Research published in January 2025

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in January 2025, 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 January 2025, the tracked journals published 4,228 papers (finance 642, accounting 77, economics 889, management 377, operations research 478, AI 1,765).
The most frequent keywords were “China” (111), “COVID-19 pandemic” (77) and “Chinese listed companies” (73).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “large language models” (61 papers, +33), “contrastive learning” (56 papers, +22) and “computational efficiency” (36 papers, +14).
The institutions with the most papers were Tsinghua University (69), Xi'an Jiaotong University (67) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (61).
China was involved in 45% of the papers.

Papers by category#

Papers published in January 2025
Category	Papers
Finance	642
Accounting	77
Economics	889
Management	377
Operations Research	478
AI	1,765

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, January 2025
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	111
2	COVID-19 pandemic	77
3	Chinese listed companies	73
4	corporate governance	73
5	graph neural networks	64
6	large language models	61
7	contrastive learning	56
8	feature selection	56
9	state-owned enterprises	55
10	financial constraints	49
11	attention mechanism	41
12	digital transformation	41
13	green innovation	41
14	information asymmetry	40
15	data augmentation	39

Growing keywords#

Papers in January 2025 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
large language models	61	28.1	+32.9
contrastive learning	56	34.3	+21.7
computational efficiency	36	22.2	+13.8
pseudo-labeling	30	17.4	+12.6
federated learning	31	18.8	+12.2
non-convex optimization	22	10.9	+11.1
knowledge distillation	31	20.4	+10.6
3D Gaussian Splatting	11	0.6	+10.4
geopolitical risk	26	16.5	+9.5
link prediction	18	8.7	+9.3

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, January 2025
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	Chinese listed companies (54); China (47); corporate governance (41); state-owned enterprises (37); financial constraints (31)
Accounting	corporate governance (19); audit quality (6); earnings management (5); fraud detection (5); 2008 financial crisis (3)
Economics	China (50); COVID-19 pandemic (34); economic growth (27); gender differences (21); human capital (18)
Management	customer satisfaction (13); corporate social responsibility (12); digital transformation (10); innovation (10); corporate governance (9)
Operations Research	mixed-integer linear programming (18); multi-objective optimization (15); non-convex optimization (12); supply chain resilience (12); makespan minimization (11)
AI	graph neural networks (62); contrastive learning (56); large language models (54); feature selection (46); attention mechanism (39)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, January 2025
#	Institution	Papers
1	Tsinghua University	69
2	Xi'an Jiaotong University	67
3	Chinese Academy of Sciences	61
4	Zhejiang University	54
5	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	52
6	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	47
7	Peking University	47
8	Wuhan University	45
9	Xiamen University	43
10	Nanyang Technological University	42

Countries#

Countries, January 2025
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,914
2	United States	612
3	United Kingdom	336
4	Germany	213
5	Australia	192
6	Italy	169
7	India	166
8	Hong Kong	144
9	France	142
10	Canada	136

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, January 2025
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	344
2	Applied Intelligence	144
3	Finance research letters	138
4	Knowledge-Based Systems	137
5	Neural Computing and Applications	128
6	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	123
7	Neural Networks	109
8	Pattern Recognition	92
9	International Review of Economics & Finance	82
10	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	81

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, January 2025 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	138
2	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	118
3	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	81
4	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	79
5	Linear and integer programming	67
6	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	45
7	Support vector machine (SVM)	38
8	Generative adversarial network (GAN)	37
9	Mediation model (indirect effect)	33
10	Shapley value (SHAP)	29

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, January 2025 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	Economic Policy Uncertainty index	21
2	Twitter / X	18
3	CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	15
4	ImageNet	14
5	S&P 500	13
6	CEC benchmark functions	9
7	MNIST / Fashion-MNIST	9
8	VIX	9
9	Climate Policy Uncertainty index	8
10	nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse	8

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in January 2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-01

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Research published in January 2025},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-01}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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