Research published in September 2026
What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in September 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 September 2026, the tracked journals published 3,992 papers (finance 671, accounting 67, economics 931, management 483, operations research 519, AI 1,321).
- The most frequent keywords were “large language models” (124), “China” (120) and “Chinese listed companies” (104).
- Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “geopolitical risk” (35 papers, +13), “institutional quality” (31 papers, +11) and “foreign direct investment” (25 papers, +10).
- The institutions with the most papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (54), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (49) and Tsinghua University (44).
- China was involved in 41% of the papers.
- The most-cited paper published that month is “Government Share Ownership and Innovation: Evidence from European Listed Firms” (Journal of Banking & Finance), with 14 citations so far.
Papers by category#
| Category | Papers |
|---|---|
| Finance | 671 |
| Accounting | 67 |
| Economics | 931 |
| Management | 483 |
| Operations Research | 519 |
| AI | 1,321 |
Top keywords#
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | large language models | 124 |
| 2 | China | 120 |
| 3 | Chinese listed companies | 104 |
| 4 | corporate governance | 73 |
| 5 | emerging markets | 65 |
| 6 | artificial intelligence | 52 |
| 7 | financial constraints | 52 |
| 8 | state-owned enterprises | 49 |
| 9 | information asymmetry | 48 |
| 10 | digital transformation | 47 |
| 11 | graph neural networks | 44 |
| 12 | contrastive learning | 41 |
| 13 | explainable AI | 38 |
| 14 | class imbalance | 35 |
| 15 | geopolitical risk | 35 |
Growing keywords#
| Keyword | Papers | At earlier share | Extra papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| geopolitical risk | 35 | 21.6 | +13.4 |
| institutional quality | 31 | 20.1 | +10.9 |
| foreign direct investment | 25 | 14.5 | +10.5 |
| inverted U-shaped relationship | 22 | 11.6 | +10.4 |
| vehicle routing | 20 | 10.4 | +9.6 |
| stablecoins | 12 | 2.9 | +9.1 |
| Pakistan | 10 | 1.8 | +8.2 |
| human-AI collaboration | 17 | 8.9 | +8.1 |
| financial intermediation | 10 | 2.3 | +7.7 |
| cryptocurrency | 13 | 5.5 | +7.5 |
Top keywords by category#
| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| Finance | Chinese listed companies (60); China (39); corporate governance (34); emerging markets (32); financial constraints (29) |
| Accounting | corporate governance (9); Chinese listed companies (5); artificial intelligence (4); moderating effect (4); ESG performance (3) |
| Economics | China (68); Chinese listed companies (21); energy transition (21); financial constraints (18); state-owned enterprises (18) |
| Management | digital transformation (20); dynamic capabilities (17); Chinese listed companies (16); artificial intelligence (15); corporate governance (15) |
| Operations Research | vehicle routing (19); demand uncertainty (15); multi-objective optimization (15); mixed integer programming (13); robust optimization (13) |
| AI | large language models (96); graph neural networks (41); contrastive learning (40); explainable AI (34); class imbalance (33) |
Institutions#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 54 |
| 2 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 49 |
| 3 | Tsinghua University | 44 |
| 4 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 40 |
| 5 | Peking University | 35 |
| 6 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 34 |
| 7 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 34 |
| 8 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 34 |
| 9 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 34 |
| 10 | Wuhan University | 33 |
Countries#
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1,628 |
| 2 | United States | 489 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 273 |
| 4 | Australia | 145 |
| 5 | Germany | 142 |
| 6 | Italy | 138 |
| 7 | France | 131 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 128 |
| 9 | India | 113 |
| 10 | South Korea | 110 |
Journals#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 318 |
| 2 | Pattern Recognition | 218 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 158 |
| 4 | Finance research letters | 138 |
| 5 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 122 |
| 6 | Neural Networks | 107 |
| 7 | Information Processing & Management | 78 |
| 8 | Information Fusion | 78 |
| 9 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 74 |
| 10 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 69 |
Equations and models#
| # | Equation or model | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linear and integer programming | 46 |
| 2 | Logistic regression (logit) | 45 |
| 3 | Difference-in-differences | 44 |
| 4 | Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer) | 39 |
| 5 | Ordinary least squares (OLS) | 38 |
| 6 | Instrumental variables (two-stage least squares) | 33 |
| 7 | Propensity score matching | 28 |
| 8 | Contrastive loss (InfoNCE) | 25 |
| 9 | Two-way fixed-effects panel regression | 23 |
| 10 | Graph neural network (graph convolution) | 21 |
Datasets#
| # | Dataset | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | OR-Library | 16 |
| 2 | CSMAR | 9 |
| 3 | S&P 500 | 9 |
| 4 | World Development Indicators (World Bank) | 9 |
| 5 | International Energy Agency (IEA) | 8 |
| 6 | Compustat | 7 |
| 7 | 7 | |
| 8 | VIX | 7 |
| 9 | YouTube / TikTok | 7 |
| 10 | CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 | 5 |
Most-cited papers published in September 2026#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in September 2026. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2026-09
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Research published in September 2026},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2026-09}},
urldate = {2026-10-26},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}