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title: "Most-cited research papers of 2022"
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# 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.

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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.

## All journals

*The 25 most-cited papers published in 2022, all tracked journals*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,682 | 83.2 | [A Survey on Vision Transformer](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3152247) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-02-18 | Kai Han, Yunhe Wang, Hanting Chen et al. |
| 2 | 3,293 | 64.6 | [Learning to Prompt for Vision-Language Models](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-022-01653-1) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2022-07-31 | Kaiyang Zhou, Jingkang Yang, Chen Change Loy et al. |
| 3 | 3,140 | 55.9 | [How much should we trust staggered difference-in-differences estimates?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2022.01.004) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2022-02-22 | Andrew C. Baker, David F. Larcker, Charles C. Y. Wang |
| 4 | 2,751 | 53.4 | [Metaverse beyond the hype: Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2022.102542) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2022-07-15 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Abdullah Mohammed Baabdullah et al. |
| 5 | 1,823 | 31.5 | [Image Super-Resolution Via Iterative Refinement](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3204461) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-01-01 | Chitwan Saharia, Jonathan Ho, William Chan et al. |
| 6 | 1,542 | 27.2 | [A survey on sentiment analysis methods, applications, and challenges](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10144-1) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2022-02-07 | Mayur Wankhade, Annavarapu Chandra Sekhara Rao, Chaitanya Kulkarni |
| 7 | 1,359 | 24.7 | [Towards Personalized Federated Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3160699) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-03-28 | Alysa Ziying Tan, Han Yu, Lizhen Cui et al. |
| 8 | 1,338 | 24.0 | [Learning From Noisy Labels With Deep Neural Networks: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3152527) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-03-07 | Hwanjun Song, Minseok Kim, Dongmin Park et al. |
| 9 | 1,336 | 25.6 | [Graph neural network for traffic forecasting: A survey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117921) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2022-06-23 | Weiwei Jiang, Jiayun Luo |
| 10 | 1,206 | 20.8 | [Domain Generalization: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3195549) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-01-01 | Kaiyang Zhou, Ziwei Liu, Yu Qiao et al. |
| 11 | 1,193 | 21.7 | [PIAFusion: A progressive infrared and visible image fusion network based on illumination aware](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.03.007) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2022-03-29 | Linfeng Tang, Jiteng Yuan, Hao Zhang et al. |
| 12 | 1,185 | 20.8 | [How does green finance affect green total factor productivity? Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.105863) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2022-01-29 | Chi‐Chuan Lee, Chien‐Chiang Lee, Chien‐Chiang Lee et al. |
| 13 | 1,159 | 20.0 | [Image fusion in the loop of high-level vision tasks: A semantic-aware real-time infrared and visible image fusion network](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.12.004) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2022-01-01 | Linfeng Tang, Jiteng Yuan, Jiayi Ma |
| 14 | 1,149 | 21.3 | [Guidelines for advancing theory and practice through bibliometric research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.04.042) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2022-05-02 | Debmalya Mukherjee, Weng Marc Lim, Satish Kumar et al. |
| 15 | 1,131 | 20.2 | [Worst-Case Analysis of a New Heuristic for the Travelling Salesman Problem](https://doi.org/10.1007/s43069-021-00101-z) | [Operations Research Forum](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-forum.md) | 2022-03-01 | Nicos Christofides |
| 16 | 1,130 | 22.4 | [Dissecting green returns](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2022.07.007) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2022-08-12 | Ľuboš Pástor, Robert F. Stambaugh, Lucian A. Taylor |
| 17 | 1,115 | 19.7 | [Snake Optimizer: A novel meta-heuristic optimization algorithm](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.108320) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2022-02-08 | Fatma A. Hashim, Abdelazim G. Hussien |
| 18 | 1,088 | 23.6 | [Deep Neural Networks and Tabular Data: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3229161) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-12-23 | Vadim Borisov, Tobias Leemann, Kathrin Seßler et al. |
| 19 | 1,049 | 20.8 | [Human-in-the-loop machine learning: a state of the art](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10246-w) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2022-08-17 | Eduardo Mosqueira-Rey, Elena Hernández-Pereira, David Alonso-Ríos et al. |
| 20 | 1,046 | 21.6 | [Literature reviews as independent studies: guidelines for academic practice](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-022-00588-8) | [Review of Managerial Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-managerial-science.md) | 2022-10-14 | Sascha Kraus, Matthias Breier, Weng Marc Lim et al. |
| 21 | 1,044 | 18.0 | [Generalizing to Unseen Domains: A Survey on Domain Generalization](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2022.3178128) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2022-01-01 | Jindong Wang, Cuiling Lan, Chang Liu et al. |
| 22 | 1,027 | 20.6 | [Count (and count-like) data in finance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2022.08.004) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2022-09-05 | Jonathan B. Cohn, Zack Liu, Malcolm Wardlaw |
| 23 | 1,023 | 22.0 | [What factors contribute to the acceptance of artificial intelligence? A systematic review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2022.101925) | [Telematics and Informatics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics.md) | 2022-12-14 | Sage Kelly, Sherrie-Anne Kaye, Óscar Oviedo-Trespalacios |
| 24 | 1,022 | 21.3 | [Coati Optimization Algorithm: A new bio-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for solving optimization problems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.110011) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2022-10-28 | Mohammad Dehghani, Zeinab Montazeri, Eva Trojovská et al. |
| 25 | 996 | 19.3 | [ESG disclosure and financial performance: Moderating role of ESG investors](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102291) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2022-07-09 | Zhongfei Chen, Guanxia Xie |

