Research published in December 2025

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in December 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 December 2025, the tracked journals published 4,049 papers (finance 708, accounting 56, economics 806, management 409, operations research 454, AI 1,616).
The most frequent keywords were “China” (160), “Chinese listed companies” (151) and “large language models” (114).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “large language models” (114 papers, +38), “mediating effect” (45 papers, +18) and “diffusion models” (39 papers, +16).
The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (63), Tsinghua University (61) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (54).
China was involved in 51% of the papers.
The most-cited paper published that month is “Accuracy, precision, recall, f1-score, or MCC? empirical evidence from advanced statistics, ML, and XAI for evaluating business predictive models” (Journal Of Big Data), with 109 citations so far.

Papers by category#

Papers published in December 2025
Category	Papers
Finance	708
Accounting	56
Economics	806
Management	409
Operations Research	454
AI	1,616

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, December 2025
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	160
2	Chinese listed companies	151
3	large language models	114
4	financial constraints	89
5	corporate governance	82
6	state-owned enterprises	72
7	COVID-19 pandemic	66
8	graph neural networks	60
9	artificial intelligence	59
10	contrastive learning	54
11	digital transformation	53
12	emerging markets	52
13	moderating effect	49
14	mediating effect	45
15	green innovation	43

Growing keywords#

Papers in December 2025 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
large language models	114	75.6	+38.4
mediating effect	45	26.7	+18.3
diffusion models	39	23.4	+15.6
digital finance	27	12.4	+14.6
vision-language models	28	14.0	+14.0
Mamba	25	11.5	+13.5
SHAP	28	14.6	+13.4
behavioral finance	19	7.4	+11.6
noise robustness	24	12.7	+11.3
corporate risk-taking	15	4.8	+10.2

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, December 2025
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	Chinese listed companies (112); China (77); financial constraints (65); corporate governance (52); state-owned enterprises (51)
Accounting	corporate governance (9); Chinese listed companies (7); audit fees (3); audit quality (3); disclosure quality (3)
Economics	China (66); COVID-19 pandemic (23); financial constraints (18); income inequality (18); state-owned enterprises (17)
Management	digital transformation (19); purchase intention (15); artificial intelligence (14); China (13); Chinese listed companies (12)
Operations Research	multi-objective optimization (19); mixed-integer linear programming (18); demand uncertainty (15); mixed integer programming (14); supply chain resilience (12)
AI	large language models (100); graph neural networks (56); contrastive learning (54); diffusion models (39); multimodal fusion (38)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, December 2025
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	63
2	Tsinghua University	61
3	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	54
4	Peking University	54
5	Zhejiang University	54
6	Southeast University	49
7	Northwestern Polytechnical University	47
8	Tongji University	46
9	Xi'an Jiaotong University	43
10	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	42

Countries#

Countries, December 2025
#	Country	Papers
1	China	2,080
2	United States	526
3	United Kingdom	282
4	Australia	170
5	Germany	167
6	Italy	160
7	Hong Kong	151
8	France	149
9	South Korea	128
10	Canada	123

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, December 2025
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	388
2	Finance research letters	277
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	214
4	Pattern Recognition	186
5	Neural Networks	123
6	Information Fusion	98
7	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	95
8	International Review of Economics & Finance	87
9	Computers & Industrial Engineering	67
10	Information Processing & Management	64

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, December 2025 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Linear and integer programming	25
2	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	22
3	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	21
4	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	15
5	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	11
6	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	9
7	Shapley value (SHAP)	9
8	Generative adversarial network (GAN)	5
9	Structural equation modeling (SEM)	5
10	Bellman equation	4

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, December 2025 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	6
2	ImageNet	6
3	MS COCO	3
4	nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse	3
5	S&P 500	2
6	Skeleton and pose (NTU RGB+D, Human3.6M)	2
7	Taobao / Tmall / JD.com	2
8	Action recognition (Kinetics, UCF101, HMDB51)	1
9	AudioSet / ESC-50	1
10	Cityscapes	1

Most-cited papers published in December 2025#

Most-cited papers published in December 2025 (citations counted by OpenAlex, updated daily)
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	109	10.3	Accuracy, precision, recall, f1-score, or MCC? empirical evidence from advanced statistics, ML, and XAI for evaluating business predictive models	Journal Of Big Data	2025-12-09	Khaled Mahmud Sujon, rohayanti binti hassan, Kwonhue Choi et al.
2	48	4.8	Video Mamba Suite: State Space Model as a Versatile Alternative for Video Understanding	International Journal of Computer Vision	2025-12-26	Guo Chen, Yifei Huang, Jilan Xu et al.
3	36	3.5	Condition-Guided Diffusion for Multi-Modal Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Incorporating Intention and Interaction Priors	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2025-12-18	Yanghong Liu, Xingping Dong, Yutian Lin et al.
4	35	3.2	AI-powered smart tourism 2.0: A 10-year retrospective and updated model	Electronic Markets	2025-12-01	Chulmo Koo, Seunghun Shin, Ulrike Gretzel B et al.
5	35	3.4	Multi-layer and multi-directional image encryption algorithm based on hyperchaotic 3D Xin-She Yang map	Expert Systems with Applications	2025-12-13	Uğur Erkan, Feyza Toktas, Abdurrahim Toktaş et al.
6	33	3.2	Controllable Generation With Text-to-Image Diffusion Models: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2025-12-19	Pu Cao, Feng Zhou, Qing Song et al.
7	31	2.9	The impacts of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) on international trade and policy responses: from an economic and environmental equity perspective	Energy Policy	2025-12-05	Muhua Li, Yan Sun, Yan Xia et al.
8	31	3.0	A comprehensive approach for image quality assessment using quality-centric embedding and ranking networks	Pattern Recognition	2025-12-11	Zeeshan Ali Haider, Sareer Ul Amin, Muhammad Fayaz et al.
9	31	3.1	Extended reality (XR) for industrial assembly: A state-of-the-art review toward human-centric industry 5.0	Expert Systems with Applications	2025-12-26	M. Eswaran, Prasad Jones Christydass Samuel, S.K. Karthika et al.
10	29	2.8	A psychometric framework for evaluating and shaping personality traits in large language models	Nature Machine Intelligence	2025-12-18	Gregory Serapio‐García, Mustafa Safdari, Clément Crepy et al.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in December 2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2025-12

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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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