---
title: "MS COCO: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 666 archived papers mentioned MS COCO in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Aug 2024 (35)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ms-coco
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ms-coco.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 666 archived papers mentioned MS COCO in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Aug 2024 (35). (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-04T18:03:26+09:00
window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
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---

# MS COCO

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/4.md)

Images labelled with object boxes or pixel masks, including driving scenes.

- data category: Object detection and segmentation benchmarks
- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: MS COCO, MS-COCO, Microsoft COCO, COCO dataset, COCO benchmark, Common Objects in Context, COCO

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Object detection and segmentation benchmarks datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/object-detection-and-segmentation-benchmarks.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 666 archived papers mentioned MS COCO in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Aug 2024 (35).
- MS COCO was mentioned in 11 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #19 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: AI (11).
- Most of them appeared in International Journal of Computer Vision (3), Artificial Intelligence Review (2) and Information Processing & Management (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), MS COCO was mentioned in 928 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (903), finance (9) and information systems (8).
- 216 of them were published in 2025, against 15 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (61), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (43) and Zhejiang University (35).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (186), International Journal of Computer Vision (102) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (64).
- The most-cited of them is “Mask R-CNN” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2018), with 3,459 citations.
- Papers use MS COCO most often with ImageNet (358), PASCAL VOC (185) and CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 (116); it has 57 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 269 | 231 | 166 | 666 |

## 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) | 13 | 12 | 20 | 32 | 42 | 59 | 119 | 253 | 210 | 143 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.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 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 15 | 13 | 21 | 34 | 44 | 62 | 123 | 256 | 216 | 144 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 186 |
| 2 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 102 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 64 |
| 4 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 58 |
| 5 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 42 |
| 6 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 39 |
| 7 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 33 |
| 8 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 32 |
| 9 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 23 |
| 10 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 19 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 61 |
| 2 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 43 |
| 3 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 35 |
| 4 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 31 |
| 5 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 27 |
| 6 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 26 |
| 7 | [Institute of Automation](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/institute-of-automation.md) | 24 |
| 8 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 23 |
| 9 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 23 |
| 10 | [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 21 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 449 |
| 2 | United States | 102 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 76 |
| 4 | Australia | 74 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 65 |
| 6 | Singapore | 56 |
| 7 | Italy | 35 |
| 8 | Germany | 24 |
| 9 | Spain | 23 |
| 10 | South Korea | 22 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [object detection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/object-detection.md) | 122 |
| 2 | [semantic segmentation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/semantic-segmentation.md) | 51 |
| 3 | [image classification](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/image-classification.md) | 50 |
| 4 | [vision transformer](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vision-transformer.md) | 45 |
| 5 | MS COCO | 40 |
| 6 | [vision-language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vision-language-models.md) | 37 |
| 7 | image captioning | 32 |
| 8 | CLIP | 29 |
| 9 | COCO | 27 |
| 10 | instance segmentation | 27 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,459 | 34.2 | [Mask R-CNN](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2844175) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-06-05 | Kaiming He, Georgia Gkioxari, Piotr Dollár et al. |
| 2 | 1,961 | 23.6 | [Cascade R-CNN: High Quality Object Detection and Instance Segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2956516) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-11-28 | Zhaowei Cai, Nuno M. Vasconcelos |
| 3 | 1,187 | 37.8 | [A review of convolutional neural networks in computer vision](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10721-6) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2024-03-23 | Xia Zhao, Limin Wang, Yufei Zhang et al. |
| 4 | 998 | 30.9 | [Vision-Language Models for Vision Tasks: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3369699) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-02-26 | Jingyi Zhang, Jiaxing Huang, Sheng Jin et al. |
| 5 | 769 | 16.2 | [AlphaPose: Whole-Body Regional Multi-Person Pose Estimation and Tracking in Real-Time](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3222784) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-11-17 | Hao-Shu Fang, Jiefeng Li, Hongyang Tang et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use MS COCO most often with ImageNet (358), PASCAL VOC (185) and CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 (116); it has 57 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST.

