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title: "Most-cited research papers of 2019"
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# Most-cited papers published in 2019

Papers the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, marketing, information systems, tourism and hospitality, operations research and AI journals published in 2019, 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.

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## Key findings

- The most-cited paper the tracked journals published in 2019 is “A survey on Image Data Augmentation for Deep Learning” (Journal Of Big Data), with 13,151 citations.
- In finance, the most-cited was “Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk?” (Journal of Financial Economics), with 3,369 citations.
- In accounting, the most-cited was “ESG practices and the cost of debt: Evidence from EU countries” (Critical Perspectives on Accounting), with 924 citations.
- In economics, the most-cited was “The digital transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship: Progress, challenges and key themes” (Research Policy), with 2,764 citations.
- In management, the most-cited was “Literature review as a research methodology: An overview and guidelines” (Journal of Business Research), with 11,462 citations.
- In marketing, the most-cited was “How artificial intelligence will change the future of marketing” (Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science), with 2,863 citations.
- In information systems, the most-cited was “Understanding digital transformation: A review and a research agenda” (The Journal of Strategic Information Systems), with 7,304 citations.
- In tourism and hospitality, the most-cited was “Developing and validating a service robot integration willingness scale” (International Journal of Hospitality Management), with 1,009 citations.
- In operations research, the most-cited was “Industry 4.0 technologies: Implementation patterns in manufacturing companies” (International Journal of Production Economics), with 2,953 citations.
- In AI, the most-cited was “A survey on Image Data Augmentation for Deep Learning” (Journal Of Big Data), with 13,151 citations.

