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title: "Top research keywords: finance, economics, AI"
description: "Top research keywords in the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals over the last 30 days: large language models (95), China (80), Chinese listed companies (56), corporate governance (51) and graph neural networks (40)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-26T12:13:05+09:00
window: 2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# 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 12,658; 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 (95), China (80), Chinese listed companies (56), corporate governance (51) and graph neural networks (40).
- 12,658 keywords appear in the window.

*Top research keywords · 2026-09-27 – 2026-10-26 (30 days)*

| # | Keyword | Papers | Finance | Accounting | Economics | Management | Operations Research | AI | Last 7 days |
|---:|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 95 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 70 | 10 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 80 | 27 | 0 | 44 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 56 | 26 | 5 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 51 | 23 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 1 |
| 6 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 37 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 7 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 35 | 18 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 34 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 31 | 10 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
| 11 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 3 |
| 12 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 28 | 15 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 |
| 14 | [monetary policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/monetary-policy.md) | 26 | 8 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | [green innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/green-innovation.md) | 25 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 24 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 16 | [consumer behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/consumer-behavior.md) | 24 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 18 | [energy transition](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-transition.md) | 23 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | [federated learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/federated-learning.md) | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 4 |
| 18 | [innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/innovation.md) | 23 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 18 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 1 |
| 22 | class imbalance | 22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 1 |
| 22 | reinforcement learning | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 1 |
| 24 | CO2 emissions | 21 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | carbon pricing | 21 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 24 | digitalization | 21 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 24 | state-owned enterprises | 21 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | digital economy | 20 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | entrepreneurship | 20 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 28 | financial stability | 20 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 28 | mixed-integer linear programming | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 2 | 1 |
| 28 | moderating effect | 20 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 28 | transformer models | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 2 |
| 28 | vision-language models | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 0 |
| 35 | Chinese enterprises | 19 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | economic growth | 19 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 35 | multi-objective optimization | 19 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 3 |
| 35 | stock returns | 19 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | climate policy | 18 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 39 | corporate sustainability | 18 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | deep learning | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 2 |
| 39 | diffusion models | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 |
| 39 | feature selection | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 |
| 39 | income inequality | 18 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 39 | supply chain resilience | 18 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 1 |
| 39 | technology adoption | 18 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 47 | attention mechanism | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 2 |
| 47 | deep reinforcement learning | 17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
| 47 | geopolitical risk | 17 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 47 | green finance | 17 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 47 | interpretability | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 1 |
| 47 | regional disparities | 17 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 53 | environmental policy | 16 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 53 | institutional quality | 16 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 53 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 16 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 53 | total factor productivity | 16 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 57 | climate risk | 15 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 57 | computational efficiency | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 1 |
| 57 | corporate social responsibility | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 57 | emissions trading | 15 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 57 | environmental regulation | 15 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 57 | firm performance | 15 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 57 | generative AI | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 57 | human capital | 15 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 57 | time series forecasting | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 1 |
| 57 | trust | 15 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 67 | anomaly detection | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 0 |
| 67 | artificial intelligence adoption | 14 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 67 | blockchain | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| 67 | convolutional neural networks | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 |
| 67 | corporate disclosure | 14 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 67 | cross-national comparison | 14 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 67 | developing countries | 14 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 67 | domain adaptation | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 |
| 67 | firm size | 14 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 67 | foreign direct investment | 14 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 67 | inflation | 14 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 67 | last-mile delivery | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 1 |
| 67 | retrieval-augmented generation | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 |
| 67 | vehicle routing | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 0 |
| 81 | carbon emission reduction | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 81 | climate change | 13 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 81 | institutional theory | 13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 81 | listed companies | 13 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 81 | machine learning | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 81 | macroprudential policy | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 81 | metaheuristic optimization | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 2 |
| 81 | multi-agent reinforcement learning | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| 81 | portfolio optimization | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| 81 | purchase intention | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 91 | ESG disclosure | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | convergence analysis | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| 91 | corporate environmental performance | 12 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | cryptocurrency market | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | decarbonization | 12 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 91 | financial contagion | 12 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | global value chains | 12 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 91 | image classification | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 |
| 91 | multi-view clustering | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 91 | supply chain coordination | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 |