Most-cited papers published in 2022
Papers the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, marketing, information systems, tourism and hospitality, operations research and AI journals published in 2022, 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 2022 is “A Survey on Vision Transformer” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence), with 4,682 citations.
- In finance, the most-cited was “How much should we trust staggered difference-in-differences estimates?” (Journal of Financial Economics), with 3,140 citations.
- In accounting, the most-cited was “Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosure: A literature review” (The British Accounting Review), with 819 citations.
- In economics, the most-cited was “How does green finance affect green total factor productivity? Evidence from China” (Energy Economics), with 1,185 citations.
- In management, the most-cited was “Guidelines for advancing theory and practice through bibliometric research” (Journal of Business Research), with 1,149 citations.
- In marketing, the most-cited was “Online influencer marketing” (Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science), with 579 citations.
- In information systems, the most-cited was “Metaverse beyond the hype: Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy” (International Journal of Information Management), with 2,751 citations.
- In tourism and hospitality, the most-cited was “Immersive technology: A meta-analysis of augmented/virtual reality applications and their impact on tourism experience” (Tourism Management), with 585 citations.
- In operations research, the most-cited was “Worst-Case Analysis of a New Heuristic for the Travelling Salesman Problem” (Operations Research Forum), with 1,131 citations.
- In AI, the most-cited was “A Survey on Vision Transformer” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence), with 4,682 citations.
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Scholar4AI. (2026). Most-cited papers published in 2022. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 29, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/cited/2022
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