## All journals

*The 25 most-cited papers published in 2019, all tracked journals*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13,151 | 149.8 | [A survey on Image Data Augmentation for Deep Learning](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-019-0197-0) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2019-07-06 | Connor Shorten, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar |
| 2 | 12,153 | 135.2 | [Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2913372) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-05-02 | Jie Hu, Li Shen, Samuel Albanie et al. |
| 3 | 11,462 | 131.9 | [Literature review as a research methodology: An overview and guidelines](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.07.039) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2019-08-01 | Hannah Snyder |
| 4 | 10,516 | 117.4 | [Stop explaining black box machine learning models for high stakes decisions and use interpretable models instead](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0048-x) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-05-13 | Cynthia D Rudin |
| 5 | 10,445 | 127.2 | [Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Concepts, taxonomies, opportunities and challenges toward responsible AI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2019.12.012) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2019-12-26 | Alejandro Barredo Arrieta, Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez, Javier Del Ser et al. |
| 6 | 7,304 | 78.9 | [Understanding digital transformation: A review and a research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2019.01.003) | [The Journal of Strategic Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-strategic-information-systems.md) | 2019-02-10 | Grégory Vial |
| 7 | 6,898 | 81.5 | [Grad-CAM: Visual Explanations from Deep Networks via Gradient-Based Localization](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-019-01228-7) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2019-10-11 | Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju, Michael Cogswell, Abhishek Das et al. |
| 8 | 6,181 | 72.0 | [The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0088-2) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-09-02 | Anna Jobin, Marcello Ienca, Effy Vayena |
| 9 | 5,695 | 67.9 | [Digital transformation: A multidisciplinary reflection and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.09.022) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2019-11-03 | Peter C. Verhoef, Thijs Broekhuizen, Yakov Bart et al. |
| 10 | 5,543 | 59.6 | [Object Detection With Deep Learning: A Review](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2876865) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2019-01-28 | Zhong‐Qiu Zhao, Peng Zheng, Shou-Tao Xu et al. |
| 11 | 5,531 | 63.3 | [OpenPose: Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation Using Part Affinity Fields](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2929257) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-07-17 | Zhe Cao, Gines Hidalgo, Tomas Simon et al. |
| 12 | 5,441 | 65.9 | [Assessing measurement model quality in PLS-SEM using confirmatory composite analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.11.069) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2019-12-10 | Joe F. Hair, Matt C. Howard, Christian Nitzl |
| 13 | 4,594 | 53.4 | [Artificial Intelligence (AI): Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.08.002) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-08-27 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Elvira Ismagilova et al. |
| 14 | 3,404 | 39.6 | [Res2Net: A New Multi-Scale Backbone Architecture](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2938758) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-08-30 | Shanghua Gao, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Kai Zhao et al. |
| 15 | 3,369 | 35.9 | [Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.05.008) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-01-01 | Patrick G M Bolton, Marcin T. Kacperczyk |
| 16 | 3,336 | 36.3 | [Deep learning for time series classification: a review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-019-00619-1) | [Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/data-mining-and-knowledge-discovery.md) | 2019-03-02 | Hassan Ismail Fawaz, Germain Forestier, Jonathan Weber et al. |
| 17 | 3,114 | 33.6 | [Continual lifelong learning with neural networks: A review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2019.01.012) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2019-02-10 | German Ignacio Parisi, Ronald Kemker, Jose L. Part et al. |
| 18 | 3,023 | 33.1 | [Survey on deep learning with class imbalance](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-019-0192-5) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2019-03-19 | Justin M. Johnson, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar |
| 19 | 2,963 | 35.3 | [Deep Learning for Generic Object Detection: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-019-01247-4) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2019-10-31 | Li Liu, Wanli Ouyang, Xiaogang Wang et al. |
| 20 | 2,953 | 31.5 | [Industry 4.0 technologies: Implementation patterns in manufacturing companies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.01.004) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-01-09 | Alejandro Germán Frank, Lucas Santos Dalenogare, Néstor Fabián Ayala |
| 21 | 2,863 | 33.8 | [How artificial intelligence will change the future of marketing](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-019-00696-0) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2019-10-10 | Thomas H. Davenport, Abhijit Guha, Dhruv Grewal et al. |
| 22 | 2,764 | 30.4 | [The digital transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship: Progress, challenges and key themes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.03.018) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2019-04-05 | Satish Nambisan, Mike Wright, Maryann P. Feldman |
| 23 | 2,729 | 32.4 | [DeepAR: Probabilistic forecasting with autoregressive recurrent networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2019.07.001) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2019-10-19 | David Salinas, Valentín Flunkert, Jan A. Gasthaus et al. |
| 24 | 2,707 | 31.0 | [Eastern Economic Journal](https://doi.org/10.1057/41302.1939-4632) | [Eastern Economic Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/eastern-economic-journal.md) | 2019-07-18 |  |
| 25 | 2,665 | 31.9 | [A survey on semi-supervised learning](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-019-05855-6) | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 2019-11-15 | Jesper E. van Engelen, Holger H. Hoos |

## Finance

*Most-cited finance papers published in 2019*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,369 | 35.9 | [Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.05.008) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-01-01 | Patrick G M Bolton, Marcin T. Kacperczyk |
| 2 | 2,101 | 22.4 | [Responsible Investing: The ESG-Efficient Frontier](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2020.11.001) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-01-01 | Lasse Heje Pedersen, Shaun Fitzgibbons, Łukasz Pomorski |
| 3 | 1,208 | 14.0 | [Fintech and banking: What do we know?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfi.2019.100833) | [Journal of Financial Intermediation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-intermediation.md) | 2019-08-21 | Anjan V. Thakor |
| 4 | 978 | 11.1 | [Institutional shareholders and corporate social responsibility](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.06.007) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-06-15 | Tao Chen, Hui Dong, Chen Lin |
| 5 | 907 | 10.3 | [How do venture capitalists make decisions?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.06.011) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-06-25 | Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven Neil Kaplan et al. |
| 6 | 889 | 9.7 | [Disaster on the horizon: The price effect of sea level rise](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.03.013) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-03-22 | Asaf Bernstein, Matthew Gustafson, Ryan Lewis |
| 7 | 869 | 9.5 | [Size and value in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.03.008) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-03-15 | Jianan Liu, Robert F. Stambaugh, Yu Yuan |
| 8 | 807 | 9.0 | [Characteristics are covariances: A unified model of risk and return](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.05.001) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-05-07 | Bryan T. Kelly, Seth Pruitt, Yinan Su |
| 9 | 792 | 8.9 | [Shrinking the cross-section](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.06.008) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-06-14 | Serhiy Kozak, Stefan Nagel, Shrihari Santosh |
| 10 | 751 | 8.3 | [The way to induce private participation in green finance and investment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2019.04.016) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2019-04-08 | Farhad Taghizadeh Hesary, Naoyuki Yoshino |

