What are the most common topics in recent finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI research?

In the last 30 days, the most frequent OpenAlex keywords in papers from the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals were “large language models” (89), “China” (79), “Chinese listed companies” (56), “corporate governance” (49) and “graph neural networks” (39).

Which universities and institutions publish the most finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI research?

In the last 30 days, the institutions with the most papers in the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals were Chinese Academy of Sciences (35), Xi'an Jiaotong University (34), Tsinghua University (32), Beijing Institute of Technology (31) and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (30).

Which countries publish the most finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI research?

Counting papers with at least one author at an institution in the country, the leaders over the last 30 days were China (1,301), United States (347), United Kingdom (193), Italy (126) and Australia (105).

How current is this data?

It is rebuilt from OpenAlex 4 times a day (00:00, 06:00, 12:00, 18:00, UTC+09:00); the last update was 2026-10-26 09:55 UTC+09:00. OpenAlex usually indexes new papers within a few days of publication.

Journal Research Rankings

Live rankings of research keywords, universities, institution web domains, countries and fields across recent papers in leading Elsevier and Springer Nature journals in finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI, refreshed four times a day from OpenAlex. Window: 2026-09-27 – 2026-10-26 (30 days). Every number on this page is also available as Markdown and JSON.

2,952Papers (30 days)

269Papers (last 7 days)

199Journals

2,592Institutions

104Countries

2,424Web domains

Key findings

In the last 30 days (2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26), 2,952 papers were published in the 199 tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals (as indexed by OpenAlex).
The most frequent keywords were “large language models” (89), “China” (79) and “Chinese listed companies” (56).
The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (35), Xi'an Jiaotong University (34) and Tsinghua University (32).
China was involved in 44% of the papers (1,301), followed by United States (347) and United Kingdom (193).
Among institution web domains, .edu.cn appeared on 43% of the papers.
The most-mentioned equations and models were Difference-in-differences (121), Instrumental variables (two-stage least squares) (101) and Logistic regression (logit) (97).
The most-mentioned kinds of data were Macroeconomic and development indicators (59), Stock market indices (45) and China household and social surveys (26); the most-mentioned datasets were S&P 500 (31), World Development Indicators (World Bank) (30) and Eurostat (23).

Finance Open dashboard →

491 papers in 46 journals

Top keywords: “China” (27), “Chinese listed companies” (26) and “corporate governance” (23)

Top institutions: Central University of Finance and Economics (11), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (11) and University of International Business and Economics (9)

Accounting Open dashboard →

58 papers in 16 journals

Top keywords: “corporate governance” (10), “Chinese listed companies” (5) and “management control” (4)

Top institutions: Bowling Green State University (2), Tianjin University (2) and Elon University (2)

Economics Open dashboard →

784 papers in 83 journals

Top keywords: “China” (44), “monetary policy” (18) and “Chinese listed companies” (14)

Top institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (20), Peking University (12) and Centre for Economic Policy Research (12)

Management Open dashboard →

274 papers in 25 journals

Top keywords: “Chinese listed companies” (10), “digital transformation” (10) and “dynamic capabilities” (10)

Top institutions: BI Norwegian Business School (7), Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (5) and University of Reading (5)

Operations Research Open dashboard →

240 papers in 11 journals

Top keywords: “mixed-integer linear programming” (12), “demand uncertainty” (8) and “supply chain coordination” (8)

Top institutions: Beihang University (9), Southwest Jiaotong University (8) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (7)

AI Open dashboard →

1,105 papers in 18 journals

Top keywords: “large language models” (70), “graph neural networks” (38) and “multimodal fusion” (29)

Top institutions: Chinese Academy of Sciences (30), Tsinghua University (25) and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (22)

Papers per day

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Show the numbers

Papers per publication date
Date	Papers
2026-09-27	39
2026-09-28	109
2026-09-29	124
2026-09-30	146
2026-10-01	853
2026-10-02	47
2026-10-03	87
2026-10-04	21
2026-10-05	90
2026-10-06	95
2026-10-07	96
2026-10-08	91
2026-10-09	106
2026-10-10	86
2026-10-11	42
2026-10-12	84
2026-10-13	90
2026-10-14	95
2026-10-15	101
2026-10-16	87
2026-10-17	113
2026-10-18	19
2026-10-19	62
2026-10-20	54
2026-10-21	69
2026-10-22	51
2026-10-23	65
2026-10-24	30
2026-10-25	0
2026-10-26	0

