Research published in March 2024

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in March 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 March 2024, the tracked journals published 3,586 papers (finance 692, accounting 73, economics 787, management 388, operations research 483, AI 1,163).
The most frequent keywords were “COVID-19 pandemic” (117), “China” (94) and “corporate governance” (88).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “corporate governance” (88 papers, +32), “Chinese listed companies” (67 papers, +22) and “multimodal fusion” (26 papers, +12).
The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (47), Peking University (43) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (42).
China was involved in 41% of the papers.

Papers by category#

Papers published in March 2024
Category	Papers
Finance	692
Accounting	73
Economics	787
Management	388
Operations Research	483
AI	1,163

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, March 2024
#	Keyword	Papers
1	COVID-19 pandemic	117
2	China	94
3	corporate governance	88
4	Chinese listed companies	67
5	financial constraints	57
6	state-owned enterprises	51
7	attention mechanism	34
8	moderating effect	34
9	multi-objective optimization	33
10	CO2 emissions	33
11	stock returns	33
12	environmental regulation	33
13	class imbalance	31
14	information asymmetry	30
15	emerging markets	30

Growing keywords#

Papers in March 2024 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
corporate governance	88	55.7	+32.3
Chinese listed companies	67	44.6	+22.4
multimodal fusion	26	14.1	+11.9
stock returns	33	21.1	+11.9
hedging	22	10.2	+11.8
environmental regulation	33	21.2	+11.8
combinatorial optimization	23	11.8	+11.2
Bitcoin	26	15.3	+10.7
mediating effect	26	15.4	+10.6
green innovation	28	17.5	+10.5

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, March 2024
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	corporate governance (63); Chinese listed companies (50); COVID-19 pandemic (45); financial constraints (41); China (36)
Accounting	corporate governance (9); corporate social responsibility (5); CEO turnover (3); analyst coverage (3); financial constraints (3)
Economics	China (48); COVID-19 pandemic (41); energy transition (18); environmental regulation (16); monetary policy (16)
Management	moderating effect (17); COVID-19 pandemic (16); digital transformation (15); dynamic capabilities (13); mediating effect (12)
Operations Research	combinatorial optimization (18); multi-objective optimization (17); mixed-integer linear programming (14); demand uncertainty (13); vehicle routing (13)
AI	attention mechanism (33); class imbalance (28); graph neural networks (28); multimodal fusion (26); contrastive learning (25)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, March 2024
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	47
2	Peking University	43
3	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	42
4	Lebanese American University	41
5	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	39
6	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	39
7	Xi'an Jiaotong University	39
8	Renmin University of China	36
9	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics	35
10	Tsinghua University	35

Countries#

Countries, March 2024
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,471
2	United States	628
3	United Kingdom	347
4	Germany	195
5	France	188
6	Italy	170
7	Australia	169
8	India	154
9	Spain	140
10	Canada	132

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, March 2024
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	242
2	Finance research letters	152
3	International Review of Financial Analysis	119
4	Knowledge-Based Systems	117
5	Neural Computing and Applications	91
6	Pattern Recognition	90
7	Computers & Industrial Engineering	80
8	Applied Intelligence	78
9	Energy Economics	77
10	International Review of Economics & Finance	68

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, March 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	82
2	Linear and integer programming	70
3	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	69
4	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	65
5	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	42
6	Mediation model (indirect effect)	36
7	Vector autoregression (VAR)	31
8	Generative adversarial network (GAN)	24
9	Gradient boosting (XGBoost)	24
10	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	24

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, March 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	Economic Policy Uncertainty index	22
2	Twitter / X	15
3	S&P 500	12
4	ImageNet	10
5	MS COCO	10
6	CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	7
7	Climate Policy Uncertainty index	6
8	CSI 300 / Shanghai Composite	6
9	PASCAL VOC	5
10	VIX	5

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in March 2024. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-03

@misc{scholar4ai-reports-2024-03,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Research published in March 2024},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-03}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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