## Accounting

*Most-cited accounting papers published in 2019*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 924 | 10.7 | [ESG practices and the cost of debt: Evidence from EU countries](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2019.102097) | [Critical Perspectives on Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/critical-perspectives-on-accounting.md) | 2019-08-07 | Yasser Eliwa, Ahmed Aboud, Ahmed Abo El Fetoh Saleh |
| 2 | 740 | 7.9 | [The Effects of Financial Reporting and Disclosure on Corporate Investment: A Review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2019.101246) | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 2019-01-01 | Sugata Roychowdhury, Nemit Shroff, Rodrigo S. Verdi |
| 3 | 698 | 7.7 | [The role of internet-related technologies in shaping the work of accountants: New directions for accounting research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2019.04.002) | [The British Accounting Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-british-accounting-review.md) | 2019-04-24 | Jodie Moll, Ogan M. Yigitbasioglu |
| 4 | 562 | 6.0 | [Where's the Greenium?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2020.101312) | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 2019-01-01 | David F. Larcker, Edward M. Watts |
| 5 | 410 | 4.7 | [The impact of corporate governance on corporate tax avoidance—A literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intaccaudtax.2019.100270) | [Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-accounting-auditing-and-taxation.md) | 2019-08-13 | Jost Kovermann, Patrick Velte |
| 6 | 317 | 3.8 | [Early evidence of digital labor in accounting: Innovation with Robotic Process Automation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accinf.2019.100431) | [International Journal of Accounting Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-accounting-information-systems.md) | 2019-11-18 | Julia Kokina, Shay Blanchette |
| 7 | 316 | 3.8 | [Applying robotic process automation (RPA) in auditing: A framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accinf.2019.100433) | [International Journal of Accounting Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-accounting-information-systems.md) | 2019-11-07 | Feiqi Huang, Miklos Antal Vasarhelyi |
| 8 | 309 | 3.3 | [Disclosure incentives when competing firms have common ownership](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2019.02.001) | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 2019-02-19 | Jihwon Park, Jalal Sani, Nemit Shroff et al. |
| 9 | 294 | 3.3 | [A study of the determinants of environmental disclosure quality: evidence from French listed companies](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10997-019-09474-0) | [Journal of Management & Governance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-management-governance.md) | 2019-07-03 | Fatma Baalouch, Salma Damak Ayadi, Khaled Hussainey |
| 10 | 294 | 3.6 | [Climate governance effects on carbon disclosure and performance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2019.100880) | [The British Accounting Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-british-accounting-review.md) | 2019-12-31 | Binh Bui, Muhammad Nurul Houqe, Mahbub Zaman |

