World Bank

11.7k papers and 507.8k indexed citations i.

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In recent decades, authors affiliated with World Bank have published 11.7k papers, which have received a total of 507.8k indexed citations. Scholars at this organization have produced 4.9k papers in Economics and Econometrics, 2.2k papers in Sociology and Political Science and 2.1k papers in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance on the topics of Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (1.4k papers), Global trade and economics (1.2k papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (1.2k papers). Their work is cited by papers focused on Economics and Econometrics (208.8k citations), Sociology and Political Science (102.4k citations) and Finance (78.7k citations). Authors at World Bank collaborate with scholars in United States, United Kingdom and Germany and have published in prestigious journals including Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine. Some of World Bank's most productive authors include Ross Levine, Aslι Demirgüç-Kunt, Philip Keefer, Martin Ravallion, Lant Pritchett, Stephen Knack, Thorsten Beck, Norman Loayza, Aart Kraay and William Easterly.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published by authors at World Bank

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers affiliated with World Bank at the time of their publication. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers affiliated with World Bank at the time of their publication.

Countries citing scholars working at World Bank

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This map shows the geographic impact of research produced by authors working at World Bank. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers produced at World Bank with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites World Bank more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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