Research published in November 2023

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in November 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 November 2023, the tracked journals published 3,424 papers (finance 429, accounting 54, economics 794, management 424, operations research 404, AI 1,319).
The most frequent keywords were “China” (103), “COVID-19 pandemic” (88) and “attention mechanism” (53).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “attention mechanism” (53 papers, +22), “listed companies” (29 papers, +14) and “graph convolutional networks” (34 papers, +14).
The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (54), Tsinghua University (48) and Lebanese American University (43).
China was involved in 40% of the papers.

Papers by category#

Papers published in November 2023
Category	Papers
Finance	429
Accounting	54
Economics	794
Management	424
Operations Research	404
AI	1,319

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, November 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	103
2	COVID-19 pandemic	88
3	attention mechanism	53
4	corporate governance	47
5	Chinese listed companies	40
6	state-owned enterprises	38
7	feature selection	37
8	graph neural networks	36
9	financial constraints	36
10	multi-objective optimization	35
11	graph convolutional networks	34
12	class imbalance	33
13	convolutional neural networks	32
14	information asymmetry	32
15	economic growth	31

Growing keywords#

Papers in November 2023 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
attention mechanism	53	30.6	+22.4
listed companies	29	14.8	+14.2
graph convolutional networks	34	20.4	+13.6
innovation	28	18.0	+10.0
risk assessment	11	1.6	+9.4
transformer models	26	17.0	+9.0
domain adaptation	20	12.0	+8.0
technological progress	12	4.2	+7.8
feature fusion	20	12.4	+7.6
contextual information	9	1.6	+7.4

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, November 2023
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	China (30); corporate governance (30); COVID-19 pandemic (27); Chinese listed companies (27); state-owned enterprises (24)
Accounting	corporate governance (6); ESG disclosure (2); UK listed companies (2); accounting education (2); agency theory (2)
Economics	China (55); COVID-19 pandemic (32); economic growth (22); income inequality (20); spillover effects (15)
Management	multinational corporations (17); COVID-19 pandemic (16); firm performance (12); digital transformation (11); emerging markets (11)
Operations Research	mixed-integer linear programming (14); multi-objective optimization (13); mixed integer programming (12); demand uncertainty (11); makespan minimization (11)
AI	attention mechanism (49); graph neural networks (34); class imbalance (31); graph convolutional networks (30); convolutional neural networks (29)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, November 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	54
2	Tsinghua University	48
3	Lebanese American University	43
4	Wuhan University	43
5	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	40
6	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	37
7	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics	37
8	Tianjin University	35
9	Xi'an Jiaotong University	35
10	Harbin Institute of Technology	34

Countries#

Countries, November 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,376
2	United States	594
3	United Kingdom	322
4	Germany	183
5	Australia	180
6	Italy	168
7	India	166
8	France	160
9	Spain	136
10	Canada	124

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, November 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	355
2	Neural Computing and Applications	121
3	Finance research letters	117
4	Knowledge-Based Systems	101
5	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	98
6	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	83
7	Neural Networks	77
8	Applied Intelligence	76
9	Pattern Recognition	68
10	Computers & Industrial Engineering	65

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, November 2023 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	120
2	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	95
3	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	90
4	Linear and integer programming	60
5	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	46
6	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	33
7	Generative adversarial network (GAN)	29
8	Mediation model (indirect effect)	26
9	Support vector machine (SVM)	25
10	Gradient boosting (XGBoost)	19

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, November 2023 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	Economic Policy Uncertainty index	24
2	Twitter / X	12
3	CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	7
4	Night-time lights (VIIRS, DMSP)	7
5	ImageNet	6
6	KITTI	6
7	MS COCO	6
8	Climate Policy Uncertainty index	5
9	CEC benchmark functions	4
10	Google Trends	4

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in November 2023. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2023-11

@misc{scholar4ai-reports-2023-11,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Research published in November 2023},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2023-11}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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