## Finance

*Most-cited finance papers published in 2022*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,140 | 55.9 | [How much should we trust staggered difference-in-differences estimates?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2022.01.004) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2022-02-22 | Andrew C. Baker, David F. Larcker, Charles C. Y. Wang |
| 2 | 1,130 | 22.4 | [Dissecting green returns](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2022.07.007) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2022-08-12 | Ľuboš Pástor, Robert F. Stambaugh, Lucian A. Taylor |
| 3 | 1,027 | 20.6 | [Count (and count-like) data in finance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2022.08.004) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2022-09-05 | Jonathan B. Cohn, Zack Liu, Malcolm Wardlaw |
| 4 | 996 | 19.3 | [ESG disclosure and financial performance: Moderating role of ESG investors](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102291) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2022-07-09 | Zhongfei Chen, Guanxia Xie |
| 5 | 839 | 17.7 | [Impact of ESG performance on firm value and profitability](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bir.2022.11.006) | [Borsa Istanbul Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/borsa-istanbul-review.md) | 2022-11-17 | Mahmut Aydoğmuş, Güzhan Gülay, Korkmaz ERGUN |
| 6 | 688 | 12.4 | [The impact of the FinTech revolution on the future of banking: Opportunities and risks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102103) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2022-03-09 | Victor Murinde, Efthymios Rizopoulos, Markos Zachariadis |
| 7 | 684 | 12.6 | [Digitalization, competition strategy and corporate innovation: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing listed companies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102166) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2022-04-22 | Huwei Wen, Qiming Zhong, Chien‐Chiang Lee |
| 8 | 571 | 10.6 | [ESG disclosure and Firm performance: A bibliometric and meta analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2022.101668) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 2022-04-28 | Muhammad Arif Khan |
| 9 | 522 | 9.7 | [Heterogeneous impacts of wars on global equity markets: Evidence from the invasion of Ukraine](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.102934) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2022-05-04 | Sabri Boubaker, John W. Goodell, Dharen Kumar Pandey et al. |
| 10 | 508 | 9.2 | [Fintech, financial constraints and innovation: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2022.102194) | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 2022-04-01 | Na Ding, Leilei Gu, Yuchao Peng |

