Research published in April 2024

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in April 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 April 2024, the tracked journals published 3,536 papers (finance 567, accounting 48, economics 730, management 422, operations research 486, AI 1,283).
The most frequent keywords were “China” (106), “COVID-19 pandemic” (89) and “Chinese listed companies” (66).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “image classification” (34 papers, +16), “digital transformation” (35 papers, +13) and “interpretability” (29 papers, +11).
The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (53), Tsinghua University (49) and Zhejiang University (49).
China was involved in 42% of the papers.

Papers by category#

Papers published in April 2024
Category	Papers
Finance	567
Accounting	48
Economics	730
Management	422
Operations Research	486
AI	1,283

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, April 2024
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	106
2	COVID-19 pandemic	89
3	Chinese listed companies	66
4	corporate governance	59
5	state-owned enterprises	51
6	graph neural networks	47
7	financial constraints	44
8	emerging markets	41
9	attention mechanism	38
10	moderating effect	36
11	information asymmetry	35
12	digital transformation	35
13	image classification	34
14	listed companies	33
15	contrastive learning	32

Growing keywords#

Papers in April 2024 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
image classification	34	18.4	+15.6
digital transformation	35	21.8	+13.2
interpretability	29	17.8	+11.2
artificial intelligence	31	20.0	+11.0
Chinese stock market	28	17.3	+10.7
regional heterogeneity	26	16.0	+10.0
generative AI	13	4.4	+8.6
ESG performance	20	11.8	+8.2
large language models	16	8.2	+7.8
technology adoption	21	13.2	+7.8

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, April 2024
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	Chinese listed companies (48); China (44); COVID-19 pandemic (41); corporate governance (41); state-owned enterprises (35)
Accounting	corporate governance (7); financial constraints (5); information asymmetry (4); China (3); accounting education (3)
Economics	China (47); COVID-19 pandemic (22); economic growth (20); gender differences (15); developing countries (14)
Management	digital transformation (15); moderating effect (14); small and medium-sized enterprises (14); consumer behavior (13); emerging markets (13)
Operations Research	mixed-integer linear programming (21); multi-objective optimization (18); COVID-19 pandemic (15); combinatorial optimization (12); multi-criteria decision making (12)
AI	graph neural networks (47); attention mechanism (34); image classification (34); contrastive learning (32); class imbalance (27)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, April 2024
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	53
2	Tsinghua University	49
3	Zhejiang University	49
4	Wuhan University	40
5	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	38
6	Harbin Institute of Technology	37
7	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	36
8	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	36
9	Sun Yat-sen University	34
10	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	33

Countries#

Countries, April 2024
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,483
2	United States	578
3	United Kingdom	321
4	Australia	205
5	Germany	188
6	Italy	187
7	France	163
8	India	148
9	Canada	136
10	Spain	126

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, April 2024
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	219
2	Knowledge-Based Systems	130
3	Neural Computing and Applications	129
4	Finance research letters	129
5	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	97
6	Applied Intelligence	86
7	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	75
8	Pattern Recognition	73
9	International Review of Financial Analysis	71
10	Energy Economics	66

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, April 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	99
2	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	95
3	Linear and integer programming	72
4	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	65
5	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	51
6	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	33
7	Support vector machine (SVM)	24
8	Difference-in-differences	23
9	Mediation model (indirect effect)	23
10	Generative adversarial network (GAN)	21

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, April 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	Economic Policy Uncertainty index	21
2	CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	11
3	ImageNet	11
4	Twitter / X	11
5	MNIST / Fashion-MNIST	9
6	S&P 500	9
7	CEC benchmark functions	8
8	Climate Policy Uncertainty index	8
9	Night-time lights (VIIRS, DMSP)	6
10	VIX	5

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in April 2024. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-04

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Research published in April 2024},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-04}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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