Top research keywords
A paper counts once for each OpenAlex keyword it has. Window: 2026-09-27 – 2026-10-26 (30 days). Showing the top 100 of 11,406; the full list is in /data/rankings.json.
Key findings
- Top research keywords in the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals over the last 30 days: large language models (89), China (79), Chinese listed companies (56), corporate governance (49) and graph neural networks (39).
- 11,406 keywords appear in the window.
| # | Keyword | Papers | Finance | Accounting | Economics | Management | Operations Research | AI | Last 7 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | large language models | 89 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 70 | 8 |
| 2 | China | 79 | 27 | 0 | 44 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 | Chinese listed companies | 56 | 26 | 5 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | corporate governance | 49 | 23 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | graph neural networks | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 1 |
| 6 | artificial intelligence | 36 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 7 | emerging markets | 35 | 18 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | information asymmetry | 31 | 10 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | digital transformation | 30 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | multimodal fusion | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
| 11 | financial constraints | 28 | 15 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | contrastive learning | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 |
| 13 | explainable AI | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 3 |
| 13 | monetary policy | 26 | 8 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | COVID-19 pandemic | 24 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 15 | green innovation | 24 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | energy transition | 23 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | federated learning | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 4 |
| 17 | knowledge distillation | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 1 |
| 20 | class imbalance | 22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 1 |
| 21 | CO2 emissions | 21 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | carbon pricing | 21 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 21 | digitalization | 21 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 24 | financial stability | 20 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 24 | innovation | 20 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 24 | transformer models | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 2 |
| 27 | Chinese enterprises | 19 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | digital economy | 19 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | economic growth | 19 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 27 | state-owned enterprises | 19 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | stock returns | 19 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | vision-language models | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| 33 | climate policy | 18 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 33 | diffusion models | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 |
| 33 | feature selection | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 |
| 33 | reinforcement learning | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 0 |
| 37 | deep learning | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 2 |
| 37 | geopolitical risk | 17 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | green finance | 17 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 37 | income inequality | 17 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 37 | interpretability | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 1 |
| 37 | moderating effect | 17 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 43 | environmental policy | 16 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 43 | technology adoption | 16 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 45 | climate risk | 15 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 | corporate sustainability | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 | emissions trading | 15 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 45 | environmental regulation | 15 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 45 | firm performance | 15 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 | institutional quality | 15 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 45 | regional disparities | 15 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 45 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 15 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 45 | time series forecasting | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 1 |
| 45 | total factor productivity | 15 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 55 | attention mechanism | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 |
| 55 | convolutional neural networks | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 |
| 55 | corporate disclosure | 14 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 55 | corporate social responsibility | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 55 | cross-national comparison | 14 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 55 | deep reinforcement learning | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 55 | developing countries | 14 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 55 | domain adaptation | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 |
| 55 | firm size | 14 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | foreign direct investment | 14 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 55 | human capital | 14 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | mixed-integer linear programming | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 1 |
| 55 | retrieval-augmented generation | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 |
| 68 | anomaly detection | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 68 | climate change | 13 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 68 | computational efficiency | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 |
| 68 | entrepreneurship | 13 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 68 | inflation | 13 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 68 | macroprudential policy | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 68 | supply chain resilience | 13 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| 68 | trust | 13 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 76 | corporate environmental performance | 12 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 76 | cryptocurrency market | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 76 | financial contagion | 12 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 76 | global value chains | 12 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 76 | listed companies | 12 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 76 | multi-objective optimization | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| 76 | multi-view clustering | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 76 | portfolio optimization | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| 76 | systemic risk | 12 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 | ESG disclosure | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 | carbon emission reduction | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 | climate change mitigation | 11 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 85 | corporate innovation | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 | digital infrastructure | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 85 | dynamic capabilities | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 85 | energy efficiency | 11 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 85 | fintech | 11 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 85 | image classification | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 |
| 85 | institutional theory | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 85 | machine learning | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 85 | market microstructure | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 85 | metaheuristic optimization | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 |
| 85 | mixture of experts | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 |
| 85 | model interpretability | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
| 85 | multi-agent reinforcement learning | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 2 |