---
title: "Research in August 2024: top topics and papers"
description: "In August 2024, the tracked journals published 3,709 papers (finance 539, accounting 72, economics 795, management 420, operations research 452, AI 1,431). The most frequent keywords were “China” (104), “COVID-19 pandemic” (98) and “corporate governance” (73)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-08
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-08.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "In August 2024, the tracked journals published 3,709 papers (finance 539, accounting 72, economics 795, management 420, operations research 452, AI 1,431)."
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 August 2024

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in August 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 August 2024, the tracked journals published 3,709 papers (finance 539, accounting 72, economics 795, management 420, operations research 452, AI 1,431).
- The most frequent keywords were “China” (104), “COVID-19 pandemic” (98) and “corporate governance” (73).
- Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “large language models” (34 papers, +20), “deep learning” (34 papers, +13) and “hyperparameter optimization” (24 papers, +12).
- The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (68), Tsinghua University (40) and Nanyang Technological University (37).
- China was involved in 41% of the papers.

## Papers by category

*Papers published in August 2024*

| Category | Papers |
|---|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 539 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 72 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 795 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 420 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 452 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1,431 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, August 2024*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 104 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 98 |
| 3 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 73 |
| 4 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 59 |
| 5 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 58 |
| 6 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 48 |
| 7 | state-owned enterprises | 44 |
| 8 | class imbalance | 38 |
| 9 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 36 |
| 10 | CO2 emissions | 35 |
| 11 | multi-objective optimization | 35 |
| 12 | attention mechanism | 34 |
| 13 | deep learning | 34 |
| 14 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 34 |
| 15 | corporate social responsibility | 34 |

## Growing keywords

*Papers in August 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) | 34 | 14.0 | +20.0 |
| deep learning | 34 | 21.4 | +12.6 |
| hyperparameter optimization | 24 | 12.1 | +11.9 |
| [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 26 | 15.7 | +10.3 |
| firm size | 30 | 19.7 | +10.3 |
| knowledge transfer | 21 | 11.0 | +10.0 |
| trade openness | 14 | 4.9 | +9.1 |
| continual learning | 13 | 4.0 | +9.0 |
| semi-supervised learning | 25 | 16.1 | +8.9 |
| environmental sustainability | 18 | 9.3 | +8.7 |

## Top keywords by category

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

| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | corporate governance (48); Chinese listed companies (42); financial constraints (38); China (37); state-owned enterprises (31) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (12); COVID-19 pandemic (6); family business (5); Chinese listed companies (4); board of directors (4) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (57); COVID-19 pandemic (40); monetary policy (19); economic growth (18); CO2 emissions (17) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | COVID-19 pandemic (16); corporate social responsibility (15); digital transformation (15); moderating effect (15); consumer behavior (11) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | multi-objective optimization (15); combinatorial optimization (11); makespan minimization (11); mixed-integer linear programming (11); demand uncertainty (10) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | graph neural networks (46); attention mechanism (33); class imbalance (33); contrastive learning (30); large language models (30) |

## Institutions

*Institutions with the most papers, August 2024*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 68 |
| 2 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 40 |
| 3 | Nanyang Technological University | 37 |
| 4 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 37 |
| 5 | Xidian University | 37 |
| 6 | Sun Yat-sen University | 36 |
| 7 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 36 |
| 8 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 36 |
| 9 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 34 |
| 10 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 32 |

## Countries

*Countries, August 2024*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 1,524 |
| 2 | United States | 645 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 315 |
| 4 | Australia | 198 |
| 5 | Germany | 185 |
| 6 | India | 179 |
| 7 | Italy | 174 |
| 8 | France | 152 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 118 |
| 10 | South Korea | 116 |

## Journals

*Journals with the most papers, August 2024*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 285 |
| 2 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 173 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 140 |
| 4 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 125 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 95 |
| 6 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 88 |
| 7 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 87 |
| 8 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 85 |
| 9 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 85 |
| 10 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 78 |

## Equations and models

*Most-mentioned equations and models, August 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)*

| # | Equation or model | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 107 |
| 2 | [Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/scaled-dot-product-attention-transformer.md) | 99 |
| 3 | [Convolutional neural network (CNN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/convolutional-neural-network-cnn.md) | 80 |
| 4 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 60 |
| 5 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 52 |
| 6 | [Long short-term memory (LSTM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/long-short-term-memory-lstm.md) | 42 |
| 7 | [Generative adversarial network (GAN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/generative-adversarial-network-gan.md) | 35 |
| 8 | [Mediation model (indirect effect)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/mediation-model-indirect-effect.md) | 26 |
| 9 | [Vector autoregression (VAR)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/vector-autoregression-var.md) | 24 |
| 10 | [Support vector machine (SVM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/support-vector-machine-svm.md) | 21 |

## Datasets

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

| # | Dataset | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Economic Policy Uncertainty index | 18 |
| 2 | Twitter / X | 14 |
| 3 | MS COCO | 9 |
| 4 | S&P 500 | 8 |
| 5 | ImageNet | 7 |
| 6 | CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 | 6 |
| 7 | Climate Policy Uncertainty index | 5 |
| 8 | Facebook | 4 |
| 9 | Skeleton and pose (NTU RGB+D, Human3.6M) | 4 |
| 10 | VIX | 4 |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in August 2024. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-08

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-reports-2024-08,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Research published in August 2024},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-08}},
  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/).