ImageNet

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Labelled image collections used to train and compare image classifiers.

Names searched for: ImageNet, ILSVRC

Key findings#

From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 1,926 archived papers mentioned ImageNet in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (93).
ImageNet was mentioned in 31 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #4 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
By journal category: AI (29), Finance (1) and Operations Research (1).
Most of them appeared in Pattern Recognition (7), Neural Networks (6) and International Journal of Computer Vision (4).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), ImageNet was mentioned in 2,281 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (2,188), operations research (25) and information systems (19).
603 of them were published in 2025, against 6 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (113), Tsinghua University (70) and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (65).
The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (403), International Journal of Computer Vision (205) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (182).
The most-cited of them is “Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2019), with 12,153 citations.
Papers use ImageNet most often with CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 (768), MS COCO (356) and MNIST / Fashion-MNIST (322); it has 120 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)
Trend	Nov 23–Oct 24	Nov 24–Oct 25	Nov 25–Oct 26	36 months
	792	647	487	1,926

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	6	16	36	35	59	80	247	737	579	393
Operations Research	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	12	6	6
Information Systems	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	10	3	5
Statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	3	4
Economics	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	5	5
Finance	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	4
Higher Education and Research	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3
Management	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
Tourism and Hospitality	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
Marketing	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
All categories	6	16	36	35	60	80	250	771	603	424

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	403
2	International Journal of Computer Vision	205
3	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	182
4	Neural Computing and Applications	160
5	Artificial Intelligence Review	142
6	Pattern Recognition	140
7	Neural Networks	119
8	Expert Systems with Applications	96
9	Machine Learning	80
10	Knowledge-Based Systems	80

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	113
2	Tsinghua University	70
3	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	65
4	Nanyang Technological University	62
5	Institute of Automation	52
6	Zhejiang University	51
7	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	50
8	Chinese University of Hong Kong	45
9	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	45
10	Sun Yat-sen University	42

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	987
2	United States	290
3	United Kingdom	245
4	Australia	173
5	Hong Kong	166
6	Germany	121
7	Singapore	115
8	Italy	107
9	South Korea	75
10	Spain	70

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	image classification	180
2	vision transformer	137
3	convolutional neural networks	104
4	object detection	93
5	transfer learning	82
6	knowledge distillation	80
7	semantic segmentation	78
8	data augmentation	76
9	self-supervised learning	75
10	deep learning	63

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	12,153	134.9	Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2019-05-02	Jie Hu, Li Shen, Samuel Albanie et al.
2	3,404	39.5	Res2Net: A New Multi-Scale Backbone Architecture	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2019-08-30	Shanghua Gao, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Kai Zhao et al.
3	3,086	31.1	A systematic study of the class imbalance problem in convolutional neural networks	Neural Networks	2018-07-29	Mateusz Buda, Atsuto Maki, Maciej A. Mazurowski
4	2,404	25.6	One Pixel Attack for Fooling Deep Neural Networks	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	2019-01-04	Jiawei Su, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas, Kouichi Sakurai
5	1,831	31.5	Image Super-Resolution Via Iterative Refinement	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2022-01-01	Chitwan Saharia, Jonathan Ho, William Chan 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 ImageNet most often with CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 (768), MS COCO (356) and MNIST / Fashion-MNIST (322); it has 120 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 ImageNet together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used with	Type	Papers using both	Lift
CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	Dataset	768	10.7
MS COCO	Dataset	356	7.6
MNIST / Fashion-MNIST	Dataset	322	5.6
Fine-grained benchmarks (CUB-200, Stanford Cars, Oxford Flowers)	Dataset	161	13.4
PASCAL VOC	Dataset	158	9.3
SVHN	Dataset	127	11.9
Cityscapes	Dataset	111	7.0
YouTube / TikTok	Dataset	110	1.2
Face recognition (LFW, CelebA, VGGFace2)	Dataset	100	6.9
Kaggle	Dataset	96	3.1
Action recognition (Kinetics, UCF101, HMDB51)	Dataset	90	6.3
Caltech-101 / 256	Dataset	90	11.6

