Research published in July 2024

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in July 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 July 2024, the tracked journals published 3,673 papers (finance 565, accounting 77, economics 766, management 424, operations research 500, AI 1,341).
The most frequent keywords were “China” (115), “COVID-19 pandemic” (90) and “corporate governance” (72).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “financial inclusion” (20 papers, +10), “corporate ESG performance” (13 papers, +10) and “large language models” (22 papers, +9).
The institutions with the most papers were Zhejiang University (50), Chinese Academy of Sciences (47) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (43).
China was involved in 43% of the papers.

Papers by category#

Papers published in July 2024
Category	Papers
Finance	565
Accounting	77
Economics	766
Management	424
Operations Research	500
AI	1,341

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, July 2024
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	115
2	COVID-19 pandemic	90
3	corporate governance	72
4	Chinese listed companies	52
5	financial constraints	50
6	information asymmetry	47
7	attention mechanism	37
8	state-owned enterprises	36
9	feature selection	34
10	digital transformation	33
11	artificial intelligence	32
12	graph neural networks	32
13	contrastive learning	31
14	class imbalance	30
15	emerging markets	30

Growing keywords#

Papers in July 2024 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
financial inclusion	20	10.0	+10.0
corporate ESG performance	13	3.2	+9.8
large language models	22	12.6	+9.4
Internet of Things	20	11.5	+8.5
edge computing	12	3.8	+8.2
digital economy	19	10.9	+8.1
pseudo-labeling	22	14.5	+7.5
foreign direct investment	20	12.7	+7.3
housing prices	15	7.8	+7.2
non-convex optimization	16	8.9	+7.1

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, July 2024
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	China (49); corporate governance (46); COVID-19 pandemic (41); financial constraints (39); Chinese listed companies (36)
Accounting	corporate governance (11); corporate disclosure (4); earnings management (4); China (3); information asymmetry (3)
Economics	China (49); COVID-19 pandemic (22); gender differences (19); economic growth (16); monetary policy (16)
Management	digital transformation (17); COVID-19 pandemic (15); consumer behavior (13); moderating effect (13); China (12)
Operations Research	mixed-integer linear programming (19); multi-objective optimization (17); supply chain resilience (13); mixed integer programming (12); Stackelberg game (11)
AI	attention mechanism (35); graph neural networks (32); contrastive learning (30); feature selection (30); class imbalance (28)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, July 2024
#	Institution	Papers
1	Zhejiang University	50
2	Chinese Academy of Sciences	47
3	Xi'an Jiaotong University	43
4	Tsinghua University	42
5	Wuhan University	38
6	Northwestern Polytechnical University	37
7	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	37
8	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	36
9	Beihang University	35
10	Southeast University	34

Countries#

Countries, July 2024
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,567
2	United States	601
3	United Kingdom	378
4	Germany	197
5	Italy	196
6	Australia	189
7	France	148
8	India	147
9	Canada	143
10	Spain	124

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, July 2024
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	299
2	Finance research letters	147
3	Pattern Recognition	117
4	Neural Computing and Applications	105
5	Knowledge-Based Systems	100
6	Neural Networks	93
7	International Review of Financial Analysis	91
8	Computers & Industrial Engineering	82
9	Applied Intelligence	75
10	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	61

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, July 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	110
2	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	70
3	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	67
4	Linear and integer programming	67
5	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	57
6	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	38
7	Vector autoregression (VAR)	30
8	Mediation model (indirect effect)	26
9	Random forest	26
10	Support vector machine (SVM)	26

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, July 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	Twitter / X	13
2	Economic Policy Uncertainty index	12
3	S&P 500	11
4	ImageNet	8
5	CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	7
6	Brent crude oil	6
7	VIX	6
8	Climate Policy Uncertainty index	5
9	Google Trends	5
10	Night-time lights (VIIRS, DMSP)	5

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in July 2024. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-07

@misc{scholar4ai-reports-2024-07,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Research published in July 2024},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-07}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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