---
title: "Research in July 2026: top topics and papers"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2026-07
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2026-07.md
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share_text: "In July 2026, the tracked journals published 4,115 papers (finance 632, accounting 92, economics 910, management 526, operations research 497, AI 1,458)."
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-26T14:52:47+09:00
window: 2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# 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.

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 632 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 92 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 910 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 526 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 497 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1,458 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, July 2026*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 137 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 133 |
| 3 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 95 |
| 4 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 65 |
| 5 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 60 |
| 6 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 58 |
| 7 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 54 |
| 8 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 54 |
| 9 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 54 |
| 10 | state-owned enterprises | 53 |
| 11 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 49 |
| 12 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 47 |
| 13 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 42 |
| 14 | interpretability | 41 |
| 15 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | China (61); Chinese listed companies (60); financial constraints (40); corporate governance (32); emerging markets (29) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (10); accounting education (6); earnings management (4); Chinese enterprises (3); Chinese listed companies (3) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (53); COVID-19 pandemic (23); economic growth (22); Chinese listed companies (20); income inequality (19) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | artificial intelligence (20); purchase intention (17); digital transformation (16); China (14); large language models (14) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | mixed-integer linear programming (23); large language models (14); last-mile delivery (13); adaptive large neighborhood search (12); multi-objective optimization (12) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 58 |
| 2 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 53 |
| 3 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 49 |
| 4 | Sun Yat-sen University | 45 |
| 5 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 43 |
| 6 | Xidian University | 43 |
| 7 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 42 |
| 8 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 41 |
| 9 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 336 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 192 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 186 |
| 4 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 164 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 121 |
| 6 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 101 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 82 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 69 |
| 9 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 60 |
| 10 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 59 |

## Equations and models

*Most-mentioned equations and models, July 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords)*

| # | Equation or model | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 23 |
| 2 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/scaled-dot-product-attention-transformer.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [Logistic regression (logit)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/logistic-regression-logit.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [Structural equation modeling (SEM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/structural-equation-modeling-sem.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [Value at risk (VaR)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/value-at-risk-var.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Expected shortfall (CVaR)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/expected-shortfall-cvar.md) | 4 |
| 8 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [k-means clustering](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/k-means-clustering.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [Mediation model (indirect effect)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/mediation-model-indirect-effect.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2026.104335) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2026-07-24 | Alejandro Lopez-Lira, Yuehua Tang |
| 2 | 30 | 8.2 | [A Comprehensive Survey on Multimodal Recommender Systems: Taxonomy, Evaluation, and Future Directions](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2026.3710585) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2026.3709941) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.114536) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2026-07-31 | Xiuding Cai, Xueyao Wang, Yaoyao Zhu et al. |
| 5 | 17 | 4.6 | [Progressive feedback-enhanced transformer for image forgery localization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.133557) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2026-07-06 | Haochen Zhu, Weiheng Zhu, Gang Cao et al. |
| 6 | 14 | 4.2 | [Do mutual funds greenwash? Evidence from fund name changes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2026.103555) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105040) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 2026-07-10 | Sheng Hong, Yixuan Huang, Weiwei Jiang et al. |
| 8 | 12 | 3.9 | [Capable language models can outgrow the benefits of collaboration](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-026-01268-y) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-026-02806-1) | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 2026-07-02 | Dong Li, Guihong Wan, Xintao Wu et al. |
| 10 | 9 | 2.9 | [Capital reallocation under climate policy uncertainty](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2026.105435) | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 2026-07-23 | Makram Khalil, Felix Strobel |

## Cite this page

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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  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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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).