Research published in May 2024
What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in May 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.
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Key findings#
- In May 2024, the tracked journals published 3,808 papers (finance 643, accounting 49, economics 864, management 431, operations research 511, AI 1,310).
- The most frequent keywords were “China” (124), “COVID-19 pandemic” (84) and “corporate governance” (69).
- Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “large language models” (29 papers, +19), “virtual reality” (17 papers, +13) and “artificial neural networks” (28 papers, +11).
- The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (53), Zhejiang University (50) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (49).
- China was involved in 41% of the papers.
Papers by category#
| Category | Papers |
|---|---|
| Finance | 643 |
| Accounting | 49 |
| Economics | 864 |
| Management | 431 |
| Operations Research | 511 |
| AI | 1,310 |
Top keywords#
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 124 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 84 |
| 3 | corporate governance | 69 |
| 4 | Chinese listed companies | 68 |
| 5 | financial constraints | 63 |
| 6 | class imbalance | 49 |
| 7 | state-owned enterprises | 47 |
| 8 | attention mechanism | 46 |
| 9 | feature selection | 40 |
| 10 | graph neural networks | 40 |
| 11 | emerging markets | 40 |
| 12 | moderating effect | 38 |
| 13 | information asymmetry | 37 |
| 14 | mixed-integer linear programming | 35 |
| 15 | developing countries | 32 |
Growing keywords#
| Keyword | Papers | At earlier share | Extra papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| large language models | 29 | 9.7 | +19.3 |
| virtual reality | 17 | 4.1 | +12.9 |
| artificial neural networks | 28 | 16.9 | +11.1 |
| regional heterogeneity | 29 | 18.5 | +10.5 |
| generative AI | 16 | 5.7 | +10.3 |
| environmental performance | 18 | 7.7 | +10.3 |
| market competition | 17 | 7.3 | +9.7 |
| multinational corporations | 26 | 17.1 | +8.9 |
| greenhouse gas emissions | 18 | 9.5 | +8.5 |
| marketization | 16 | 7.5 | +8.5 |
Top keywords by category#
| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| Finance | China (56); Chinese listed companies (56); corporate governance (47); financial constraints (47); COVID-19 pandemic (33) |
| Accounting | corporate governance (6); China (4); ESG performance (3); audit fees (3); audit quality (3) |
| Economics | China (49); COVID-19 pandemic (24); developing countries (22); energy transition (18); income inequality (18) |
| Management | moderating effect (19); consumer behavior (18); multinational corporations (16); emerging markets (12); COVID-19 pandemic (11) |
| Operations Research | mixed-integer linear programming (31); multi-objective optimization (16); combinatorial optimization (15); supply chain coordination (14); vehicle routing (14) |
| AI | attention mechanism (45); class imbalance (43); graph neural networks (38); feature selection (37); convolutional neural networks (30) |
Institutions#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 53 |
| 2 | Zhejiang University | 50 |
| 3 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 49 |
| 4 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 42 |
| 5 | Sun Yat-sen University | 40 |
| 6 | Sichuan University | 39 |
| 7 | Tsinghua University | 38 |
| 8 | Tianjin University | 37 |
| 9 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 35 |
| 10 | Wuhan University | 35 |
Countries#
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1,548 |
| 2 | United States | 622 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 367 |
| 4 | Germany | 212 |
| 5 | Australia | 204 |
| 6 | Italy | 203 |
| 7 | France | 170 |
| 8 | India | 169 |
| 9 | Canada | 144 |
| 10 | Spain | 131 |
Journals#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 211 |
| 2 | Neural Computing and Applications | 206 |
| 3 | Finance research letters | 182 |
| 4 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 135 |
| 5 | Pattern Recognition | 93 |
| 6 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 74 |
| 7 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 73 |
| 8 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 71 |
| 9 | Energy Economics | 68 |
| 10 | Annals of Operations Research | 62 |
Equations and models#
| # | Equation or model | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer) | 109 |
| 2 | Linear and integer programming | 80 |
| 3 | Graph neural network (graph convolution) | 79 |
| 4 | Convolutional neural network (CNN) | 72 |
| 5 | Contrastive loss (InfoNCE) | 44 |
| 6 | Long short-term memory (LSTM) | 42 |
| 7 | Mediation model (indirect effect) | 28 |
| 8 | Generative adversarial network (GAN) | 26 |
| 9 | Random forest | 26 |
| 10 | Data envelopment analysis (DEA) | 21 |
Datasets#
| # | Dataset | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Economic Policy Uncertainty index | 24 |
| 2 | Kaggle | 17 |
| 3 | Twitter / X | 17 |
| 4 | S&P 500 | 15 |
| 5 | ImageNet | 9 |
| 6 | VIX | 8 |
| 7 | CEC benchmark functions | 7 |
| 8 | Google Trends | 7 |
| 9 | CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 | 6 |
| 10 | Brent crude oil | 5 |
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in May 2024. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-05
@misc{scholar4ai-reports-2024-05,
author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Research published in May 2024},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-05}},
urldate = {2026-10-26},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}