## Economics

*Most-cited economics papers published in 2019*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,764 | 30.4 | [The digital transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship: Progress, challenges and key themes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.03.018) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2019-04-05 | Satish Nambisan, Mike Wright, Maryann P. Feldman |
| 2 | 2,729 | 32.4 | [DeepAR: Probabilistic forecasting with autoregressive recurrent networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2019.07.001) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2019-10-19 | David Salinas, Valentín Flunkert, Jan A. Gasthaus et al. |
| 3 | 2,707 | 31.0 | [Eastern Economic Journal](https://doi.org/10.1057/41302.1939-4632) | [Eastern Economic Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/eastern-economic-journal.md) | 2019-07-18 |  |
| 4 | 2,531 | 28.0 | [Quantiles via moments](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2019.04.009) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2019-04-15 | José A. F. Machado, João Santos Silva |
| 5 | 1,314 | 15.7 | [Entrepreneurial ecosystem elements](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00270-6) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 2019-11-11 | Erik Stam, Andrew Van de Ven |
| 6 | 992 | 11.4 | [The M4 Competition: 100,000 time series and 61 forecasting methods](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2019.04.014) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2019-07-19 | Spyros Makridakis, Evangelos Spiliotis, Vassilios Assimakopoulos |
| 7 | 966 | 10.9 | [Apollo: A flexible, powerful and customisable freeware package for choice model estimation and application](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocm.2019.100170) | [Journal of Choice Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-choice-modelling.md) | 2019-06-04 | Stephane Hess, David Palma |
| 8 | 961 | 11.3 | [The impact of digital finance on household consumption: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2019.09.027) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 2019-09-21 | Jie Li, Yu Wu, Jing Jian Xiao |
| 9 | 869 | 9.7 | [Towards a green world: How do green technology innovations affect total-factor carbon productivity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.04.033) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2019-05-14 | Kerui Du, Jianglong Li |
| 10 | 768 | 9.0 | [Institutional quality, green innovation and energy efficiency](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111002) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2019-09-27 | Huaping Sun, Bless Kofi Edziah, Chuanwang Sun et al. |

## Management

*Most-cited management papers published in 2019*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11,462 | 131.9 | [Literature review as a research methodology: An overview and guidelines](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.07.039) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2019-08-01 | Hannah Snyder |
| 2 | 5,695 | 67.9 | [Digital transformation: A multidisciplinary reflection and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.09.022) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2019-11-03 | Peter C. Verhoef, Thijs Broekhuizen, Yakov Bart et al. |
| 3 | 5,441 | 65.9 | [Assessing measurement model quality in PLS-SEM using confirmatory composite analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.11.069) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2019-12-10 | Joe F. Hair, Matt C. Howard, Christian Nitzl |
| 4 | 2,120 | 25.3 | [Green innovation and environmental performance: The role of green transformational leadership and green human resource management](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119762) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2019-11-01 | Sanjay Kumar Singh, Manlio Del Giudice, Roberto Chierici et al. |
| 5 | 2,052 | 22.1 | [Algorithm appreciation: People prefer algorithmic to human judgment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2018.12.005) | [Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/organizational-behavior-and-human-decision-processes.md) | 2019-02-05 | Jennifer Marie Logg, Julia Alexandra Minson, Don A. Moore |
| 6 | 1,551 | 17.2 | [The Influence of Firm Size on the ESG Score: Corporate Sustainability Ratings Under Review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04164-1) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 2019-04-27 | Samuel Drempetic, Christian Klein, Bernhard Zwergel |
| 7 | 1,381 | 14.7 | [Do Not Cross Me: Optimizing the Use of Cross-Sectional Designs](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-018-09613-8) | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | 2019-01-07 | Paul E. Spector |
| 8 | 1,380 | 14.8 | [Green process innovation, green product innovation, and corporate financial performance: A content analysis method](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.01.010) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2019-01-15 | Xuemei Xie, Jiage Huo, Zou Hailiang |
| 9 | 1,278 | 14.4 | [Driving forces and barriers of Industry 4.0: Do multinational and small and medium-sized companies have equal opportunities?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.05.021) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2019-06-04 | Dóra Horváth, Roland Zsolt Szabó |
| 10 | 1,248 | 15.0 | [Innovation ecosystems: A conceptual review and a new definition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2019.102098) | [Technovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technovation.md) | 2019-11-26 | Ove Granstrand, Marcus Holgersson |

