Research published in March 2025
What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in March 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.
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Key findings#
- In March 2025, the tracked journals published 3,971 papers (finance 694, accounting 66, economics 849, management 421, operations research 459, AI 1,482).
- The most frequent keywords were “China” (144), “Chinese listed companies” (100) and “corporate governance” (81).
- Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “large language models” (59 papers, +24), “transformer models” (41 papers, +19) and “artificial intelligence” (48 papers, +18).
- The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (62), Tsinghua University (58) and Wuhan University (52).
- China was involved in 46% of the papers.
- The most-cited paper published that month is “BERT applications in natural language processing: a review” (Artificial Intelligence Review), with 258 citations so far.
Papers by category#
| Category | Papers |
|---|---|
| Finance | 694 |
| Accounting | 66 |
| Economics | 849 |
| Management | 421 |
| Operations Research | 459 |
| AI | 1,482 |
Top keywords#
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 144 |
| 2 | Chinese listed companies | 100 |
| 3 | corporate governance | 81 |
| 4 | financial constraints | 73 |
| 5 | state-owned enterprises | 65 |
| 6 | COVID-19 pandemic | 61 |
| 7 | large language models | 59 |
| 8 | moderating effect | 52 |
| 9 | contrastive learning | 51 |
| 10 | artificial intelligence | 48 |
| 11 | attention mechanism | 47 |
| 12 | graph neural networks | 44 |
| 13 | emerging markets | 43 |
| 14 | information asymmetry | 42 |
| 15 | green innovation | 42 |
Growing keywords#
| Keyword | Papers | At earlier share | Extra papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| large language models | 59 | 34.5 | +24.5 |
| transformer models | 41 | 22.2 | +18.8 |
| artificial intelligence | 48 | 29.6 | +18.4 |
| generative AI | 30 | 13.7 | +16.3 |
| knowledge distillation | 32 | 20.9 | +11.1 |
| technological innovation | 26 | 14.9 | +11.1 |
| income inequality | 29 | 18.1 | +10.9 |
| graph attention networks | 19 | 8.4 | +10.6 |
| human-AI collaboration | 14 | 3.5 | +10.5 |
| entrepreneurial ecosystems | 15 | 4.8 | +10.2 |
Top keywords by category#
| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| Finance | Chinese listed companies (81); China (66); corporate governance (57); financial constraints (57); state-owned enterprises (52) |
| Accounting | corporate governance (8); earnings management (5); board independence (4); emerging markets (4); COVID-19 pandemic (3) |
| Economics | China (65); income inequality (24); COVID-19 pandemic (22); gender differences (22); economic growth (21) |
| Management | generative AI (16); research agenda (13); corporate social responsibility (12); moderating effect (11); small and medium-sized enterprises (11) |
| Operations Research | mixed integer programming (16); mixed-integer linear programming (16); makespan minimization (15); multi-objective optimization (14); demand uncertainty (13) |
| AI | contrastive learning (51); large language models (51); attention mechanism (46); graph neural networks (41); transformer models (41) |
Institutions#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 62 |
| 2 | Tsinghua University | 58 |
| 3 | Wuhan University | 52 |
| 4 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 51 |
| 5 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 50 |
| 6 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 49 |
| 7 | Zhejiang University | 48 |
| 8 | Beihang University | 43 |
| 9 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 41 |
| 10 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 41 |
Countries#
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1,816 |
| 2 | United States | 599 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 356 |
| 4 | Germany | 199 |
| 5 | France | 198 |
| 6 | Italy | 197 |
| 7 | Australia | 188 |
| 8 | India | 157 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 123 |
| 10 | Canada | 122 |
Journals#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 310 |
| 2 | Finance research letters | 192 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 137 |
| 4 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 129 |
| 5 | Pattern Recognition | 114 |
| 6 | Applied Intelligence | 113 |
| 7 | Neural Networks | 107 |
| 8 | Neural Computing and Applications | 96 |
| 9 | Energy Economics | 84 |
| 10 | AI & Society | 81 |
Equations and models#
| # | Equation or model | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer) | 125 |
| 2 | Graph neural network (graph convolution) | 105 |
| 3 | Convolutional neural network (CNN) | 79 |
| 4 | Linear and integer programming | 78 |
| 5 | Contrastive loss (InfoNCE) | 68 |
| 6 | Long short-term memory (LSTM) | 47 |
| 7 | Difference-in-differences | 37 |
| 8 | Mediation model (indirect effect) | 34 |
| 9 | Total factor productivity (Solow residual) | 30 |
| 10 | Gradient boosting (XGBoost) | 26 |
Datasets#
| # | Dataset | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Economic Policy Uncertainty index | 25 |
| 2 | Twitter / X | 18 |
| 3 | S&P 500 | 17 |
| 4 | Climate Policy Uncertainty index | 10 |
| 5 | China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) | 8 |
| 6 | CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 | 8 |
| 7 | ImageNet | 6 |
| 8 | WTI crude oil | 6 |
| 9 | 10-K filings | 5 |
| 10 | CEC benchmark functions | 5 |
Most-cited papers published in March 2025#
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in March 2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-03
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Research published in March 2025},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-03}},
urldate = {2026-10-26},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}