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title: "Adobe Systems (United States): research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Adobe Systems (United States) took part in 87 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (79), information systems (4) and statistics (2). 6 of them were published in 2025, against 11 in 2017."
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# Adobe Systems (United States)

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Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Adobe Systems (United States): per year and category, where they are published, the institutions its researchers write with, and its most-cited papers. A paper counts as corporate when at least one of its authors is affiliated with an institution that OpenAlex classifies as a company; it counts once for each company among its authors' affiliations. Universities are the institutions OpenAlex classifies as education.

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## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Adobe Systems (United States) took part in 87 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (79), information systems (4) and statistics (2).
- 6 of them were published in 2025, against 11 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Meta (United States) (4), Chinese University of Hong Kong (2) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (12), International Journal of Computer Vision (3) and Artificial Intelligence (1).
- The most-cited of them is “Top-Down Neural Attention by Excitation Backprop” (International Journal of Computer Vision, 2017), with 742 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 54 of its papers 346 times; 98% of those links came from papers with a university author and 0% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 72 times, 33% of them papers with a company author.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Adobe Systems (United States) has 5,634 works with 520,037 citations (h-index 300).
- The tracked journals hold 82 of its 3,906 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.1%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (977), Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis (921) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (792).

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 10 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 4 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 11 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 5 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 12 |
| 2 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 3 |
| 3 | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 1 |
| 4 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-systems.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [Computer Speech & Language](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-speech-language.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Autonomous Robots](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/autonomous-robots.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Experimental Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/experimental-economics.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Meta (United States)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/meta-united-states.md) | 4 |
| 2 | [Chinese University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 2 |
| 3 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 2 |
| 4 | [Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/korea-advanced-institute-of-science-and-technology.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/massachusetts-institute-of-technology.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 2 |
| 8 | [Apple (United States)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/apple-united-states.md) | 1 |
| 9 | Boston University | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 24 |
| 2 | China | 7 |
| 3 | Canada | 3 |
| 4 | France | 2 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 2 |
| 7 | India | 2 |
| 8 | South Korea | 2 |
| 9 | Singapore | 2 |
| 10 | Australia | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | image editing | 2 |
| 2 | image inpainting | 2 |
| 3 | multi-armed bandits | 2 |
| 4 | [online learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/online-learning.md) | 2 |
| 5 | 3D reconstruction | 1 |
| 6 | 3D shape reconstruction | 1 |
| 7 | 6D pose estimation | 1 |
| 8 | Bokeh | 1 |
| 9 | accuracy-cost trade-off | 1 |
| 10 | active learning (machine learning) | 1 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 742 | 7.0 | [Top-Down Neural Attention by Excitation Backprop](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-017-1059-x) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2017-12-22 | Jianming Zhang, Sarah Adel Bargal, Zhe Lin et al. |
| 2 | 367 | 3.6 | [Look into Person: Joint Body Parsing & Pose Estimation Network and a New Benchmark](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2820063) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-03-29 | Xiaodan Liang, Ke Gong, Xiaohui Shen et al. |
| 3 | 226 | 2.1 | [Proposal-Free Network for Instance-Level Object Segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2775623) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-11-22 | Xiaodan Liang, Liang Lin, Yunchao Wei et al. |
| 4 | 209 | 3.3 | [Adversarial text-to-image synthesis: A review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2021.07.019) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2021-08-08 | Stanislav Frolov, Tobias Hinz, Federico Raue et al. |
| 5 | 159 | 2.0 | [A Simple and Light-Weight Attention Module for Convolutional Neural Networks](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-019-01283-0) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2020-01-28 | Jongchan Park, Sanghyun Woo, Joon‐Young Lee et al. |
| 6 | 129 | 6.2 | [Diffusion Model-Based Image Editing: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3541625) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2025-02-13 | Yi Huang, Jiancheng Huang, Yifan Liu et al. |
| 7 | 117 | 1.8 | [Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2021.101255) | [Computer Speech & Language](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-speech-language.md) | 2021-07-02 | Matthew Marge, Carol Yvonne Espy-wilson, Nigel Ward et al. |
| 8 | 98 | 1.3 | [Role-Based Graph Embeddings](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2020.3006475) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2020-07-02 | Nesreen K. Ahmed, Ryan A. Rossi, John Boaz Lee et al. |
| 9 | 92 | 1.0 | [Deep Inductive Graph Representation Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2018.2878247) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2018-11-06 | Ryan A. Rossi, Rong Zhou, Nesreen K. Ahmed |
| 10 | 90 | 1.2 | [Privacy-Preserving Deep Action Recognition: An Adversarial Learning Framework and A New Dataset](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3026709) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-09-29 | Zhenyu Wu, Haotao Wang, Zhaowen Wang et al. |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | Government | China | 24 |
| 2 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 15 |
| 3 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | University | China | 14 |
| 4 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | University | Singapore | 13 |
| 5 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | University | China | 11 |
| 6 | [Institute of Automation](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/institute-of-automation.md) | Research facility | China | 11 |
| 7 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | University | China | 10 |
| 8 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | University | China | 10 |
| 9 | [Peng Cheng Laboratory](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peng-cheng-laboratory.md) | Research facility | China | 10 |
| 10 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | University | China | 10 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [Google (United States)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/google-united-states.md) | Company | United States | 5 |
| 2 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | University | Singapore | 5 |
| 3 | [Chinese University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-university-of-hong-kong.md) | University | Hong Kong | 5 |
| 4 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | Government | China | 5 |
| 5 | [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | University | Hong Kong | 5 |
| 6 | [ETH Zurich](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/eth-zurich.md) | University | Switzerland | 5 |
| 7 | [The University of Adelaide](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-adelaide.md) | University | Australia | 5 |
| 8 | [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/massachusetts-institute-of-technology.md) | University | United States | 5 |
| 9 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | University | Australia | 4 |
| 10 | [Nankai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nankai-university.md) | University | China | 4 |