## Accounting

*Most-cited accounting papers published in 2022*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 819 | 17.4 | [Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosure: A literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2022.101149) | [The British Accounting Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-british-accounting-review.md) | 2022-11-24 | Albert Tsang, Tracie S. Frost, Huijuan Cao |
| 2 | 650 | 11.7 | [Stock price reactions to ESG news: the role of ESG ratings and disagreement](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-022-09675-3) | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 2022-03-10 | George Serafeim, Aaron S. Yoon |
| 3 | 582 | 12.3 | [Accounting and auditing with blockchain technology and artificial Intelligence: A literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accinf.2022.100598) | [International Journal of Accounting Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-accounting-information-systems.md) | 2022-11-24 | Hongdan Han, Radha K. Shiwakoti, Robin Jarvis et al. |
| 4 | 458 | 8.9 | [Is artificial intelligence improving the audit process?](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-022-09697-x) | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 2022-07-07 | Anastassia Fedyk, James Hodson, Natalya V. Khimich et al. |
| 5 | 415 | 8.0 | [Do ESG funds make stakeholder-friendly investments?](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-022-09693-1) | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 2022-06-27 | Aneesh Raghunandan, Shiva Rajgopal |
| 6 | 309 | 5.4 | [Why are expanded audit reports not informative to investors? Evidence from the United Kingdom](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-021-09650-4) | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 2022-01-19 | Clive S. Lennox, Jaime J. Schmidt, Anne M. Thompson |
| 7 | 241 | 4.7 | [Causality redux: The evolution of empirical methods in accounting research and the growth of quasi-experiments](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2022.101521) | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 2022-07-18 | Christopher Armstrong, John D. Kepler, Delphine Samuels et al. |
| 8 | 233 | 4.6 | [The role of the external auditor in managing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reputation risk](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-022-09706-z) | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 2022-08-16 | Bright Asante‐Appiah, Tamara A. Lambert |
| 9 | 232 | 4.0 | [A review of China-related accounting research in the past 25 years](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2022.101539) | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 2022-01-01 | Clive S. Lennox, Joanna S. Wu |
| 10 | 220 | 4.0 | [Trust, social capital, and the bond market benefits of ESG performance](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-021-09646-0) | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 2022-04-14 | Hami Amiraslani, Karl V. Lins, Henri Servaes et al. |

## Economics

*Most-cited economics papers published in 2022*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,185 | 20.8 | [How does green finance affect green total factor productivity? Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.105863) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2022-01-29 | Chi‐Chuan Lee, Chien‐Chiang Lee, Chien‐Chiang Lee et al. |
| 2 | 944 | 16.5 | [Forecasting: theory and practice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2021.11.001) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2022-01-19 | Fotios Petropoulos, Daniele Apiletti, Vassilios Assimakopoulos et al. |
| 3 | 822 | 14.5 | [Environmental decentralization, digital finance and green technology innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2022.02.008) | [Structural Change and Economic Dynamics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/structural-change-and-economic-dynamics.md) | 2022-02-12 | Suling Feng, Rong Zhang, Guoxiang Li |
| 4 | 696 | 12.7 | [Digital economy and carbon emission performance: Evidence at China's city level](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112927) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2022-04-07 | Wei David Zhang, Xuemeng Liu, Die Wang et al. |
| 5 | 625 | 12.8 | [Effects of digital economy on carbon emission reduction: New evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113271) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2022-10-01 | Ming Yi, Yafen Liu, Mingyue Selena Sheng et al. |
| 6 | 585 | 10.2 | [M5 accuracy competition: Results, findings, and conclusions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2021.11.013) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2022-01-11 | Spyros Makridakis, Evangelos Spiliotis, Vassilios Assimakopoulos |
| 7 | 584 | 11.4 | [Climate policy uncertainty and firm-level total factor productivity: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106209) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2022-07-27 | Xiaohang Ren, Xiao Zhang, Cheng Yan et al. |
| 8 | 569 | 10.5 | [The impact of the Ukraine–Russia war on world stock market returns](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110516) | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 2022-04-21 | Whelsy Boungou, Alhonita Yatié |
| 9 | 547 | 10.0 | [How Artificial Intelligence Technology Affects Productivity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence from Taiwan](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2022.104536) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2022-04-13 | Chih‐Hai Yang |
| 10 | 545 | 11.5 | [Can enterprise digitization improve ESG performance?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.106101) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 2022-11-14 | Mingyue Fang, Huihua Nie, Xinyi Shen |

