Most-cited papers published in 2023
Papers the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, marketing, information systems, tourism and hospitality, operations research and AI journals published in 2023, 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 2023 is “Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy” (International Journal of Information Management), with 4,564 citations.
- In finance, the most-cited was “Artificial intelligence, firm growth, and product innovation” (Journal of Financial Economics), with 1,442 citations.
- In accounting, the most-cited was “Going digital: implications for firm value and performance” (Review of Accounting Studies), with 449 citations.
- In economics, the most-cited was “What’s trending in difference-in-differences? A synthesis of the recent econometrics literature” (Journal of Econometrics), with 2,032 citations.
- In management, the most-cited was “Reporting reliability, convergent and discriminant validity with structural equation modeling: A review and best-practice recommendations” (Asia Pacific Journal of Management), with 2,254 citations.
- In marketing, the most-cited was “Improving PLS-SEM use for business marketing research” (Industrial Marketing Management), with 797 citations.
- In information systems, the most-cited was “Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy” (International Journal of Information Management), with 4,564 citations.
- In tourism and hospitality, the most-cited was “Metaverse as a disruptive technology revolutionising tourism management and marketing” (Tourism Management), with 922 citations.
- In operations research, the most-cited was “Digital Twin: Benefits, use cases, challenges, and opportunities” (Decision Analytics Journal), with 703 citations.
- In AI, the most-cited was “Interpreting Black-Box Models: A Review on Explainable Artificial Intelligence” (Cognitive Computation), with 2,124 citations.
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Scholar4AI. (2026). Most-cited papers published in 2023. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 29, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/cited/2023
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