*What papers use MS COCO together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 358 | 7.8 |
| [PASCAL VOC](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/pascal-voc.md) | Dataset | 185 | 28.6 |
| [CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cifar-10-cifar-100.md) | Dataset | 116 | 4.3 |
| [Cityscapes](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cityscapes.md) | Dataset | 75 | 13.0 |
| [ADE20K](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ade20k.md) | Dataset | 70 | 25.6 |
| [KITTI](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kitti.md) | Dataset | 50 | 5.7 |
| [YouTube / TikTok](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/youtube-tiktok.md) | Dataset | 48 | 1.3 |
| [Fine-grained benchmarks (CUB-200, Stanford Cars, Oxford Flowers)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/fine-grained-benchmarks-cub-200-stanford-cars-oxford-flowers.md) | Dataset | 41 | 9.2 |
| [MNIST / Fashion-MNIST](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mnist-fashion-mnist.md) | Dataset | 37 | 1.7 |
| [Action recognition (Kinetics, UCF101, HMDB51)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/action-recognition-kinetics-ucf101-hmdb51.md) | Dataset | 34 | 6.0 |
| [Open Images](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/open-images.md) | Dataset | 30 | 30.9 |
| [Hugging Face Hub](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/hugging-face-hub.md) | Dataset | 27 | 3.0 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*Papers mentioning MS COCO in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | [Narrative theory-driven LLM methods for automatic story generation and understanding: a survey](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11717-0) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | David Y. Liu, Aditya Joshi, Paul A. Dawson | UNSW Sydney |
| 2026-10-26 | [TokLIP: Marry Visual Tokens to CLIP for Multimodal Comprehension and Generation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03081-x) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03110-9) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Ahmet Burak Yildirim, Vedat Baday, Erkut Erdem et al. | Bilkent University; Hacettepe University; Koç University |
| 2026-10-22 | [Beyond the survey: a systematic empirical study of detection and association in visual MOT](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11713-4) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | Linh Van Ma, Juhua Hu, Wei Cheng et al. | Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology; University of Washington Tacoma |
| 2026-10-20 | [Weighted UnLearning from Experience for Improved Spurious Correlation Robustness](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-026-07164-1) | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | Jeff Mitchell, Jesus Martinez-del-Rincon, Niall McLaughlin | Queen's University Belfast |
| 2026-10-19 | [Evidence-grounded multimodal knowledge graph for Dunhuang mural description generation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134815) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Zhigang Xu, Chen Zhao | Lanzhou University of Technology |
| 2026-10-17 | [CorrCLIPv2: Harnessing Unlabeled Images for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03027-3) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | D H Zhang, Fagui Liu, Quan Tang et al. | South China University of Technology; Peng Cheng Laboratory |
| 2026-10-17 | [Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Zero-Shot Human–Object Interaction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2026.106235) | [Image and Vision Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/image-and-vision-computing.md) | Oriol Rabasseda, Zenjie Li, Kamal Nasrollahi et al. | Universitat de Barcelona; Aalborg University |
| 2026-10-15 | [VLGRA: Visual-Language Semantic Optimization and Graph Reasoning for cross-modal retrieval](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105238) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | Shiyuan Yang, Zhixin Li, 尤忠祥 et al. | Guangxi Normal University |
| 2026-10-12 | [Beyond pairwise alignment: Hypergraph-based semantic calibration for image-text matching](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105202) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | Jin Chen, Xiang Shen, Dezhi Han et al. | Shanghai Maritime University; The University of Sydney; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; … |
| 2026-10-12 | [P2L-CA: An effective parameter tuning framework for rehearsal-free Multi-Label Class-Incremental Learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115121) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Songlin Dong, Jiangyang Li, Chenhao Ding et al. | Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology; Xi'an Jiaotong University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). MS COCO. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ms-coco

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-ms-coco,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {MS COCO},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ms-coco}},
  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  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/).