## Management

*Most-cited management papers published in 2022*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,149 | 21.3 | [Guidelines for advancing theory and practice through bibliometric research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.04.042) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2022-05-02 | Debmalya Mukherjee, Weng Marc Lim, Satish Kumar et al. |
| 2 | 1,046 | 21.6 | [Literature reviews as independent studies: guidelines for academic practice](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-022-00588-8) | [Review of Managerial Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-managerial-science.md) | 2022-10-14 | Sascha Kraus, Matthias Breier, Weng Marc Lim et al. |
| 3 | 923 | 16.7 | [Unlocking the value of artificial intelligence in human resource management through AI capability framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2022.100899) | [Human Resource Management Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/human-resource-management-review.md) | 2022-03-23 | Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Prasanta Kumar Dey, Sian Joel-Edgar et al. |
| 4 | 856 | 15.5 | [Innovation in emerging economies: Research on the digital economy driving high-quality green development](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.03.041) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2022-03-25 | Dan Ma, Qing Zhu |
| 5 | 821 | 16.0 | [Influence mechanism between green finance and green innovation: Exploring regional policy intervention effects in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121882) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2022-07-19 | Muhammad Faisal Irfan, Asif Razzaq, Arshian Sharif et al. |
| 6 | 814 | 14.7 | [Mastering digital transformation: The nexus between leadership, agility, and digital strategy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.03.038) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2022-03-21 | Bader Khamis AlNuaimi, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Shuang Ren et al. |
| 7 | 745 | 13.9 | [Can digital transformation promote enterprise performance? —From the perspective of public policy and innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2022.100198) | [Journal of Innovation & Knowledge](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-knowledge.md) | 2022-05-09 | Yongzhang Peng, Changqi Tao |
| 8 | 724 | 12.6 | [Linking circular economy and digitalisation technologies: A systematic literature review of past achievements and future promises](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121508) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2022-01-17 | Chetna Chauhan, Vinit Parida, Amandeep Dhir |
| 9 | 678 | 14.3 | [Marketing in the Metaverse: Conceptual understanding, framework, and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113420) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2022-11-17 | Kevin Giang Barrera, Denish Shah |
| 10 | 623 | 12.7 | [Digital transformation: A review and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2022.09.007) | [European Management Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-management-journal.md) | 2022-09-23 | Dmitry Plekhanov, Henrik Franke, Torbjørn H. Netland |

