---
title: "Research in September 2024: top topics and papers"
description: "In September 2024, the tracked journals published 3,346 papers (finance 621, accounting 56, economics 743, management 396, operations research 455, AI 1,075). The most frequent keywords were “China” (143), “COVID-19 pandemic” (92) and “Chinese listed companies” (84)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-09
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-09.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "In September 2024, the tracked journals published 3,346 papers (finance 621, accounting 56, economics 743, management 396, operations research 455, AI 1,075)."
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 September 2024

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in September 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 September 2024, the tracked journals published 3,346 papers (finance 621, accounting 56, economics 743, management 396, operations research 455, AI 1,075).
- The most frequent keywords were “China” (143), “COVID-19 pandemic” (92) and “Chinese listed companies” (84).
- Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “Chinese listed companies” (84 papers, +35), “moderating effect” (44 papers, +17) and “manufacturing companies” (30 papers, +13).
- The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (48), Xi'an Jiaotong University (45) and Sun Yat-sen University (40).
- China was involved in 42% of the papers.

## Papers by category

*Papers published in September 2024*

| Category | Papers |
|---|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 621 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 56 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 743 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 396 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 455 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1,075 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, September 2024*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 143 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 92 |
| 3 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 84 |
| 4 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 69 |
| 5 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 54 |
| 6 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 53 |
| 7 | state-owned enterprises | 52 |
| 8 | moderating effect | 44 |
| 9 | corporate social responsibility | 34 |
| 10 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 34 |
| 11 | CO2 emissions | 33 |
| 12 | attention mechanism | 32 |
| 13 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 32 |
| 14 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 31 |
| 15 | spillover effects | 31 |

## Growing keywords

*Papers in September 2024 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before*

| Keyword | Papers | At earlier share | Extra papers |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 84 | 49.2 | +34.8 |
| moderating effect | 44 | 26.7 | +17.3 |
| manufacturing companies | 30 | 17.1 | +12.9 |
| total factor productivity | 22 | 9.9 | +12.1 |
| spillover effects | 31 | 19.0 | +12.0 |
| cross-national comparison | 29 | 17.2 | +11.8 |
| ESG performance | 24 | 13.4 | +10.6 |
| risk aversion | 24 | 13.4 | +10.6 |
| digital economy | 20 | 10.3 | +9.7 |
| Russian invasion of Ukraine | 26 | 17.2 | +8.8 |

## Top keywords by category

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

| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | Chinese listed companies (71); China (66); corporate governance (43); financial constraints (41); COVID-19 pandemic (37) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (9); information asymmetry (4); audit delay (3); ownership structure (3); state-owned enterprises (3) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (59); COVID-19 pandemic (27); CO2 emissions (14); energy transition (14); economic growth (13) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | corporate social responsibility (15); digital transformation (14); China (13); moderating effect (13); multinational corporations (13) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | mixed-integer linear programming (18); multi-objective optimization (16); vehicle routing (15); CO2 emissions (11); convergence analysis (10) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | graph neural networks (50); attention mechanism (30); contrastive learning (27); class imbalance (23); explainable AI (22) |

## Institutions

*Institutions with the most papers, September 2024*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 48 |
| 2 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 45 |
| 3 | Sun Yat-sen University | 40 |
| 4 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 38 |
| 5 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 36 |
| 6 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 34 |
| 7 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 33 |
| 8 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 33 |
| 9 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 33 |
| 10 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 33 |

## Countries

*Countries, September 2024*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 1,418 |
| 2 | United States | 561 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 291 |
| 4 | Germany | 182 |
| 5 | Australia | 181 |
| 6 | France | 161 |
| 7 | Italy | 158 |
| 8 | India | 113 |
| 9 | Spain | 108 |
| 10 | Canada | 107 |

## Journals

*Journals with the most papers, September 2024*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 185 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 152 |
| 3 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 92 |
| 4 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 90 |
| 5 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 89 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 87 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 78 |
| 8 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 70 |
| 9 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 69 |
| 10 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 68 |

## Equations and models

*Most-mentioned equations and models, September 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) | 88 |
| 2 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 87 |
| 3 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 62 |
| 4 | [Convolutional neural network (CNN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/convolutional-neural-network-cnn.md) | 44 |
| 5 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 43 |
| 6 | [Total factor productivity (Solow residual)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/total-factor-productivity-solow-residual.md) | 28 |
| 7 | [Mediation model (indirect effect)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/mediation-model-indirect-effect.md) | 27 |
| 8 | [Long short-term memory (LSTM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/long-short-term-memory-lstm.md) | 24 |
| 9 | [Shapley value (SHAP)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/shapley-value-shap.md) | 20 |
| 10 | [Vector autoregression (VAR)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/vector-autoregression-var.md) | 20 |

## Datasets

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

| # | Dataset | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Economic Policy Uncertainty index | 23 |
| 2 | Climate Policy Uncertainty index | 9 |
| 3 | S&P 500 | 9 |
| 4 | Twitter / X | 9 |
| 5 | ImageNet | 7 |
| 6 | China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) | 4 |
| 7 | CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 | 4 |
| 8 | D4RL | 3 |
| 9 | Financial stress indices | 3 |
| 10 | Google Trends | 3 |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in September 2024. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-09

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-reports-2024-09,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Research published in September 2024},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-09}},
  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/).