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title: "MuJoCo: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 110 archived papers mentioned MuJoCo in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2026 (10)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 110 archived papers mentioned MuJoCo in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2026 (10). (as of 2026-11-05)"
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# MuJoCo

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/5.md)

Simulators and benchmark suites for training and comparing reinforcement learning agents.

- data category: Reinforcement learning environments
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: MuJoCo

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Reinforcement learning environments datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/reinforcement-learning-environments.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 110 archived papers mentioned MuJoCo in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2026 (10).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned MuJoCo in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), MuJoCo was mentioned in 150 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (147), operations research (2) and information systems (1).
- 37 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (10), Tsinghua University (10) and Jilin University (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (32), Artificial Intelligence Review (9) and Machine Learning (9).
- The most-cited of them is “End-to-End Autonomous Driving: Challenges and Frontiers” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2024), with 637 citations.
- Papers use MuJoCo most often with OpenAI Gym / Gymnasium (32), Atari (Arcade Learning Environment) (28) and D4RL (18); it has 11 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 31 | 39 | 40 | 110 |

## 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) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 34 | 37 | 30 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 34 | 37 | 33 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 32 |
| 2 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-cybernetics.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 4 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [Jilin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/jilin-university.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [Nanjing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [Utrecht University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/utrecht-university.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 4 |
| 8 | [Northwestern University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-university.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [Politecnico di Milano](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/politecnico-di-milano.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Central South University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-south-university.md) | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 67 |
| 2 | United States | 21 |
| 3 | Italy | 8 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 7 |
| 5 | Australia | 6 |
| 6 | South Korea | 6 |
| 7 | Canada | 5 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 5 |
| 9 | Singapore | 5 |
| 10 | United Arab Emirates | 3 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | MuJoCo | 22 |
| 2 | offline reinforcement learning | 15 |
| 3 | continuous control | 14 |
| 4 | sample efficiency | 14 |
| 5 | [reinforcement learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/reinforcement-learning.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [deep reinforcement learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/deep-reinforcement-learning.md) | 10 |
| 7 | exploration | 10 |
| 8 | distribution shift | 9 |
| 9 | [convergence analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convergence-analysis.md) | 6 |
| 10 | off-policy learning | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 637 | 23.4 | [End-to-End Autonomous Driving: Challenges and Frontiers](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3435937) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-07-30 | Li Chen, Penghao Wu, Kashyap Chitta et al. |
| 2 | 333 | 5.1 | [Distributional Soft Actor-Critic: Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Addressing Value Estimation Errors](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3082568) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-06-09 | Jingliang Duan, Yang Guan, Shengbo Eben Li et al. |
| 3 | 84 | 3.1 | [Bridging Evolutionary Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning: A Comprehensive Survey on Hybrid Algorithms](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2024.3443913) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2024-08-14 | Pengyi Li, Jianye Hao, Hongyao Tang et al. |
| 4 | 82 | 3.5 | [Deep learning adversarial attacks and defenses in autonomous vehicles: a systematic literature review from a safety perspective](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-11014-8) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2024-11-27 | Ahmed Dawod Mohammed Ibrahum, Manzoor Hussain, Jang‐Eui Hong |
| 5 | 82 | 4.6 | [A survey on physics informed reinforcement learning: Review and open problems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.128166) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2025-05-14 | Chayan Banerjee, Kien Nguyen, Clinton Fookes et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use MuJoCo most often with OpenAI Gym / Gymnasium (32), Atari (Arcade Learning Environment) (28) and D4RL (18); it has 11 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST.

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [OpenAI Gym / Gymnasium](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/openai-gym-gymnasium.md) | Dataset | 32 | 82.3 |
| [Atari (Arcade Learning Environment)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/atari-arcade-learning-environment.md) | Dataset | 28 | 69.8 |
| [D4RL](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/d4rl.md) | Dataset | 18 | 104.4 |
| [DeepMind Control Suite](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/deepmind-control-suite.md) | Dataset | 13 | 129.6 |
| [StarCraft](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/starcraft.md) | Dataset | 12 | 26.9 |
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 10 | 1.4 |
| [MNIST / Fashion-MNIST](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mnist-fashion-mnist.md) | Dataset | 6 | 1.7 |
| [nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/nuscenes-waymo-open-argoverse.md) | Dataset | 6 | 6.5 |
| [CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cifar-10-cifar-100.md) | Dataset | 4 | 0.9 |
| [KITTI](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kitti.md) | Dataset | 4 | 2.8 |
| [Cityscapes](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cityscapes.md) | Dataset | 3 | 3.2 |

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

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). MuJoCo. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mujoco

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-mujoco,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {MuJoCo},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mujoco}},
  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/).