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title: "Most-cited research papers of 2020"
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# Most-cited papers published in 2020

Papers the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, marketing, information systems, tourism and hospitality, operations research and AI journals published in 2020, 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 2020 is “A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems), with 10,982 citations.
- In finance, the most-cited was “Financial markets under the global pandemic of COVID-19” (Finance research letters), with 2,350 citations.
- In accounting, the most-cited was “Disclosure processing costs, investors’ information choice, and equity market outcomes: A review” (Journal of Accounting and Economics), with 1,090 citations.
- In economics, the most-cited was “Difference-in-Differences with multiple time periods” (Journal of Econometrics), with 9,073 citations.
- In management, the most-cited was “The art of writing literature review: What do we know and what do we need to know?” (International Business Review), with 2,595 citations.
- In marketing, the most-cited was “Designing conceptual articles: four approaches” (AMS Review), with 2,218 citations.
- In information systems, the most-cited was “Setting the future of digital and social media marketing research: Perspectives and research propositions” (International Journal of Information Management), with 2,644 citations.
- In tourism and hospitality, the most-cited was “A review of research into automation in tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Tourism” (Annals of Tourism Research), with 1,048 citations.
- In operations research, the most-cited was “Predicting the impacts of epidemic outbreaks on global supply chains: A simulation-based analysis on the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) case” (Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review), with 2,278 citations.
- In AI, the most-cited was “A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems), with 10,982 citations.

## All journals

*The 25 most-cited papers published in 2020, all tracked journals*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10,982 | 138.7 | [A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.2978386) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-03-24 | Zonghan Wu, Shirui Pan, Fengwen Chen et al. |
| 2 | 10,493 | 128.9 | [From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0138-9) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-01-17 | Scott Lundberg, Gabriel Erion, Hugh Chen et al. |
| 3 | 9,073 | 128.9 | [Difference-in-Differences with multiple time periods](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.12.001) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2020-12-17 | Brantly Callaway, Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna |
| 4 | 5,601 | 79.6 | [Estimating dynamic treatment effects in event studies with heterogeneous treatment effects](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.09.006) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2020-12-16 | Liyang Sun, Sarah Abraham |
| 5 | 4,889 | 62.0 | [Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.2983686) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-04-01 | Jingdong Wang, Ke Sun, Tianheng Cheng et al. |
| 6 | 3,135 | 40.1 | [A survey of the recent architectures of deep convolutional neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-020-09825-6) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2020-04-21 | Asifullah Khan, Anabia Sohail, Umme Zahoora et al. |
| 7 | 2,995 | 40.4 | [A comparative analysis of gradient boosting algorithms](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-020-09896-5) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2020-08-24 | Candice Bentéjac, Anna Csörgő, Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz |
| 8 | 2,755 | 35.6 | [General diagnostic tests for cross-sectional dependence in panels](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-020-01875-7) | [Empirical Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/empirical-economics.md) | 2020-05-20 | M. Hashem Pesaran |
| 9 | 2,644 | 35.0 | [Setting the future of digital and social media marketing research: Perspectives and research propositions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102168) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2020-07-10 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Elvira Ismagilova, D. Laurie Hughes et al. |
| 10 | 2,595 | 33.9 | [The art of writing literature review: What do we know and what do we need to know?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101717) | [International Business Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-business-review.md) | 2020-06-13 | Justin Paul, Alex Rialp |
| 11 | 2,558 | 33.8 | [Event-Based Vision: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3008413) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-07-10 | Guillermo Gallego, Tobi Delbrück, Garrick Orchard et al. |
| 12 | 2,517 | 34.8 | [A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Toward Medical XAI](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.3027314) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-10-21 | Erico Tjoa, Cuntai Guan |
| 13 | 2,433 | 31.4 | [U2-Net: Going deeper with nested U-structure for salient object detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2020.107404) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2020-05-16 | Xuebin Qin, Zichen Zhang, Chenyang Huang et al. |
| 14 | 2,424 | 30.5 | [Marine Predators Algorithm: A nature-inspired metaheuristic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113377) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2020-03-13 | Afshin Faramarzi, Mohammad Heidarinejad, Seyedali Mirjalili et al. |
| 15 | 2,413 | 31.8 | [Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3005434) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-06-29 | Yulan Guo, Hanyun Wang, Qingyong Hu et al. |
| 16 | 2,350 | 30.0 | [Financial markets under the global pandemic of COVID-19](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101528) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2020-04-16 | Dayong Zhang, Min Hu, Qiang Ji |
| 17 | 2,308 | 30.8 | [U2Fusion: A Unified Unsupervised Image Fusion Network](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3012548) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-07-28 | Han Xu, Jiayi Ma, Junjun Jiang et al. |
| 18 | 2,289 | 29.9 | [Tourism and COVID-19: Impacts and implications for advancing and resetting industry and research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.06.015) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-06-12 | Μαριάννα Σιγάλα |
| 19 | 2,278 | 28.8 | [Predicting the impacts of epidemic outbreaks on global supply chains: A simulation-based analysis on the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) case](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.101922) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2020-03-24 | Dmitry Ivanov |
| 20 | 2,232 | 31.9 | [Sustainable investing in equilibrium](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2020.12.011) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2020-12-31 | Ľuboš Pástor, Robert F. Stambaugh, Lucian A. Taylor |
| 21 | 2,218 | 27.8 | [Designing conceptual articles: four approaches](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13162-020-00161-0) | [AMS Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ams-review.md) | 2020-03-09 | Elina Jaakkola |
| 22 | 2,214 | 30.9 | [Shortcut learning in deep neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-020-00257-z) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-11-10 | Robert Geirhos, Jörn-Henrik Jacobsen, Claudio Michaelis et al. |
| 23 | 2,115 | 27.4 | [Latent profile analysis: A review and “how to” guide of its application within vocational behavior research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103445) | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | 2020-05-25 | Daniel Spurk, Andreas Hirschi, Mo Wang et al. |
| 24 | 2,041 | 28.4 | [A strategic framework for artificial intelligence in marketing](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-020-00749-9) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2020-11-04 | Ming‐Hui Huang, Roland T. Rust |
| 25 | 2,036 | 26.2 | [Self-Supervised Visual Feature Learning With Deep Neural Networks: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.2992393) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-05-04 | Longlong Jing, Yingli Tian |