Papers mentioning ImageNet in the last 30 days, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-28	Breathing life into activation functions: the SWIn framework for sustained nonlinearity	Neural Networks	Yu Ran, Li Zhang, Shi Yuan	University of Manchester; University of International Business and Economics
2026-10-26	CARD: Conditional backdoor repair under limited clean data via target-side occupancy–takeover readout	Expert Systems with Applications	Yuchen Dong, Jian Peng, Lixu Sun et al.	Xinjiang University; Xinjiang Institute of Engineering
2026-10-26	TokLIP: Marry Visual Tokens to CLIP for Multimodal Comprehension and Generation	International Journal of Computer Vision	Haokun Lin, Teng Wang, Yixiao Ge et al.	City University of Hong Kong; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Tencent (China); …
2026-10-26	Inst-Inpaint: Instructing to Remove Objects with Diffusion Models	International Journal of Computer Vision	Ahmet Burak Yildirim, Vedat Baday, Erkut Erdem et al.	Bilkent University; Hacettepe University; Koç University
2026-10-25	EGY-MER: Establishing The First Egyptian Arabic Multimodal Emotion Recognition Dataset for Affective Computing	Language Resources and Evaluation	Amany Hussein, May Hussien, Ammar Hassona et al.	German International University; German University in Cairo; Universität Ulm
2026-10-24	PF-Mamba-UNet: An Anatomical-Prior-Guided Medical Image Segmentation Network Based on Mamba and Spatial-Channel Collaborative Attention Fusion	Cognitive Computation	Leyi Xiao, Kangshun Liao, Baoxian Zhou et al.	Hainan University
2026-10-24	Enhancing monocular 3D semantic scene graph prediction via cross-modality knowledge distillation	Pattern Recognition	Jiho Bae, Minjae Lee, Seok-Jun Buu et al.	Gyeongsang National University
2026-10-24	Label ensemble perspective for reduced-complexity graph node classification under label noise	Pattern Recognition	Rui Zhao, Bin Shi, Zhiming Liang et al.	Xi'an Jiaotong University; Pennsylvania State University
2026-10-23	DFedSVRG: Decentralized federated learning with stochastic variance reduced gradient	Expert Systems with Applications	Jialong Huang, Jianhua Hu, Qinglun Li et al.	University of Shanghai for Science and Technology; National University of Defense Technology
2026-10-23	A Lagrangian-inspired force-based loss for deep metric learning	Neural Networks	Byung Do Cheon, Jeongmin Yu, Jung-Eun Kim et al.	Yonsei University
2026-10-23	From pixels to profits: trading arbitrage portfolios based on image representations	Financial markets and portfolio management	Niklas Paluszkiewicz	Universität Ulm
2026-10-23	Increment Vector Transformation for Class Incremental Learning	Pattern Recognition	Zihuan Qiu, Yi Xu, Fanman Meng et al.	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
2026-10-22	Zero-Shot Domain Generalization via Domain Prompt Learning	International Journal of Computer Vision	Shiming Chen, Salman Khan, Salman Khan et al.	Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence; Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Australian National University; …
2026-10-21	InfoDisent: Explainability of image classification models by information disentanglement	Knowledge-Based Systems	Łukasz Struski, Dawid Rymarczyk, Jacek Tabor
2026-10-20	Boosting the understanding ability of diffusion model with masked image modeling	Pattern Recognition	Jianning Pei, Yingchao Feng, Hanbo Bi et al.	Chinese Academy of Sciences; Aerospace Information Research Institute; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2026-10-20	Weighted UnLearning from Experience for Improved Spurious Correlation Robustness	Machine Learning	Jeff Mitchell, Jesus Martinez-del-Rincon, Niall McLaughlin	Queen's University Belfast
2026-10-20	Adaptation of foundation models in medical image analysis: mechanisms, evidence, and deployment considerations	Artificial Intelligence Review	Karma Phuntsho, Abdullah, Kyungmi Lee et al.	James Cook University
2026-10-19	Nothing beyond randomness is required for forward-forward learning	Pattern Recognition	Yue Zhou, Xiaofang Hu, Shukai Duan	Southwest University
2026-10-19	KeyMorph: Learning parameter-efficient network activation for deep steganography	Pattern Recognition	Fanye Kong, Yu Zheng, Lei Chen et al.	Tsinghua University
2026-10-17	CorrCLIPv2: Harnessing Unlabeled Images for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation	International Journal of Computer Vision	D H Zhang, Fagui Liu, Quan Tang et al.	South China University of Technology; Peng Cheng Laboratory
2026-10-16	NISNet: Efficient native dense prediction via symmetric boundary-preserving coupling–decoupling	Expert Systems with Applications	Fengjun WU, Kafeng Wang, Xinai Xu et al.	Nanchang Normal University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Computer Network Information Center; …
2026-10-16	CDCLAP: Efficient distillation framework for zero-shot audio event classification	Neural Networks	Fei Chen, Hui Xue, Pengfei Fang	Southeast University
2026-10-15	Transformer Architectures for Respiratory Sound Analysis and Multimodal Diagnosis	Operations Research Forum	Theodore Aptekarev, Vladimir Sokolovsky, G. B. Furman et al.	National Research University Higher School of Economics; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Perm State Medical Academy
2026-10-14	A transferable adversarial attack method via Loss Surface Guided Gradient Optimization	Knowledge-Based Systems	Chuan Ye, Xiaoqing Yang, Yunhan Li et al.	Southwest Petroleum University; Sichuan University; Huzhou College
2026-10-14	Dynamic gain neuromodulation attenuates stability gaps during continual joint training	Neural Networks	Alejandro Rodriguez-Garcia, Anindya Ghosh, Srikanth Ramaswamy	Newcastle University
2026-10-13	Dual-prompt semantic decoupling and transfer for long-tailed recognition	Neural Networks	Xiaohua Chen, Yue Wang, Yanbiao Ma	Communication University of China; Xidian University; Renmin University of China
2026-10-09	Semantic-Clustered Multimodal Prompt Tuning for long-tailed visual recognition	Knowledge-Based Systems	Binlong Dong, Yuge Xu	South China University of Technology
2026-10-09	Test-time optimization for domain adaptive open vocabulary segmentation	Neural Networks	Ulindu De Silva, Didula Samaraweera, Sasini Wanigathunga et al.	University of Moratuwa; Stony Brook University; Khalifa University of Science and Technology
2026-10-08	Rank and data adaptive low-rank adaptation for 2-bit quantization-aware fine-tuning of ViT	Pattern Recognition	Yuning Yang, Guowei Peng, Xiurui Xie et al.	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
2026-10-07	CGNC: Confidence-Guided Neighbor Consensus for semi-supervised learning	Knowledge-Based Systems	Ahmed Abbas Jaber, Mengzi Tang, Zhishu Shen et al.	Wuhan University of Technology
2026-10-07	When algorithms cannot be fair: constitutive and contingent discrimination and the limits of less-discriminatory alternatives	AI & Society	Alfredo Di Giorgio	University of Salento

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). ImageNet. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {ImageNet},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet}},
  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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