Research published in June 2024

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in June 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 June 2024, the tracked journals published 3,324 papers (finance 428, accounting 79, economics 781, management 364, operations research 482, AI 1,190).
The most frequent keywords were “China” (108), “COVID-19 pandemic” (82) and “corporate governance” (59).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “data augmentation” (32 papers, +14), “multimodal fusion” (27 papers, +12) and “R&D investment” (29 papers, +11).
The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (60), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (45) and Tsinghua University (44).
China was involved in 43% of the papers.

Papers by category#

Papers published in June 2024
Category	Papers
Finance	428
Accounting	79
Economics	781
Management	364
Operations Research	482
AI	1,190

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, June 2024
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	108
2	COVID-19 pandemic	82
3	corporate governance	59
4	financial constraints	49
5	state-owned enterprises	47
6	Chinese listed companies	45
7	graph neural networks	36
8	information asymmetry	34
9	data augmentation	32
10	contrastive learning	31
11	listed companies	31
12	CO2 emissions	30
13	attention mechanism	30
14	R&D investment	29
15	multimodal fusion	27

Growing keywords#

Papers in June 2024 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
data augmentation	32	18.2	+13.8
multimodal fusion	27	15.0	+12.0
R&D investment	29	17.9	+11.1
large language models	21	10.4	+10.6
curriculum learning	13	2.5	+10.5
environmental performance	17	7.4	+9.6
manufacturing companies	25	15.7	+9.3
energy transition	21	12.3	+8.7
fuzzy c-means clustering	12	3.5	+8.5
general equilibrium	8	1.1	+6.9

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, June 2024
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	China (44); corporate governance (29); financial constraints (27); state-owned enterprises (27); Chinese listed companies (25)
Accounting	corporate governance (10); earnings management (6); financial constraints (6); financial reporting quality (5); institutional investors (4)
Economics	China (53); COVID-19 pandemic (35); energy transition (17); CO2 emissions (16); income inequality (15)
Management	multinational corporations (14); COVID-19 pandemic (13); moderating effect (12); China (10); dynamic capabilities (10)
Operations Research	mixed-integer linear programming (17); multi-objective optimization (14); combinatorial optimization (13); data envelopment analysis (13); vehicle routing (12)
AI	graph neural networks (33); attention mechanism (29); contrastive learning (28); data augmentation (28); multimodal fusion (25)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, June 2024
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	60
2	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	45
3	Tsinghua University	44
4	Zhejiang University	43
5	Xi'an Jiaotong University	42
6	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	40
7	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	40
8	Nanyang Technological University	36
9	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	34
10	Southeast University	32

Countries#

Countries, June 2024
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,437
2	United States	582
3	United Kingdom	315
4	Australia	182
5	Germany	167
6	Italy	156
7	India	148
8	France	146
9	Canada	115
10	Spain	112

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, June 2024
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	253
2	Knowledge-Based Systems	150
3	Applied Intelligence	84
4	Pattern Recognition	79
5	Finance research letters	77
6	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	74
7	Computers & Industrial Engineering	69
8	Energy Economics	66
9	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	66
10	Neural Networks	66

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, June 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	93
2	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	85
3	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	67
4	Linear and integer programming	64
5	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	52
6	Generative adversarial network (GAN)	33
7	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	29
8	Difference-in-differences	24
9	Mediation model (indirect effect)	23
10	Data envelopment analysis (DEA)	20

Datasets#

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

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in June 2024. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-06

@misc{scholar4ai-reports-2024-06,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Research published in June 2024},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-06}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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