---
title: "Flight tracking data (ADS-B): papers using it"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 23 archived papers mentioned Flight tracking data (ADS-B) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Feb 2026 (3)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/flight-tracking-data-ads-b
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 23 archived papers mentioned Flight tracking data (ADS-B) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Feb 2026 (3). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# Flight tracking data (ADS-B)

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/3.md)

Vessel and flight tracking, freight rate indices and data on firms' supplier and customer links.

- data category: Shipping, logistics and supply chain data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: ADS-B data, OpenSky Network, Flightradar24

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Shipping, logistics and supply chain data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/shipping-logistics-and-supply-chain-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 23 archived papers mentioned Flight tracking data (ADS-B) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Feb 2026 (3).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned Flight tracking data (ADS-B) in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Flight tracking data (ADS-B) was mentioned in 33 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (17), economics (5) and AI (5).
- 9 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (3), Civil Aviation University of China (2) and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Air Transport Management (6), Transport Policy (3) and Expert Systems with Applications (2).
- The most-cited of them is “Learning aircraft operational factors to improve aircraft climb prediction: A large scale multi-airport study” (Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies, 2018), with 69 citations.

## 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 5 | 7 | 11 | 23 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 9 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Air Transport Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-air-transport-management.md) | 6 |
| 2 | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 3 |
| 3 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2 |
| 4 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [Computers & Security](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-security.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-statistical-planning-and-inference.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Open Economies Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/open-economies-review.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 3 |
| 2 | Civil Aviation University of China | 2 |
| 3 | [Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-aeronautics-and-astronautics.md) | 2 |
| 4 | Adelaide University | 1 |
| 5 | Air Force Engineering University | 1 |
| 6 | Air Traffic Management Research Institute | 1 |
| 7 | [Aviation Industry Corporation of China (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/aviation-industry-corporation-of-china-china.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications.md) | 1 |
| 9 | Beijing Wuzi University | 1 |
| 10 | Central Queensland University | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 7 |
| 2 | France | 3 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 3 |
| 4 | United States | 3 |
| 5 | Australia | 2 |
| 6 | Brazil | 1 |
| 7 | Canada | 1 |
| 8 | Spain | 1 |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 10 | Ireland | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | air traffic management | 5 |
| 2 | ADS-B data | 4 |
| 3 | ADS-B | 2 |
| 4 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 2 |
| 5 | air traffic control | 2 |
| 6 | airport operations | 2 |
| 7 | [anomaly detection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/anomaly-detection.md) | 2 |
| 8 | aviation emissions | 2 |
| 9 | cyberattacks | 2 |
| 10 | flight delays | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 69 | 0.7 | [Learning aircraft operational factors to improve aircraft climb prediction: A large scale multi-airport study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2018.08.012) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2018-09-21 | Richard Alligier, David Gianazza |
| 2 | 54 | 0.8 | [Impacts of COVID-19 on aircraft usage and fuel consumption: A case study on four Chinese international airports](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2021.102106) | [Journal of Air Transport Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-air-transport-management.md) | 2021-07-01 | Dabin Xue, Zhizhao Liu, Bing Wang et al. |
| 3 | 52 | 1.7 | [Short-term multi-step-ahead sector-based traffic flow prediction based on the attention-enhanced graph convolutional LSTM network (AGC-LSTM)](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-024-09827-3) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2024-05-07 | Ying Zhang, Shimin Xu, Linghui Zhang et al. |
| 4 | 49 | 0.6 | [Automated data-driven prediction on aircraft Estimated Time of Arrival](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2020.101840) | [Journal of Air Transport Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-air-transport-management.md) | 2020-07-19 | Zhengyi Wang, Man Liang, Daniel Delahaye |
| 5 | 40 | 1.9 | [Impact analysis of Russian-Ukrainian war on airspace](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102742) | [Journal of Air Transport Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-air-transport-management.md) | 2025-01-22 | Ivan Ostroumov, Viktoriia Ivannikova, Nataliia Kuzmenko et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Flight tracking data (ADS-B). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/flight-tracking-data-ads-b

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-flight-tracking-data-ads-b,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Flight tracking data (ADS-B)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/flight-tracking-data-ads-b}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference 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/).