Research published in October 2023
What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in October 2023, by publication date in OpenAlex. This page is a fixed monthly record: its address does not change. Counts can still grow a little as late papers are indexed, and citations are updated daily. Also as Markdown.
Key findings#
- In October 2023, the tracked journals published 3,287 papers (finance 487, accounting 42, economics 668, management 385, operations research 386, AI 1,319).
- The most frequent keywords were “COVID-19 pandemic” (97), “China” (83) and “corporate governance” (61).
- Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “state-owned enterprises” (42 papers, +16), “computational efficiency” (30 papers, +14) and “transfer learning” (32 papers, +13).
- The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (59), Zhejiang University (47) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (43).
- China was involved in 42% of the papers.
Papers by category#
| Category | Papers |
|---|---|
| Finance | 487 |
| Accounting | 42 |
| Economics | 668 |
| Management | 385 |
| Operations Research | 386 |
| AI | 1,319 |
Top keywords#
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 97 |
| 2 | China | 83 |
| 3 | corporate governance | 61 |
| 4 | Chinese listed companies | 48 |
| 5 | state-owned enterprises | 42 |
| 6 | information asymmetry | 40 |
| 7 | feature selection | 38 |
| 8 | corporate social responsibility | 36 |
| 9 | emerging markets | 36 |
| 10 | financial constraints | 36 |
| 11 | attention mechanism | 35 |
| 12 | class imbalance | 33 |
| 13 | graph neural networks | 32 |
| 14 | transfer learning | 32 |
| 15 | computational efficiency | 30 |
Growing keywords#
| Keyword | Papers | At earlier share | Extra papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| state-owned enterprises | 42 | 25.7 | +16.3 |
| computational efficiency | 30 | 16.5 | +13.5 |
| transfer learning | 32 | 19.2 | +12.8 |
| financial stability | 22 | 10.5 | +11.5 |
| R&D investment | 26 | 15.2 | +10.8 |
| ESG performance | 16 | 5.6 | +10.4 |
| multi-criteria decision making | 30 | 19.7 | +10.3 |
| autoencoder | 16 | 6.4 | +9.6 |
| large language models | 13 | 3.8 | +9.2 |
| contrastive learning | 25 | 16.0 | +9.0 |
Top keywords by category#
| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| Finance | corporate governance (37); COVID-19 pandemic (35); Chinese listed companies (35); China (29); state-owned enterprises (28) |
| Accounting | corporate governance (11); principal-agent problem (5); board of directors (3); executive compensation (3); Big 4 auditors (2) |
| Economics | China (44); COVID-19 pandemic (27); monetary policy (16); developing countries (14); CO2 emissions (13) |
| Management | COVID-19 pandemic (18); moderating effect (16); consumer behavior (13); corporate social responsibility (12); multinational corporations (11) |
| Operations Research | mixed-integer linear programming (21); multi-objective optimization (12); Markov decision process (10); multi-criteria decision making (10); combinatorial optimization (9) |
| AI | feature selection (35); attention mechanism (33); class imbalance (31); graph neural networks (31); transfer learning (30) |
Institutions#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 59 |
| 2 | Zhejiang University | 47 |
| 3 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 43 |
| 4 | Tsinghua University | 43 |
| 5 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 40 |
| 6 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 39 |
| 7 | Lebanese American University | 38 |
| 8 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 36 |
| 9 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 33 |
| 10 | Shandong University | 33 |
Countries#
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1,384 |
| 2 | United States | 574 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 329 |
| 4 | Australia | 191 |
| 5 | India | 167 |
| 6 | Germany | 148 |
| 7 | France | 146 |
| 8 | Italy | 131 |
| 9 | Spain | 114 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 104 |
Journals#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 464 |
| 2 | Finance research letters | 119 |
| 3 | Neural Computing and Applications | 85 |
| 4 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 79 |
| 5 | Pattern Recognition | 77 |
| 6 | Applied Intelligence | 72 |
| 7 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 71 |
| 8 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 69 |
| 9 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 61 |
| 10 | Energy Economics | 60 |
Equations and models#
| # | Equation or model | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer) | 94 |
| 2 | Graph neural network (graph convolution) | 78 |
| 3 | Convolutional neural network (CNN) | 75 |
| 4 | Linear and integer programming | 67 |
| 5 | Long short-term memory (LSTM) | 47 |
| 6 | Contrastive loss (InfoNCE) | 44 |
| 7 | Generative adversarial network (GAN) | 32 |
| 8 | Support vector machine (SVM) | 24 |
| 9 | Logistic regression (logit) | 22 |
| 10 | Mediation model (indirect effect) | 21 |
Datasets#
| # | Dataset | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Economic Policy Uncertainty index | 13 |
| 2 | S&P 500 | 10 |
| 3 | Climate Policy Uncertainty index | 9 |
| 4 | Twitter / X | 9 |
| 5 | VIX | 8 |
| 6 | China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) | 6 |
| 7 | ImageNet | 5 |
| 8 | MS COCO | 5 |
| 9 | CEC benchmark functions | 4 |
| 10 | CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 | 4 |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in October 2023. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2023-10
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Research published in October 2023},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2023-10}},
urldate = {2026-10-26},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}