Research published in December 2023

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in December 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 December 2023, the tracked journals published 3,140 papers (finance 392, accounting 57, economics 721, management 434, operations research 404, AI 1,132).
The most frequent keywords were “COVID-19 pandemic” (103), “China” (98) and “corporate governance” (51).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “financial constraints” (48 papers, +17), “listed companies” (28 papers, +12) and “dynamic capabilities” (20 papers, +12).
The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (50), Xiamen University (37) and Lebanese American University (36).
China was involved in 42% of the papers.

Papers by category#

Papers published in December 2023
Category	Papers
Finance	392
Accounting	57
Economics	721
Management	434
Operations Research	404
AI	1,132

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, December 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	COVID-19 pandemic	103
2	China	98
3	corporate governance	51
4	financial constraints	48
5	attention mechanism	43
6	multi-objective optimization	39
7	Chinese listed companies	35
8	state-owned enterprises	34
9	information asymmetry	33
10	convolutional neural networks	31
11	feature selection	30
12	listed companies	28
13	contrastive learning	27
14	graph neural networks	27
15	corporate social responsibility	27

Growing keywords#

Papers in December 2023 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
financial constraints	48	30.7	+17.3
listed companies	28	15.5	+12.5
dynamic capabilities	20	8.0	+12.0
deep reinforcement learning	23	13.3	+9.7
contrastive learning	27	17.4	+9.6
interpretability	24	14.6	+9.4
sustainable development	20	10.7	+9.3
fine-tuning	13	3.9	+9.1
last-mile delivery	15	5.9	+9.1
knowledge distillation	19	10.1	+8.9

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, December 2023
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	China (33); corporate governance (31); financial constraints (30); COVID-19 pandemic (27); Chinese listed companies (22)
Accounting	corporate governance (8); earnings management (4); executive compensation (4); firm performance (4); accounting information systems (3)
Economics	China (48); COVID-19 pandemic (32); gender differences (21); climate policy (15); financial constraints (14)
Management	COVID-19 pandemic (32); dynamic capabilities (18); multinational corporations (16); corporate social responsibility (14); consumer behavior (13)
Operations Research	multi-objective optimization (18); mixed-integer linear programming (14); last-mile delivery (12); COVID-19 pandemic (9); combinatorial optimization (9)
AI	attention mechanism (39); convolutional neural networks (29); contrastive learning (27); data augmentation (25); feature selection (24)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, December 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	50
2	Xiamen University	37
3	Lebanese American University	36
4	Zhejiang University	36
5	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	35
6	Northwestern Polytechnical University	34
7	Peking University	34
8	Renmin University of China	34
9	Sun Yat-sen University	33
10	Wuhan University	33

Countries#

Countries, December 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,331
2	United States	543
3	United Kingdom	331
4	Germany	163
5	Australia	156
6	Italy	147
7	India	136
8	France	134
9	Spain	130
10	Hong Kong	108

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, December 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	298
2	Finance research letters	133
3	Neural Computing and Applications	132
4	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	107
5	Knowledge-Based Systems	103
6	Applied Intelligence	70
7	Annals of Operations Research	69
8	Pattern Recognition	65
9	Computers & Industrial Engineering	65
10	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	62

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, December 2023 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	122
2	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	78
3	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	71
4	Linear and integer programming	63
5	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	37
6	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	37
7	Generative adversarial network (GAN)	28
8	Structural equation modeling (SEM)	24
9	Mediation model (indirect effect)	23
10	Support vector machine (SVM)	20

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, December 2023 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	Economic Policy Uncertainty index	13
2	Twitter / X	8
3	CEC benchmark functions	7
4	ImageNet	7
5	MS COCO	7
6	KITTI	6
7	CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	5
8	Facebook	5
9	S&P 500	5
10	VIX	5

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in December 2023. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2023-12

@misc{scholar4ai-reports-2023-12,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Research published in December 2023},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2023-12}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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