---
title: "Research in November 2025: top topics and papers"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-11
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share_text: "In November 2025, the tracked journals published 4,003 papers (finance 749, accounting 82, economics 901, management 462, operations research 444, AI 1,365)."
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 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.

## 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

*Papers published in November 2025*

| Category | Papers |
|---|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 749 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 82 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 901 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 462 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 444 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1,365 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, November 2025*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 139 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 125 |
| 3 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 106 |
| 4 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 100 |
| 5 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 99 |
| 6 | state-owned enterprises | 74 |
| 7 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 63 |
| 8 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 61 |
| 9 | regional heterogeneity | 61 |
| 10 | moderating effect | 60 |
| 11 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 52 |
| 12 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 49 |
| 13 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 48 |
| 14 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 46 |
| 15 | listed companies | 44 |

## Growing keywords

*Papers in November 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) | 106 | 69.1 | +36.9 |
| [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 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

*The five most frequent keywords per category, November 2025*

| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | Chinese listed companies (91); China (78); financial constraints (68); corporate governance (60); state-owned enterprises (52) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (18); Chinese listed companies (4); upper echelons theory (4); agency theory (3); board independence (3) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (50); COVID-19 pandemic (31); financial constraints (19); energy transition (17); developing countries (16) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | digital transformation (24); small and medium-sized enterprises (18); generative AI (15); corporate social responsibility (14); Chinese listed companies (13) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | mixed-integer linear programming (19); demand uncertainty (15); multi-objective optimization (13); vehicle routing (13); last-mile delivery (10) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | large language models (89); contrastive learning (45); graph neural networks (41); interpretability (40); multimodal fusion (38) |

## Institutions

*Institutions with the most papers, November 2025*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 64 |
| 2 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 47 |
| 3 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 45 |
| 4 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 44 |
| 5 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 44 |
| 6 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 43 |
| 7 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 43 |
| 8 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 43 |
| 9 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 42 |
| 10 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 39 |

## Countries

*Countries, November 2025*

| # | 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

*Journals with the most papers, November 2025*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 340 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 244 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 183 |
| 4 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 133 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 108 |
| 6 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 100 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 88 |
| 8 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 73 |
| 9 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 68 |
| 10 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 61 |

## Equations and models

*Most-mentioned equations and models, November 2025 (titles, abstracts and keywords)*

| # | Equation or model | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 31 |
| 2 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 26 |
| 3 | [Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/scaled-dot-product-attention-transformer.md) | 25 |
| 4 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [Convolutional neural network (CNN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/convolutional-neural-network-cnn.md) | 10 |
| 6 | [Data envelopment analysis (DEA)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/data-envelopment-analysis-dea.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Variational autoencoder (ELBO)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/variational-autoencoder-elbo.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Generative adversarial network (GAN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/generative-adversarial-network-gan.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [Long short-term memory (LSTM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/long-short-term-memory-lstm.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Gradient descent](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/gradient-descent.md) | 4 |

## Datasets

*Most-mentioned datasets, November 2025 (titles, abstracts and keywords)*

| # | 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

*Most-cited papers published in November 2025 (citations counted by OpenAlex, updated daily)*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 178 | 15.7 | [Agentic AI: a comprehensive survey of architectures, applications, and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11422-4) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2025-11-14 | Mohamad Abou Ali, Fadi Dornaika, Jinan Charafeddine |
| 2 | 115 | 10.5 | [Reinforcement learning for single-agent to multi-agent systems: from basic theory to industrial application progress, a survey](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11439-9) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2025-11-27 | Dehua Zhang, Qingsong Yuan, Lei Meng et al. |
| 3 | 88 | 7.5 | [HAT: Hybrid Attention Transformer for Image Restoration](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3628275) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2025-11-03 | Xiangyu Chen, Xintao Wang, Wenlong Zhang et al. |
| 4 | 67 | 5.7 | [UniDepthV2: Universal Monocular Metric Depth Estimation Made Simpler](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3628473) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2025-11-03 | Luigi Piccinelli, Christos Sakaridis, Yung-Hsu Yang et al. |
| 5 | 61 | 5.2 | [Deep learning for financial forecasting: A review of recent trends](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2025.104719) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 2025-11-05 | Sofia Giantsidi, Claudia Tarantola |
| 6 | 59 | 5.4 | [Mini-Gemini: Mining the Potential of Multi-Modality Vision Language Models](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3637265) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2025-11-26 | Yanwei Li, Yuechen Zhang, Chengyao Wang et al. |
| 7 | 53 | 4.6 | [A Survey of Graph Neural Networks in Real World: Imbalance, Noise, Privacy and OOD Challenges](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3630673) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2025-11-07 | Wei Ju, Siyu Yi, Yifan Wang et al. |
| 8 | 52 | 4.4 | [Enhanced ransomware attacks detection using feature selection, sensitivity analysis, and optimized hybrid model](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-025-01289-1) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2025-11-03 | Kun Zhang, Yetong Wang, Uzair Aslam Bhatti et al. |
| 9 | 50 | 4.5 | [Knowledge distillation and dataset distillation of large language models: emerging trends, challenges, and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11423-3) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2025-11-20 | Luyang Fang, Xiaowei Yu, Jiazhang Cai et al. |
| 10 | 49 | 4.5 | [Do geopolitical risks raise or lower inflation?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2025.104188) | [Journal of International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-economics.md) | 2025-11-26 | Dario Caldara, Sarah Conlisk, Matteo M. Iacoviello et al. |

## 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},
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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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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).