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Facial expression (FER2013, AffectNet, RAF-DB)

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Names searched for: FER2013, FER-2013, AffectNet, RAF-DB

Key findings#

  • From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 57 archived papers mentioned Facial expression (FER2013, AffectNet, RAF-DB) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (4).
  • No paper of the tracked journals mentioned Facial expression (FER2013, AffectNet, RAF-DB) in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
  • From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Facial expression (FER2013, AffectNet, RAF-DB) was mentioned in 76 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (66), higher education and research (4) and information systems (2).
  • 20 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
  • Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (5), Institute of Automation (4) and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (4).
  • The journals publishing most of them were Neural Computing and Applications (9), Information Fusion (5) and Pattern Recognition (4).
  • The most-cited of them is “A comprehensive review of model compression techniques in machine learning” (Applied Intelligence, 2024), with 271 citations.
  • Papers use Facial expression (FER2013, AffectNet, RAF-DB) most often with ImageNet (23), Face recognition (LFW, CelebA, VGGFace2) (10) and Speech emotion (IEMOCAP, RAVDESS) (9); it has 12 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST.

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)
TrendNov 23–Oct 24Nov 24–Oct 25Nov 25–Oct 2636 months
14212257

Papers per year#

2017: 1 paper2018: 0 papers2019: 2 papers2020: 2 papers2021: 4 papers2022: 5 papers2023: 6 papers2024: 18 papers2025: 20 papers2026 (so far): 18 papers
20172026 (so far)
Papers per publication year and category
Category2017201820192020202120222023202420252026 (so far)
AI1022445171615
Higher Education and Research0000000031
Information Systems0000011000
Economics0000000001
Statistics0000000010
Operations Research0000000100
Marketing0000000001
All categories1022456182018

Where the papers come from#

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#InstitutionPapers
1Chinese Academy of Sciences5
2Institute of Automation4
3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences4
4Tsinghua University3
5University of Ljubljana3
6Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology2
7Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique2
8Centre d'Etudes Superieures Industrielles2
9Queensland University of Technology2
10Symbiosis International University2
Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#CountryPapers
1China19
2India9
3United Kingdom7
4France6
5Australia5
6Germany5
7Spain3
8Italy3
9Saudi Arabia3
10Slovenia3
Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#KeywordPapers
1facial expression recognition24
2emotion recognition12
3facial emotion recognition11
4FER20138
5AffectNet7
6RAF-DB7
7convolutional neural networks7
8multimodal emotion recognition6
9affective computing4
10attention mechanism4

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#CitationsPer monthTitleJournalPublishedAuthors
127110.4A comprehensive review of model compression techniques in machine learningApplied Intelligence2024-09-02Pierre V. Dantas, Waldir Sabino da Silva, Lucas Carvalho Cordeiro et al.
21552.2FER-net: facial expression recognition using deep neural netNeural Computing and Applications2021-01-09Mohan Karnati, Ayan Seal, Ondřej Krejcar et al.
3992.9Learning From Human Educational Wisdom: A Student-Centered Knowledge Distillation MethodIEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence2024-01-16Shunzhi Yang, Jinfeng Yang, MengChu Zhou et al.
4824.0Emotion recognition for enhanced learning: using AI to detect students’ emotions and adjust teaching methodsSmart Learning Environments2025-02-21Said Abdelrahim Salloum, Khaled Mohammad Alomari, Aseel M. Alfaisal et al.
5782.5GPT-4V with emotion: A zero-shot benchmark for Generalized Emotion RecognitionInformation Fusion2024-03-21Zheng Lian, Licai Sun, Haiyang Sun et al.

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 Facial expression (FER2013, AffectNet, RAF-DB) most often with ImageNet (23), Face recognition (LFW, CelebA, VGGFace2) (10) and Speech emotion (IEMOCAP, RAVDESS) (9); it has 12 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST. The whole network →

What papers use Facial expression (FER2013, AffectNet, RAF-DB) together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used withTypePapers using bothLift
ImageNetDataset236.1
Face recognition (LFW, CelebA, VGGFace2)Dataset1021.3
Speech emotion (IEMOCAP, RAVDESS)Dataset935.4
CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100Dataset73.2
Twitter / XDataset60.8
YouTube / TikTokDataset62.0
FacebookDataset40.8
KaggleDataset44.4
Amazon Mechanical TurkDataset33.2
Fine-grained benchmarks (CUB-200, Stanford Cars, Oxford Flowers)Dataset38.2
IMDbDataset38.0
Stanford Sentiment TreebankDataset332.6
Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Facial expression (FER2013, AffectNet, RAF-DB). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facial-expression-fer2013-affectnet-raf-db

@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-facial-expression-fer2013-affectnet-raf-db,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Facial expression (FER2013, AffectNet, RAF-DB)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facial-expression-fer2013-affectnet-raf-db}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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