Research published in July 2025
What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in July 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 July 2025, the tracked journals published 4,628 papers (finance 672, accounting 84, economics 977, management 512, operations research 544, AI 1,839).
- The most frequent keywords were “China” (156), “Chinese listed companies” (110) and “large language models” (93).
- Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “large language models” (93 papers, +34), “AI ethics” (23 papers, +14) and “artificial intelligence adoption” (24 papers, +13).
- The institutions with the most papers were Tsinghua University (70), Chinese Academy of Sciences (69) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (62).
- China was involved in 48% of the papers.
- The most-cited paper published that month is “Physics-informed neural networks for PDE problems: a comprehensive review” (Artificial Intelligence Review), with 222 citations so far.
Papers by category#
| Category | Papers |
|---|---|
| Finance | 672 |
| Accounting | 84 |
| Economics | 977 |
| Management | 512 |
| Operations Research | 544 |
| AI | 1,839 |
Top keywords#
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 156 |
| 2 | Chinese listed companies | 110 |
| 3 | large language models | 93 |
| 4 | corporate governance | 77 |
| 5 | financial constraints | 75 |
| 6 | state-owned enterprises | 75 |
| 7 | COVID-19 pandemic | 64 |
| 8 | attention mechanism | 62 |
| 9 | graph neural networks | 62 |
| 10 | moderating effect | 61 |
| 11 | emerging markets | 60 |
| 12 | contrastive learning | 58 |
| 13 | regional heterogeneity | 55 |
| 14 | artificial intelligence | 52 |
| 15 | class imbalance | 51 |
Growing keywords#
| Keyword | Papers | At earlier share | Extra papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| large language models | 93 | 58.5 | +34.5 |
| AI ethics | 23 | 9.3 | +13.7 |
| artificial intelligence adoption | 24 | 10.8 | +13.2 |
| Mamba | 19 | 6.3 | +12.7 |
| AI governance | 18 | 5.5 | +12.5 |
| ChatGPT | 23 | 10.5 | +12.5 |
| diffusion models | 30 | 19.0 | +11.0 |
| knowledge graphs | 23 | 12.8 | +10.2 |
| state-space model | 14 | 3.8 | +10.2 |
| vision-language models | 21 | 10.8 | +10.2 |
Top keywords by category#
| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| Finance | Chinese listed companies (78); China (63); state-owned enterprises (57); financial constraints (50); corporate governance (44) |
| Accounting | corporate governance (12); audit fees (8); audit quality (5); mergers and acquisitions (5); China (4) |
| Economics | China (76); COVID-19 pandemic (28); energy transition (24); CO2 emissions (20); financial constraints (18) |
| Management | digital transformation (17); moderating effect (17); consumer behavior (15); emerging markets (15); firm performance (15) |
| Operations Research | mixed-integer linear programming (24); multi-objective optimization (23); demand uncertainty (15); adaptive large neighborhood search (14); circular economy (13) |
| AI | large language models (80); graph neural networks (60); attention mechanism (57); contrastive learning (57); class imbalance (47) |
Institutions#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tsinghua University | 70 |
| 2 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 69 |
| 3 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 62 |
| 4 | Zhejiang University | 62 |
| 5 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 56 |
| 6 | Peking University | 55 |
| 7 | Sun Yat-sen University | 55 |
| 8 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 53 |
| 9 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 52 |
| 10 | Sichuan University | 51 |
Countries#
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 2,234 |
| 2 | United States | 724 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 427 |
| 4 | Germany | 210 |
| 5 | Australia | 202 |
| 6 | India | 182 |
| 7 | Italy | 178 |
| 8 | France | 176 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 166 |
| 10 | Canada | 130 |
Journals#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 391 |
| 2 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 211 |
| 3 | Pattern Recognition | 205 |
| 4 | Finance research letters | 184 |
| 5 | Neural Networks | 156 |
| 6 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 129 |
| 7 | Information Fusion | 129 |
| 8 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 94 |
| 9 | AI & Society | 85 |
| 10 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 80 |
Equations and models#
| # | Equation or model | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer) | 173 |
| 2 | Graph neural network (graph convolution) | 128 |
| 3 | Convolutional neural network (CNN) | 87 |
| 4 | Contrastive loss (InfoNCE) | 84 |
| 5 | Linear and integer programming | 73 |
| 6 | Long short-term memory (LSTM) | 47 |
| 7 | Mediation model (indirect effect) | 45 |
| 8 | Difference-in-differences | 42 |
| 9 | Shapley value (SHAP) | 31 |
| 10 | Generative adversarial network (GAN) | 28 |
Datasets#
| # | Dataset | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Economic Policy Uncertainty index | 16 |
| 2 | Twitter / X | 15 |
| 3 | Climate Policy Uncertainty index | 12 |
| 4 | S&P 500 | 12 |
| 5 | CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 | 9 |
| 6 | Trade Policy Uncertainty index | 9 |
| 7 | VIX | 8 |
| 8 | MNIST / Fashion-MNIST | 6 |
| 9 | MS COCO | 6 |
| 10 | CEC benchmark functions | 5 |
Most-cited papers published in July 2025#
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in July 2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-07
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Research published in July 2025},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-07}},
urldate = {2026-10-26},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}