---
title: "Research in July 2024: top topics and papers"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-07
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license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "In July 2024, the tracked journals published 3,673 papers (finance 565, accounting 77, economics 766, management 424, operations research 500, AI 1,341)."
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 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.

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 565 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 77 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 766 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 424 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 500 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1,341 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, July 2024*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 115 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 90 |
| 3 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 72 |
| 4 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 52 |
| 5 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 50 |
| 6 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 47 |
| 7 | attention mechanism | 37 |
| 8 | state-owned enterprises | 36 |
| 9 | feature selection | 34 |
| 10 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 33 |
| 11 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 32 |
| 12 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 32 |
| 13 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 31 |
| 14 | class imbalance | 30 |
| 15 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | China (49); corporate governance (46); COVID-19 pandemic (41); financial constraints (39); Chinese listed companies (36) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (11); corporate disclosure (4); earnings management (4); China (3); information asymmetry (3) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (49); COVID-19 pandemic (22); gender differences (19); economic growth (16); monetary policy (16) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | digital transformation (17); COVID-19 pandemic (15); consumer behavior (13); moderating effect (13); China (12) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | mixed-integer linear programming (19); multi-objective optimization (17); supply chain resilience (13); mixed integer programming (12); Stackelberg game (11) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 50 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 47 |
| 3 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 43 |
| 4 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 42 |
| 5 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 38 |
| 6 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 37 |
| 7 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 37 |
| 8 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 36 |
| 9 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 35 |
| 10 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 299 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 147 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 117 |
| 4 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 105 |
| 5 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 100 |
| 6 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 93 |
| 7 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 91 |
| 8 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 82 |
| 9 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 75 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 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)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/scaled-dot-product-attention-transformer.md) | 110 |
| 2 | [Convolutional neural network (CNN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/convolutional-neural-network-cnn.md) | 70 |
| 3 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 67 |
| 4 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 67 |
| 5 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 57 |
| 6 | [Long short-term memory (LSTM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/long-short-term-memory-lstm.md) | 38 |
| 7 | [Vector autoregression (VAR)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/vector-autoregression-var.md) | 30 |
| 8 | [Mediation model (indirect effect)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/mediation-model-indirect-effect.md) | 26 |
| 9 | [Random forest](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/random-forest.md) | 26 |
| 10 | [Support vector machine (SVM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/support-vector-machine-svm.md) | 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

```bibtex
@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}
}
```

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