## Finance

*Most-cited finance papers published in 2020*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,350 | 30.0 | [Financial markets under the global pandemic of COVID-19](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101528) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2020-04-16 | Dayong Zhang, Min Hu, Qiang Ji |
| 2 | 2,232 | 31.9 | [Sustainable investing in equilibrium](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2020.12.011) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2020-12-31 | Ľuboš Pástor, Robert F. Stambaugh, Lucian A. Taylor |
| 3 | 1,688 | 22.7 | [The role of ESG performance during times of financial crisis: Evidence from COVID-19 in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101716) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2020-08-13 | David C. Broadstock, Kalok Chan, Louis T. W. Cheng et al. |
| 4 | 1,597 | 20.3 | [COVID-19 and finance: Agendas for future research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101512) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2020-04-12 | John W. Goodell |
| 5 | 1,488 | 19.2 | [COVID-19 pandemic, oil prices, stock market, geopolitical risk and policy uncertainty nexus in the US economy: Fresh evidence from the wavelet-based approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101496) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2020-05-15 | Arshian Sharif, Chaker Aloui, Larisa Yarovaya |
| 6 | 1,481 | 18.1 | [Corporate Immunity to the COVID-19 Pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.03.005) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2020-01-01 | Wenzhi Ding, Ross Eric Levine, Chen Lin et al. |
| 7 | 1,436 | 18.3 | [Death and contagious infectious diseases: Impact of the COVID-19 virus on stock market returns](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2020.100326) | [Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-behavioral-and-experimental-finance.md) | 2020-04-08 | Abdullah M. Al-Awadhi, Abdullah M. Al-Awadhi, Khaled Alsaifi et al. |
| 8 | 1,254 | 16.2 | [Stock markets’ reaction to COVID-19: Cases or fatalities?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2020.101249) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 2020-05-22 | Badar Nadeem Ashraf |
| 9 | 1,138 | 14.0 | [Greenwashing in environmental, social and governance disclosures](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2020.101192) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 2020-01-27 | Ellen Pei‐yi Yu, Bac Van Luu, Catherine Huirong Chen |
| 10 | 995 | 13.0 | [Theories of Risk Perception: Who Fears What and Why?](https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429284243-5) | [Risk Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/risk-management.md) | 2020-06-18 | Aaron Wíldavsky, Karl Dake |

