Economics (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), WRDS was mentioned in 126 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (58), accounting (22) and economics (18).
- 33 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Monash University (6), Durham University (5) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (4).
- The journals publishing most of them were Review of Accounting Studies (18), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (7) and Journal of Financial Economics (6).
- The most-cited of them is “Corporate green innovation: The influence of ESG information disclosure” (Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, 2024), with 68 citations.
- Papers use WRDS most often with Compustat (70), CRSP (55) and S&P 500 (30); it has 53 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 33 | 34 | 54 | 121 |

## 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 26 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 34 | 33 | 50 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-quantitative-finance-and-accounting.md) | 7 |
| 3 | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [Journal of Banking & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-banking-finance.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 4 |
| 8 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [Journal of International Business Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-studies.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 3 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Monash University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/monash-university.md) | 6 |
| 2 | [Durham University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/durham-university.md) | 5 |
| 3 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 4 |
| 4 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 3 |
| 5 | [King's College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/king-s-college-london.md) | 3 |
| 6 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [Northwestern University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-university.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/rutgers-the-state-university-of-new-jersey.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [Singapore Management University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/singapore-management-university.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [University of Florida](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-florida.md) | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 49 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 40 |
| 3 | Australia | 15 |
| 4 | China | 14 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 8 |
| 6 | Italy | 6 |
| 7 | Canada | 5 |
| 8 | Spain | 5 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 5 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 4 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [institutional investors](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/institutional-investors.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 5 |
| 5 | institutional ownership | 5 |
| 6 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 4 |
| 7 | asset pricing | 4 |
| 8 | bid-ask spread | 4 |
| 9 | board gender diversity | 4 |
| 10 | corporate disclosure | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 68 | 2.7 | [Corporate green innovation: The influence of ESG information disclosure](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2024.100628) | [Journal of Innovation & Knowledge](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-knowledge.md) | 2024-10-01 | Lei Ruan, Liwen Yang, Kunyang Dong |
| 2 | 55 | 1.5 | [The impact of economic policy uncertainty and inflation risk on corporate cash holdings](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-023-01224-6) | [Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-quantitative-finance-and-accounting.md) | 2023-11-07 | Bijoy Chandra Das, Fakhrul Hasan, Soma Rani Sutradhar |
| 3 | 53 | 1.7 | [Accounting fraud detection using contextual language learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accinf.2024.100682) | [International Journal of Accounting Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-accounting-information-systems.md) | 2024-03-11 | Indranil Bhattacharya, Ana Mićković |
| 4 | 47 | 1.5 | [Dynamic datasets and market environments for financial reinforcement learning](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-023-06511-w) | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 2024-02-26 | Xiao-Yang Liu, Ziyi Xia, Hongyang Yang et al. |
| 5 | 37 | 1.3 | [Diversity targets](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-024-09831-x) | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 2024-07-03 | Wei Cai, Yue Chen, Shiva Rajgopal et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use WRDS most often with Compustat (70), CRSP (55) and S&P 500 (30); it has 53 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Compustat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/compustat.md) | Dataset | 70 | 42.2 |
| [CRSP](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/crsp.md) | Dataset | 55 | 49.0 |
| [S&P 500](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-500.md) | Dataset | 30 | 5.0 |
| [I/B/E/S](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/i-b-e-s.md) | Dataset | 25 | 37.7 |
| [Thomson Reuters 13F holdings](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/thomson-reuters-13f-holdings.md) | Dataset | 19 | 66.2 |
| [10-K filings](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/10-k-filings.md) | Dataset | 18 | 24.1 |
| [Earnings call transcripts](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/earnings-call-transcripts.md) | Dataset | 17 | 23.8 |
| [Economic Policy Uncertainty index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/economic-policy-uncertainty-index.md) | Dataset | 14 | 2.2 |
| [Marketization index (Fan Gang)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/marketization-index-fan-gang.md) | Dataset | 14 | 7.9 |
| [Kenneth French Data Library](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kenneth-french-data-library.md) | Dataset | 12 | 27.6 |
| [Loughran-McDonald dictionary](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/loughran-mcdonald-dictionary.md) | Dataset | 12 | 23.1 |
| [VIX](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/vix.md) | Dataset | 12 | 4.7 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning WRDS in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | [CEO power and stock price crash risk: moderating effect of environmental practices](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-026-01559-w) | [Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-quantitative-finance-and-accounting.md) | Hamad Aldawsari, Taufiq Choudhry, Muhammad Saad Baloch | Saudi Electronic University; University of Southampton |
| 2026-10-26 | [The effect of urban density on stock returns: evidence from satellite imagery and firms in the United States](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12197-026-09789-3) | [Journal of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economics-and-finance.md) | Mahsa Memarian, Carles Vergara‐Alert, Sara Benetti | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; IESE Business School; ESE Business School; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [Markov-Switching Multifractal Models for High-Frequency Trade Counts](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-026-11452-2) | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | Zhamilya Mussayeva, Karim Moussa | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). WRDS. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wrds

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-wrds,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {WRDS},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wrds}},
  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/).