## Marketing

*Most-cited marketing papers published in 2022*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 579 | 10.0 | [Online influencer marketing](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-021-00829-4) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2022-01-08 | Fine F. Leung, Flora Fang Gu, Robert W. Palmatier |
| 2 | 545 | 9.8 | [Digital technologies: tensions in privacy and data](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-022-00845-y) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2022-03-05 | Sara Quach, Park Thaichon, Kelly D. Martin et al. |
| 3 | 526 | 9.7 | [Digital transformation and sustainable performance: The moderating role of market turbulence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2022.04.007) | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 2022-04-23 | Lixu Li |
| 4 | 467 | 8.5 | [Unveiling ways to reach organic purchase: Green perceived value, perceived knowledge, attitude, subjective norm, and trust](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2022.102988) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2022-03-30 | Taewoo Roh, Junhee Seok, Yaeri Kim |
| 5 | 440 | 8.5 | [Artificial empathy in marketing interactions: Bridging the human-AI gap in affective and social customer experience](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-022-00892-5) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2022-07-08 | Yuping Liu–Thompkins, Shintaro Okazaki, Hairong Li |
| 6 | 417 | 8.9 | [Social interactions in the metaverse: Framework, initial evidence, and research roadmap](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-022-00908-0) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2022-12-06 | Thorsten Hennig‐Thurau, Dorothea Nilusha Aliman, Alina Marie Herting et al. |
| 7 | 375 | 7.7 | [Influencer marketing on TikTok: The effectiveness of humor and followers’ hedonic experience](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2022.103149) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2022-09-29 | Sergio Barta, Daniel Belanche, Ana Fernández et al. |
| 8 | 368 | 6.4 | [The role of utilitarian and hedonic aspects in the continuance intention to use social mobile apps](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2021.102888) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2022-01-10 | Khaoula Akdim, Luis V. Casaló, Carlos Flavián |
| 9 | 366 | 7.8 | [Understanding the user satisfaction and loyalty of customer service chatbots](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2022.103211) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2022-11-24 | Chin‐Lung Hsu, Judy Chuan‐Chuan Lin |
| 10 | 356 | 6.8 | [More than a Feeling: Accuracy and Application of Sentiment Analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijresmar.2022.05.005) | [International Journal of Research in Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-research-in-marketing.md) | 2022-06-20 | Jochen Hartmann, Mark Heitmann, Christian Siebert et al. |

## Information Systems

*Most-cited information systems papers published in 2022*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,751 | 53.4 | [Metaverse beyond the hype: Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2022.102542) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2022-07-15 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Abdullah Mohammed Baabdullah et al. |
| 2 | 1,023 | 22.0 | [What factors contribute to the acceptance of artificial intelligence? A systematic review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2022.101925) | [Telematics and Informatics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics.md) | 2022-12-14 | Sage Kelly, Sherrie-Anne Kaye, Óscar Oviedo-Trespalacios |
| 3 | 768 | 14.9 | [Reskilling and Upskilling the Future-ready Workforce for Industry 4.0 and Beyond](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-022-10308-y) | [Information Systems Frontiers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-systems-frontiers.md) | 2022-07-13 | Ling Li |
| 4 | 587 | 11.2 | [Artificial Intelligence (AI) Student Assistants in the Classroom: Designing Chatbots to Support Student Success](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-022-10291-4) | [Information Systems Frontiers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-systems-frontiers.md) | 2022-06-14 | Yu Chen, Scott Jensen, Leslie Jordan Albert et al. |
| 5 | 534 | 9.3 | [Impact of digital leadership capability on innovation performance: The role of platform digitization capability](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2022.103590) | [Information & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-management.md) | 2022-01-06 | Jose Benitez, Alvaro E. Arenas, Ana Castillo et al. |
| 6 | 489 | 9.2 | [Immersive virtual reality in the age of the Metaverse: A hybrid-narrative review based on the technology affordance perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2022.101717) | [The Journal of Strategic Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-strategic-information-systems.md) | 2022-06-01 | Ersin Dincelli, Alper Yayla |
| 7 | 481 | 9.9 | [AI adoption and diffusion in public administration: A systematic literature review and future research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2022.101774) | [Government Information Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/government-information-quarterly.md) | 2022-10-12 | Rohit Madan, Mona Ashok |
| 8 | 425 | 7.5 | [The challenges of entering the metaverse: An experiment on the effect of extended reality on workload](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-022-10244-x) | [Information Systems Frontiers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-systems-frontiers.md) | 2022-02-12 | Nannan Xi, Juan Chen, Filipe Gama et al. |
| 9 | 396 | 8.4 | [Digital transformation and European small and medium enterprises (SMEs): A comparative study using digital economy and society index data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2022.102594) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2022-11-17 | Marinko Škare, María de las Mercedes de Obesso, Samuel Ribeiro Navarrete |
| 10 | 379 | 6.8 | [Artificial intelligence in E-Commerce: a bibliometric study and literature review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-022-00537-z) | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 2022-03-01 | Ransome Epie Bawack, Samuel Fosso Wamba, Kévin Carillo et al. |