## Marketing

*Most-cited marketing papers published in 2019*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,863 | 33.8 | [How artificial intelligence will change the future of marketing](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-019-00696-0) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2019-10-10 | Thomas H. Davenport, Abhijit Guha, Dhruv Grewal et al. |
| 2 | 1,892 | 22.4 | [The future of social media in marketing](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-019-00695-1) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2019-10-12 | Gil Appel, Lauren S. Grewal, Rhonda Hadi et al. |
| 3 | 1,646 | 17.7 | [Instagram and YouTube bloggers promote it, why should I buy? How credibility and parasocial interaction influence purchase intentions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2019.01.011) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2019-01-25 | Karina Sokolova, Hajer Kéfi |
| 4 | 1,316 | 16.0 | [Explainable AI: from black box to glass box](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-019-00710-5) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2019-12-17 | Arun Rai |
| 5 | 876 | 9.9 | [Partial least squares structural equation modeling using SmartPLS: a software review](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41270-019-00058-3) | [Journal of Marketing Analytics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-marketing-analytics.md) | 2019-06-27 | Marko Sarstedt, Jun‐Hwa Cheah |
| 6 | 797 | 9.6 | [Digitization capability and the digitalization of business models in business-to-business firms: Past, present, and future](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2019.11.019) | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 2019-12-03 | Thomas Ritter, Carsten Lund Pedersen |
| 7 | 746 | 8.2 | [Augmented reality marketing: How mobile AR-apps can improve brands through inspiration](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2019.03.004) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2019-03-20 | Philipp A. Rauschnabel, Reto Felix, Chris Hinsch |
| 8 | 691 | 8.0 | [The effects of match-ups on the consumer attitudes toward internet celebrities and their live streaming contents in the context of product endorsement](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2019.101934) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2019-08-30 | Hyun Jung Park, Lin Li |
| 9 | 631 | 7.7 | [The future of technology and marketing: a multidisciplinary perspective](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-019-00711-4) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2019-12-17 | Dhruv Grewal, John S. Hulland, Praveen K. Kopalle et al. |
| 10 | 618 | 7.1 | [Technology readiness: a meta-analysis of conceptualizations of the construct and its impact on technology usage](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-019-00680-8) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2019-08-05 | Markus Blut, Cheng Wang |

## Information Systems

*Most-cited information systems papers published in 2019*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,304 | 78.9 | [Understanding digital transformation: A review and a research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2019.01.003) | [The Journal of Strategic Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-strategic-information-systems.md) | 2019-02-10 | Grégory Vial |
| 2 | 4,594 | 53.4 | [Artificial Intelligence (AI): Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.08.002) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-08-27 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Elvira Ismagilova et al. |
| 3 | 2,619 | 28.3 | [Artificial intelligence for decision making in the era of Big Data – evolution, challenges and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.01.021) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-02-09 | Yanqing Duan, John Steven Edwards, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi |
| 4 | 1,980 | 22.5 | [Defining digital transformation: Results from expert interviews](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2019.06.002) | [Government Information Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/government-information-quarterly.md) | 2019-06-25 | Ines A. Mergel, Noella Edelmann, Nathalie Haug |
| 5 | 1,783 | 20.0 | [How to perform and report an impactful analysis using partial least squares: Guidelines for confirmatory and explanatory IS research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2019.05.003) | [Information & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-management.md) | 2019-05-23 | Jose Benitez, Jörg Henseler, Ana Castillo et al. |
| 6 | 1,432 | 15.8 | [Consumers acceptance of artificially intelligent (AI) device use in service delivery](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.03.008) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-04-09 | Doğan Gürsoy, Oscar Hengxuan Chi, Lu Lu et al. |
| 7 | 1,101 | 12.4 | [Exploring the relationship between big data analytics capability and competitive performance: The mediating roles of dynamic and operational capabilities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2019.05.004) | [Information & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-management.md) | 2019-05-29 | Patrick Mikalef, John Krogstie, Ilias O. Pappas et al. |
| 8 | 1,036 | 12.0 | [How live streaming influences purchase intentions in social commerce: An IT affordance perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2019.100886) | [Electronic Commerce Research and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-commerce-research-and-applications.md) | 2019-08-13 | Yuan Sun, Xiang Shao, Xiaotong Li et al. |
| 9 | 965 | 10.4 | [The public value of E-Government – A literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2019.01.001) | [Government Information Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/government-information-quarterly.md) | 2019-02-14 | Jean Damascene Twizeyimana, Annika Andersson |
| 10 | 964 | 10.9 | [Modeling the blockchain enabled traceability in agriculture supply chain](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.05.023) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-06-15 | Sachin Kamble, Angappa Gunasekaran, Rohit Sharma |

