Research published in February 2024

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in February 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.

Key findings#

In February 2024, the tracked journals published 3,492 papers (finance 538, accounting 52, economics 824, management 402, operations research 462, AI 1,214).
The most frequent keywords were “China” (109), “COVID-19 pandemic” (89) and “corporate governance” (61).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “consumer behavior” (28 papers, +11), “ESG performance” (20 papers, +11) and “self-supervised learning” (28 papers, +11).
The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (60), Zhejiang University (47) and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (42).
China was involved in 40% of the papers.

Papers by category#

Papers published in February 2024
Category	Papers
Finance	538
Accounting	52
Economics	824
Management	402
Operations Research	462
AI	1,214

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, February 2024
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	109
2	COVID-19 pandemic	89
3	corporate governance	61
4	emerging markets	52
5	Chinese listed companies	45
6	graph neural networks	43
7	state-owned enterprises	43
8	feature selection	42
9	financial constraints	42
10	attention mechanism	35
11	multi-objective optimization	35
12	information asymmetry	33
13	listed companies	31
14	firm performance	31
15	small and medium-sized enterprises	31

Growing keywords#

Papers in February 2024 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
consumer behavior	28	17.2	+10.8
ESG performance	20	9.2	+10.8
self-supervised learning	28	17.3	+10.7
financial contagion	17	6.6	+10.4
deep learning	29	18.7	+10.3
artificial intelligence	28	18.4	+9.6
volatility spillovers	21	11.6	+9.4
weakly supervised learning	14	4.8	+9.2
adversarial attacks	16	7.2	+8.8
energy markets	11	2.2	+8.8

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, February 2024
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	corporate governance (39); COVID-19 pandemic (36); China (31); Chinese listed companies (30); financial constraints (30)
Accounting	corporate governance (6); firm performance (6); integrated reporting (3); private enterprises (3); IT governance (2)
Economics	China (67); COVID-19 pandemic (30); emerging markets (22); income inequality (17); economic growth (15)
Management	consumer behavior (22); moderating effect (16); emerging markets (13); purchase intention (12); COVID-19 pandemic (10)
Operations Research	multi-objective optimization (22); mixed-integer linear programming (19); Benders decomposition (11); robust optimization (11); carbon emission reduction (10)
AI	graph neural networks (43); feature selection (35); attention mechanism (32); convolutional neural networks (28); class imbalance (27)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, February 2024
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	60
2	Zhejiang University	47
3	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	42
4	Harbin Institute of Technology	39
5	Beihang University	37
6	Lebanese American University	37
7	Tsinghua University	37
8	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	36
9	Nanyang Technological University	35
10	Xiamen University	35

Countries#

Countries, February 2024
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,412
2	United States	610
3	United Kingdom	345
4	Germany	205
5	Australia	190
6	Italy	172
7	India	171
8	France	152
9	Canada	135
10	Spain	135

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, February 2024
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	211
2	Neural Computing and Applications	140
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	100
4	Finance research letters	95
5	International Review of Economics & Finance	83
6	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	82
7	Pattern Recognition	77
8	Energy Economics	76
9	Computers & Industrial Engineering	75
10	Applied Intelligence	71

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, February 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	89
2	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	80
3	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	74
4	Linear and integer programming	69
5	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	43
6	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	34
7	Generative adversarial network (GAN)	32
8	Mediation model (indirect effect)	31
9	Random forest	21
10	Support vector machine (SVM)	21

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, February 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	Economic Policy Uncertainty index	17
2	CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	13
3	Twitter / X	13
4	ImageNet	9
5	CEC benchmark functions	7
6	MNIST / Fashion-MNIST	7
7	S&P 500	7
8	Facebook	5
9	MS COCO	4
10	ADNI	3

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in February 2024. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-02

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Research published in February 2024},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-02}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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