Most-cited papers published in 2018
Papers the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, marketing, information systems, tourism and hospitality, operations research and AI journals published in 2018, ranked by the citations OpenAlex counts for them so far. Citation counts are the ones OpenAlex reports, read again every day for the last year's papers, every week for the two years before and every month for older ones. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- The most-cited paper the tracked journals published in 2018 is “Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence), with 9,547 citations.
- In finance, the most-cited was “Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? International evidence” (Journal of Financial Economics), with 2,547 citations.
- In accounting, the most-cited was “The effect of economic policy uncertainty on investor information asymmetry and management disclosures” (Journal of Accounting and Economics), with 678 citations.
- In economics, the most-cited was “Barriers to the Circular Economy: Evidence From the European Union (EU)” (Ecological Economics), with 1,900 citations.
- In management, the most-cited was “Building dynamic capabilities for digital transformation: An ongoing process of strategic renewal” (Long Range Planning), with 3,512 citations.
- In marketing, the most-cited was “Dealing with endogeneity bias: The generalized method of moments (GMM) for panel data” (Industrial Marketing Management), with 1,101 citations.
- In information systems, the most-cited was “A systematic literature review of blockchain-based applications: Current status, classification and open issues” (Telematics and Informatics), with 2,576 citations.
- In tourism and hospitality, the most-cited was “Cultural tourism: A review of recent research and trends” (Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management), with 1,323 citations.
- In operations research, the most-cited was “CasADi: a software framework for nonlinear optimization and optimal control” (Mathematical Programming Computation), with 3,895 citations.
- In AI, the most-cited was “Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence), with 9,547 citations.
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Scholar4AI. (2026). Most-cited papers published in 2018. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 29, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/cited/2018
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