## Tourism and Hospitality

*Most-cited tourism and hospitality papers published in 2019*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,009 | 10.8 | [Developing and validating a service robot integration willingness scale](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2019.01.005) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2019-01-24 | Lu Lu, Ruiying Cai, Doğan Gürsoy |
| 2 | 831 | 8.9 | [Greening the hospitality industry: How do green human resource management practices influence organizational citizenship behavior in hotels? A mixed-methods study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2018.12.008) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2019-01-11 | Nhat Tan Pham, Zuzana Tučková, Charbel José Chiappetta Jabbour |
| 3 | 831 | 9.0 | [Hotel employee's artificial intelligence and robotics awareness and its impact on turnover intention: The moderating roles of perceived organizational support and competitive psychological climate](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2019.02.006) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2019-03-01 | Jun Li, Mark A. Bonn, Ben Haobin Ye |
| 4 | 831 | 10.0 | [The digital revolution in the travel and tourism industry](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40558-019-00160-3) | [Information Technology & Tourism](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-technology-tourism.md) | 2019-11-27 | Tonino Pencarelli |
| 5 | 827 | 9.9 | [A review of research on tourism risk, crisis and disaster management: Launching the annals of tourism research curated collection on tourism risk, crisis and disaster management](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.102812) | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 2019-11-01 | Brent W. Ritchie, Yawei Jiang |
| 6 | 664 | 7.9 | [20 years of research on virtual reality and augmented reality in tourism context: A text-mining approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2019.104028) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2019-11-08 | Sandra María Correia Loureiro, João Guerreiro, Faizan Ali |
| 7 | 612 | 7.4 | [Leveraging human-robot interaction in hospitality services: Incorporating the role of perceived value, empathy, and information sharing into visitors’ intentions to use social robots](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2019.104042) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2019-11-29 | Ronan de Kervenoael, Rajibul Hasan, Alexandre Schwob et al. |
| 8 | 549 | 6.0 | [Virtual reality presence as a preamble of tourism experience: The role of mental imagery](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2019.02.009) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2019-03-06 | Vanja Bogicevic, Soobin Seo, Jay A. Kandampully et al. |
| 9 | 531 | 5.8 | [The role and dimensions of authenticity in heritage tourism](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2019.03.001) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2019-03-15 | Eunkyung Park, Choi Byoung-Kil, Timothy Jeonglyeol Lee |
| 10 | 529 | 6.0 | [Global tourism vulnerability to climate change](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.05.007) | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 2019-06-04 | Daniel J. Scott, C. Michael Hall, Stefan Gößling |

