---
title: "Research in May 2024: top topics and papers"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-05
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share_text: "In May 2024, the tracked journals published 3,808 papers (finance 643, accounting 49, economics 864, management 431, operations research 511, AI 1,310)."
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 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.

## 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

*Papers published in May 2024*

| Category | Papers |
|---|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 643 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 49 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 864 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 431 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 511 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1,310 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, May 2024*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 124 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 84 |
| 3 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 69 |
| 4 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 68 |
| 5 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 63 |
| 6 | class imbalance | 49 |
| 7 | state-owned enterprises | 47 |
| 8 | attention mechanism | 46 |
| 9 | feature selection | 40 |
| 10 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 40 |
| 11 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 40 |
| 12 | moderating effect | 38 |
| 13 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 37 |
| 14 | mixed-integer linear programming | 35 |
| 15 | developing countries | 32 |

## Growing keywords

*Papers in May 2024 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before*

| Keyword | Papers | At earlier share | Extra papers |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 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

*The five most frequent keywords per category, May 2024*

| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | China (56); Chinese listed companies (56); corporate governance (47); financial constraints (47); COVID-19 pandemic (33) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (6); China (4); ESG performance (3); audit fees (3); audit quality (3) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (49); COVID-19 pandemic (24); developing countries (22); energy transition (18); income inequality (18) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | moderating effect (19); consumer behavior (18); multinational corporations (16); emerging markets (12); COVID-19 pandemic (11) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | mixed-integer linear programming (31); multi-objective optimization (16); combinatorial optimization (15); supply chain coordination (14); vehicle routing (14) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | attention mechanism (45); class imbalance (43); graph neural networks (38); feature selection (37); convolutional neural networks (30) |

## Institutions

*Institutions with the most papers, May 2024*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 53 |
| 2 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 50 |
| 3 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 49 |
| 4 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 42 |
| 5 | Sun Yat-sen University | 40 |
| 6 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 39 |
| 7 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 38 |
| 8 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-university.md) | 37 |
| 9 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 35 |
| 10 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 35 |

## Countries

*Countries, May 2024*

| # | 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

*Journals with the most papers, May 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) | 206 |
| 3 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 182 |
| 4 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 135 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 93 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 74 |
| 7 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 73 |
| 8 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 71 |
| 9 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 68 |
| 10 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 62 |

## Equations and models

*Most-mentioned equations and models, May 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) | 109 |
| 2 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 80 |
| 3 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 79 |
| 4 | [Convolutional neural network (CNN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/convolutional-neural-network-cnn.md) | 72 |
| 5 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 44 |
| 6 | [Long short-term memory (LSTM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/long-short-term-memory-lstm.md) | 42 |
| 7 | [Mediation model (indirect effect)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/mediation-model-indirect-effect.md) | 28 |
| 8 | [Generative adversarial network (GAN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/generative-adversarial-network-gan.md) | 26 |
| 9 | [Random forest](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/random-forest.md) | 26 |
| 10 | [Data envelopment analysis (DEA)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/data-envelopment-analysis-dea.md) | 21 |

## Datasets

*Most-mentioned datasets, May 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)*

| # | 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 |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in May 2024. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-05

```bibtex
@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}
}
```

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