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title: "nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse: papers using it"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 266 archived papers mentioned nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (16)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 266 archived papers mentioned nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (16). (as of 2026-11-04)"
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# nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse

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

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

- data category: Object detection and segmentation benchmarks
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: nuScenes, Waymo Open, Argoverse

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, 266 archived papers mentioned nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (16).
- nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse was mentioned in 8 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #43 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: AI (6) and Operations Research (2).
- Most of them appeared in Pattern Recognition (2), Artificial Intelligence Review (2) and Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse was mentioned in 296 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (272) and operations research (24).
- 101 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (19), Chinese Academy of Sciences (18) and Zhejiang University (16).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (78), International Journal of Computer Vision (37) and Pattern Recognition (27).
- 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 nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse most often with KITTI (117), ImageNet (39) and Cityscapes (23); it has 22 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 68 | 96 | 102 | 266 |

## 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 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 23 | 63 | 97 | 74 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 24 | 68 | 101 | 87 |

## 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) | 78 |
| 2 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 37 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 27 |
| 4 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 22 |
| 5 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | 19 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-hong-kong.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Chinese University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 9 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 191 |
| 2 | United States | 36 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 30 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 21 |
| 5 | Germany | 18 |
| 6 | Singapore | 17 |
| 7 | Australia | 16 |
| 8 | Italy | 11 |
| 9 | Canada | 10 |
| 10 | South Korea | 7 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [autonomous driving](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/autonomous-driving.md) | 94 |
| 2 | nuScenes | 85 |
| 3 | 3D object detection | 64 |
| 4 | Waymo Open Dataset | 26 |
| 5 | autonomous driving perception | 24 |
| 6 | [autonomous vehicles](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/autonomous-vehicles.md) | 22 |
| 7 | KITTI | 20 |
| 8 | LiDAR point cloud | 20 |
| 9 | point clouds | 20 |
| 10 | LiDAR-camera fusion | 18 |

## 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 | 558 | 11.8 | [PV-RCNN++: Point-Voxel Feature Set Abstraction With Local Vector Representation for 3D Object Detection](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-022-01710-9) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2022-11-24 | Shaoshuai Shi, Li Jiang, Jiajun Deng et al. |
| 3 | 307 | 13.4 | [BEVFormer: Learning Bird’s-Eye-View Representation From LiDAR-Camera via Spatiotemporal Transformers](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3515454) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-12-10 | Zhiqi Li, Wenhai Wang, Hongyang Li et al. |
| 4 | 216 | 5.5 | [HDGT: Heterogeneous Driving Graph Transformer for Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction via Scene Encoding](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3298301) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-07-24 | Xiaosong Jia, Penghao Wu, Li Chen et al. |
| 5 | 188 | 5.6 | [MTR++: Multi-Agent Motion Prediction With Symmetric Scene Modeling and Guided Intention Querying](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3352811) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-01-12 | Shaoshuai Shi, Li Jiang, Dengxin Dai et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse most often with KITTI (117), ImageNet (39) and Cityscapes (23); it has 22 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST.

*What papers use nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [KITTI](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kitti.md) | Dataset | 117 | 41.7 |
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 39 | 2.7 |
| [Cityscapes](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cityscapes.md) | Dataset | 23 | 12.5 |
| [MS COCO](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ms-coco.md) | Dataset | 18 | 3.1 |
| [YouTube / TikTok](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/youtube-tiktok.md) | Dataset | 13 | 1.1 |
| [open-mmlab/OpenPCDet](https://scholar4ai.com/code/github-open-mmlab-openpcdet.md) | Code repository | 10 | 77.0 |
| [CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cifar-10-cifar-100.md) | Dataset | 7 | 0.8 |
| [MuJoCo](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mujoco.md) | Dataset | 6 | 6.5 |
| [Kaggle](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kaggle.md) | Dataset | 5 | 1.4 |
| [PASCAL VOC](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/pascal-voc.md) | Dataset | 5 | 2.4 |
| [open-mmlab/mmdetection3d](https://scholar4ai.com/code/github-open-mmlab-mmdetection3d.md) | Code repository | 5 | 62.2 |
| [Amazon Mechanical Turk](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/amazon-mechanical-turk.md) | Dataset | 4 | 1.1 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-25 | [$${\\text {VLScene}}^{++}$$: Enhancing 3D Semantic Scene Completion via VLM Discrepancy-Aware Semantic Distillation and Sparse–Dense Hybrid Awareness](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03050-4) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Meng Wang, Yujie Xue, Jijiang Liu et al. | Hunan University |
| 2026-10-23 | [High-frequency depth distillation from foundation models for multi-view 3D object detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115156) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Jingxin Wang, Shuang Li, Mingpi Tan et al. | Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications |
| 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 |
| 2026-10-22 | [Measuring the state of open science in transportation using large language models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106024) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Junyi Ji, Ruth Lu, Linda Belkessa et al. | Vanderbilt University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Université Gustave Eiffel; … |
| 2026-10-19 | [A low-rank consensus method for vision language model hallucination mitigation in autonomous driving](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106092) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Keke Long, Jiacheng Guo, Tianyun Zhang et al. | University of Wisconsin–Madison; Cleveland State University; University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| 2026-10-17 | [Seeing ahead through a state-of-the-art review of visual perception and predictive intelligence for collaborative robots](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11708-1) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | Mahmoud Salem, Markus Reischl, Veit Hagenmeyer et al. | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; British University in Egypt; Gulf University for Science & Technology |
| 2026-10-17 | [MonoPRIO: Adaptive prior conditioning for unified monocular 3D object detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115138) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Leon Davies, Qinggang Meng, Mohamad Saada et al. | Loughborough University; University of Southern Denmark |
| 2026-10-14 | [SDDF-BEV: Uncertainty-aware spatio-temporal fusion for pure vision Bird’s-Eye-View 3D object detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117201) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Wei Zhang, Xulu Xia, Xingliang Zhu et al. | University of Science and Technology of China; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei Institutes of Physical Science; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/nuscenes-waymo-open-argoverse

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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).