## Accounting

*Most-cited accounting papers published in 2020*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,090 | 14.6 | [Disclosure processing costs, investors’ information choice, and equity market outcomes: A review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2020.101344) | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 2020-08-15 | Elizabeth Blankespoor, Ed deHaan, Iván Marinovic |
| 2 | 761 | 9.3 | [Entropy-balanced accruals](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-019-09525-9) | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 2020-01-10 | Jeff L. McMullin, Bryce Schonberger |
| 3 | 656 | 8.2 | [State-owned enterprises in China: A review of 40 years of research and practice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjar.2019.12.001) | [China Journal of Accounting Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/china-journal-of-accounting-research.md) | 2020-02-15 | Karen Jingrong Lin, LU Xiao-yan, Junsheng Zhang et al. |
| 4 | 348 | 4.2 | [Estimating the COVID-19 Cash Crunch: Global Evidence and Policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2020.106741) | [Journal of Accounting and Public Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-public-policy.md) | 2020-01-01 | Antonio De Vito, Juan-Pedro Gómez |
| 5 | 303 | 4.2 | [Using machine learning to detect misstatements](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-020-09563-8) | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 2020-10-02 | Jeremy Bertomeu, Edwige Cheynel, Eric Floyd et al. |
| 6 | 271 | 3.5 | [Financial distress, internal control, and earnings management: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcae.2020.100210) | [Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-contemporary-accounting-economics.md) | 2020-05-29 | Yuanhui Li, Li Xiao, Erwei Xiang et al. |
| 7 | 269 | 3.4 | [Does the market value greenhouse gas emissions? Evidence from multi-country firm data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2020.100909) | [The British Accounting Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-british-accounting-review.md) | 2020-03-16 | Bobae Choi, Le Luo |
| 8 | 265 | 3.5 | [Determinants of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) disclosure: a study of Indian companies](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41310-020-00085-y) | [International Journal of Disclosure and Governance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-disclosure-and-governance.md) | 2020-08-01 | Preeti Sharma, Priyanka Panday, Ramesh Chandra Dangwal |
| 9 | 260 | 3.2 | [Elusive boundaries, power relations, and knowledge production: A systematic review of the literature on digitalization in accounting](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accinf.2019.100441) | [International Journal of Accounting Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-accounting-information-systems.md) | 2020-01-08 | Dan-Richard Knudsen |
| 10 | 255 | 3.1 | [European firms’ corporate biodiversity disclosures and board gender diversity from 2002 to 2016](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2020.100893) | [The British Accounting Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-british-accounting-review.md) | 2020-01-24 | Faizul Haque, Michael John Jones |

## Economics

*Most-cited economics papers published in 2020*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9,073 | 128.9 | [Difference-in-Differences with multiple time periods](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.12.001) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2020-12-17 | Brantly Callaway, Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna |
| 2 | 5,601 | 79.6 | [Estimating dynamic treatment effects in event studies with heterogeneous treatment effects](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.09.006) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2020-12-16 | Liyang Sun, Sarah Abraham |
| 3 | 2,755 | 35.6 | [General diagnostic tests for cross-sectional dependence in panels](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-020-01875-7) | [Empirical Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/empirical-economics.md) | 2020-05-20 | M. Hashem Pesaran |
| 4 | 2,032 | 26.9 | [How many jobs can be done at home?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104235) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2020-07-09 | Jonathan I. Dingel, Brent Neiman |
| 5 | 1,415 | 18.9 | [Inequality in the impact of the coronavirus shock: Evidence from real time surveys](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104245) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2020-07-31 | Abi Adams‐Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin et al. |
| 6 | 1,369 | 18.3 | [Recurrent Neural Networks for Time Series Forecasting: Current status and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2020.06.008) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2020-08-10 | Hansika Hewamalage, Christoph Bergmeir, Kasun Bandara |
| 7 | 1,170 | 15.4 | [Digitalization and energy consumption. Does ICT reduce energy demand?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106760) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2020-06-23 | Steffen Lange, Johanna Pohl, Tilman Santarius |
| 8 | 1,129 | 13.9 | [Systemic Banking Crises Database II](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41308-020-00107-3) | [IMF Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/imf-economic-review.md) | 2020-01-30 | Luc A. Laeven, Fabian V. Valencia |
| 9 | 1,044 | 13.8 | [Doubly robust difference-in-differences estimators](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.06.003) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2020-07-07 | Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna, Jun B. Zhao |
| 10 | 1,013 | 13.3 | [Once we have it, will we use it? A European survey on willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-020-01208-6) | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 2020-06-26 | Sebastian Neumann‐Böhme, Nirosha Elsem Varghese, Iryna Sabat et al. |

