Research published in December 2024

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in December 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 December 2024, the tracked journals published 3,965 papers (finance 588, accounting 54, economics 829, management 407, operations research 460, AI 1,627).
The most frequent keywords were “China” (136), “Chinese listed companies” (91) and “state-owned enterprises” (70).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “regional heterogeneity” (59 papers, +32), “large language models” (44 papers, +21) and “convolutional neural networks” (47 papers, +18).
The institutions with the most papers were Tsinghua University (61), Chinese Academy of Sciences (57) and Southeast University (57).
China was involved in 47% of the papers.

Papers by category#

Papers published in December 2024
Category	Papers
Finance	588
Accounting	54
Economics	829
Management	407
Operations Research	460
AI	1,627

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, December 2024
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	136
2	Chinese listed companies	91
3	state-owned enterprises	70
4	financial constraints	68
5	corporate governance	65
6	COVID-19 pandemic	63
7	regional heterogeneity	59
8	attention mechanism	58
9	graph neural networks	56
10	information asymmetry	49
11	convolutional neural networks	47
12	feature selection	46
13	large language models	44
14	multi-objective optimization	43
15	class imbalance	42

Growing keywords#

Papers in December 2024 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
regional heterogeneity	59	27.3	+31.7
large language models	44	22.9	+21.1
convolutional neural networks	47	29.3	+17.7
recurrent neural networks	23	8.1	+14.9
self-supervised learning	40	25.3	+14.7
energy efficiency	29	15.3	+13.7
graph convolutional networks	36	23.2	+12.8
time series forecasting	22	10.3	+11.7
lightweight neural networks	21	10.8	+10.2
climate risk	22	12.8	+9.2

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, December 2024
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	Chinese listed companies (64); state-owned enterprises (50); China (49); financial constraints (46); corporate governance (45)
Accounting	corporate governance (8); COVID-19 pandemic (3); corporate social responsibility (3); corporate social responsibility disclosure (3); earnings management (3)
Economics	China (76); COVID-19 pandemic (25); regional heterogeneity (24); developing countries (19); Chinese listed companies (16)
Management	corporate social responsibility (17); purchase intention (13); consumer behavior (12); influencer marketing (12); innovation (12)
Operations Research	multi-objective optimization (23); mixed-integer linear programming (14); demand uncertainty (12); social welfare (welfare economics) (11); supply chain coordination (11)
AI	attention mechanism (57); graph neural networks (53); convolutional neural networks (44); large language models (39); class imbalance (38)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, December 2024
#	Institution	Papers
1	Tsinghua University	61
2	Chinese Academy of Sciences	57
3	Southeast University	57
4	Zhejiang University	52
5	Xi'an Jiaotong University	47
6	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	45
7	Sun Yat-sen University	45
8	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	43
9	South China University of Technology	41
10	Harbin Institute of Technology	38

Countries#

Countries, December 2024
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,844
2	United States	551
3	United Kingdom	324
4	Australia	196
5	India	189
6	Germany	179
7	Italy	171
8	France	167
9	Spain	116
10	Canada	114

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, December 2024
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	348
2	Neural Computing and Applications	260
3	Applied Intelligence	187
4	Finance research letters	177
5	Neural Networks	120
6	Knowledge-Based Systems	114
7	Pattern Recognition	79
8	Energy Economics	75
9	Computers & Industrial Engineering	68
10	Information Fusion	63

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, December 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	141
2	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	124
3	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	89
4	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	67
5	Linear and integer programming	56
6	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	44
7	Mediation model (indirect effect)	28
8	Support vector machine (SVM)	28
9	Generative adversarial network (GAN)	26
10	Gradient boosting (XGBoost)	25

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, December 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	Twitter / X	22
2	Economic Policy Uncertainty index	20
3	S&P 500	10
4	China Household Finance Survey (CHFS)	8
5	Climate Policy Uncertainty index	8
6	ImageNet	8
7	China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)	7
8	CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	6
9	Facebook	5
10	MS COCO	5

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in December 2024. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-12

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Research published in December 2024},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-12}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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