---
title: "Research in February 2024: top topics and papers"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-02
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-02.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "In February 2024, the tracked journals published 3,492 papers (finance 538, accounting 52, economics 824, management 402, operations research 462, AI 1,214)."
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 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.

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 538 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 52 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 824 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 402 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 462 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1,214 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, February 2024*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 109 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 89 |
| 3 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 61 |
| 4 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 52 |
| 5 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 45 |
| 6 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 43 |
| 7 | state-owned enterprises | 43 |
| 8 | feature selection | 42 |
| 9 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 42 |
| 10 | attention mechanism | 35 |
| 11 | multi-objective optimization | 35 |
| 12 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/consumer-behavior.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | corporate governance (39); COVID-19 pandemic (36); China (31); Chinese listed companies (30); financial constraints (30) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (6); firm performance (6); integrated reporting (3); private enterprises (3); IT governance (2) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (67); COVID-19 pandemic (30); emerging markets (22); income inequality (17); economic growth (15) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | consumer behavior (22); moderating effect (16); emerging markets (13); purchase intention (12); COVID-19 pandemic (10) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | multi-objective optimization (22); mixed-integer linear programming (19); Benders decomposition (11); robust optimization (11); carbon emission reduction (10) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 60 |
| 2 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 47 |
| 3 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 42 |
| 4 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 39 |
| 5 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 37 |
| 6 | Lebanese American University | 37 |
| 7 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 37 |
| 8 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 211 |
| 2 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 140 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 100 |
| 4 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 95 |
| 5 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 83 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 82 |
| 7 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 77 |
| 8 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 76 |
| 9 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 75 |
| 10 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 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)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/scaled-dot-product-attention-transformer.md) | 89 |
| 2 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 80 |
| 3 | [Convolutional neural network (CNN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/convolutional-neural-network-cnn.md) | 74 |
| 4 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 69 |
| 5 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 43 |
| 6 | [Long short-term memory (LSTM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/long-short-term-memory-lstm.md) | 34 |
| 7 | [Generative adversarial network (GAN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/generative-adversarial-network-gan.md) | 32 |
| 8 | [Mediation model (indirect effect)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/mediation-model-indirect-effect.md) | 31 |
| 9 | [Random forest](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/random-forest.md) | 21 |
| 10 | [Support vector machine (SVM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/support-vector-machine-svm.md) | 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

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-reports-2024-02,
  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}
}
```

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