---
title: "Research in September 2025: top topics and papers"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-09
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-09.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "In September 2025, the tracked journals published 3,366 papers (finance 537, accounting 60, economics 764, management 363, operations research 414, AI 1,228)."
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 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.

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 537 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 60 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 764 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 363 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 414 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1,228 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, September 2025*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 112 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 86 |
| 3 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 79 |
| 4 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 62 |
| 5 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 61 |
| 6 | state-owned enterprises | 54 |
| 7 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 52 |
| 8 | class imbalance | 51 |
| 9 | regional heterogeneity | 46 |
| 10 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 42 |
| 11 | listed companies | 41 |
| 12 | moderating effect | 40 |
| 13 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 39 |
| 14 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | Chinese listed companies (63); China (51); state-owned enterprises (41); corporate governance (40); financial constraints (37) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (9); sustainability reporting (5); Chinese listed companies (4); accounting education (4); emerging markets (4) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (52); economic growth (23); energy transition (20); COVID-19 pandemic (19); gender differences (17) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | digital transformation (15); artificial intelligence (14); consumer behavior (12); emerging markets (11); multinational corporations (11) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | mixed-integer linear programming (18); multi-objective optimization (17); mixed integer programming (12); two-stage stochastic programming (12); demand uncertainty (11) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 48 |
| 2 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 44 |
| 3 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 44 |
| 4 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 40 |
| 5 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 39 |
| 6 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 38 |
| 7 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 36 |
| 8 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 35 |
| 9 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 34 |
| 10 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 225 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 199 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 137 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 101 |
| 5 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 97 |
| 6 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 96 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 78 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 74 |
| 9 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 59 |
| 10 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 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)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/scaled-dot-product-attention-transformer.md) | 120 |
| 2 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 82 |
| 3 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 56 |
| 4 | [Convolutional neural network (CNN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/convolutional-neural-network-cnn.md) | 54 |
| 5 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 53 |
| 6 | [Long short-term memory (LSTM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/long-short-term-memory-lstm.md) | 45 |
| 7 | [Difference-in-differences](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/difference-in-differences.md) | 28 |
| 8 | [Mediation model (indirect effect)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/mediation-model-indirect-effect.md) | 26 |
| 9 | [Total factor productivity (Solow residual)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/total-factor-productivity-solow-residual.md) | 25 |
| 10 | [Generative adversarial network (GAN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/generative-adversarial-network-gan.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2025.3610435) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2025-09-22 | Xiao Liu, Chenxu Zhang, Fuxiang Huang et al. |
| 2 | 105 | 7.7 | [WaterCycleDiffusion: Visual–textual fusion empowered underwater image enhancement](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2025.103693) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02620-3) | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 2025-09-30 | Seyeon Park, Xiaoli Nan |
| 4 | 53 | 4.1 | [Video anomaly detection in 10 years: a survey and outlook](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-025-11659-8) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-025-02515-1) | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115702) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2025-09-16 | Shaofeng Wang, Jimeng Qiang, Kaibo Yao |
| 7 | 45 | 3.3 | [Mask-DiFuser: A Masked Diffusion Model for Unified Unsupervised Image Fusion](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3609323) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.129759) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2025.102336) | [Socio-Economic Planning Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/socio-economic-planning-sciences.md) | 2025-09-29 | Sen Liu, Sen Liu, Rongrong Jiang et al. |
| 10 | 42 | 3.0 | [Scalable Fuzzy Clustering With Collaborative Structure Learning and Preservation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2025.3581679) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 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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  urldate = {2026-10-26},
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).