Research published in June 2026
What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in June 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.
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Key findings#
- In June 2026, the tracked journals published 4,302 papers (finance 613, accounting 86, economics 960, management 474, operations research 538, AI 1,631).
- The most frequent keywords were “large language models” (166), “China” (131) and “Chinese listed companies” (113).
- Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “supply chain resilience” (34 papers, +12), “anomaly detection” (28 papers, +11) and “retrieval-augmented generation” (22 papers, +11).
- The institutions with the most papers were Tsinghua University (62), Chinese Academy of Sciences (61) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (59).
- China was involved in 45% of the papers.
- The most-cited paper published that month is “Retrieval-augmented generation for natural language processing: a survey” (Artificial Intelligence Review), with 79 citations so far.
Papers by category#
| Category | Papers |
|---|---|
| Finance | 613 |
| Accounting | 86 |
| Economics | 960 |
| Management | 474 |
| Operations Research | 538 |
| AI | 1,631 |
Top keywords#
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | large language models | 166 |
| 2 | China | 131 |
| 3 | Chinese listed companies | 113 |
| 4 | corporate governance | 70 |
| 5 | financial constraints | 69 |
| 6 | emerging markets | 64 |
| 7 | information asymmetry | 62 |
| 8 | graph neural networks | 56 |
| 9 | COVID-19 pandemic | 51 |
| 10 | contrastive learning | 49 |
| 11 | state-owned enterprises | 48 |
| 12 | multimodal fusion | 46 |
| 13 | digital transformation | 46 |
| 14 | generative AI | 43 |
| 15 | interpretability | 43 |
Growing keywords#
| Keyword | Papers | At earlier share | Extra papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| supply chain resilience | 34 | 21.7 | +12.3 |
| anomaly detection | 28 | 17.2 | +10.8 |
| retrieval-augmented generation | 22 | 11.3 | +10.7 |
| multi-criteria decision making | 24 | 13.8 | +10.2 |
| tail risk | 17 | 8.1 | +8.9 |
| decision support | 16 | 7.2 | +8.8 |
| distribution shift | 24 | 15.3 | +8.7 |
| investor behavior | 14 | 6.1 | +7.9 |
| sequential recommendation | 12 | 4.2 | +7.8 |
| decision support system | 13 | 5.5 | +7.5 |
Top keywords by category#
| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| Finance | Chinese listed companies (75); China (52); financial constraints (49); corporate governance (40); emerging markets (30) |
| Accounting | corporate governance (20); information asymmetry (11); agency theory (6); board gender diversity (5); audit quality (4) |
| Economics | China (71); income inequality (24); COVID-19 pandemic (23); Chinese listed companies (20); CO2 emissions (17) |
| Management | generative AI (21); artificial intelligence (19); consumer behavior (18); digital transformation (18); purchase intention (17) |
| Operations Research | mixed-integer linear programming (22); mixed integer programming (19); demand uncertainty (18); makespan minimization (18); adaptive large neighborhood search (17) |
| AI | large language models (141); graph neural networks (51); contrastive learning (49); multimodal fusion (45); interpretability (39) |
Institutions#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tsinghua University | 62 |
| 2 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 61 |
| 3 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 59 |
| 4 | Zhejiang University | 54 |
| 5 | Wuhan University | 53 |
| 6 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 53 |
| 7 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 44 |
| 8 | Peking University | 44 |
| 9 | Southeast University | 43 |
| 10 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 42 |
Countries#
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1,918 |
| 2 | United States | 594 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 351 |
| 4 | Australia | 200 |
| 5 | Germany | 181 |
| 6 | Italy | 181 |
| 7 | France | 166 |
| 8 | India | 159 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 144 |
| 10 | Spain | 119 |
Journals#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 395 |
| 2 | Pattern Recognition | 212 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 212 |
| 4 | Finance research letters | 138 |
| 5 | Neural Computing and Applications | 125 |
| 6 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 106 |
| 7 | Neural Networks | 102 |
| 8 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 71 |
| 9 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 69 |
| 10 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 66 |
Equations and models#
| # | Equation or model | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linear and integer programming | 34 |
| 2 | Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer) | 15 |
| 3 | Contrastive loss (InfoNCE) | 7 |
| 4 | Random forest | 7 |
| 5 | Convolutional neural network (CNN) | 6 |
| 6 | Structural equation modeling (SEM) | 6 |
| 7 | Gradient boosting (XGBoost) | 5 |
| 8 | Graph neural network (graph convolution) | 5 |
| 9 | Long short-term memory (LSTM) | 4 |
| 10 | Expected shortfall (CVaR) | 3 |
Datasets#
| # | Dataset | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ImageNet | 4 |
| 2 | nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse | 2 |
| 3 | Amazon reviews | 1 |
| 4 | CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 | 1 |
| 5 | Economic Policy Uncertainty index | 1 |
| 6 | EU-SILC | 1 |
| 7 | Global Burden of Disease | 1 |
| 8 | MIMIC | 1 |
| 9 | Our World in Data | 1 |
| 10 | PSPLIB | 1 |
Most-cited papers published in June 2026#
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in June 2026. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2026-06
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Research published in June 2026},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2026-06}},
urldate = {2026-10-26},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}