Research published in February 2025

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in February 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 February 2025, the tracked journals published 3,809 papers (finance 681, accounting 62, economics 792, management 448, operations research 428, AI 1,398).
The most frequent keywords were “China” (153), “Chinese listed companies” (97) and “financial constraints” (78).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “large language models” (60 papers, +31), “moderating effect” (60 papers, +24) and “Chinese enterprises” (36 papers, +18).
The institutions with the most papers were Sun Yat-sen University (58), Chinese Academy of Sciences (48) and Tsinghua University (48).
China was involved in 46% of the papers.
The most-cited paper published that month is “Generative Artificial Intelligence: Evolving Technology, Growing Societal Impact, and Opportunities for Information Systems Research” (Information Systems Frontiers), with 135 citations so far.

Papers by category#

Papers published in February 2025
Category	Papers
Finance	681
Accounting	62
Economics	792
Management	448
Operations Research	428
AI	1,398

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, February 2025
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	153
2	Chinese listed companies	97
3	financial constraints	78
4	corporate governance	76
5	COVID-19 pandemic	70
6	state-owned enterprises	64
7	large language models	60
8	moderating effect	60
9	digital transformation	50
10	graph neural networks	49
11	listed companies	48
12	contrastive learning	46
13	information asymmetry	43
14	CO2 emissions	42
15	class imbalance	40

Growing keywords#

Papers in February 2025 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
large language models	60	28.9	+31.1
moderating effect	60	36.2	+23.8
Chinese enterprises	36	18.5	+17.5
firm size	39	22.5	+16.5
listed companies	48	31.9	+16.1
ESG performance	32	19.5	+12.5
signaling theory	16	5.3	+10.7
market efficiency	17	6.3	+10.7
geopolitical risk	26	15.8	+10.2
recommender systems	20	10.0	+10.0

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, February 2025
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	Chinese listed companies (82); China (73); financial constraints (61); state-owned enterprises (54); corporate governance (51)
Accounting	corporate governance (8); COVID-19 pandemic (3); disclosure decisions (3); firm performance (3); private information (3)
Economics	China (66); COVID-19 pandemic (34); CO2 emissions (21); gender differences (16); income inequality (16)
Management	multinational corporations (17); family business (14); digital transformation (13); firm performance (11); moderating effect (11)
Operations Research	mixed-integer linear programming (17); multi-objective optimization (16); combinatorial optimization (11); last-mile delivery (9); robust optimization (9)
AI	large language models (54); graph neural networks (49); contrastive learning (46); class imbalance (36); convolutional neural networks (34)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, February 2025
#	Institution	Papers
1	Sun Yat-sen University	58
2	Chinese Academy of Sciences	48
3	Tsinghua University	48
4	Zhejiang University	46
5	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	43
6	Renmin University of China	43
7	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	42
8	Wuhan University	42
9	Shandong University	41
10	Peking University	40

Countries#

Countries, February 2025
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,752
2	United States	600
3	United Kingdom	329
4	Australia	197
5	Germany	186
6	Italy	165
7	Hong Kong	138
8	Canada	137
9	France	137
10	India	130

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, February 2025
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	325
2	Finance research letters	241
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	130
4	Applied Intelligence	100
5	Energy Economics	87
6	Neural Networks	81
7	International Review of Economics & Finance	75
8	Pattern Recognition	73
9	Neural Computing and Applications	72
10	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	68

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, February 2025 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	124
2	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	100
3	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	83
4	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	74
5	Linear and integer programming	59
6	Mediation model (indirect effect)	41
7	Generative adversarial network (GAN)	36
8	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	34
9	Random forest	32
10	Difference-in-differences	31

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, February 2025 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	Economic Policy Uncertainty index	17
2	Climate Policy Uncertainty index	10
3	S&P 500	10
4	ImageNet	8
5	MS COCO	8
6	Twitter / X	8
7	CEC benchmark functions	7
8	YouTube / TikTok	7
9	CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	6
10	China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)	4

Most-cited papers published in February 2025#

Most-cited papers published in February 2025 (citations counted by OpenAlex, updated daily)
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	135	6.7	Generative Artificial Intelligence: Evolving Technology, Growing Societal Impact, and Opportunities for Information Systems Research	Information Systems Frontiers	2025-02-24	Veda C. Storey, Wei Thoo Yue, J. Leon Zhao et al.
2	132	6.6	Insights from the Job Demands–Resources Model: AI's dual impact on employees’ work and life well-being	International Journal of Information Management	2025-02-22	Yating Chuang, Hua-Ling Chiang, An-Pan Lin
3	109	5.4	LLM-AE-MP: Web Attack Detection Using a Large Language Model with Autoencoder and Multilayer Perceptron	Expert Systems with Applications	2025-02-21	Jing Yang, Yuangui Wu, Yuping Yuan et al.
4	106	5.3	Artificial intelligence and corporate ESG performance	International Review of Financial Analysis	2025-02-22	Junjun Li, Tong Wu, Boqiang Hu et al.
5	105	5.2	Advanced machine learning techniques for predicting power generation and fault detection in solar photovoltaic systems	Neural Computing and Applications	2025-02-19	Montaser Abdelsattar, Ahmed AbdelMoety, Ahmed Emad-Eldeen
6	94	4.7	Diffusion Models in Low-Level Vision: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2025-02-24	Chunming He, Yuqi Shen, Chengyu Fang et al.
7	86	4.3	Reliable Representation Learning for Incomplete Multi-View Missing Multi-Label Classification	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2025-02-26	Chengliang Liu, Jie Wen, Yong Dong Xu et al.
8	84	4.2	Mapping the greenwashing research landscape: a theoretical and field analysis	Review of Managerial Science	2025-02-24	Canio Forliano, Enrico Battisti, Paola De Bernardi et al.
9	83	4.2	Large language models for scientific discovery in molecular property prediction	Nature Machine Intelligence	2025-02-25	Yizhen Zheng, Huan Yee Koh, Jiaxin Ju et al.
10	80	4.0	DiffFace: Diffusion-based face swapping with facial guidance	Pattern Recognition	2025-02-21	KiHong Kim, Yunho Kim, Seokju Cho et al.

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in February 2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-02

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Research published in February 2025},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-02}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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