Research published in August 2025
What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in August 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 August 2025, the tracked journals published 3,954 papers (finance 733, accounting 55, economics 862, management 359, operations research 454, AI 1,491).
- The most frequent keywords were “China” (175), “Chinese listed companies” (122) and “corporate governance” (94).
- Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “large language models” (91 papers, +36), “regional heterogeneity” (72 papers, +33) and “listed companies” (58 papers, +22).
- The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (80), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (50) and Zhejiang University (47).
- China was involved in 48% of the papers.
- The most-cited paper published that month is “AI Agents vs. Agentic AI: A Conceptual taxonomy, applications and challenges” (Information Fusion), with 268 citations so far.
Papers by category#
| Category | Papers |
|---|---|
| Finance | 733 |
| Accounting | 55 |
| Economics | 862 |
| Management | 359 |
| Operations Research | 454 |
| AI | 1,491 |
Top keywords#
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 175 |
| 2 | Chinese listed companies | 122 |
| 3 | corporate governance | 94 |
| 4 | financial constraints | 92 |
| 5 | large language models | 91 |
| 6 | regional heterogeneity | 72 |
| 7 | state-owned enterprises | 68 |
| 8 | COVID-19 pandemic | 62 |
| 9 | moderating effect | 61 |
| 10 | listed companies | 58 |
| 11 | information asymmetry | 57 |
| 12 | graph neural networks | 54 |
| 13 | green innovation | 51 |
| 14 | digital transformation | 46 |
| 15 | artificial intelligence | 44 |
Growing keywords#
| Keyword | Papers | At earlier share | Extra papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| large language models | 91 | 55.0 | +36.0 |
| regional heterogeneity | 72 | 39.1 | +32.9 |
| listed companies | 58 | 35.7 | +22.3 |
| green innovation | 51 | 34.0 | +17.0 |
| R&D investment | 36 | 19.6 | +16.4 |
| Mamba | 23 | 6.7 | +16.3 |
| emissions trading | 22 | 12.1 | +9.9 |
| information transparency | 19 | 9.3 | +9.7 |
| digital economy | 28 | 18.4 | +9.6 |
| digital finance | 20 | 10.8 | +9.2 |
Top keywords by category#
| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| Finance | Chinese listed companies (96); China (86); financial constraints (69); corporate governance (61); regional heterogeneity (55) |
| Accounting | corporate governance (9); information asymmetry (4); COVID-19 pandemic (3); Chinese listed companies (3); agency theory (3) |
| Economics | China (78); COVID-19 pandemic (21); green innovation (20); financial constraints (19); spillover effects (18) |
| Management | corporate governance (15); competitive advantage (13); consumer behavior (12); digital transformation (12); purchase intention (12) |
| Operations Research | mixed-integer linear programming (18); adaptive large neighborhood search (14); multi-objective optimization (14); vehicle routing (13); robust optimization (12) |
| AI | large language models (82); graph neural networks (53); contrastive learning (41); class imbalance (39); transformer models (31) |
Institutions#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 80 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 50 |
| 3 | Zhejiang University | 47 |
| 4 | Tsinghua University | 46 |
| 5 | Peking University | 43 |
| 6 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 43 |
| 7 | Sun Yat-sen University | 43 |
| 8 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 43 |
| 9 | Wuhan University | 41 |
| 10 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 40 |
Countries#
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1,896 |
| 2 | United States | 611 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 321 |
| 4 | Australia | 177 |
| 5 | India | 171 |
| 6 | France | 164 |
| 7 | Germany | 161 |
| 8 | Italy | 153 |
| 9 | Canada | 131 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 130 |
Journals#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 278 |
| 2 | Finance research letters | 245 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 159 |
| 4 | Pattern Recognition | 143 |
| 5 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 131 |
| 6 | Neural Networks | 121 |
| 7 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 98 |
| 8 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 94 |
| 9 | Information Fusion | 81 |
| 10 | Energy Economics | 75 |
Equations and models#
| # | Equation or model | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer) | 114 |
| 2 | Graph neural network (graph convolution) | 113 |
| 3 | Contrastive loss (InfoNCE) | 75 |
| 4 | Linear and integer programming | 68 |
| 5 | Convolutional neural network (CNN) | 66 |
| 6 | Mediation model (indirect effect) | 41 |
| 7 | Long short-term memory (LSTM) | 40 |
| 8 | Difference-in-differences | 35 |
| 9 | Total factor productivity (Solow residual) | 35 |
| 10 | Instrumental variables (two-stage least squares) | 29 |
Datasets#
| # | Dataset | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Economic Policy Uncertainty index | 18 |
| 2 | Climate Policy Uncertainty index | 14 |
| 3 | Twitter / X | 13 |
| 4 | S&P 500 | 12 |
| 5 | ImageNet | 10 |
| 6 | MS COCO | 8 |
| 7 | China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) | 7 |
| 8 | CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 | 7 |
| 9 | Trade Policy Uncertainty index | 7 |
| 10 | KITTI | 6 |
Most-cited papers published in August 2025#
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in August 2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-08
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howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-08}},
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note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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