Research published in October 2024

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in October 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 October 2024, the tracked journals published 3,205 papers (finance 545, accounting 55, economics 751, management 412, operations research 488, AI 954).
The most frequent keywords were “China” (123), “COVID-19 pandemic” (86) and “Chinese listed companies” (76).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “Chinese listed companies” (76 papers, +26), “financial constraints” (68 papers, +24) and “green innovation” (38 papers, +19).
The institutions with the most papers were Tsinghua University (42), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (39) and Hunan University (39).
China was involved in 44% of the papers.

Papers by category#

Papers published in October 2024
Category	Papers
Finance	545
Accounting	55
Economics	751
Management	412
Operations Research	488
AI	954

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, October 2024
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	123
2	COVID-19 pandemic	86
3	Chinese listed companies	76
4	financial constraints	68
5	corporate governance	60
6	state-owned enterprises	53
7	moderating effect	40
8	digital transformation	40
9	artificial intelligence	39
10	emerging markets	38
11	green innovation	38
12	multi-objective optimization	36
13	graph neural networks	35
14	corporate social responsibility	34
15	information asymmetry	34

Growing keywords#

Papers in October 2024 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
Chinese listed companies	76	50.5	+25.5
financial constraints	68	44.0	+24.0
green innovation	38	19.3	+18.7
artificial intelligence	39	21.6	+17.4
digital transformation	40	24.6	+15.4
interest rates	20	5.8	+14.2
risk management	24	10.9	+13.1
large language models	28	15.3	+12.7
energy transition	24	12.0	+12.0
small and medium-sized enterprises	31	20.0	+11.0

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, October 2024
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	Chinese listed companies (49); financial constraints (48); China (42); corporate governance (39); state-owned enterprises (36)
Accounting	corporate governance (8); accounting education (4); audit quality (4); cross-national comparison (4); COVID-19 pandemic (3)
Economics	China (64); COVID-19 pandemic (29); energy transition (18); income inequality (18); developing countries (15)
Management	moderating effect (21); artificial intelligence (16); small and medium-sized enterprises (15); COVID-19 pandemic (13); digital transformation (13)
Operations Research	multi-objective optimization (26); combinatorial optimization (16); mixed-integer linear programming (16); approximation algorithms (13); robust optimization (13)
AI	graph neural networks (31); contrastive learning (27); attention mechanism (26); data augmentation (24); self-supervised learning (23)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, October 2024
#	Institution	Papers
1	Tsinghua University	42
2	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	39
3	Hunan University	39
4	Chinese Academy of Sciences	38
5	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	38
6	Zhejiang University	38
7	Beihang University	37
8	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	36
9	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	36
10	Southeast University	35

Countries#

Countries, October 2024
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,395
2	United States	537
3	United Kingdom	308
4	Germany	184
5	Australia	163
6	France	163
7	Italy	162
8	India	129
9	Canada	113
10	Spain	108

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, October 2024
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	155
2	Finance research letters	154
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	115
4	International Review of Financial Analysis	90
5	Neural Networks	74
6	Computers & Industrial Engineering	73
7	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	71
8	Annals of Operations Research	70
9	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	58
10	Journal of Innovation & Knowledge	57

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, October 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	84
2	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	69
3	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	65
4	Linear and integer programming	51
5	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	41
6	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	40
7	Mediation model (indirect effect)	30
8	Generative adversarial network (GAN)	19
9	Structural equation modeling (SEM)	19
10	Total factor productivity (Solow residual)	18

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, October 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	Economic Policy Uncertainty index	17
2	ImageNet	14
3	Twitter / X	13
4	CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	9
5	Climate Policy Uncertainty index	8
6	VIX	7
7	YouTube / TikTok	6
8	S&P 500	5
9	10-K filings	4
10	CEC benchmark functions	4

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in October 2024. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-10

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

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