More: https://scholar4ai.com/corporate-citations.md · https://scholar4ai.com/industry-university.md

## In OpenAlex

*Adobe Systems (United States) in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Company |
| Location | San Jose, California, United States |
| Works in OpenAlex | 5,634 |
| Citations | 520,037 |
| h-index | 300 |
| i10-index | 4,865 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.50 |
| Website | [www.adobe.com](https://www.adobe.com/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/059tvcg64](https://ror.org/059tvcg64) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I1306409833](https://openalex.org/I1306409833) |

*Works and citations per year in OpenAlex, and its papers in the tracked journals*

| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 2026 (so far) | 501 | 23,411 | 5 | 1.0% |
| 2025 | 570 | 37,172 | 6 | 1.1% |
| 2024 | 511 | 40,215 | 8 | 1.6% |
| 2023 | 451 | 36,752 | 5 | 1.1% |
| 2022 | 504 | 29,354 | 8 | 1.6% |
| 2021 | 492 | 30,051 | 11 | 2.2% |
| 2020 | 453 | 22,896 | 13 | 2.9% |
| 2019 | 355 | 17,723 | 8 | 2.3% |
| 2018 | 325 | 12,108 | 12 | 3.7% |
| 2017 | 245 | 8,981 | 11 | 4.5% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques | Computer Science | 977 |
| 2 | Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis | Computer Science | 921 |
| 3 | 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis | Engineering | 792 |
| 4 | Topic Modeling | Computer Science | 783 |
| 5 | Advanced Neural Network Applications | Computer Science | 661 |

From OpenAlex's own record of the institution (CC0), read again monthly. Works and citations count everything OpenAlex indexes, not only the tracked journals; topics are OpenAlex's classification of those works.

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Adobe Systems (United States). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/adobe-systems-united-states

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  title = {Adobe Systems (United States)},
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  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference 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/).