Research published in August 2026
What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in August 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 August 2026, the tracked journals published 3,853 papers (finance 550, accounting 57, economics 774, management 439, operations research 502, AI 1,531).
- The most frequent keywords were “large language models” (133), “China” (115) and “Chinese listed companies” (92).
- Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “multi-objective optimization” (49 papers, +19), “AI governance” (27 papers, +17) and “generative AI” (45 papers, +16).
- The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (54), Tsinghua University (53) and Zhejiang University (45).
- China was involved in 45% of the papers.
- The most-cited paper published that month is “What drives virtual influencers’ impact?” (Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science), with 25 citations so far.
Papers by category#
| Category | Papers |
|---|---|
| Finance | 550 |
| Accounting | 57 |
| Economics | 774 |
| Management | 439 |
| Operations Research | 502 |
| AI | 1,531 |
Top keywords#
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | large language models | 133 |
| 2 | China | 115 |
| 3 | Chinese listed companies | 92 |
| 4 | corporate governance | 62 |
| 5 | graph neural networks | 56 |
| 6 | financial constraints | 54 |
| 7 | contrastive learning | 52 |
| 8 | COVID-19 pandemic | 51 |
| 9 | artificial intelligence | 49 |
| 10 | class imbalance | 49 |
| 11 | multi-objective optimization | 49 |
| 12 | state-owned enterprises | 49 |
| 13 | multimodal fusion | 46 |
| 14 | generative AI | 45 |
| 15 | information asymmetry | 39 |
Growing keywords#
| Keyword | Papers | At earlier share | Extra papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| multi-objective optimization | 49 | 30.3 | +18.7 |
| AI governance | 27 | 10.3 | +16.7 |
| generative AI | 45 | 29.1 | +15.9 |
| transparency | 21 | 10.4 | +10.6 |
| accountability | 15 | 5.8 | +9.2 |
| greenwashing | 18 | 9.0 | +9.0 |
| digital infrastructure | 23 | 14.4 | +8.6 |
| mixture of experts | 20 | 11.7 | +8.3 |
| human-AI interaction | 16 | 8.0 | +8.0 |
| adversarial robustness | 19 | 11.4 | +7.6 |
Top keywords by category#
| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| Finance | Chinese listed companies (69); China (46); financial constraints (38); corporate governance (34); state-owned enterprises (31) |
| Accounting | corporate governance (9); Chinese listed companies (5); information asymmetry (5); emerging markets (4); state-owned enterprises (4) |
| Economics | China (57); energy transition (18); COVID-19 pandemic (16); economic growth (13); income inequality (13) |
| Management | generative AI (20); consumer behavior (16); digital transformation (14); influencer marketing (11); resource-based view (11) |
| Operations Research | multi-objective optimization (29); mixed-integer linear programming (21); combinatorial optimization (13); distributionally robust optimization (12); large language models (12) |
| AI | large language models (105); graph neural networks (53); contrastive learning (51); class imbalance (45); multimodal fusion (43) |
Institutions#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 54 |
| 2 | Tsinghua University | 53 |
| 3 | Zhejiang University | 45 |
| 4 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 42 |
| 5 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 41 |
| 6 | Peking University | 41 |
| 7 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 41 |
| 8 | Tongji University | 41 |
| 9 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 41 |
| 10 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 40 |
Countries#
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1,733 |
| 2 | United States | 504 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 260 |
| 4 | Australia | 169 |
| 5 | Germany | 152 |
| 6 | India | 152 |
| 7 | Italy | 147 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 126 |
| 9 | France | 120 |
| 10 | Canada | 112 |
Journals#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 356 |
| 2 | Pattern Recognition | 205 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 184 |
| 4 | AI & Society | 123 |
| 5 | Neural Networks | 121 |
| 6 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 112 |
| 7 | Neural Computing and Applications | 106 |
| 8 | Finance research letters | 104 |
| 9 | Information Fusion | 68 |
| 10 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 66 |
Equations and models#
| # | Equation or model | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linear and integer programming | 21 |
| 2 | Graph neural network (graph convolution) | 17 |
| 3 | Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer) | 10 |
| 4 | Gradient boosting (XGBoost) | 7 |
| 5 | Shapley value (SHAP) | 6 |
| 6 | Contrastive loss (InfoNCE) | 5 |
| 7 | Convolutional neural network (CNN) | 5 |
| 8 | Long short-term memory (LSTM) | 4 |
| 9 | Structural equation modeling (SEM) | 4 |
| 10 | Difference-in-differences | 3 |
Datasets#
| # | Dataset | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | YouTube / TikTok | 5 |
| 2 | CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 | 2 |
| 3 | KITTI | 2 |
| 4 | D4RL | 1 |
| 5 | Domain adaptation benchmarks (Office-31, Office-Home, VisDA, DomainNet) | 1 |
| 6 | Face recognition (LFW, CelebA, VGGFace2) | 1 |
| 7 | Fine-grained benchmarks (CUB-200, Stanford Cars, Oxford Flowers) | 1 |
| 8 | ImageNet | 1 |
| 9 | NASA C-MAPSS turbofan data | 1 |
| 10 | nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse | 1 |
Most-cited papers published in August 2026#
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in August 2026. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2026-08
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Research published in August 2026},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2026-08}},
urldate = {2026-10-26},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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