Research published in January 2024
What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in January 2024, 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.
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Key findings#
- In January 2024, the tracked journals published 3,411 papers (finance 538, accounting 78, economics 781, management 428, operations research 405, AI 1,181).
- The most frequent keywords were “China” (106), “COVID-19 pandemic” (96) and “information asymmetry” (51).
- Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “regional heterogeneity” (28 papers, +14), “listed companies” (31 papers, +12) and “climate change” (22 papers, +11).
- The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (49), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (43) and Tsinghua University (39).
- China was involved in 40% of the papers.
Papers by category#
| Category | Papers |
|---|---|
| Finance | 538 |
| Accounting | 78 |
| Economics | 781 |
| Management | 428 |
| Operations Research | 405 |
| AI | 1,181 |
Top keywords#
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 106 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 96 |
| 3 | information asymmetry | 51 |
| 4 | Chinese listed companies | 49 |
| 5 | corporate governance | 46 |
| 6 | emerging markets | 46 |
| 7 | feature selection | 40 |
| 8 | state-owned enterprises | 40 |
| 9 | attention mechanism | 38 |
| 10 | convolutional neural networks | 36 |
| 11 | financial constraints | 35 |
| 12 | multi-objective optimization | 34 |
| 13 | corporate social responsibility | 32 |
| 14 | graph neural networks | 32 |
| 15 | listed companies | 31 |
Growing keywords#
| Keyword | Papers | At earlier share | Extra papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| regional heterogeneity | 28 | 13.9 | +14.1 |
| listed companies | 31 | 18.7 | +12.3 |
| climate change | 22 | 10.7 | +11.3 |
| large language models | 15 | 5.2 | +9.8 |
| non-performing loans | 12 | 2.6 | +9.4 |
| financial stability | 21 | 12.2 | +8.8 |
| firm value | 19 | 10.3 | +8.7 |
| label noise | 16 | 7.7 | +8.3 |
| financial literacy | 13 | 4.9 | +8.1 |
| oil price shocks | 13 | 5.6 | +7.4 |
Top keywords by category#
| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| Finance | COVID-19 pandemic (39); China (39); information asymmetry (28); Chinese listed companies (27); state-owned enterprises (26) |
| Accounting | corporate governance (11); information asymmetry (5); corporate social responsibility (4); financial reporting quality (4); stakeholder theory (4) |
| Economics | China (42); COVID-19 pandemic (34); income inequality (21); economic growth (18); emerging markets (14) |
| Management | China (18); artificial intelligence (17); COVID-19 pandemic (15); corporate social responsibility (15); digital transformation (13) |
| Operations Research | multi-objective optimization (20); mixed integer programming (10); mixed-integer linear programming (10); vehicle routing (10); social welfare (welfare economics) (9) |
| AI | attention mechanism (36); convolutional neural networks (36); feature selection (34); graph neural networks (31); class imbalance (27) |
Institutions#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 49 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 43 |
| 3 | Tsinghua University | 39 |
| 4 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 38 |
| 5 | Wuhan University | 38 |
| 6 | Peking University | 35 |
| 7 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 35 |
| 8 | Zhejiang University | 35 |
| 9 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 33 |
| 10 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 33 |
Countries#
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1,353 |
| 2 | United States | 600 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 335 |
| 4 | Germany | 218 |
| 5 | Italy | 193 |
| 6 | India | 177 |
| 7 | France | 176 |
| 8 | Australia | 163 |
| 9 | Spain | 140 |
| 10 | Canada | 121 |
Journals#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 256 |
| 2 | Finance research letters | 107 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 92 |
| 4 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 76 |
| 5 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 75 |
| 6 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 73 |
| 7 | Neural Networks | 70 |
| 8 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 64 |
| 9 | Neural Computing and Applications | 63 |
| 10 | Energy Economics | 58 |
Equations and models#
| # | Equation or model | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer) | 90 |
| 2 | Convolutional neural network (CNN) | 75 |
| 3 | Graph neural network (graph convolution) | 67 |
| 4 | Linear and integer programming | 55 |
| 5 | Contrastive loss (InfoNCE) | 35 |
| 6 | Long short-term memory (LSTM) | 34 |
| 7 | Support vector machine (SVM) | 24 |
| 8 | Generative adversarial network (GAN) | 22 |
| 9 | Mediation model (indirect effect) | 22 |
| 10 | Random forest | 22 |
Datasets#
| # | Dataset | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Economic Policy Uncertainty index | 21 |
| 2 | Twitter / X | 20 |
| 3 | CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 | 8 |
| 4 | S&P 500 | 8 |
| 5 | CEC benchmark functions | 7 |
| 6 | ImageNet | 7 |
| 7 | VIX | 7 |
| 8 | China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) | 5 |
| 9 | MNIST / Fashion-MNIST | 5 |
| 10 | WTI crude oil | 5 |
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in January 2024. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-01
@misc{scholar4ai-reports-2024-01,
author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Research published in January 2024},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-01}},
urldate = {2026-10-26},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}