## Operations Research

*Most-cited operations research papers published in 2019*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,953 | 31.5 | [Industry 4.0 technologies: Implementation patterns in manufacturing companies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.01.004) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-01-09 | Alejandro Germán Frank, Lucas Santos Dalenogare, Néstor Fabián Ayala |
| 2 | 1,601 | 18.7 | [A systematic literature review of machine learning methods applied to predictive maintenance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2019.106024) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2019-09-05 | Thyago Peres Carvalho, Fabrizzio Alphonsus Alves de Melo Nunes Soares, Roberto Oliveira Vita et al. |
| 3 | 1,439 | 17.5 | [Sustainable supplier selection in healthcare industries using a new MCDM method: Measurement of alternatives and ranking according to COmpromise solution (MARCOS)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2019.106231) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2019-12-16 | Željko Stević, Dragan Stevan Pamucar, Adis Puška et al. |
| 4 | 1,292 | 14.2 | [Review of quantitative methods for supply chain resilience analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2019.03.001) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2019-03-22 | Seyedmohsen Hosseini, Dmitry Ivanov, Alexandre B. Dolgui |
| 5 | 1,045 | 12.5 | [Barriers to the adoption of industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing sector: An inter-country comparative perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.107546) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-11-02 | Alok Raj, Gourav Dwivedi, Ankit Sharma et al. |
| 6 | 1,018 | 11.4 | [Achieving sustainable performance in a data-driven agriculture supply chain: A review for research and applications](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.05.022) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-05-30 | Sachin Kamble, Angappa Gunasekaran, Shradha Ashok Gawankar |
| 7 | 926 | 10.8 | [A survey on new generation metaheuristic algorithms](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2019.106040) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2019-09-06 | Tansel Dökeroğlu, Ender Sevinç, Tayfun Küçükyılmaz et al. |
| 8 | 885 | 10.8 | [Big data analytics and artificial intelligence pathway to operational performance under the effects of entrepreneurial orientation and environmental dynamism: A study of manufacturing organisations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.107599) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-12-24 | Rameshwar Dubey, Angappa Gunasekaran, Stephen J. Childe et al. |
| 9 | 813 | 8.8 | [Making sense of blockchain technology: How will it transform supply chains?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.02.002) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-02-05 | Yingli Wang, Meita Singgih, Jingyao Wang et al. |
| 10 | 762 | 9.0 | [The performance effects of big data analytics and supply chain ambidexterity: The moderating effect of environmental dynamism](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.09.019) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2019-09-30 | Samuel Fosso Wamba, Rameshwar Dubey, Angappa Gunasekaran et al. |

## AI

*Most-cited AI papers published in 2019*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13,151 | 149.8 | [A survey on Image Data Augmentation for Deep Learning](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-019-0197-0) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2019-07-06 | Connor Shorten, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar |
| 2 | 12,153 | 135.2 | [Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2913372) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-05-02 | Jie Hu, Li Shen, Samuel Albanie et al. |
| 3 | 10,516 | 117.4 | [Stop explaining black box machine learning models for high stakes decisions and use interpretable models instead](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0048-x) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-05-13 | Cynthia D Rudin |
| 4 | 10,445 | 127.2 | [Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Concepts, taxonomies, opportunities and challenges toward responsible AI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2019.12.012) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2019-12-26 | Alejandro Barredo Arrieta, Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez, Javier Del Ser et al. |
| 5 | 6,898 | 81.5 | [Grad-CAM: Visual Explanations from Deep Networks via Gradient-Based Localization](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-019-01228-7) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2019-10-11 | Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju, Michael Cogswell, Abhishek Das et al. |
| 6 | 6,181 | 72.0 | [The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0088-2) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-09-02 | Anna Jobin, Marcello Ienca, Effy Vayena |
| 7 | 5,543 | 59.6 | [Object Detection With Deep Learning: A Review](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2876865) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2019-01-28 | Zhong‐Qiu Zhao, Peng Zheng, Shou-Tao Xu et al. |
| 8 | 5,531 | 63.3 | [OpenPose: Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation Using Part Affinity Fields](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2929257) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-07-17 | Zhe Cao, Gines Hidalgo, Tomas Simon et al. |
| 9 | 3,404 | 39.6 | [Res2Net: A New Multi-Scale Backbone Architecture](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2938758) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-08-30 | Shanghua Gao, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Kai Zhao et al. |
| 10 | 3,336 | 36.3 | [Deep learning for time series classification: a review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-019-00619-1) | [Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/data-mining-and-knowledge-discovery.md) | 2019-03-02 | Hassan Ismail Fawaz, Germain Forestier, Jonathan Weber et al. |

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