## Management

*Most-cited management papers published in 2020*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,595 | 33.9 | [The art of writing literature review: What do we know and what do we need to know?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101717) | [International Business Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-business-review.md) | 2020-06-13 | Justin Paul, Alex Rialp |
| 2 | 2,289 | 29.9 | [Tourism and COVID-19: Impacts and implications for advancing and resetting industry and research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.06.015) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-06-12 | Μαριάννα Σιγάλα |
| 3 | 2,115 | 27.4 | [Latent profile analysis: A review and “how to” guide of its application within vocational behavior research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103445) | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | 2020-05-25 | Daniel Spurk, Andreas Hirschi, Mo Wang et al. |
| 4 | 2,021 | 26.4 | [Effects of COVID-19 on business and research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.06.008) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-06-08 | Naveen Donthu, Anders Gustafsson |
| 5 | 1,765 | 23.0 | [Impact of Covid-19 on consumer behavior: Will the old habits return or die?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.05.059) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-06-03 | Jagdish N. Sheth |
| 6 | 1,456 | 18.8 | [The impact of Covid-19 pandemic on corporate social responsibility and marketing philosophy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.05.030) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-05-21 | Hongwei He, Lloyd C. Harris |
| 7 | 1,317 | 16.3 | [The art of crafting a systematic literature review in entrepreneurship research](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-020-00635-4) | [International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-entrepreneurship-and-management-journal.md) | 2020-01-31 | Sascha Kraus, Matthias Breier, Sonia Dasí Rodríguez |
| 8 | 1,266 | 16.4 | [Employee adjustment and well-being in the era of COVID-19: Implications for human resource management](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.05.037) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-05-21 | Joel B. Carnevale, Isabella Hatak |
| 9 | 1,191 | 16.5 | [Digital transformation and customer value creation in Made in Italy SMEs: A dynamic capabilities perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.10.033) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-10-21 | Michela Matarazzo, Lara Penco, Giorgia Profumo et al. |
| 10 | 1,182 | 14.4 | [Startups in Times of Crisis – A Rapid Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2020.e00169) | [Journal of Business Venturing Insights](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing-insights.md) | 2020-01-01 | Andreas Kuckertz, Leif Brändle, Anja Gaudig et al. |

## Marketing

*Most-cited marketing papers published in 2020*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,218 | 27.8 | [Designing conceptual articles: four approaches](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13162-020-00161-0) | [AMS Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ams-review.md) | 2020-03-09 | Elina Jaakkola |
| 2 | 2,041 | 28.4 | [A strategic framework for artificial intelligence in marketing](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-020-00749-9) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2020-11-04 | Ming‐Hui Huang, Roland T. Rust |
| 3 | 941 | 11.5 | [Customer experience: fundamental premises and implications for research](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-019-00718-x) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2020-01-13 | Larissa Becker, Elina Jaakkola |
| 4 | 853 | 11.3 | [Unusual purchasing behavior during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: The stimulus-organism-response approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2020.102224) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2020-07-21 | Samuli Laato, A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Ali Farooq et al. |
| 5 | 778 | 10.2 | [Social media marketing strategy: definition, conceptualization, taxonomy, validation, and future agenda](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-020-00733-3) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2020-06-10 | Fangfang Li, Jorma Antero Larimo, Leonidas C. Leonidou |
| 6 | 700 | 9.0 | [Influencer marketing: Social media influencers as human brands attaching to followers and yielding positive marketing results by fulfilling needs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2020.102133) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2020-04-30 | Chung-Wha Chloe Ki, Leslie M. Cuevas, Sze Man Chong et al. |
| 7 | 664 | 8.5 | [To recover faster from Covid-19, open up: Managerial implications from an open innovation perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2020.04.010) | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 2020-04-16 | Henry W. Chesbrough |
| 8 | 656 | 9.1 | [‘Instagram made Me buy it’: Generation Z impulse purchases in fashion industry](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2020.102345) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2020-10-23 | Elmira Djafarova, Tamar Bowes |
| 9 | 602 | 8.1 | [Machine learning and AI in marketing – Connecting computing power to human insights](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijresmar.2020.04.005) | [International Journal of Research in Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-research-in-marketing.md) | 2020-08-21 | Liye Ma, Baohong Sun |
| 10 | 601 | 8.4 | [A first look at online reputation on Airbnb, where every stay is above average](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11002-020-09546-4) | [Marketing Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/marketing-letters.md) | 2020-11-04 | Georgios Zervas, Davide Proserpio, John W. Byers |

