Research published in June 2025

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in June 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 June 2025, the tracked journals published 3,990 papers (finance 636, accounting 75, economics 873, management 403, operations research 441, AI 1,562).
The most frequent keywords were “China” (141), “Chinese listed companies” (112) and “COVID-19 pandemic” (78).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “large language models” (72 papers, +25), “diffusion models” (32 papers, +18) and “transformer models” (41 papers, +15).
The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (52), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (51) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (51).
China was involved in 48% of the papers.
The most-cited paper published that month is “YOLO advances to its genesis: a decadal and comprehensive review of the You Only Look Once (YOLO) series” (Artificial Intelligence Review), with 370 citations so far.

Papers by category#

Papers published in June 2025
Category	Papers
Finance	636
Accounting	75
Economics	873
Management	403
Operations Research	441
AI	1,562

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, June 2025
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	141
2	Chinese listed companies	112
3	COVID-19 pandemic	78
4	large language models	72
5	financial constraints	72
6	state-owned enterprises	70
7	corporate governance	67
8	moderating effect	63
9	graph neural networks	60
10	regional heterogeneity	51
11	contrastive learning	48
12	digital transformation	46
13	emerging markets	45
14	artificial intelligence	44
15	listed companies	44

Growing keywords#

Papers in June 2025 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
large language models	72	46.7	+25.3
diffusion models	32	14.3	+17.7
transformer models	41	26.4	+14.6
computational efficiency	39	25.8	+13.2
resource allocation	25	13.8	+11.2
autonomous driving	23	12.2	+10.8
mixed-integer linear programming	31	20.5	+10.5
link prediction	20	9.6	+10.4
greenwashing	17	6.6	+10.4
multimodal large language models	13	2.7	+10.3

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, June 2025
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	Chinese listed companies (87); China (66); state-owned enterprises (54); financial constraints (52); corporate governance (44)
Accounting	corporate governance (7); financial constraints (6); Chinese listed companies (5); COVID-19 pandemic (4); earnings management (4)
Economics	China (65); COVID-19 pandemic (37); economic growth (19); regional heterogeneity (18); energy transition (17)
Management	consumer behavior (14); emerging markets (12); purchase intention (12); artificial intelligence (11); moderating effect (11)
Operations Research	mixed-integer linear programming (26); multi-objective optimization (19); mixed integer programming (14); column generation (11); vehicle routing (11)
AI	large language models (66); graph neural networks (57); contrastive learning (48); convolutional neural networks (40); computational efficiency (36)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, June 2025
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	52
2	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	51
3	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	51
4	Beihang University	50
5	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	49
6	Zhejiang University	47
7	Tsinghua University	44
8	Northwestern Polytechnical University	42
9	Shenzhen University	42
10	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	42

Countries#

Countries, June 2025
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,905
2	United States	570
3	United Kingdom	337
4	Australia	190
5	Germany	187
6	India	171
7	France	163
8	Italy	153
9	Hong Kong	135
10	South Korea	113

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, June 2025
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	377
2	Finance research letters	180
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	156
4	International Review of Economics & Finance	126
5	Pattern Recognition	124
6	Neural Networks	101
7	Applied Intelligence	93
8	Neural Computing and Applications	93
9	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	83
10	Information Fusion	76

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, June 2025 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	136
2	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	106
3	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	94
4	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	78
5	Linear and integer programming	77
6	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	38
7	Mediation model (indirect effect)	38
8	Difference-in-differences	34
9	Gradient boosting (XGBoost)	31
10	Two-way fixed-effects panel regression	29

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, June 2025 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	Economic Policy Uncertainty index	23
2	Climate Policy Uncertainty index	13
3	ImageNet	9
4	S&P 500	8
5	nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse	7
6	China Household Finance Survey (CHFS)	6
7	Google Trends	6
8	Twitter / X	6
9	CEC benchmark functions	5
10	China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)	5

Most-cited papers published in June 2025#

Most-cited papers published in June 2025 (citations counted by OpenAlex, updated daily)
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	370	22.4	YOLO advances to its genesis: a decadal and comprehensive review of the You Only Look Once (YOLO) series	Artificial Intelligence Review	2025-06-10	Ranjan Sapkota, Marco Flores-Calero, Rizwan Qureshi et al.
2	159	9.9	A framework to evaluate machine learning crystal stability predictions	Nature Machine Intelligence	2025-06-23	Janosh Riebesell, Rhys E. A. Goodall, Philipp Benner et al.
3	132	8.0	A survey of deep learning for industrial visual anomaly detection	Artificial Intelligence Review	2025-06-13	Zhuo Li, Yuhao Yan, Xiangheng Wang et al.
4	125	7.5	Covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM): a SmartPLS 4 software tutorial	Journal of Marketing Analytics	2025-06-07	Joseph F. Hair, Barry J. Babin, Christian M. Ringle et al.
5	92	5.6	On the design fundamentals of diffusion models: A survey	Pattern Recognition	2025-06-14	Ziyi Chang, George Alex Koulieris, Hyung Jin Chang et al.
6	90	5.6	Deep Graph Anomaly Detection: A Survey and New Perspectives	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2025-06-23	Hezhe Qiao, Hanghang Tong, Bo An et al.
7	81	4.9	Variational Positive-Incentive Noise: How Noise Benefits Models	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2025-06-06	Hongyuan Zhang, Sida Huang, Yubin Guo et al.
8	79	4.8	MFEL-YOLO for small object detection in UAV aerial images	Expert Systems with Applications	2025-06-07	Ting Hou, Chengcai Leng, Jiaxin Wang et al.
9	76	4.5	AgentAI: A comprehensive survey on autonomous agents in distributed AI for industry 4.0	Expert Systems with Applications	2025-06-02	Francesco Piccialli, Diletta Chiaro, Sundas Sarwar et al.
10	72	4.4	Comprehensive review of recent developments in visual object detection based on deep learning	Artificial Intelligence Review	2025-06-12	Enerst Edozie, Aliyu Nuhu Shuaibu, Ukagwu Kelechi John et al.

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in June 2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-06

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  title = {Research published in June 2025},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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