---
title: "Research in June 2025: top topics and papers"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "In June 2025, the tracked journals published 3,990 papers (finance 636, accounting 75, economics 873, management 403, operations research 441, AI 1,562)."
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-26T18:01:08+09:00
window: 2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26
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---

# 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.

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 636 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 75 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 873 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 403 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 441 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1,562 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, June 2025*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 141 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 112 |
| 3 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 78 |
| 4 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 72 |
| 5 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 72 |
| 6 | state-owned enterprises | 70 |
| 7 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 67 |
| 8 | moderating effect | 63 |
| 9 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 60 |
| 10 | regional heterogeneity | 51 |
| 11 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 48 |
| 12 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 46 |
| 13 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 45 |
| 14 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | Chinese listed companies (87); China (66); state-owned enterprises (54); financial constraints (52); corporate governance (44) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (7); financial constraints (6); Chinese listed companies (5); COVID-19 pandemic (4); earnings management (4) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (65); COVID-19 pandemic (37); economic growth (19); regional heterogeneity (18); energy transition (17) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | consumer behavior (14); emerging markets (12); purchase intention (12); artificial intelligence (11); moderating effect (11) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | mixed-integer linear programming (26); multi-objective optimization (19); mixed integer programming (14); column generation (11); vehicle routing (11) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 52 |
| 2 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 51 |
| 3 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 51 |
| 4 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 50 |
| 5 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 49 |
| 6 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 47 |
| 7 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 44 |
| 8 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 42 |
| 9 | Shenzhen University | 42 |
| 10 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 377 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 180 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 156 |
| 4 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 126 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 124 |
| 6 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 101 |
| 7 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 93 |
| 8 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 93 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 83 |
| 10 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 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)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/scaled-dot-product-attention-transformer.md) | 136 |
| 2 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 106 |
| 3 | [Convolutional neural network (CNN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/convolutional-neural-network-cnn.md) | 94 |
| 4 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 78 |
| 5 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 77 |
| 6 | [Long short-term memory (LSTM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/long-short-term-memory-lstm.md) | 38 |
| 7 | [Mediation model (indirect effect)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/mediation-model-indirect-effect.md) | 38 |
| 8 | [Difference-in-differences](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/difference-in-differences.md) | 34 |
| 9 | [Gradient boosting (XGBoost)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/gradient-boosting-xgboost.md) | 31 |
| 10 | [Two-way fixed-effects panel regression](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/two-way-fixed-effects-panel-regression.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11253-3) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-025-01055-1) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11287-7) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41270-025-00414-6) | [Journal of Marketing Analytics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-marketing-analytics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2025.111934) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2025.3581578) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2025-06-23 | Hezhe Qiao, Hanghang Tong, Bo An et al. |
| 7 | 81 | 4.9 | [Variational Positive-Incentive Noise: How Noise Benefits Models](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3575295) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.128459) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.128404) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11284-w) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 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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