---
title: "Hedge Fund Research (HFR): research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 12 archived papers mentioned Hedge Fund Research (HFR) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jun 2024 (2)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/hedge-fund-research-hfr
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/hedge-fund-research-hfr.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 12 archived papers mentioned Hedge Fund Research (HFR) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jun 2024 (2). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Hedge Fund Research (HFR)

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/3.md)

Returns, holdings, flows and fees of mutual funds, ETFs and hedge funds.

- data category: Mutual fund and hedge fund data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Hedge Fund Research, HFR database, HFRI

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Mutual fund and hedge fund data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mutual-fund-and-hedge-fund-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 12 archived papers mentioned Hedge Fund Research (HFR) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jun 2024 (2).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned Hedge Fund Research (HFR) in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Hedge Fund Research (HFR) was mentioned in 12 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (5), finance (3) and economics (2).
- 6 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Athena Research and Innovation Center In Information Communication & Knowledge Technologies (3), National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos" (3) and National Technical University of Athens (3).
- The journals publishing most of them were Machine Learning (2), Journal of Financial Economics (1) and Journal of Productivity Analysis (1).
- The most-cited of them is “Machine learning in business and finance: a literature review and research opportunities” (Financial Innovation, 2024), with 96 citations.
- Papers use Hedge Fund Research (HFR) most often with Open Graph Benchmark (3); it has 1 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok.

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 2 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 2 |
| 2 | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 1 |
| 3 | [Journal of Productivity Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-productivity-analysis.md) | 1 |
| 4 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-quantitative-finance-and-accounting.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Journal of Brand Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-brand-management.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Information Systems Frontiers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-systems-frontiers.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Agricultural and Food Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/agricultural-and-food-economics.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Athena Research and Innovation Center In Information Communication & Knowledge Technologies | 3 |
| 2 | National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos" | 3 |
| 3 | National Technical University of Athens | 3 |
| 4 | University of Macedonia | 3 |
| 5 | University of Ioannina | 2 |
| 6 | Agricultural University of Athens | 1 |
| 7 | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | 1 |
| 8 | Athens University of Economics and Business | 1 |
| 9 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Copenhagen Business School](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/copenhagen-business-school.md) | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Greece | 9 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 4 |
| 3 | China | 2 |
| 4 | Belgium | 1 |
| 5 | Denmark | 1 |
| 6 | Italy | 1 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 1 |
| 8 | Sweden | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | cold start | 3 |
| 2 | [graph convolutional networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-convolutional-networks.md) | 3 |
| 3 | over-smoothing | 3 |
| 4 | unlabeled nodes | 3 |
| 5 | dynamic graphs | 2 |
| 6 | graph evolution | 2 |
| 7 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 2 |
| 8 | Central Greece | 1 |
| 9 | SG&A expenses | 1 |
| 10 | asset managers | 1 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 96 | 3.8 | [Machine learning in business and finance: a literature review and research opportunities](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854-024-00629-z) | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | 2024-09-18 | Hanyao Gao, Gang Kou, Haiming Liang et al. |
| 2 | 8 | 0.4 | [Reducing oversmoothing through informed weight initialization in graph neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-025-06426-0) | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 2025-04-07 | Dimitrios Kelesis, Dimitris A. Fotakis, Γεώργιος Παλιούρας |
| 3 | 5 | 0.2 | [Market-based or policy strategies to increase the cultivation of legumes for livestock? Effects on the cropping pattern and economic performance](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40100-024-00339-1) | [Agricultural and Food Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/agricultural-and-food-economics.md) | 2025-01-24 | Efstratios Michalis, Athanasios Ragkos, Chrisovalantis Malesios |
| 4 | 3 | 0.1 | [The GraphTempo Framework for Exploring the Evolution of a Graph Through Pattern Aggregation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2024.3410647) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2024-06-06 | Evangelia Tsoukanara, Georgia Koloniari, Evaggelia Pitoura et al. |
| 5 | 2 | 0.1 | [Skyline-based Exploration of Temporal Property Graphs](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-024-10505-x) | [Information Systems Frontiers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-systems-frontiers.md) | 2024-06-26 | Evangelia Tsoukanara, Georgia Koloniari, Evaggelia Pitoura |

## Used together with

Papers use Hedge Fund Research (HFR) most often with Open Graph Benchmark (3); it has 1 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok.

*What papers use Hedge Fund Research (HFR) together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Open Graph Benchmark](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/open-graph-benchmark.md) | Dataset | 3 | 130.0 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Hedge Fund Research (HFR). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/hedge-fund-research-hfr

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-hedge-fund-research-hfr,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Hedge Fund Research (HFR)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/hedge-fund-research-hfr}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).