Research published in July 2026

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in July 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 July 2026, the tracked journals published 4,115 papers (finance 632, accounting 92, economics 910, management 526, operations research 497, AI 1,458).
The most frequent keywords were “large language models” (137), “China” (133) and “Chinese listed companies” (95).
Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “absorptive capacity” (17 papers, +10), “asset pricing” (19 papers, +10) and “willingness to pay” (20 papers, +10).
The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (58), Zhejiang University (53) and Peking University (49).
China was involved in 45% of the papers.
The most-cited paper published that month is “Can ChatGPT forecast stock price movements? Return predictability and large language models” (Journal of Financial Economics), with 425 citations so far.

Papers by category#

Papers published in July 2026
Category	Papers
Finance	632
Accounting	92
Economics	910
Management	526
Operations Research	497
AI	1,458

Top keywords#

Most frequent keywords, July 2026
#	Keyword	Papers
1	large language models	137
2	China	133
3	Chinese listed companies	95
4	corporate governance	65
5	graph neural networks	60
6	financial constraints	58
7	COVID-19 pandemic	54
8	artificial intelligence	54
9	emerging markets	54
10	state-owned enterprises	53
11	information asymmetry	49
12	multimodal fusion	47
13	contrastive learning	42
14	interpretability	41
15	digital transformation	40

Growing keywords#

Papers in July 2026 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before
Keyword	Papers	At earlier share	Extra papers
absorptive capacity	17	6.6	+10.4
asset pricing	19	8.9	+10.1
willingness to pay	20	10.0	+10.0
macroprudential policy	16	7.2	+8.8
last-mile delivery	17	8.3	+8.7
digital twin	17	8.8	+8.2
monetary policy transmission	16	8.2	+7.8
multi-agent systems	18	10.4	+7.6
mixture of experts	19	11.5	+7.5
environmental disclosure	15	7.6	+7.4

Top keywords by category#

The five most frequent keywords per category, July 2026
Category	Most frequent keywords
Finance	China (61); Chinese listed companies (60); financial constraints (40); corporate governance (32); emerging markets (29)
Accounting	corporate governance (10); accounting education (6); earnings management (4); Chinese enterprises (3); Chinese listed companies (3)
Economics	China (53); COVID-19 pandemic (23); economic growth (22); Chinese listed companies (20); income inequality (19)
Management	artificial intelligence (20); purchase intention (17); digital transformation (16); China (14); large language models (14)
Operations Research	mixed-integer linear programming (23); large language models (14); last-mile delivery (13); adaptive large neighborhood search (12); multi-objective optimization (12)
AI	large language models (97); graph neural networks (57); multimodal fusion (47); contrastive learning (40); diffusion models (37)

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, July 2026
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	58
2	Zhejiang University	53
3	Peking University	49
4	Sun Yat-sen University	45
5	Beihang University	43
6	Xidian University	43
7	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	42
8	Wuhan University	41
9	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	39
10	South China University of Technology	37

Countries#

Countries, July 2026
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,863
2	United States	569
3	United Kingdom	309
4	Germany	191
5	Italy	177
6	Australia	158
7	Hong Kong	133
8	France	132
9	India	126
10	Canada	113

Journals#

Journals with the most papers, July 2026
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	336
2	Pattern Recognition	192
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	186
4	Finance research letters	164
5	Neural Networks	121
6	International Review of Economics & Finance	101
7	Information Fusion	82
8	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	69
9	Economic Analysis and Policy	60
10	Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review	59

Equations and models#

Most-mentioned equations and models, July 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Equation or model	Papers
1	Linear and integer programming	23
2	Graph neural network (graph convolution)	12
3	Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)	12
4	Logistic regression (logit)	7
5	Structural equation modeling (SEM)	7
6	Value at risk (VaR)	5
7	Expected shortfall (CVaR)	4
8	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	3
9	k-means clustering	3
10	Mediation model (indirect effect)	3

Datasets#

Most-mentioned datasets, July 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
#	Dataset	Papers
1	YouTube / TikTok	3
2	CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	2
3	Facebook	2
4	ImageNet	2
5	nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse	2
6	S&P 500	2
7	BraTS	1
8	Credit card fraud data (Kaggle, PaySim, IEEE-CIS)	1
9	Eurobarometer	1
10	LinkedIn	1

Most-cited papers published in July 2026#

Most-cited papers published in July 2026 (citations counted by OpenAlex, updated daily)
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	425	137.6	Can ChatGPT forecast stock price movements? Return predictability and large language models	Journal of Financial Economics	2026-07-24	Alejandro Lopez-Lira, Yuehua Tang
2	30	8.2	A Comprehensive Survey on Multimodal Recommender Systems: Taxonomy, Evaluation, and Future Directions	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2026-07-06	Hongyu Zhou, Xin Zhou, Zhiwei Zeng et al.
3	30	7.9	A Survey on Medical Large Language Models: Technology, Application, Trustworthiness, and Future Directions	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2026-07-03	Lei Liu, Xiaoyan Yang, Junchi Lei et al.
4	23	8.0	MambaTS: Improved selective state space models for long-term time series forecasting	Pattern Recognition	2026-07-31	Xiuding Cai, Xueyao Wang, Yaoyao Zhu et al.
5	17	4.6	Progressive feedback-enhanced transformer for image forgery localization	Expert Systems with Applications	2026-07-06	Haochen Zhu, Weiheng Zhu, Gang Cao et al.
6	14	4.2	Do mutual funds greenwash? Evidence from fund name changes	Research in International Business and Finance	2026-07-17	Alexander Cochardt, Stephan Heller, Vitaly Orlov
7	14	3.9	BGA: A noise-immune neural distillation framework for malicious signature extraction in high-entropy encrypted flows	Information Processing & Management	2026-07-10	Sheng Hong, Yixuan Huang, Weiwei Jiang et al.
8	12	3.9	Capable language models can outgrow the benefits of collaboration	Nature Machine Intelligence	2026-07-24	Yubin Kim, Ken Gu, Chanwoo Park et al.
9	10	2.6	A survey on computational pathology foundation models: datasets, adaptation strategies, and evaluation tasks	Knowledge and Information Systems	2026-07-02	Dong Li, Guihong Wan, Xintao Wu et al.
10	9	2.9	Capital reallocation under climate policy uncertainty	European Economic Review	2026-07-23	Makram Khalil, Felix Strobel

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in July 2026. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2026-07

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  title = {Research published in July 2026},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2026-07}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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