Research published in November 2025
What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in November 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 November 2025, the tracked journals published 4,003 papers (finance 749, accounting 82, economics 901, management 462, operations research 444, AI 1,365).
- The most frequent keywords were “China” (139), “Chinese listed companies” (125) and “large language models” (106).
- Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “large language models” (106 papers, +37), “information asymmetry” (63 papers, +21) and “generative AI” (38 papers, +18).
- The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (64), Tsinghua University (47) and Zhejiang University (45).
- China was involved in 47% of the papers.
- The most-cited paper published that month is “Agentic AI: a comprehensive survey of architectures, applications, and future directions” (Artificial Intelligence Review), with 178 citations so far.
Papers by category#
| Category | Papers |
|---|---|
| Finance | 749 |
| Accounting | 82 |
| Economics | 901 |
| Management | 462 |
| Operations Research | 444 |
| AI | 1,365 |
Top keywords#
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 139 |
| 2 | Chinese listed companies | 125 |
| 3 | large language models | 106 |
| 4 | corporate governance | 100 |
| 5 | financial constraints | 99 |
| 6 | state-owned enterprises | 74 |
| 7 | information asymmetry | 63 |
| 8 | COVID-19 pandemic | 61 |
| 9 | regional heterogeneity | 61 |
| 10 | moderating effect | 60 |
| 11 | digital transformation | 52 |
| 12 | graph neural networks | 49 |
| 13 | emerging markets | 48 |
| 14 | contrastive learning | 46 |
| 15 | listed companies | 44 |
Growing keywords#
| Keyword | Papers | At earlier share | Extra papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| large language models | 106 | 69.1 | +36.9 |
| information asymmetry | 63 | 41.9 | +21.1 |
| generative AI | 38 | 19.9 | +18.1 |
| green finance | 40 | 22.3 | +17.7 |
| R&D investment | 39 | 21.7 | +17.3 |
| carbon pricing | 24 | 10.6 | +13.4 |
| financial inclusion | 27 | 15.0 | +12.0 |
| analyst coverage | 18 | 6.3 | +11.7 |
| inflation expectations | 18 | 6.7 | +11.3 |
| agency theory | 18 | 7.1 | +10.9 |
Top keywords by category#
| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| Finance | Chinese listed companies (91); China (78); financial constraints (68); corporate governance (60); state-owned enterprises (52) |
| Accounting | corporate governance (18); Chinese listed companies (4); upper echelons theory (4); agency theory (3); board independence (3) |
| Economics | China (50); COVID-19 pandemic (31); financial constraints (19); energy transition (17); developing countries (16) |
| Management | digital transformation (24); small and medium-sized enterprises (18); generative AI (15); corporate social responsibility (14); Chinese listed companies (13) |
| Operations Research | mixed-integer linear programming (19); demand uncertainty (15); multi-objective optimization (13); vehicle routing (13); last-mile delivery (10) |
| AI | large language models (89); contrastive learning (45); graph neural networks (41); interpretability (40); multimodal fusion (38) |
Institutions#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 64 |
| 2 | Tsinghua University | 47 |
| 3 | Zhejiang University | 45 |
| 4 | Wuhan University | 44 |
| 5 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 44 |
| 6 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 43 |
| 7 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 43 |
| 8 | Southeast University | 43 |
| 9 | Peking University | 42 |
| 10 | Sichuan University | 39 |
Countries#
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1,893 |
| 2 | United States | 560 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 353 |
| 4 | Italy | 198 |
| 5 | Australia | 193 |
| 6 | Germany | 182 |
| 7 | France | 143 |
| 8 | India | 140 |
| 9 | Spain | 121 |
| 10 | Canada | 118 |
Journals#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 340 |
| 2 | Finance research letters | 244 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 183 |
| 4 | Pattern Recognition | 133 |
| 5 | Neural Networks | 108 |
| 6 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 100 |
| 7 | Information Fusion | 88 |
| 8 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 73 |
| 9 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 68 |
| 10 | Applied Intelligence | 61 |
Equations and models#
| # | Equation or model | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linear and integer programming | 31 |
| 2 | Graph neural network (graph convolution) | 26 |
| 3 | Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer) | 25 |
| 4 | Contrastive loss (InfoNCE) | 11 |
| 5 | Convolutional neural network (CNN) | 10 |
| 6 | Data envelopment analysis (DEA) | 6 |
| 7 | Variational autoencoder (ELBO) | 6 |
| 8 | Generative adversarial network (GAN) | 5 |
| 9 | Long short-term memory (LSTM) | 5 |
| 10 | Gradient descent | 4 |
Datasets#
| # | Dataset | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 | 4 |
| 2 | ImageNet | 4 |
| 3 | nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse | 4 |
| 4 | Action recognition (Kinetics, UCF101, HMDB51) | 2 |
| 5 | KITTI | 2 |
| 6 | MS COCO | 2 |
| 7 | Open Images | 2 |
| 8 | Twitter / X | 2 |
| 9 | ADE20K | 1 |
| 10 | Cora / CiteSeer / PubMed (Planetoid) | 1 |
Most-cited papers published in November 2025#
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in November 2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-11
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title = {Research published in November 2025},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-11}},
urldate = {2026-10-26},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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