Research published in October 2025

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in October 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 October 2025, the tracked journals published 3,737 papers (finance 621, accounting 49, economics 801, management 395, operations research 491, AI 1,380).
The most frequent keywords were “China” (133), “Chinese listed companies” (112) and “large language models” (83).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “explainable AI” (42 papers, +17), “digital infrastructure” (20 papers, +14) and “AI ethics” (22 papers, +12).
The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (55), Tsinghua University (54) and Sun Yat-sen University (46).
China was involved in 48% of the papers.
The most-cited paper published that month is “Theory and theory development: Guidelines for establishing theoretical gaps, foundations, contributions, and implications” (Journal of Business Research), with 165 citations so far.

Papers by category#

Papers published in October 2025
Category	Papers
Finance	621
Accounting	49
Economics	801
Management	395
Operations Research	491
AI	1,380

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, October 2025
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	133
2	Chinese listed companies	112
3	large language models	83
4	corporate governance	83
5	financial constraints	71
6	state-owned enterprises	65
7	COVID-19 pandemic	62
8	graph neural networks	61
9	digital transformation	58
10	regional heterogeneity	50
11	moderating effect	45
12	explainable AI	42
13	green innovation	41
14	artificial intelligence	40
15	contrastive learning	40

Growing keywords#

Papers in October 2025 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
explainable AI	42	25.0	+17.0
digital infrastructure	20	6.5	+13.5
AI ethics	22	9.9	+12.1
diffusion models	31	18.9	+12.1
generative AI	29	17.8	+11.2
information transparency	21	10.1	+10.9
mechanism design	15	4.7	+10.3
digital twin	16	6.5	+9.5
domain shift	17	7.6	+9.4
inflation	24	15.2	+8.8

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, October 2025
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	Chinese listed companies (77); corporate governance (55); China (53); state-owned enterprises (46); financial constraints (44)
Accounting	corporate governance (12); Chinese listed companies (4); financial constraints (3); tax avoidance (3); 10-K filings (2)
Economics	China (68); inflation (21); COVID-19 pandemic (20); monetary policy (19); income inequality (18)
Management	digital transformation (18); Chinese listed companies (15); small and medium-sized enterprises (12); corporate social responsibility (10); dynamic capabilities (10)
Operations Research	mixed-integer linear programming (29); multi-objective optimization (14); distributionally robust optimization (13); COVID-19 pandemic (11); adaptive large neighborhood search (11)
AI	large language models (66); graph neural networks (60); contrastive learning (40); class imbalance (34); explainable AI (33)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, October 2025
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	55
2	Tsinghua University	54
3	Sun Yat-sen University	46
4	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	45
5	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	45
6	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	41
7	Peking University	41
8	Zhejiang University	40
9	Harbin Institute of Technology	38
10	Tongji University	38

Countries#

Countries, October 2025
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,779
2	United States	579
3	United Kingdom	296
4	Australia	175
5	Germany	175
6	Italy	165
7	France	139
8	Hong Kong	131
9	India	131
10	Canada	120

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, October 2025
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	275
2	Finance research letters	234
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	198
4	Pattern Recognition	125
5	Neural Networks	112
6	Information Fusion	81
7	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	75
8	Computers & Industrial Engineering	74
9	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	71
10	AI & Society	68

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, October 2025 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	29
2	Linear and integer programming	28
3	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	25
4	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	13
5	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	6
6	Generative adversarial network (GAN)	6
7	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	6
8	Q-learning	5
9	Stackelberg game	5
10	Kullback-Leibler divergence	4

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, October 2025 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	ImageNet	7
2	CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	5
3	MS COCO	4
4	MNIST / Fashion-MNIST	2
5	MuJoCo	2
6	YouTube / TikTok	2
7	ADE20K	1
8	Cora / CiteSeer / PubMed (Planetoid)	1
9	Face recognition (LFW, CelebA, VGGFace2)	1
10	Facebook	1

Most-cited papers published in October 2025#

Most-cited papers published in October 2025 (citations counted by OpenAlex, updated daily)
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	165	13.8	Theory and theory development: Guidelines for establishing theoretical gaps, foundations, contributions, and implications	Journal of Business Research	2025-10-27	Weng Marc Lim
2	118	10.0	Datasets for large language models: a comprehensive survey	Artificial Intelligence Review	2025-10-31	Yang Liu, Jiahuan Cao, Chongyu Liu et al.
3	117	9.5	Safeguarding large language models: a survey	Artificial Intelligence Review	2025-10-17	Yi Dong, Ronghui Mu, Yanghao Zhang et al.
4	64	5.3	Applications, classifications, and challenges: a comprehensive evaluation of recently developed metaheuristics for search and analysis	Artificial Intelligence Review	2025-10-23	Muhammad Suhail Shaikh, Saurav Raj, Gengzhong Zheng et al.
5	61	5.0	A survey on retrieval-augmentation generation (RAG) models for healthcare applications	Neural Computing and Applications	2025-10-16	Mohamed Ahmed Abo El-Enen, Sally Saad, Taymoor Mohamed Nazmy
6	58	4.7	CNNs, RNNs and Transformers in human action recognition: a survey and a hybrid model	Artificial Intelligence Review	2025-10-17	Khaled Alomar, Halil Ibrahim Aysel, Xiaohao Cai
7	51	4.3	Intelligent financial system: How AI is transforming finance	Journal of Financial Stability	2025-10-29	Iñaki Aldasoro, Leonardo Gambacorta, Anton Korinek et al.
8	49	4.0	A Comprehensive Survey of Dynamic Graph Neural Networks: Models, Frameworks, Benchmarks, Experiments and Challenges	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2025-10-14	ZhengZhao Feng, Rui Wang, TianXing Wang et al.
9	48	3.8	Sample-efficient backtrack temporal difference deep reinforcement learning	Knowledge-Based Systems	2025-10-10	Qi Liu, Pengbin Chen, Ke Lin et al.
10	48	3.9	Resolving data bias improves generalization in binding affinity prediction	Nature Machine Intelligence	2025-10-21	David Graber, Peter Stockinger, Fabian Meyer et al.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in October 2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-10

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  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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