---
title: "Research in February 2025: top topics and papers"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-02
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-02.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "In February 2025, the tracked journals published 3,809 papers (finance 681, accounting 62, economics 792, management 448, operations research 428, AI 1,398)."
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-26T14:52:47+09:00
window: 2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# 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.

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 681 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 62 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 792 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 448 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 428 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1,398 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, February 2025*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 153 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 97 |
| 3 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 78 |
| 4 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 76 |
| 5 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 70 |
| 6 | state-owned enterprises | 64 |
| 7 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 60 |
| 8 | moderating effect | 60 |
| 9 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 50 |
| 10 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 49 |
| 11 | listed companies | 48 |
| 12 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 46 |
| 13 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | Chinese listed companies (82); China (73); financial constraints (61); state-owned enterprises (54); corporate governance (51) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (8); COVID-19 pandemic (3); disclosure decisions (3); firm performance (3); private information (3) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (66); COVID-19 pandemic (34); CO2 emissions (21); gender differences (16); income inequality (16) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | multinational corporations (17); family business (14); digital transformation (13); firm performance (11); moderating effect (11) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | mixed-integer linear programming (17); multi-objective optimization (16); combinatorial optimization (11); last-mile delivery (9); robust optimization (9) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 48 |
| 3 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 48 |
| 4 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 46 |
| 5 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 43 |
| 6 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 43 |
| 7 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 42 |
| 8 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 42 |
| 9 | Shandong University | 41 |
| 10 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 325 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 241 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 130 |
| 4 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 100 |
| 5 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 87 |
| 6 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 81 |
| 7 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 75 |
| 8 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 73 |
| 9 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 72 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 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)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/scaled-dot-product-attention-transformer.md) | 124 |
| 2 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 100 |
| 3 | [Convolutional neural network (CNN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/convolutional-neural-network-cnn.md) | 83 |
| 4 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 74 |
| 5 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 59 |
| 6 | [Mediation model (indirect effect)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/mediation-model-indirect-effect.md) | 41 |
| 7 | [Generative adversarial network (GAN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/generative-adversarial-network-gan.md) | 36 |
| 8 | [Long short-term memory (LSTM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/long-short-term-memory-lstm.md) | 34 |
| 9 | [Random forest](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/random-forest.md) | 32 |
| 10 | [Difference-in-differences](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/difference-in-differences.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-025-10581-7) | [Information Systems Frontiers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-systems-frontiers.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.102887) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.126982) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2025-02-21 | Jing Yang, Yuangui Wu, Yuping Yuan et al. |
| 4 | 106 | 5.3 | [Artificial intelligence and corporate ESG performance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2025.104036) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-025-11035-6) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2025-02-19 | Montaser Abdelsattar, Ahmed AbdelMoety, Ahmed Emad-Eldeen |
| 6 | 94 | 4.7 | [Diffusion Models in Low-Level Vision: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3545047) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3546356) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-025-00856-3) | [Review of Managerial Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-managerial-science.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-025-00994-z) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2025-02-25 | Yizhen Zheng, Huan Yee Koh, Jiaxin Ju et al. |
| 10 | 80 | 4.0 | [DiffFace: Diffusion-based face swapping with facial guidance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2025.111451) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).