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Journal Research Rankings: live rankings of research keywords, universities, institution web domains, countries and fields across recent papers in leading Elsevier, Springer Nature and IEEE journals in finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI, refreshed four times a day from OpenAlex. The rankings cover papers published in the registered journals during the last 30 days, overall and per journal category, and are rebuilt every day at 00:00, 06:00, 12:00, 18:00 (UTC+09:00).

Data source

All bibliographic metadata comes from OpenAlex (https://openalex.org), which publishes it under the CC0 license. Titles link to the publisher's page through the DOI. New papers appear here once OpenAlex has indexed them, usually within a few days of publication.

License

The rankings, text and data on this site are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/): free to share and adapt for non-commercial purposes with attribution; commercial use needs permission. The underlying bibliographic records come from OpenAlex (CC0). When you reuse it, please cite the page URL and OpenAlex.

How things are counted

A paper counts once for each OpenAlex keyword it has. A paper counts once for each institution its authors are affiliated with. Institutions are grouped by the web domain of their official site (OpenAlex / ROR data). A paper counts once for each domain among its authors' institutions. A paper counts once for each country of its authors' institutions. A paper counts once, for the field of its primary OpenAlex topic. Papers published in each registered journal. A paper counts once for each named equation or model it mentions, in its title, abstract, keywords or full text; a paper that mentions several counts for each of them. Datasets are grouped into data categories. A paper counts once for each dataset it mentions by name, in its title, abstract, keywords or full text, and once for each category with at least one of them. Web domains come from the official site URL of each institution in OpenAlex; the suffix is the last label, or the last two when it is an academic second-level domain such as ac.jp or edu.cn. Rank changes compare today's ranking with the one saved about a week earlier.

Equations and datasets

The site watches a fixed list of 112 named equations and models in 11 areas and 371 datasets in 58 data categories, each with the names papers use for it (full names, abbreviations and common spellings). A paper counts when one of them appears in its title, abstract or OpenAlex keywords, or, for papers whose full text OpenAlex has indexed, anywhere in the full text (found with OpenAlex full-text search). In this window OpenAlex has the abstract of 773 of the 2,971 papers (26%) and searchable full text for 545 (18%); titles and keywords are always there. The full-text lookups go a group of names at a time, the stalest first, as far as the day's OpenAlex request budget allows: 30 of the 69 groups have had a lookup so far (between 2026-10-23 and 2026-10-26) and the rest are queued, so for now their counts rest on titles, abstracts and keywords. The counts are therefore lower bounds that lean toward papers with open full text, and a mention is not proof that a paper uses the equation or dataset. Abstracts are only read to spot the names; they are neither stored nor republished.

Archive

Every paper the site has seen is kept in its archive database, including those that have left the ranking window: 45,135 papers collected since 2026-10-23, with daily rankings archived for 5 days since 2026-10-22.

What is not collected

Only bibliographic metadata is kept: titles, author names, institutions, keywords and topics. Abstracts are read only to spot the names of equations and datasets, then dropped; they are never stored or republished. Contact details such as e-mail addresses are never collected, and free-text affiliation strings are not requested.

For AI agents and AI search

Every page is available as Markdown: append .md to its URL or send Accept: text/markdown. /llms.txt indexes the site, /llms-full.txt holds the overview, the category dashboards, all rankings and this page in one file, and /data/rankings.json and /data/papers.json contain the full snapshot. Pages carry schema.org data (Dataset, ItemList, FAQPage). Crawlers, AI search engines and AI assistants are welcome; please cite the page URL and OpenAlex.

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