International Monetary Fund
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Key findings#
- International Monetary Fund was involved in 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #284 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in International Tax and Public Finance (1), Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money (1) and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (1).
- Countries: United States (6), Germany (2) and United Kingdom (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at International Monetary Fund took part in 940 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (682), finance (240) and health economics and policy (9).
- 93 of them were published in 2025, against 97 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre for Economic Policy Research (19), World Bank (19) and University of Palermo (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of International Economics (37), Journal of International Money and Finance (36) and IMF Economic Review (23).
- The most-cited of them is “Systemic Banking Crises Database II” (IMF Economic Review, 2020), with 1,129 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, International Monetary Fund has 24,545 works with 1,276,720 citations (h-index 398).
- The tracked journals hold 873 of its 6,395 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (13.7%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Monetary Policy and Economic Impact (10,628), Global Financial Crisis and Policies (9,802) and Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (4,206).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 70 | 63 | 53 | 62 | 68 | 71 | 88 | 92 | 70 | 45 |
| Finance | 26 | 24 | 23 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 21 | 21 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 97 | 88 | 77 | 89 | 94 | 101 | 115 | 119 | 93 | 67 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of International Economics | 37 |
| 2 | Journal of International Money and Finance | 36 |
| 3 | IMF Economic Review | 23 |
| 4 | European Economic Review | 15 |
| 5 | Economics Letters | 15 |
| 6 | Energy Economics | 13 |
| 7 | Journal of Development Economics | 9 |
| 8 | Journal of Monetary Economics | 9 |
| 9 | Journal of Banking & Finance | 9 |
| 10 | Journal of Macroeconomics | 8 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre for Economic Policy Research | 19 |
| 2 | World Bank | 19 |
| 3 | University of Palermo | 15 |
| 4 | Georgetown University | 14 |
| 5 | Center for Economic and Policy Research | 11 |
| 6 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 10 |
| 7 | Harvard University | 9 |
| 8 | European Central Bank | 8 |
| 9 | Federal Reserve Board of Governors | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 394 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 54 |
| 3 | France | 31 |
| 4 | Italy | 24 |
| 5 | Germany | 19 |
| 6 | Canada | 18 |
| 7 | Switzerland | 17 |
| 8 | China | 13 |
| 9 | Japan | 13 |
| 10 | Belgium | 12 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 35 |
| 2 | emerging markets | 34 |
| 3 | developing countries | 25 |
| 4 | developed countries | 21 |
| 5 | monetary policy | 20 |
| 6 | public debt | 19 |
| 7 | economic growth | 18 |
| 8 | income inequality | 17 |
| 9 | inflation | 17 |
| 10 | 2008 financial crisis | 12 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Other |
| Location | Washington, District of Columbia, United States |
| Also known as | IMF, Fondo Monetario Internacional, Fonds monétaire international |
| Works in OpenAlex | 24,545 |
| Citations | 1,276,720 |
| h-index | 398 |
| i10-index | 17,434 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.81 |
| Website | www.imf.org/external/index.htm |
| ROR | ror.org/05m4rmw09 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I1310145890 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monetary Policy and Economic Impact | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 10,628 |
| 2 | Global Financial Crisis and Policies | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 9,802 |
| 3 | Banking stability, regulation, efficiency | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 4,206 |
| 4 | Economic Theory and Policy | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 3,609 |
| 5 | Fiscal Policies and Political Economy | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 3,205 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 376 | 25,413 | 67 | 17.8% |
| 2025 | 503 | 35,932 | 93 | 18.5% |
| 2024 | 567 | 42,958 | 119 | 21.0% |
| 2023 | 642 | 45,692 | 115 | 17.9% |
| 2022 | 462 | 43,921 | 101 | 21.9% |
| 2021 | 700 | 48,184 | 94 | 13.4% |
| 2020 | 865 | 47,178 | 89 | 10.3% |
| 2019 | 853 | 39,787 | 77 | 9.0% |
| 2018 | 869 | 39,582 | 88 | 10.1% |
| 2017 | 934 | 37,024 | 97 | 10.4% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). International Monetary Fund. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/international-monetary-fund
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title = {International Monetary Fund},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/international-monetary-fund}},
urldate = {2026-11-03},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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