---
title: "Research in July 2025: top topics and papers"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-07
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-07.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "In July 2025, the tracked journals published 4,628 papers (finance 672, accounting 84, economics 977, management 512, operations research 544, AI 1,839)."
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-26T18:01:08+09:00
window: 2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# 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.

## 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

*Papers published in July 2025*

| Category | Papers |
|---|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 672 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 84 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 977 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 512 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 544 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1,839 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, July 2025*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 156 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 110 |
| 3 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 93 |
| 4 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 77 |
| 5 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 75 |
| 6 | state-owned enterprises | 75 |
| 7 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 64 |
| 8 | attention mechanism | 62 |
| 9 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 62 |
| 10 | moderating effect | 61 |
| 11 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 60 |
| 12 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 58 |
| 13 | regional heterogeneity | 55 |
| 14 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 52 |
| 15 | class imbalance | 51 |

## Growing keywords

*Papers in July 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) | 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

*The five most frequent keywords per category, July 2025*

| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | Chinese listed companies (78); China (63); state-owned enterprises (57); financial constraints (50); corporate governance (44) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (12); audit fees (8); audit quality (5); mergers and acquisitions (5); China (4) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (76); COVID-19 pandemic (28); energy transition (24); CO2 emissions (20); financial constraints (18) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | digital transformation (17); moderating effect (17); consumer behavior (15); emerging markets (15); firm performance (15) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | mixed-integer linear programming (24); multi-objective optimization (23); demand uncertainty (15); adaptive large neighborhood search (14); circular economy (13) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | large language models (80); graph neural networks (60); attention mechanism (57); contrastive learning (57); class imbalance (47) |

## Institutions

*Institutions with the most papers, July 2025*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 70 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 69 |
| 3 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 62 |
| 4 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 62 |
| 5 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 56 |
| 6 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 55 |
| 7 | Sun Yat-sen University | 55 |
| 8 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 53 |
| 9 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 52 |
| 10 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 51 |

## Countries

*Countries, July 2025*

| # | 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

*Journals with the most papers, July 2025*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 391 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 211 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 205 |
| 4 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 184 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 156 |
| 6 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 129 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 129 |
| 8 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 94 |
| 9 | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 85 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 80 |

## Equations and models

*Most-mentioned equations and models, July 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) | 173 |
| 2 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 128 |
| 3 | [Convolutional neural network (CNN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/convolutional-neural-network-cnn.md) | 87 |
| 4 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 84 |
| 5 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 73 |
| 6 | [Long short-term memory (LSTM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/long-short-term-memory-lstm.md) | 47 |
| 7 | [Mediation model (indirect effect)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/mediation-model-indirect-effect.md) | 45 |
| 8 | [Difference-in-differences](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/difference-in-differences.md) | 42 |
| 9 | [Shapley value (SHAP)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/shapley-value-shap.md) | 31 |
| 10 | [Generative adversarial network (GAN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/generative-adversarial-network-gan.md) | 28 |

## Datasets

*Most-mentioned datasets, July 2025 (titles, abstracts and keywords)*

| # | 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

*Most-cited papers published in July 2025 (citations counted by OpenAlex, updated daily)*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 222 | 14.7 | [Physics-informed neural networks for PDE problems: a comprehensive review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11322-7) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2025-07-24 | Kuang Luo, Jingshang Zhao, Ying‐Ping Wang et al. |
| 2 | 203 | 12.9 | [Exploring automation bias in human–AI collaboration: a review and implications for explainable AI](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02422-7) | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 2025-07-03 | Giuseppe Romeo, Daniela Conti |
| 3 | 103 | 6.6 | [Comprehensive review of artificial intelligence applications in renewable energy systems: current implementations and emerging trends](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-025-01178-7) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2025-07-11 | Chukwuebuka Joseph Ejiyi, Dongsheng Cai, D. A. H. Thomas et al. |
| 4 | 97 | 6.2 | [AI and employee wellbeing in the workplace: An empirical study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115584) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2025-07-07 | Alena Valtonen, Minna Saunila, Juhani Ukko et al. |
| 5 | 90 | 5.9 | [Unveiling trust in AI: the interplay of antecedents, consequences, and cultural dynamics](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02477-6) | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 2025-07-15 | Qinpu Dang, Guiquan Li |
| 6 | 73 | 4.9 | [Cuckoo catfish optimizer: a new meta-heuristic optimization algorithm](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11291-x) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2025-07-29 | Tianlei Wang, Shao-Wei Gu, Renju Liu et al. |
| 7 | 72 | 4.6 | [DADIGAN: A dual attention blocks-based disentangled iterative Generative Adversarial Network for cloud and shadow removal on SAR and optical images](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2025.103487) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2025-07-08 | Zhongchen He, Peng Wang, Yunkun Zou et al. |
| 8 | 69 | 4.6 | [A Survey of Text-to-SQL in the Era of LLMs: Where Are We, and Where Are We Going?](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2025.3592032) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2025-07-24 | Xinyu Liu, Shuyu Shen, Boyan Li et al. |
| 9 | 68 | 4.3 | [Scalable prediction of heterogeneous traffic flow with enhanced non-periodic feature modeling](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.128847) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2025-07-02 | Jing Chen, Sheng Zhang, Wenqiang Xu |
| 10 | 67 | 4.5 | [A new method for bearing remaining useful life prediction based on dynamic wavelet and physical information constraints](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.129023) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2025-07-25 | Jiayang Zhao, Deqiang He, Zhenzhen Jin et al. |

## 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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@misc{scholar4ai-reports-2025-07,
  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}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).