AG News / 20 Newsgroups

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Names searched for: AG News dataset, AG News corpus, AG's News, AGNews, 20 Newsgroups, 20Newsgroups, AG News

Tasks, access and usage conditions#

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NLP dataset comparison: tasks, access and usage conditions
Dataset / version	Task and evaluation	Access and preparation	Usage conditions
AG News	Four-way news topic classification in the common benchmark version. Evaluation: Accuracy or macro-F1; full news corpus and the four-class subset differ in coverage.	Official source / documentation Start with the original corpus/source page; identify the exact four-class benchmark release and split.	The original news corpus is offered for research; review its terms and news-source rights before redistribution or commercial use.
20 Newsgroups	Topic classification or clustering of discussion posts from 20 groups. Evaluation: Accuracy/macro-F1 for classification; headers and quotes can leak strong topic or author cues.	Official source / documentation Use the bydate archive for a chronological split; record whether headers, footers and quoted replies were removed.	Check the chosen release and original message rights; do not infer a blanket license from a machine-learning library wrapper.

Guide updated 2026-11-04.

Key findings#

From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 183 archived papers mentioned AG News / 20 Newsgroups in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Feb 2025 (9).
No paper of the tracked journals mentioned AG News / 20 Newsgroups in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), AG News / 20 Newsgroups was mentioned in 195 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (94), economics (26) and management (16).
57 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were The University of Melbourne (6), University of Oxford (6) and Sapienza University of Rome (5).
The journals publishing most of them were Artificial Intelligence Review (11), AI & Society (11) and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (8).
The most-cited of them is “Autoencoders and their applications in machine learning: a survey” (Artificial Intelligence Review, 2024), with 613 citations.
Papers use AG News / 20 Newsgroups most often with Twitter / X (29), IMDb (25) and CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 (24); it has 41 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok.

Mentions over 36 months#

Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)
Trend	Nov 23–Oct 24	Nov 24–Oct 25	Nov 25–Oct 26	36 months
	64	59	60	183

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	1	2	1	1	1	9	28	25	26
Economics	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	9	7
Management	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	5	4
Finance	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	5	2
Marketing	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	2
Higher Education and Research	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	4
Information Systems	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	1	1
Operations Research	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	2
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	0
Statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
Accounting	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
All categories	1	2	1	1	2	16	63	57	52

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Artificial Intelligence Review	11
2	AI & Society	11
3	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	8
4	Machine Learning	7
5	Expert Systems with Applications	6
6	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	6
7	Neural Networks	5
8	Neural Computing and Applications	5
9	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	5
10	Higher Education	4

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	The University of Melbourne	6
2	University of Oxford	6
3	Sapienza University of Rome	5
4	University of Warsaw	5
5	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	4
6	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	4
7	Nanyang Technological University	4
8	The University of Sydney	4
9	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	4
10	Warsaw University of Technology	4

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	41
2	United States	35
3	Australia	25
4	United Kingdom	24
5	Germany	22
6	Netherlands	16
7	Italy	14
8	Spain	10
9	Hong Kong	10
10	Singapore	10

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	large language models	20
2	natural language processing	7
3	AI governance	6
4	gender differences	6
5	generative AI	6
6	text classification	6
7	20 Newsgroups	5
8	catastrophic forgetting	5
9	computer vision	5
10	evaluation metrics	5

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	613	18.5	Autoencoders and their applications in machine learning: a survey	Artificial Intelligence Review	2024-02-03	Kamal Berahmand, Fatemeh Daneshfar, Elaheh Sadat Salehi et al.
2	495	14.0	A comprehensive survey on applications of transformers for deep learning tasks	Expert Systems with Applications	2023-11-22	Saidul Islam, Hanae Elmekki, Ahmed Elsebai et al.
3	221	6.1	A survey on few-shot class-incremental learning	Neural Networks	2023-10-31	Songsong Tian, Lusi Li, Weijun Li et al.
4	177	5.4	Adversarial attacks and defenses in explainable artificial intelligence: A survey	Information Fusion	2024-02-19	Hubert Baniecki, Przemysław Biecek
5	145	4.7	Sustainable finance literacy and the determinants of sustainable investing	Journal of Banking & Finance	2024-04-04	Massimo Filippini, Markus Leippold, Tobias Wekhof

Archive counts by publication year: a paper counts when its title, abstract or keywords name the dataset, or when OpenAlex's full-text search finds it there (searched for the last 30 days' papers and, by a pass over the past years, for older ones). Names added to the list later are looked for in older papers as the archive is read again.

Used together with#

Papers use AG News / 20 Newsgroups most often with Twitter / X (29), IMDb (25) and CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 (24); it has 41 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok. The whole network →

What papers use AG News / 20 Newsgroups together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used with	Type	Papers using both	Lift
Twitter / X	Dataset	29	1.6
IMDb	Dataset	25	26.0
CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	Dataset	24	4.2
Facebook	Dataset	24	1.9
MNIST / Fashion-MNIST	Dataset	24	5.3
ImageNet	Dataset	23	2.4
Wikipedia	Dataset	17	4.1
Reddit	Dataset	14	5.7
Hugging Face Hub	Dataset	13	6.8
Stanford Sentiment Treebank	Dataset	13	54.7
Yelp	Dataset	13	8.7
YouTube / TikTok	Dataset	13	1.7

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). AG News / 20 Newsgroups. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ag-news-20-newsgroups

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  title = {AG News / 20 Newsgroups},
  year = {2026},
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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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