Research published in September 2025

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in September 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 September 2025, the tracked journals published 3,366 papers (finance 537, accounting 60, economics 764, management 363, operations research 414, AI 1,228).
The most frequent keywords were “China” (112), “Chinese listed companies” (86) and “large language models” (79).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “large language models” (79 papers, +28), “class imbalance” (51 papers, +20) and “reinforcement learning” (34 papers, +16).
The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (48), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (44) and Zhejiang University (44).
China was involved in 46% of the papers.
The most-cited paper published that month is “Vision Mamba: A Comprehensive Survey and Taxonomy” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems), with 146 citations so far.

Papers by category#

Papers published in September 2025
Category	Papers
Finance	537
Accounting	60
Economics	764
Management	363
Operations Research	414
AI	1,228

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, September 2025
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	112
2	Chinese listed companies	86
3	large language models	79
4	corporate governance	62
5	COVID-19 pandemic	61
6	state-owned enterprises	54
7	financial constraints	52
8	class imbalance	51
9	regional heterogeneity	46
10	graph neural networks	42
11	listed companies	41
12	moderating effect	40
13	artificial intelligence	39
14	digital transformation	39
15	reinforcement learning	34

Growing keywords#

Papers in September 2025 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
large language models	79	50.7	+28.3
class imbalance	51	31.0	+20.0
reinforcement learning	34	18.0	+16.0
economic growth	33	21.1	+11.9
non-IID data	15	5.2	+9.8
fintech	21	12.1	+8.9
AI ethics	17	8.2	+8.8
energy consumption	19	10.3	+8.7
counterfactual analysis	11	2.4	+8.6
supply chain finance	13	5.0	+8.0

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, September 2025
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	Chinese listed companies (63); China (51); state-owned enterprises (41); corporate governance (40); financial constraints (37)
Accounting	corporate governance (9); sustainability reporting (5); Chinese listed companies (4); accounting education (4); emerging markets (4)
Economics	China (52); economic growth (23); energy transition (20); COVID-19 pandemic (19); gender differences (17)
Management	digital transformation (15); artificial intelligence (14); consumer behavior (12); emerging markets (11); multinational corporations (11)
Operations Research	mixed-integer linear programming (18); multi-objective optimization (17); mixed integer programming (12); two-stage stochastic programming (12); demand uncertainty (11)
AI	large language models (62); class imbalance (48); graph neural networks (38); contrastive learning (27); attention mechanism (26)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, September 2025
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	48
2	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	44
3	Zhejiang University	44
4	Wuhan University	40
5	Xi'an Jiaotong University	39
6	Tsinghua University	38
7	Southeast University	36
8	Peking University	35
9	Renmin University of China	34
10	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	34

Countries#

Countries, September 2025
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,548
2	United States	487
3	United Kingdom	280
4	Germany	166
5	Australia	161
6	France	157
7	Italy	149
8	India	135
9	Hong Kong	112
10	South Korea	103

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, September 2025
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	225
2	Finance research letters	199
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	137
4	Neural Networks	101
5	Neural Computing and Applications	97
6	Pattern Recognition	96
7	Information Fusion	78
8	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	74
9	International Review of Economics & Finance	59
10	Journal of Business Research	57

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, September 2025 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	120
2	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	82
3	Linear and integer programming	56
4	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	54
5	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	53
6	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	45
7	Difference-in-differences	28
8	Mediation model (indirect effect)	26
9	Total factor productivity (Solow residual)	25
10	Generative adversarial network (GAN)	24

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, September 2025 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	Economic Policy Uncertainty index	13
2	nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse	10
3	Twitter / X	9
4	CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	7
5	ImageNet	7
6	YouTube / TikTok	7
7	MS COCO	6
8	VIX	6
9	CEC benchmark functions	5
10	Climate Policy Uncertainty index	5

Most-cited papers published in September 2025#

Most-cited papers published in September 2025 (citations counted by OpenAlex, updated daily)
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	146	11.1	Vision Mamba: A Comprehensive Survey and Taxonomy	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2025-09-22	Xiao Liu, Chenxu Zhang, Fuxiang Huang et al.
2	105	7.7	WaterCycleDiffusion: Visual–textual fusion empowered underwater image enhancement	Information Fusion	2025-09-06	Hao Wang, Weibo Zhang, Yinghao Xu et al.
3	55	4.3	Generative AI and misinformation: a scoping review of the role of generative AI in the generation, detection, mitigation, and impact of misinformation	AI & Society	2025-09-30	Seyeon Park, Xiaoli Nan
4	53	4.1	Video anomaly detection in 10 years: a survey and outlook	Neural Computing and Applications	2025-09-23	Moshira Abdalla, Sajid Javed, Muaz Al Radi et al.
5	50	3.7	Optimizing feature selection with genetic algorithms: a review of methods and applications	Knowledge and Information Systems	2025-09-05	Zhila Yaseen Taha, Abdulhady Abas Abdullah, Tarik Ahmed Rashid
6	46	3.5	How does artificial intelligence digital human live streaming increase TikTok consumer repeat purchase? Interaction between vividness, telepresence, credibility and trust	Journal of Business Research	2025-09-16	Shaofeng Wang, Jimeng Qiang, Kaibo Yao
7	45	3.3	Mask-DiFuser: A Masked Diffusion Model for Unified Unsupervised Image Fusion	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2025-09-12	Linfeng Tang, Chunyu Li, Jiayi Ma
8	45	3.5	An emergency scheduling method based on AutoML for space maneuver objective tracking	Expert Systems with Applications	2025-09-27	Xi Long, Jinrun Chen, Yang Leping et al.
9	44	3.4	A hybrid method combining three-way decision and DEA game cross-efficiency for procurement mode selection in contract farming	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	2025-09-29	Sen Liu, Sen Liu, Rongrong Jiang et al.
10	42	3.0	Scalable Fuzzy Clustering With Collaborative Structure Learning and Preservation	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	2025-09-01	Bingbing Jiang, Chenglong Zhang, Zhongli Wang et al.

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in September 2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-09

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  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-09}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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