World Bank Group
Papers in the tracked journals that name World Bank Group as a funder. Funders are the organisations OpenAlex links to a paper from its funding information (Crossref metadata and the paper's acknowledgements); a paper counts once for each funder it names. Grant numbers are not shown. Also as Markdown.
Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), World Bank Group was named as a funder of 807 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (598), finance (66) and management (47).
- 105 of them were published in 2025, against 82 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were World Bank (144), World Bank Group (39) and International Food Policy Research Institute (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Development Economics (60), World Development (33) and Food Policy (13).
- The most-cited of them is “Walking the walk or talking the talk? Corporate social responsibility decoupling in emerging market multinationals” (Journal of International Business Studies, 2018), with 557 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, World Bank Group is linked to 24,594 funded works with 963,582 citations (h-index 349).
- The tracked journals hold 755 of its 11,287 funded works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (6.7%).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 58 | 75 | 71 | 46 | 52 | 47 | 63 | 60 | 83 | 43 |
| Finance | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 4 |
| Management | 12 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| Operations Research | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Accounting | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 82 | 104 | 94 | 56 | 81 | 64 | 83 | 86 | 105 | 52 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Development Economics | 60 |
| 2 | World Development | 33 |
| 3 | Food Policy | 13 |
| 4 | Journal of Public Economics | 11 |
| 5 | Resources Policy | 10 |
| 6 | Energy Policy | 10 |
| 7 | Energy Economics | 9 |
| 8 | International Journal of Educational Development | 9 |
| 9 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 9 |
| 10 | Journal of International Economics | 8 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | World Bank | 144 |
| 2 | World Bank Group | 39 |
| 3 | International Food Policy Research Institute | 9 |
| 4 | University of Oxford | 8 |
| 5 | Centre for Economic Policy Research | 7 |
| 6 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 7 |
| 7 | Universidad del Rosario | 7 |
| 8 | Center for Global Development | 6 |
| 9 | Harvard University | 6 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 211 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 64 |
| 3 | Germany | 24 |
| 4 | China | 19 |
| 5 | France | 19 |
| 6 | Italy | 19 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 17 |
| 8 | Australia | 14 |
| 9 | Spain | 12 |
| 10 | Canada | 11 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | developing countries | 26 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 18 |
| 3 | India | 12 |
| 4 | economic growth | 11 |
| 5 | gender differences | 11 |
| 6 | smallholder farmers | 11 |
| 7 | sub-Saharan Africa | 11 |
| 8 | financial inclusion | 10 |
| 9 | income inequality | 9 |
| 10 | Bangladesh | 8 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | international financial institution |
| Country | United States |
| Also known as | مجموعة البنك الدولي, WBG, Groupe Banque Mondiale |
| Grants listed in OpenAlex | 854 |
| Also a research institution | World Bank Group |
| Funded works in OpenAlex | 24,594 |
| Citations | 963,582 |
| h-index | 349 |
| i10-index | 12,566 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.64 |
| Website | www.worldbank.org |
| ROR | ror.org/00ae7jd04 |
| Wikidata | www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7164 |
| Crossref Funder ID | doi.org/10.13039/100004421 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/F4320307855 |
| Year | Funded works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 523 | 57,219 | 52 | 9.9% |
| 2025 | 892 | 74,303 | 105 | 11.8% |
| 2024 | 909 | 78,010 | 86 | 9.5% |
| 2023 | 1,425 | 76,902 | 83 | 5.8% |
| 2022 | 1,396 | 76,877 | 64 | 4.6% |
| 2021 | 1,373 | 76,452 | 81 | 5.9% |
| 2020 | 1,299 | 66,920 | 56 | 4.3% |
| 2019 | 1,409 | 53,725 | 94 | 6.7% |
| 2018 | 1,322 | 46,469 | 104 | 7.9% |
| 2017 | 1,262 | 41,238 | 82 | 6.5% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). World Bank Group. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/world-bank-group
@misc{scholar4ai-funders-world-bank-group,
author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {World Bank Group},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/world-bank-group}},
urldate = {2026-11-03},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}