---
title: "Research in October 2024: top topics and papers"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "In October 2024, the tracked journals published 3,205 papers (finance 545, accounting 55, economics 751, management 412, operations research 488, AI 954)."
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-26T14:52:47+09:00
window: 2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26
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---

# 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.

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 545 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 55 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 751 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 412 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 488 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 954 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, October 2024*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 123 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 86 |
| 3 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 76 |
| 4 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 68 |
| 5 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 60 |
| 6 | state-owned enterprises | 53 |
| 7 | moderating effect | 40 |
| 8 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 40 |
| 9 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 39 |
| 10 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 38 |
| 11 | [green innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/green-innovation.md) | 38 |
| 12 | multi-objective optimization | 36 |
| 13 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 35 |
| 14 | corporate social responsibility | 34 |
| 15 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 76 | 50.5 | +25.5 |
| [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 68 | 44.0 | +24.0 |
| [green innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/green-innovation.md) | 38 | 19.3 | +18.7 |
| [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 39 | 21.6 | +17.4 |
| [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 40 | 24.6 | +15.4 |
| interest rates | 20 | 5.8 | +14.2 |
| risk management | 24 | 10.9 | +13.1 |
| [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 28 | 15.3 | +12.7 |
| [energy transition](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-transition.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | Chinese listed companies (49); financial constraints (48); China (42); corporate governance (39); state-owned enterprises (36) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (8); accounting education (4); audit quality (4); cross-national comparison (4); COVID-19 pandemic (3) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (64); COVID-19 pandemic (29); energy transition (18); income inequality (18); developing countries (15) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | moderating effect (21); artificial intelligence (16); small and medium-sized enterprises (15); COVID-19 pandemic (13); digital transformation (13) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | multi-objective optimization (26); combinatorial optimization (16); mixed-integer linear programming (16); approximation algorithms (13); robust optimization (13) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 42 |
| 2 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 39 |
| 3 | Hunan University | 39 |
| 4 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 38 |
| 5 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 38 |
| 6 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 38 |
| 7 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 37 |
| 8 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 36 |
| 9 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 36 |
| 10 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 155 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 154 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 115 |
| 4 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 90 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 74 |
| 6 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 73 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 71 |
| 8 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 70 |
| 9 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 58 |
| 10 | [Journal of Innovation & Knowledge](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-knowledge.md) | 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)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/scaled-dot-product-attention-transformer.md) | 84 |
| 2 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 69 |
| 3 | [Convolutional neural network (CNN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/convolutional-neural-network-cnn.md) | 65 |
| 4 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 51 |
| 5 | [Long short-term memory (LSTM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/long-short-term-memory-lstm.md) | 41 |
| 6 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 40 |
| 7 | [Mediation model (indirect effect)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/mediation-model-indirect-effect.md) | 30 |
| 8 | [Generative adversarial network (GAN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/generative-adversarial-network-gan.md) | 19 |
| 9 | [Structural equation modeling (SEM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/structural-equation-modeling-sem.md) | 19 |
| 10 | [Total factor productivity (Solow residual)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/total-factor-productivity-solow-residual.md) | 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

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-reports-2024-10,
  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}
}
```

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