## Information Systems

*Most-cited information systems papers published in 2020*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,644 | 35.0 | [Setting the future of digital and social media marketing research: Perspectives and research propositions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102168) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2020-07-10 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Elvira Ismagilova, D. Laurie Hughes et al. |
| 2 | 1,231 | 16.4 | [Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on information management research and practice: Transforming education, work and life](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102211) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2020-07-31 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, D. Laurie Hughes, Crispin R. Coombs et al. |
| 3 | 1,202 | 15.4 | [Artificial intelligence for sustainability: Challenges, opportunities, and a research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102104) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2020-04-20 | Rohit Nishant, Mike Kennedy, Jacqueline Corbett |
| 4 | 1,194 | 15.0 | [AI-based chatbots in customer service and their effects on user compliance](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-020-00414-7) | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 2020-03-17 | Martin Adam, Michael Wessel, Alexander Benlian |
| 5 | 1,110 | 14.5 | [Impact of digital surge during Covid-19 pandemic: A viewpoint on research and practice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102171) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2020-06-08 | Rahul Dé, Neena Pandey, Abhipsa Pal |
| 6 | 1,051 | 13.8 | [Digital transformation of everyday life – How COVID-19 pandemic transformed the basic education of the young generation and why information management research should care?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102183) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2020-06-27 | Netta Iivari, Sumita Sharma, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen |
| 7 | 1,002 | 13.3 | [I, Chatbot: Modeling the determinants of users’ satisfaction and continuance intention of AI-powered service agents](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2020.101473) | [Telematics and Informatics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics.md) | 2020-07-22 | Muhammad Ashfaq, Jiang Yun, Shubin Yu et al. |
| 8 | 827 | 10.7 | [Understanding consumer adoption of mobile payment in India: Extending Meta-UTAUT model with personal innovativeness, anxiety, trust, and grievance redressal](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102144) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2020-05-14 | Pushp P. Patil, Kuttimani Tamilmani, Nripendra Pratap Rana et al. |
| 9 | 806 | 10.6 | [Data governance: Organizing data for trustworthy Artificial Intelligence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2020.101493) | [Government Information Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/government-information-quarterly.md) | 2020-06-21 | Marijn Janssen, Paul Brous, Elsa Estévez et al. |
| 10 | 760 | 10.3 | [The strategic use of artificial intelligence in the digital era: Systematic literature review and future research directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102225) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2020-09-14 | Aline de Fátima Soares Borges, Fernando J.B. Laurindo, Mauro de Mesquita Spínola et al. |

## Tourism and Hospitality

*Most-cited tourism and hospitality papers published in 2020*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,048 | 13.0 | [A review of research into automation in tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Tourism](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2020.102883) | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 2020-02-14 | Iis P. Tussyadiah |
| 2 | 951 | 12.4 | [The coronavirus pandemic – A critical discussion of a tourism research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104164) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2020-06-04 | Sebastian Zenker, Florian Köck |
| 3 | 903 | 12.9 | [Reviving tourism industry post-COVID-19: A resilience-based framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2020.100786) | [Tourism Management Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management-perspectives.md) | 2020-12-29 | Gagan Deep Sharma, Asha Thomas, Justin Paul |
| 4 | 738 | 10.3 | [Afraid to travel after COVID-19? Self-protection, coping and resilience against pandemic ‘travel fear’](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104261) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2020-11-13 | Danni Zheng, Qiuju Luo, Brent W. Ritchie |
| 5 | 693 | 9.3 | [COVID-19 and China’s Hotel Industry: Impacts, a Disaster Management Framework, and Post-Pandemic Agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102636) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2020-08-05 | Fei Hao, Qu Xiao, Kaye Chon |
| 6 | 632 | 8.7 | [Hospitality and tourism industry amid COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives on challenges and learnings from India](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102707) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2020-10-01 | Vikrant Kaushal, Sidharth Srivastava |
| 7 | 608 | 7.9 | [e-Tourism beyond COVID-19: a call for transformative research](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40558-020-00181-3) | [Information Technology & Tourism](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-technology-tourism.md) | 2020-05-29 | Ulrike Gretzel B, Matthias Fuchs, Rodolfo Baggio et al. |
| 8 | 590 | 7.8 | [Social costs of tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2020.102994) | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 2020-07-07 | Richard T.R. Qiu, Jinah Park, ShiNa Li et al. |
| 9 | 575 | 7.8 | [Impacts of COVID-19 on global tourism industry: A cross-regional comparison](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2020.100744) | [Tourism Management Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management-perspectives.md) | 2020-09-06 | Naciye Güliz Uğur, Adem Akbıyık |
| 10 | 572 | 7.4 | [Destination image and tourist behavioural intentions: A meta-analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104154) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2020-05-19 | Mona Afshardoost, Mohammad Sadegh Eshaghi |

