Most-read research ideas

The research idea notes people read most since the counting started on 2026-10-28, by page views and by AI assistants fetching them for their users. Updated four times a day. Reads are counted from the server's access log: a page view is a browser opening the note's page (a navigation by a browser that does not call itself a bot, once per address and day), and an AI assistant read is a fetch of the note or its Markdown version by an assistant acting for a person (ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User and the like). Search engine and AI crawlers, monitors and other bots are left out. Only the counts are kept. Also as Markdown.

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Since the counting started on 2026-10-28, the most-read research idea was “Subscriptions, churn and the right to cancel” (7 reads), followed by “Treasury market liquidity and the basis trade” (3) and “AI washing and stock price crash risk” (2).
Readers opened 35 of the 323 notes (47 page views), and AI assistants fetched 6 for their users (6 reads).
The most-read tags were ai (23), economics (16) and management (15).

Research idea notes by reads, 2026-10-28 to 2026-11-02
#	Research idea	Status	Tags	Page views	AI assistant reads	Reads
1	Subscriptions, churn and the right to cancel	Seed	management, marketing, regulation	7	0	7
2	Treasury market liquidity and the basis trade	Seed	finance, fixed income, market microstructure	3	0	3
3	AI washing and stock price crash risk	Seed	finance, accounting, ai	2	0	2
4	Circular textiles and the fast fashion they compete with	Seed	operations research, management, esg	2	0	2
5	Overqualified: graduates in jobs that do not need the degree	Seed	economics, labor, education	2	0	2
6	When the judge is a model	Seed	ai, methods	2	0	2
7	Model collapse and the data that is left	Seed	ai, data, methods	1	1	2
8	Quantum optimization against the classical state of the art	Seed	operations research, ai, methods	1	1	2
9	AI agents and the boundaries of the firm	Seed	management, economics, ai	1	0	1
10	AI and the offshoring of services	Seed	economics, trade, ai	1	0	1
11	Absorptive capacity and who gains from AI	Seed	management, economics, ai	1	0	1
12	Chatbots, disclosure and customer satisfaction	Seed	management, ai, marketing	1	0	1
13	China raises its retirement age	Seed	economics, labor, pensions	1	0	1
14	Critical-mineral export controls and the energy transition	Seed	economics, energy, trade	1	0	1
15	Data leakage into the benchmarks	Seed	ai, methods	1	0	1
16	Deep reinforcement learning for portfolios, replicated	Seed	ai, finance, methods	1	0	1
17	Digital public infrastructure and who it reaches	Seed	economics, development, technology	1	0	1
18	Do stock market anomalies die when everyone trades them?	Seed	finance, asset pricing	1	0	1
19	Do whistleblower rewards find fraud sooner?	Seed	accounting, governance, regulation	1	0	1
20	Foundation models for tables	Seed	ai, methods, data	1	0	1
21	Graduates without jobs in China	Seed	economics, labor, china	1	0	1
22	Greenwashing as the gap between talk and emissions	Seed	finance, accounting, esg	1	0	1
23	Hiring by algorithm, audited	Seed	ai, labor, ethics	1	0	1
24	Microfinance meets digital lenders	Seed	finance, development	1	0	1
25	Minimum wages and the machines that replace the minimum-wage job	Seed	economics, labor, automation	1	0	1
26	Pay ratio disclosure and the pay of everyone else	Seed	finance, accounting, governance	1	0	1
27	Place-based industrial policy and semiconductor clusters	Seed	economics, innovation	1	0	1
28	Putting AI and data on the balance sheet	Seed	accounting, finance, ai	1	0	1
29	Retrieval-augmented generation for finance, tax and audit	Seed	ai, finance, accounting	1	0	1
30	Sovereign defaults with China as the main creditor	Seed	economics, finance, macroeconomics	1	0	1
31	State-space models for limit order books	Seed	ai, finance, market microstructure	1	0	1
32	Tax enforcement by algorithm	Seed	accounting, economics, tax	1	0	1
33	Weight-loss drugs and the economy around them	Seed	economics, health, households	1	0	1
34	Who lobbies on AI rules, and what they get	Seed	management, politics, ai	1	0	1
35	Zombie firms after the end of cheap money	Seed	economics, finance, banking	1	0	1
36	Demand forecasting with language models in the loop	Seed	operations research, retail, ai	0	1	1
37	Language models as qualitative coders	Seed	management, methods, ai	0	1	1
38	Pay transparency laws and the gender pay gap	Seed	accounting, economics, labor	0	1	1
39	University spin-offs in the AI era	Seed	management, ai, innovation	0	1	1

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Most-read research ideas. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/ideas

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Most-read research ideas},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/ideas}},
  urldate = {2026-11-02},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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