---
title: "Research in January 2024: top topics and papers"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "In January 2024, the tracked journals published 3,411 papers (finance 538, accounting 78, economics 781, management 428, operations research 405, AI 1,181)."
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 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.

## 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

*Papers published in January 2024*

| Category | Papers |
|---|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 538 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 78 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 781 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 428 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 405 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1,181 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, January 2024*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 106 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 96 |
| 3 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 51 |
| 4 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 49 |
| 5 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 46 |
| 6 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 46 |
| 7 | feature selection | 40 |
| 8 | state-owned enterprises | 40 |
| 9 | attention mechanism | 38 |
| 10 | convolutional neural networks | 36 |
| 11 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 35 |
| 12 | multi-objective optimization | 34 |
| 13 | corporate social responsibility | 32 |
| 14 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 32 |
| 15 | listed companies | 31 |

## Growing keywords

*Papers in January 2024 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before*

| 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 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

*The five most frequent keywords per category, January 2024*

| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | COVID-19 pandemic (39); China (39); information asymmetry (28); Chinese listed companies (27); state-owned enterprises (26) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (11); information asymmetry (5); corporate social responsibility (4); financial reporting quality (4); stakeholder theory (4) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (42); COVID-19 pandemic (34); income inequality (21); economic growth (18); emerging markets (14) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | China (18); artificial intelligence (17); COVID-19 pandemic (15); corporate social responsibility (15); digital transformation (13) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | multi-objective optimization (20); mixed integer programming (10); mixed-integer linear programming (10); vehicle routing (10); social welfare (welfare economics) (9) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | attention mechanism (36); convolutional neural networks (36); feature selection (34); graph neural networks (31); class imbalance (27) |

## Institutions

*Institutions with the most papers, January 2024*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 49 |
| 2 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 43 |
| 3 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 39 |
| 4 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 38 |
| 5 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 38 |
| 6 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 35 |
| 7 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 35 |
| 8 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 35 |
| 9 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 33 |
| 10 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 33 |

## Countries

*Countries, January 2024*

| # | 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

*Journals with the most papers, January 2024*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 256 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 107 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 92 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 76 |
| 5 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 75 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 73 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 70 |
| 8 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 64 |
| 9 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 63 |
| 10 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 58 |

## Equations and models

*Most-mentioned equations and models, January 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)*

| # | Equation or model | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/scaled-dot-product-attention-transformer.md) | 90 |
| 2 | [Convolutional neural network (CNN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/convolutional-neural-network-cnn.md) | 75 |
| 3 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 67 |
| 4 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 55 |
| 5 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 35 |
| 6 | [Long short-term memory (LSTM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/long-short-term-memory-lstm.md) | 34 |
| 7 | [Support vector machine (SVM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/support-vector-machine-svm.md) | 24 |
| 8 | [Generative adversarial network (GAN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/generative-adversarial-network-gan.md) | 22 |
| 9 | [Mediation model (indirect effect)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/mediation-model-indirect-effect.md) | 22 |
| 10 | [Random forest](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/random-forest.md) | 22 |

## Datasets

*Most-mentioned datasets, January 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)*

| # | 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 |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in January 2024. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-01

```bibtex
@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}
}
```

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