Growing over the year Trends →

Papers in Jul 2026–Sep 2026 beyond what the keyword's share in Oct 2025–Jun 2026 predicts
Keyword	Papers Jul 2026–Sep 2026	vs. earlier share
absorptive capacity	44	+22
AI governance	52	+20
uncertainty estimation	41	+18
mixture of experts	47	+16
human-AI collaboration	36	+16

Top research keywords Full ranking →

Top 10 · 2026-09-27 – 2026-10-26 (30 days)
#	Keyword	Papers	Last 7 days
1	large language models	89	8
2	China	79	5
3	Chinese listed companies	56	1
4	corporate governance	49	4
5	graph neural networks	39	1
6	artificial intelligence	36	0
7	emerging markets	35	4
8	information asymmetry	31	1
9	digital transformation	30	2
9	multimodal fusion	30	0

Top universities and research institutions Full ranking →

Top 10 · 2026-09-27 – 2026-10-26 (30 days)
#	Institution	Papers	Last 7 days
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	35	5
2	Xi'an Jiaotong University	34	2
3	Tsinghua University	32	4
4	Beijing Institute of Technology	31	1
5	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics	30	1
5	Wuhan University	30	1
7	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	29	5
8	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	26	3
9	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	25	1
9	Beijing Jiaotong University	25	1

Top institution web domains Full ranking →

Top 10 · 2026-09-27 – 2026-10-26 (30 days)
#	Web domain	Papers	Last 7 days
1	cas.cn	42	5
2	xjtu.edu.cn	34	2
3	tsinghua.edu.cn	33	4
4	bit.edu.cn	31	1
4	cnrs.fr	31	7
4	whu.edu.cn	31	1
7	swufe.edu.cn	30	1
8	ucas.ac.cn	26	3
9	njtu.edu.cn	25	1
9	uestc.edu.cn	25	1

Top countries Full ranking →

Top 10 · 2026-09-27 – 2026-10-26 (30 days)
#	Country	Papers	Last 7 days
1	China (CN)	1,301	87
2	United States (US)	347	37
3	United Kingdom (GB)	193	20
4	Italy (IT)	126	13
5	Australia (AU)	105	11
5	Germany (DE)	105	9
7	India (IN)	104	11
8	France (FR)	98	16
9	South Korea (KR)	86	7
10	Spain (ES)	80	8

Research fields Full ranking →

Top 10 · 2026-09-27 – 2026-10-26 (30 days)
#	Field	Papers	Last 7 days
1	Computer Science	752	53
2	Economics, Econometrics and Finance	617	52
3	Business, Management and Accounting	539	51
4	Engineering	294	24
5	Social Sciences	268	21
6	Decision Sciences	154	24
7	Environmental Science	43	3
8	Medicine	40	4
9	Energy	32	9
9	Psychology	32	2

Papers per journal Full ranking →

Top 10 · 2026-09-27 – 2026-10-26 (30 days)
#	Journal	Papers	Last 7 days
1	Expert Systems with Applications	249	14
2	Pattern Recognition	188	9
3	Finance research letters	127	3
4	Knowledge-Based Systems	110	6
5	International Review of Economics & Finance	97	6
6	Neural Computing and Applications	90	0
7	Neural Networks	89	6
8	Economic Analysis and Policy	71	1
8	Information Fusion	71	1
10	Applied Intelligence	64	8

