Research published in March 2026

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in March 2026, 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 March 2026, the tracked journals published 4,602 papers (finance 694, accounting 68, economics 938, management 521, operations research 516, AI 1,865).
The most frequent keywords were “large language models” (149), “China” (148) and “Chinese listed companies” (99).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “manufacturing companies” (43 papers, +16), “multimodal large language models” (25 papers, +15) and “pseudo-labeling” (35 papers, +12).
The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (80), Zhejiang University (64) and Peking University (57).
China was involved in 46% of the papers.
The most-cited paper published that month is “Artificial intelligence for information-driven resilience: Enhancing strategic adaptation and entrepreneurial success” (International Journal of Information Management), with 55 citations so far.

Papers by category#

Papers published in March 2026
Category	Papers
Finance	694
Accounting	68
Economics	938
Management	521
Operations Research	516
AI	1,865

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, March 2026
#	Keyword	Papers
1	large language models	149
2	China	148
3	Chinese listed companies	99
4	corporate governance	88
5	financial constraints	77
6	contrastive learning	69
7	state-owned enterprises	68
8	graph neural networks	64
9	COVID-19 pandemic	61
10	emerging markets	58
11	digital transformation	55
12	CO2 emissions	50
13	artificial intelligence	50
14	information asymmetry	49
15	class imbalance	48

Growing keywords#

Papers in March 2026 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
manufacturing companies	43	26.6	+16.4
multimodal large language models	25	10.3	+14.7
pseudo-labeling	35	22.7	+12.3
distribution shift	26	14.1	+11.9
label noise	23	11.9	+11.1
risk identification	11	0.7	+10.3
dynamic capabilities	27	17.1	+9.9
green transition	26	16.2	+9.8
retrieval-augmented generation	18	8.6	+9.4
data heterogeneity	21	11.8	+9.2

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, March 2026
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	China (64); Chinese listed companies (62); corporate governance (62); financial constraints (56); state-owned enterprises (43)
Accounting	corporate governance (10); firm performance (5); corporate disclosure (4); information environment (4); Chinese listed companies (3)
Economics	China (71); CO2 emissions (29); energy transition (20); income inequality (20); COVID-19 pandemic (18)
Management	digital transformation (25); dynamic capabilities (20); Chinese listed companies (19); artificial intelligence (17); generative AI (17)
Operations Research	mixed-integer linear programming (22); demand uncertainty (15); vehicle routing (13); makespan minimization (12); non-convex optimization (12)
AI	large language models (125); contrastive learning (68); graph neural networks (61); multimodal fusion (46); class imbalance (42)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, March 2026
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	80
2	Zhejiang University	64
3	Peking University	57
4	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	54
5	Southeast University	53
6	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	52
7	Tsinghua University	52
8	Xi'an Jiaotong University	50
9	Northwestern Polytechnical University	47
10	Harbin Institute of Technology	46

Countries#

Countries, March 2026
#	Country	Papers
1	China	2,110
2	United States	674
3	United Kingdom	352
4	Australia	210
5	India	193
6	Italy	191
7	Germany	186
8	France	171
9	Hong Kong	157
10	Spain	133

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, March 2026
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	392
2	Pattern Recognition	236
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	215
4	Finance research letters	182
5	Neural Computing and Applications	138
6	Neural Networks	127
7	International Review of Economics & Finance	119
8	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	92
9	Energy Economics	82
10	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	78

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, March 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Linear and integer programming	34
2	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	31
3	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	24
4	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	19
5	Logistic regression (logit)	9
6	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	7
7	Generative adversarial network (GAN)	5
8	Long short-term memory (LSTM)	5
9	Data envelopment analysis (DEA)	4
10	Expected shortfall (CVaR)	4

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, March 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	ImageNet	5
2	KITTI	4
3	CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	3
4	MS COCO	3
5	PhysioNet / MIT-BIH	3
6	Kaggle	2
7	StarCraft	2
8	Action recognition (Kinetics, UCF101, HMDB51)	1
9	BraTS	1
10	Chest X-ray (CheXpert, ChestX-ray14)	1

Most-cited papers published in March 2026#

Most-cited papers published in March 2026 (citations counted by OpenAlex, updated daily)
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	55	7.3	Artificial intelligence for information-driven resilience: Enhancing strategic adaptation and entrepreneurial success	International Journal of Information Management	2026-03-10	Shaofeng Wang, Hao Zhang
2	38	4.9	Unsupervised Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution via Self-Supervised Modality Decoupling	International Journal of Computer Vision	2026-03-06	Songcheng Du, Yang Zou, Zixu Wang et al.
3	37	4.8	A Survey of Deep Graph Clustering: Taxonomy, Challenge, Application, and Open Resource	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2026-03-03	Yue Liu, Jun Xia, Benyu Wu et al.
4	34	4.7	Bounty hunter optimizer: A novel metaheuristic with an application to multi-UAV mobile edge computing and path planning	Knowledge-Based Systems	2026-03-21	Mingyang Yu, Haorui Yang, Jiaqi Zhang et al.
5	33	4.4	Does artificial intelligence (AI) adoption enable resilience to disruptions among firms? An in-depth examination	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	2026-03-13	Jiapeng Dai, Anqi Zhang
6	32	4.2	The MVTec AD 2 Dataset: Advanced Scenarios for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection	International Journal of Computer Vision	2026-03-09	Lars Heckler-Kram, Jan-Hendrik Neudeck, Ulla Scheler et al.
7	27	3.5	“Congruence” and “Responsiveness” in the study of representation	Public Choice	2026-03-05	John G. Matsusaka
8	25	3.5	Power hungry: How AI will drive energy demand	Energy Economics	2026-03-23	Christian Bogmans, Ganchimeg Ganpurev, Patricia Gomez-Gonzalez et al.
9	24	3.2	SGDFuse: SAM-guided diffusion model for high-fidelity infrared and visible image fusion	Information Fusion	2026-03-15	XiaoYang Zhang, Jie Li, Guodong Fan et al.
10	23	3.0	Defining, assessing, and reporting saturation in qualitative research: Review and recommendations	The Leadership Quarterly	2026-03-05	Ozias A. Moore, Herman Aguinis, Tanja R. Darden

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in March 2026. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2026-03

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  title = {Research published in March 2026},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2026-03}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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