---
title: "Research in November 2023: top topics and papers"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2023-11
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2023-11.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "In November 2023, the tracked journals published 3,424 papers (finance 429, accounting 54, economics 794, management 424, operations research 404, AI 1,319)."
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-26T14:52:47+09:00
window: 2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# 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.

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 429 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 54 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 794 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 424 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 404 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1,319 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, November 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 103 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 88 |
| 3 | attention mechanism | 53 |
| 4 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 47 |
| 5 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 40 |
| 6 | state-owned enterprises | 38 |
| 7 | feature selection | 37 |
| 8 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 36 |
| 9 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 36 |
| 10 | multi-objective optimization | 35 |
| 11 | graph convolutional networks | 34 |
| 12 | class imbalance | 33 |
| 13 | convolutional neural networks | 32 |
| 14 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/innovation.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | China (30); corporate governance (30); COVID-19 pandemic (27); Chinese listed companies (27); state-owned enterprises (24) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (6); ESG disclosure (2); UK listed companies (2); accounting education (2); agency theory (2) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (55); COVID-19 pandemic (32); economic growth (22); income inequality (20); spillover effects (15) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | multinational corporations (17); COVID-19 pandemic (16); firm performance (12); digital transformation (11); emerging markets (11) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | mixed-integer linear programming (14); multi-objective optimization (13); mixed integer programming (12); demand uncertainty (11); makespan minimization (11) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 54 |
| 2 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 48 |
| 3 | Lebanese American University | 43 |
| 4 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 43 |
| 5 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 40 |
| 6 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 37 |
| 7 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 37 |
| 8 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-university.md) | 35 |
| 9 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 355 |
| 2 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 121 |
| 3 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 117 |
| 4 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 101 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 98 |
| 6 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 83 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 77 |
| 8 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 76 |
| 9 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 68 |
| 10 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 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)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/scaled-dot-product-attention-transformer.md) | 120 |
| 2 | [Convolutional neural network (CNN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/convolutional-neural-network-cnn.md) | 95 |
| 3 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 90 |
| 4 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 60 |
| 5 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 46 |
| 6 | [Long short-term memory (LSTM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/long-short-term-memory-lstm.md) | 33 |
| 7 | [Generative adversarial network (GAN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/generative-adversarial-network-gan.md) | 29 |
| 8 | [Mediation model (indirect effect)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/mediation-model-indirect-effect.md) | 26 |
| 9 | [Support vector machine (SVM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/support-vector-machine-svm.md) | 25 |
| 10 | [Gradient boosting (XGBoost)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/gradient-boosting-xgboost.md) | 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

```bibtex
@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}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).