---
title: "IBM (United States): research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at IBM (United States) took part in 137 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (77), operations research (35) and economics (7). It ranks #22 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at IBM (United States) took part in 137 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (77), operations research (35) and economics (7). (as of 2026-10-31)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-31T19:11:11+09:00
window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31
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---

# IBM (United States)

Papers in the tracked journals with an author at IBM (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.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at IBM (United States) took part in 137 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (77), operations research (35) and economics (7).
- It ranks #22 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025.
- 8 of them were published in 2025, against 17 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center (25), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (9) and Stanford University (4).
- The journals publishing most of them were Nature Machine Intelligence (9), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (4) and Pattern Recognition (3).
- The most-cited of them is “Event-Based Vision: A Survey” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 2,558 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 80 of its papers 649 times; 97% of those links came from papers with a university author and 1% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 140 times, 19% of them papers with a company author.

## 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) | 5 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 9 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 17 | 16 | 14 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 5 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 9 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 4 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 3 |
| 5 | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Discrete Optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/discrete-optimization.md) | 2 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics-data-analysis.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center | 25 |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 9 |
| 3 | Stanford University | 4 |
| 4 | Harvard University | 3 |
| 5 | MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab | 3 |
| 6 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 3 |
| 7 | University of Oxford | 3 |
| 8 | Broad Institute | 2 |
| 9 | Columbia University | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 40 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 7 |
| 3 | China | 6 |
| 4 | Australia | 5 |
| 5 | France | 4 |
| 6 | Spain | 3 |
| 7 | Israel | 3 |
| 8 | Singapore | 3 |
| 9 | India | 2 |
| 10 | Italy | 2 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 4 |
| 2 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 2 |
| 3 | convergence analysis | 2 |
| 4 | convex hull | 2 |
| 5 | data privacy | 2 |
| 6 | factor analysis | 2 |
| 7 | generalization | 2 |
| 8 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 2 |
| 9 | low-rank optimization | 2 |
| 10 | multivariate time series | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,558 | 33.8 | [Event-Based Vision: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3008413) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-07-10 | Guillermo Gallego, Tobi Delbrück, Garrick Orchard et al. |
| 2 | 597 | 11.0 | [Model Pruning Enables Efficient Federated Learning on Edge Devices](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3166101) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-04-25 | Yuang Jiang, Shiqiang Wang, Víctor Valls et al. |
| 3 | 588 | 12.7 | [Large-scale chemical language representations capture molecular structure and properties](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-022-00580-7) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-12-21 | Jerret Ross, Brian M. Belgodere, Vijil Chenthamarakshan et al. |
| 4 | 561 | 11.1 | [Advances, challenges and opportunities in creating data for trustworthy AI](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-022-00516-1) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-08-17 | Weixin Liang, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Daniel E. Ho et al. |
| 5 | 541 | 5.9 | [Moments in Time Dataset: One Million Videos for Event Understanding](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2901464) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-02-25 | Mathew Monfort, Carl Vondrick, Aude Oliva et al. |
| 6 | 271 | 3.3 | [Designing, developing, and deploying artificial intelligence systems: Lessons from and for the public sector](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2019.11.004) | [Business Horizons](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-horizons.md) | 2019-12-24 | Kevin C. Desouza, Gregory S. Dawson, Daniel Chenok |
| 7 | 188 | 4.8 | [Federated benchmarking of medical artificial intelligence with MedPerf](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00652-2) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-07-17 | Alexandros Karargyris, Renato Umeton, Micah Sheller et al. |
| 8 | 176 | 1.8 | [RBFOpt: an open-source library for black-box optimization with costly function evaluations](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-018-0144-7) | [Mathematical Programming Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming-computation.md) | 2018-08-27 | Alberto Costa, Giacomo Nannicini |
| 9 | 162 | 6.1 | [CARLA: Self-supervised contrastive representation learning for time series anomaly detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2024.110874) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2024-08-09 | Zahra Zamanzadeh Darban, Geoffrey I. Webb, Shirui Pan et al. |
| 10 | 129 | 1.1 | [Driving public sector innovation using big and open linked data (BOLD)](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-017-9746-2) | [Information Systems Frontiers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-systems-frontiers.md) | 2017-03-13 | Marijn Janssen, David Konopnicki, Jane L. Snowdon 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 | 31 |
| 2 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | University | China | 28 |
| 3 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | University | China | 24 |
| 4 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | University | China | 22 |
| 5 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | University | China | 18 |
| 6 | Nanyang Technological University | University | Singapore | 17 |
| 7 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 17 |
| 8 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | University | China | 16 |
| 9 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | University | China | 15 |
| 10 | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications | University | China | 14 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Monash University | University | Australia | 8 |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | University | United States | 7 |
| 3 | [National University of Defense Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-defense-technology.md) | University | China | 6 |
| 4 | IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center | Research facility | United States | 6 |
| 5 | Singapore Management University | University | Singapore | 6 |
| 6 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | University | China | 5 |
| 7 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | University | China | 5 |
| 8 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | Government | China | 5 |
| 9 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | University | China | 5 |

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

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). IBM (United States). Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/ibm-united-states

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {IBM (United States)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/companies/ibm-united-states}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).