---
title: "Research in June 2024: top topics and papers"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-06
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share_text: "In June 2024, the tracked journals published 3,324 papers (finance 428, accounting 79, economics 781, management 364, operations research 482, AI 1,190)."
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-26T18:01:08+09:00
window: 2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# 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.

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 428 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 79 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 781 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 364 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 482 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1,190 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, June 2024*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 108 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 82 |
| 3 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 59 |
| 4 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 49 |
| 5 | state-owned enterprises | 47 |
| 6 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 45 |
| 7 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 36 |
| 8 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 34 |
| 9 | data augmentation | 32 |
| 10 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 31 |
| 11 | listed companies | 31 |
| 12 | CO2 emissions | 30 |
| 13 | attention mechanism | 30 |
| 14 | R&D investment | 29 |
| 15 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 27 | 15.0 | +12.0 |
| R&D investment | 29 | 17.9 | +11.1 |
| [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-transition.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | China (44); corporate governance (29); financial constraints (27); state-owned enterprises (27); Chinese listed companies (25) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (10); earnings management (6); financial constraints (6); financial reporting quality (5); institutional investors (4) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (53); COVID-19 pandemic (35); energy transition (17); CO2 emissions (16); income inequality (15) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | multinational corporations (14); COVID-19 pandemic (13); moderating effect (12); China (10); dynamic capabilities (10) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | mixed-integer linear programming (17); multi-objective optimization (14); combinatorial optimization (13); data envelopment analysis (13); vehicle routing (12) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 60 |
| 2 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 45 |
| 3 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 44 |
| 4 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 43 |
| 5 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 42 |
| 6 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 40 |
| 7 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 40 |
| 8 | Nanyang Technological University | 36 |
| 9 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 34 |
| 10 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 253 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 150 |
| 3 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 84 |
| 4 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 79 |
| 5 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 77 |
| 6 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 74 |
| 7 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 69 |
| 8 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 66 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 66 |
| 10 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 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)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/scaled-dot-product-attention-transformer.md) | 93 |
| 2 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 85 |
| 3 | [Convolutional neural network (CNN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/convolutional-neural-network-cnn.md) | 67 |
| 4 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 64 |
| 5 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 52 |
| 6 | [Generative adversarial network (GAN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/generative-adversarial-network-gan.md) | 33 |
| 7 | [Long short-term memory (LSTM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/long-short-term-memory-lstm.md) | 29 |
| 8 | [Difference-in-differences](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/difference-in-differences.md) | 24 |
| 9 | [Mediation model (indirect effect)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/mediation-model-indirect-effect.md) | 23 |
| 10 | [Data envelopment analysis (DEA)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/data-envelopment-analysis-dea.md) | 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

```bibtex
@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}
}
```

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