Rankings

Every ranking on Scholar4AI in one place, each with its current leaders: topics, methods and research ideas; universities, countries, funders and companies; journals and conferences; the most-cited papers. All are built from OpenAlex data on the 400 tracked journals and updated four times a day (the yearly rankings daily). Also as Markdown.

Topics and methods#

Top research keywords: Now: China (83 papers in the last 30 days), large language models (82) and COVID-19 pandemic (44).
Research fields: Now: Computer Science (702 papers in the last 30 days), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (633) and Business, Management and Accounting (627).
Most-used equations and models: Now: Logistic regression (logit) (169 papers in the last 30 days), Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer) (157) and Difference-in-differences (145).
Most-used data: Now: Optimization benchmark instances (162 papers in the last 30 days), Social media data (70) and Macroeconomic and development indicators (66).
Most-read research ideas: Since the counting started on 2026-10-28, the most-read research idea was “Subscriptions, churn and the right to cancel” (7 reads), followed by “Treasury market liquidity and the basis trade” (3) and “AI washing and stock price…

Institutions, countries and funders#

Top universities and research institutions: Now: Chinese Academy of Sciences (43 papers in the last 30 days), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (40) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (38).
Top research institutions, 2023–2025: From 2023 to 2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences published the most papers in the 400 tracked journals (2,204), followed by Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1,936) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (1,837).
Top institution web domains: Now: cas.cn (44 papers in the last 30 days), cnrs.fr (42) and tsinghua.edu.cn (40).
Top countries: Now: China (1,385 papers in the last 30 days), United States (498) and United Kingdom (297).
Top research funders, 2023–2025: From 2023 to 2025, National Natural Science Foundation of China was named as a funder of the most papers in the 400 tracked journals (33,534), followed by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (4,645) and…
Corporate research: companies publishing in the tracked journals, 2023–2025: Of the 168,221 papers the 400 tracked journals published in 2023–2025, 4,810 (3%) have at least one author at a company; 93% of those also have a university author.
Institutions with the most papers at CORE A* and A conferences, 2024–2026: Now: Chinese Academy of Sciences (43 papers in the last 30 days), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (40) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (38).

Journals#

Papers per journal: Now: Expert Systems with Applications (221 papers in the last 30 days), Pattern Recognition (136) and Finance research letters (91).
Journal rankings by citations: Among the 393 tracked journals, International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (47.98), followed by Artificial Intelligence Review (33.69) and Computers and…
Open access by journal: Of the 167,976 papers the 399 tracked journals published in 2023–2025, 46% are open access (diamond 1%, gold 5%, hybrid 25%, bronze 3% and green 13%).
Top computer science conferences: CORE A* and A proceedings, 2024–2026: OpenAlex lists 139,024 papers from 2024–2026 for 157 of the 170 conferences that the CORE ICORE2026 ranking rates A* or A: 91,670 at 57 of the 62 A* conferences and 47,354 at 100 of the 108 A conferences.

Papers and goals#

Most-cited papers of the past three years: The most-cited paper published in the last three years was “Artificial intelligence, firm growth, and product innovation” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2023-11-23), with 1,463 citations.
Most-cited papers since October 2016: The most-cited paper the tracked journals published since October 2016 is “DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis…
Research on the Sustainable Development Goals: From 2023 to 2025, the goal the tracked journals' papers addressed most was SDG 9, Industry, innovation and infrastructure (28,873 papers), followed by SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth (19,743) and SDG 3 Good health and…
Most-cited papers by publication year: 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017

By category#

The rankings of each journal category
Category	Journal metrics	Institutions by year	Funders	Companies	Open access
Finance	Finance	Finance	Finance	Finance	Finance
Accounting	Accounting	Accounting	Accounting	Accounting	Accounting
Economics	Economics	Economics	Economics	Economics	Economics
Health Economics and Policy	Health Economics and Policy	Health Economics and Policy	Health Economics and Policy	Health Economics and Policy	Health Economics and Policy
Management	Management	Management	Management	Management	Management
Marketing	Marketing	Marketing	Marketing	Marketing	Marketing
Information Systems	Information Systems	Information Systems	Information Systems	Information Systems	Information Systems
Tourism and Hospitality	Tourism and Hospitality	Tourism and Hospitality	Tourism and Hospitality	Tourism and Hospitality	Tourism and Hospitality
Higher Education and Research	Higher Education and Research	Higher Education and Research	Higher Education and Research	Higher Education and Research	Higher Education and Research
Operations Research	Operations Research	Operations Research	Operations Research	Operations Research	Operations Research
Statistics	Statistics	Statistics	Statistics	Statistics	Statistics
AI	AI	AI	AI	AI	AI

Analysis and trends#

Equations and models used in research: The site looks for 270 named equations and models in 29 areas; 231 of them were mentioned by papers of the tracked journals from Nov 2023 to Oct 2026.
Research supply chain: whose funding feeds whose research: Papers published in the tracked journals since 2023 cite other papers of these journals 1,769,041 times; 52% of those citations go to papers whose funders' country is known.
Corporate citation network: who cites research by companies: Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cite other archived papers 1,769,041 times; 52,450 of those links (3.0%) go to papers with an author at a company, which make up 2.6% of the archive.
Industry–university links: which companies and universities write together: From 2017 to 2026, 12,327 papers in the tracked journals had an author at a company; 91% of them also had a university author, linking 16,893 company–university pairs.
Research trends over the last 36 months: Papers per month in all tracked journals: 4,185 to 6,173 over the last 36 complete months.
Monthly research reports: A fixed page for every month from October 2023 to October 2026: what the tracked journals published, which keywords grew, who published most and which papers are cited most.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Rankings. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings

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  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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