Most-used equations and models Full ranking →

Top 10 · 2026-09-27 – 2026-10-26 (30 days)
#	Equation or model	Formula	Papers
1	Difference-in-differences	$Y_{it} = \alpha_i + \lambda_t + \delta\,(\mathit{Treat}_i \times \mathit{Post}_t) + \varepsilon_{it}$	121
2	Instrumental variables (two-stage least squares)	$\hat\beta_{\mathrm{2SLS}} = (X^\top P_Z X)^{-1} X^\top P_Z\, y,\quad P_Z = Z (Z^\top Z)^{-1} Z^\top$	101
3	Logistic regression (logit)	$\Pr(y = 1 \mid x) = \frac{1}{1 + e^{-x^\top\beta}}$	97
4	Ordinary least squares (OLS)	$\hat\beta = (X^\top X)^{-1} X^\top y$	93
5	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	$H^{(l+1)} = \sigma\big(\tilde D^{-1/2} \tilde A\, \tilde D^{-1/2} H^{(l)} W^{(l)}\big)$	75
6	Mediation model (indirect effect)	$M = \alpha_0 + a X + e_1,\quad Y = \beta_0 + c' X + b M + e_2,\quad \text{indirect effect} = a\,b$	60
7	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	$\mathrm{Attention}(Q, K, V) = \mathrm{softmax}\Big(\frac{Q K^\top}{\sqrt{d_k}}\Big) V$	56
8	Two-way fixed-effects panel regression	$y_{it} = \alpha_i + \lambda_t + x_{it}^\top\beta + \varepsilon_{it}$	55
9	Structural equation modeling (SEM)	$\eta = B\eta + \Gamma\xi + \zeta,\quad y = \Lambda_y\,\eta + \varepsilon$	50
10	Vector autoregression (VAR)	$y_t = c + \sum_{i=1}^{p} A_i\, y_{t-i} + \varepsilon_t$	49

Most-used data Full ranking →

Top 10 · 2026-09-27 – 2026-10-26 (30 days)
#	Data category	Most-mentioned datasets	Papers
1	Macroeconomic and development indicators	World Development Indicators (World Bank) (30), Eurostat (23), Penn World Table (7), IMF data (IFS, WEO, DOTS) (7) …	59
2	Stock market indices	S&P 500 (31), CSI 300 / Shanghai Composite (8), MSCI indices (5), Euro Stoxx / DAX (5) …	45
3	China household and social surveys	China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) (11), China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) (9), China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) (4), CHARLS (3) …	26
4	China statistical yearbooks and regional indices	Marketization index (Fan Gang) (13), China Statistical Yearbook (3), National Bureau of Statistics of China (3), China City Statistical Yearbook (2) …	21
5	Financial data platforms	Refinitiv Datastream (5), WRDS (4), Refinitiv Eikon / LSEG Workspace (3), Yahoo Finance (3) …	20
6	China financial and firm databases	CSMAR (17), CNRDS (6), Wind (5)	19
6	Corporate filings and text	Earnings call transcripts (9), Loughran-McDonald dictionary (9), 10-K filings (4), XBRL filings (2) …	19
8	European and other national household panels	Labour Force Surveys (5), SHARE (4), German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) (3), Understanding Society / BHPS (2) …	17
9	Options and volatility data	VIX (16), OVX (crude oil volatility index) (2)	16
10	Company financial statements	Compustat (10), Orbis (Bureau van Dijk) (3), Amadeus (Bureau van Dijk) (1), S&P Capital IQ (1)	15

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Questions this page answers

What are the most common topics in recent finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI research?: In the last 30 days, the most frequent OpenAlex keywords in papers from the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals were “large language models” (89), “China” (79), “Chinese listed companies” (56), “corporate governance” (49) and “graph neural networks” (39).
Which universities and institutions publish the most finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI research?: In the last 30 days, the institutions with the most papers in the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals were Chinese Academy of Sciences (35), Xi'an Jiaotong University (34), Tsinghua University (32), Beijing Institute of Technology (31) and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (30).
Which countries publish the most finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI research?: Counting papers with at least one author at an institution in the country, the leaders over the last 30 days were China (1,301), United States (347), United Kingdom (193), Italy (126) and Australia (105).
Which equations and models do recent finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI research papers use most?: Counting papers that mention them by name in the title, abstract, keywords or full text, the most frequent in the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals over the last 30 days were Difference-in-differences (121), Instrumental variables (two-stage least squares) (101), Logistic regression (logit) (97), Ordinary least squares (OLS) (93) and Graph neural network (graph convolution) (75).
What data do recent finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI research papers use?: Counting papers that mention a dataset by name, the kinds of data used most over the last 30 days were Macroeconomic and development indicators (59), Stock market indices (45), China household and social surveys (26), China statistical yearbooks and regional indices (21) and Financial data platforms (20); the most-mentioned datasets were S&P 500 (31), World Development Indicators (World Bank) (30), Eurostat (23), CSMAR (17) and VIX (16).
How current is this data?: It is rebuilt from OpenAlex 4 times a day (00:00, 06:00, 12:00, 18:00, UTC+09:00); the last update was 2026-10-26 09:55 UTC+09:00. OpenAlex usually indexes new papers within a few days of publication.