## Tourism and Hospitality

*Most-cited tourism and hospitality papers published in 2022*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 585 | 10.7 | [Immersive technology: A meta-analysis of augmented/virtual reality applications and their impact on tourism experience](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104534) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2022-04-01 | Xiaojun Fan, Xinyu Jiang, Nianqi Deng |
| 2 | 351 | 6.6 | [Investigating the double-edged sword effect of AI awareness on employee's service innovative behavior](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104564) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2022-05-20 | Xuedong Liang, Gengxuan Guo, Lingli Shu et al. |
| 3 | 350 | 7.0 | [Artificial intelligence in tourism and hospitality: Bibliometric analysis and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2022.103317) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2022-08-24 | Mouna Knani, Saïd Echchakoui, Riadh Ladhari |
| 4 | 325 | 6.0 | [Service robots: Applying social exchange theory to better understand human–robot interactions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104537) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2022-05-04 | Hyunsu Kim, Kevin Kam Fung So, Jochen Wirtz |
| 5 | 282 | 5.4 | [Effects of green human resource management on green innovation through green human capital, environmental knowledge, and managerial environmental concern](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2022.06.009) | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | 2022-06-21 | Sidra Munawar, Hummaira Qudsia Yousaf, Muneeb Ahmed et al. |
| 6 | 268 | 5.6 | [A review of tourism and climate change mitigation: The scales, scopes, stakeholders and strategies of carbon management](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104681) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2022-11-10 | Stefan Gößling, Martin Balas, Marius Mayer et al. |
| 7 | 239 | 4.2 | [Exploring the factors influencing the adoption and usage of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality applications in tourism education within the context of COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhlste.2022.100373) | [Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-leisure-sport-tourism-education.md) | 2022-01-17 | Shiwei Shen, Kexin Xu, Marios D. Sotiriadis et al. |
| 8 | 232 | 4.4 | [Green purchase and sustainable consumption: A comparative study between European and non-European tourists](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2022.100980) | [Tourism Management Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management-perspectives.md) | 2022-06-22 | Md. Nekmahmud, Haywantee Rumi Ramkissoon, Mária Fekete‐Farkas |
| 9 | 229 | 4.0 | [Tourism e-commerce live streaming: Identifying and testing a value-based marketing framework from the live streamer perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104513) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2022-02-02 | Chaowu Xie, Jun Yu, Songshan Sam Huang et al. |
| 10 | 228 | 4.3 | [Online food delivery: A systematic synthesis of literature and a framework development](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2022.103240) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2022-05-18 | Amit Shankar, Charles Jebarajakirthy, Preeti Nayal et al. |