## Operations Research

*Most-cited operations research papers published in 2020*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,278 | 28.8 | [Predicting the impacts of epidemic outbreaks on global supply chains: A simulation-based analysis on the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) case](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.101922) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2020-03-24 | Dmitry Ivanov |
| 2 | 1,545 | 21.2 | [Blockchain technology in supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research opportunities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.102067) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2020-09-29 | Pankaj Dutta, Tsan‐Ming Choi, Surabhi Somani et al. |
| 3 | 1,524 | 20.8 | [A review of applications in federated learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2020.106854) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2020-09-17 | Li Li, Yuxi Fan, Ying Kei Tse et al. |
| 4 | 1,488 | 19.5 | [Blockchain technology and the sustainable supply chain: Theoretically exploring adoption barriers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107831) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2020-06-20 | Mahtab Kouhizadeh, Sara Saberi, Joseph Sarkis |
| 5 | 1,428 | 18.4 | [Industry 4.0 technologies assessment: A sustainability perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107776) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2020-05-06 | Chunguang April Bai, Patrick Dallasega, Guido Orzes et al. |
| 6 | 1,357 | 17.6 | [Viable supply chain model: integrating agility, resilience and sustainability perspectives—lessons from and thinking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-020-03640-6) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 2020-05-22 | Dmitry Ivanov |
| 7 | 1,319 | 18.1 | [Predictive maintenance in the Industry 4.0: A systematic literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2020.106889) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2020-10-06 | Tiago Zonta, Cristiano André da Costa, Rodrigo da Rosa Righi et al. |
| 8 | 1,236 | 15.4 | [OSQP: an operator splitting solver for quadratic programs](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-020-00179-2) | [Mathematical Programming Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming-computation.md) | 2020-02-20 | Bartolomeo Stellato, Goran Banjac, Paul J. Goulart et al. |
| 9 | 1,011 | 13.2 | [Impacts of epidemic outbreaks on supply chains: mapping a research agenda amid the COVID-19 pandemic through a structured literature review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-020-03685-7) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 2020-06-16 | Maciel Manoel de Queiroz, Dmitry Ivanov, Alexandre B. Dolgui et al. |
| 10 | 922 | 11.8 | [The impact of digital technologies on economic and environmental performance in the context of industry 4.0: A moderated mediation model](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107777) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2020-04-30 | Ying Li, Jing Dai, Li Cui |

## AI

*Most-cited AI papers published in 2020*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10,982 | 138.7 | [A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.2978386) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-03-24 | Zonghan Wu, Shirui Pan, Fengwen Chen et al. |
| 2 | 10,493 | 128.9 | [From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0138-9) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-01-17 | Scott Lundberg, Gabriel Erion, Hugh Chen et al. |
| 3 | 4,889 | 62.0 | [Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.2983686) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-04-01 | Jingdong Wang, Ke Sun, Tianheng Cheng et al. |
| 4 | 3,135 | 40.1 | [A survey of the recent architectures of deep convolutional neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-020-09825-6) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2020-04-21 | Asifullah Khan, Anabia Sohail, Umme Zahoora et al. |
| 5 | 2,995 | 40.4 | [A comparative analysis of gradient boosting algorithms](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-020-09896-5) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2020-08-24 | Candice Bentéjac, Anna Csörgő, Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz |
| 6 | 2,558 | 33.8 | [Event-Based Vision: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3008413) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-07-10 | Guillermo Gallego, Tobi Delbrück, Garrick Orchard et al. |
| 7 | 2,517 | 34.8 | [A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Toward Medical XAI](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.3027314) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-10-21 | Erico Tjoa, Cuntai Guan |
| 8 | 2,433 | 31.4 | [U2-Net: Going deeper with nested U-structure for salient object detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2020.107404) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2020-05-16 | Xuebin Qin, Zichen Zhang, Chenyang Huang et al. |
| 9 | 2,424 | 30.5 | [Marine Predators Algorithm: A nature-inspired metaheuristic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113377) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2020-03-13 | Afshin Faramarzi, Mohammad Heidarinejad, Seyedali Mirjalili et al. |
| 10 | 2,413 | 31.8 | [Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3005434) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-06-29 | Yulan Guo, Hanyun Wang, Qingyong Hu et al. |

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