## Operations Research

*Most-cited operations research papers published in 2022*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,131 | 20.2 | [Worst-Case Analysis of a New Heuristic for the Travelling Salesman Problem](https://doi.org/10.1007/s43069-021-00101-z) | [Operations Research Forum](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-forum.md) | 2022-03-01 | Nicos Christofides |
| 2 | 778 | 14.7 | [A comparative analysis of K-Nearest Neighbor, Genetic, Support Vector Machine, Decision Tree, and Long Short Term Memory algorithms in machine learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dajour.2022.100071) | [Decision Analytics Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-analytics-journal.md) | 2022-05-27 | Malti Bansal, Apoorva Goyal, Apoorva Choudhary |
| 3 | 460 | 8.4 | [The role of circular economy principles and sustainable-oriented innovation to enhance social, economic and environmental performance: Evidence from Mexican SMEs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108495) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2022-03-31 | Oscar Rodríguez-Espíndola, Ana Cuevas-Romo, Soumyadeb Chowdhury et al. |
| 4 | 440 | 7.6 | [Past, present, and future of sustainable finance: insights from big data analytics through machine learning of scholarly research](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04410-8) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 2022-01-03 | Satish Kumar, Dipasha Sharma, Sandeep Keshava Rao et al. |
| 5 | 422 | 8.6 | [Artificial intelligence and big data analytics for supply chain resilience: a systematic literature review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-04983-y) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 2022-09-30 | Efpraxia D. Zamani, Conn Smyth, Samrat Gupta et al. |
| 6 | 403 | 7.3 | [Cloud supply chain: Integrating Industry 4.0 and digital platforms in the “Supply Chain-as-a-Service”](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2022.102676) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2022-03-17 | Dmitry Ivanov, Alexandre B. Dolgui, Boris Sokolov |
| 7 | 374 | 7.0 | [A novel LOPCOW‐DOBI multi‐criteria sustainability performance assessment methodology: An application in developing country banking sector](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2022.102690) | [Omega](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/omega.md) | 2022-05-22 | Fatih Ecer, Dragan Stevan Pamucar |
| 8 | 340 | 6.7 | [Impact of artificial intelligence-driven big data analytics culture on agility and resilience in humanitarian supply chain: A practice-based view](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108618) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2022-08-01 | Rameshwar Dubey, David Bryde, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi et al. |
| 9 | 330 | 6.3 | [Artificial intelligence and blockchain implementation in supply chains: a pathway to sustainability and data monetisation?](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-04785-2) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 2022-06-21 | Naoum Tsolakis, Roman Schumacher, Manoj Kumar Dora et al. |
| 10 | 324 | 6.0 | [A literature review of Artificial Intelligence applications in railway systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2022.103679) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2022-05-05 | Ruifan Tang, Lorenzo De Donato, Nikola Bešinović et al. |

## AI

*Most-cited AI papers published in 2022*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,682 | 83.2 | [A Survey on Vision Transformer](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3152247) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-02-18 | Kai Han, Yunhe Wang, Hanting Chen et al. |
| 2 | 3,293 | 64.6 | [Learning to Prompt for Vision-Language Models](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-022-01653-1) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2022-07-31 | Kaiyang Zhou, Jingkang Yang, Chen Change Loy et al. |
| 3 | 1,823 | 31.5 | [Image Super-Resolution Via Iterative Refinement](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3204461) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-01-01 | Chitwan Saharia, Jonathan Ho, William Chan et al. |
| 4 | 1,542 | 27.2 | [A survey on sentiment analysis methods, applications, and challenges](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10144-1) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2022-02-07 | Mayur Wankhade, Annavarapu Chandra Sekhara Rao, Chaitanya Kulkarni |
| 5 | 1,359 | 24.7 | [Towards Personalized Federated Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3160699) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-03-28 | Alysa Ziying Tan, Han Yu, Lizhen Cui et al. |
| 6 | 1,338 | 24.0 | [Learning From Noisy Labels With Deep Neural Networks: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3152527) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-03-07 | Hwanjun Song, Minseok Kim, Dongmin Park et al. |
| 7 | 1,336 | 25.6 | [Graph neural network for traffic forecasting: A survey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117921) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2022-06-23 | Weiwei Jiang, Jiayun Luo |
| 8 | 1,206 | 20.8 | [Domain Generalization: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3195549) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-01-01 | Kaiyang Zhou, Ziwei Liu, Yu Qiao et al. |
| 9 | 1,193 | 21.7 | [PIAFusion: A progressive infrared and visible image fusion network based on illumination aware](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.03.007) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2022-03-29 | Linfeng Tang, Jiteng Yuan, Hao Zhang et al. |
| 10 | 1,159 | 20.0 | [Image fusion in the loop of high-level vision tasks: A semantic-aware real-time infrared and visible image fusion network](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.12.004) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2022-01-01 | Linfeng Tang, Jiteng Yuan, Jiayi Ma |

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