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title: "PhysioNet / MIT-BIH: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 147 archived papers mentioned PhysioNet / MIT-BIH in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (10)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 147 archived papers mentioned PhysioNet / MIT-BIH in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (10). (as of 2026-11-05)"
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# PhysioNet / MIT-BIH

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

Clinical records, medical images and physiological signals used in medical machine learning.

- data category: Medical and clinical datasets
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: PhysioNet, MIT-BIH

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Medical and clinical datasets datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/medical-and-clinical-datasets.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 147 archived papers mentioned PhysioNet / MIT-BIH in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (10).
- PhysioNet / MIT-BIH was mentioned in 4 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #79 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: AI (4).
- Most of them appeared in Knowledge-Based Systems (1), Expert Systems with Applications (1) and Artificial Intelligence Review (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), PhysioNet / MIT-BIH was mentioned in 223 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (213), information systems (4) and operations research (3).
- 55 of them were published in 2025, against 5 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Oxford (5), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (4) and University of Cambridge (4).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (25), Artificial Intelligence Review (19) and Knowledge-Based Systems (12).
- The most-cited of them is “Heart sound classification based on improved MFCC features and convolutional recurrent neural networks” (Neural Networks, 2020), with 340 citations.
- Papers use PhysioNet / MIT-BIH most often with MIMIC (42), ImageNet (16) and Kaggle (13); it has 16 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 44 | 54 | 49 | 147 |

## 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) | 5 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 16 | 26 | 34 | 53 | 42 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 5 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 26 | 38 | 55 | 45 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 25 |
| 2 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 19 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 10 |
| 6 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [Cognitive Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cognitive-computation.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 5 |
| 2 | [Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-information-science-and-technology.md) | 4 |
| 3 | [University of Cambridge](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-cambridge.md) | 4 |
| 4 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 4 |
| 5 | Jouf University | 3 |
| 6 | King Faisal University | 3 |
| 7 | Singapore University of Technology and Design | 3 |
| 8 | [The University of Queensland](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-queensland.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [University of Essex](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-essex.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [University of Manchester](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-manchester.md) | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 45 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 24 |
| 3 | United States | 24 |
| 4 | India | 19 |
| 5 | Australia | 15 |
| 6 | Germany | 9 |
| 7 | Saudi Arabia | 9 |
| 8 | United Arab Emirates | 8 |
| 9 | Egypt | 7 |
| 10 | Turkey | 7 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | MIT-BIH arrhythmia database | 29 |
| 2 | arrhythmia detection | 20 |
| 3 | electrocardiogram | 15 |
| 4 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 14 |
| 5 | ECG classification | 11 |
| 6 | electronic health records | 11 |
| 7 | clinical decision support | 10 |
| 8 | arrhythmia classification | 9 |
| 9 | [transformer models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transformer-models.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [convolutional neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convolutional-neural-networks.md) | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 340 | 4.4 | [Heart sound classification based on improved MFCC features and convolutional recurrent neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2020.06.015) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2020-06-23 | Muqing Deng, Tingting Meng, Jiuwen Cao et al. |
| 2 | 257 | 3.0 | [Analysis and classification of heart diseases using heartbeat features and machine learning algorithms](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-019-0244-x) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2019-08-31 | Fajr Ibrahem Alarsan, Mamoon Younes |
| 3 | 248 | 2.6 | [RETRACTED ARTICLE: Novel deep genetic ensemble of classifiers for arrhythmia detection using ECG signals](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-018-03980-2) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2019-01-05 | Paweł Pławiak, U. Rajendra Acharya |
| 4 | 226 | 7.0 | [Cost-sensitive learning for imbalanced medical data: a review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-023-10652-8) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2024-03-01 | Imane Araf, Ali Idri, Ikram Chairi |
| 5 | 223 | 2.6 | [Automated arrhythmia detection using novel hexadecimal local pattern and multilevel wavelet transform with ECG signals](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2019.104923) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2019-08-12 | Türker Tuncer, Şengül Doğan, Paweł Pławiak et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use PhysioNet / MIT-BIH most often with MIMIC (42), ImageNet (16) and Kaggle (13); it has 16 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST.

*What papers use PhysioNet / MIT-BIH together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [MIMIC](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mimic.md) | Dataset | 42 | 26.7 |
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 16 | 1.5 |
| [Kaggle](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kaggle.md) | Dataset | 13 | 4.8 |
| [UCI Machine Learning Repository](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/uci-machine-learning-repository.md) | Dataset | 13 | 4.4 |
| [UCR / UEA archives](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ucr-uea-archives.md) | Dataset | 12 | 20.9 |
| [MNIST / Fashion-MNIST](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mnist-fashion-mnist.md) | Dataset | 11 | 2.1 |
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 6 | 0.3 |
| [Chest X-ray (CheXpert, ChestX-ray14)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/chest-x-ray-chexpert-chestx-ray14.md) | Dataset | 5 | 11.2 |
| [ETT (electricity transformer temperature)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ett-electricity-transformer-temperature.md) | Dataset | 5 | 24.9 |
| [UK Biobank](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/uk-biobank.md) | Dataset | 5 | 6.6 |
| [ADNI](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/adni.md) | Dataset | 4 | 3.5 |
| [CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cifar-10-cifar-100.md) | Dataset | 4 | 0.6 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning PhysioNet / MIT-BIH in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | [From unimodal to multimodal deep physiological signal analysis in healthcare: A survey of models, fusion and explainability](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117256) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Thilini Bakmeedeniya, Selvarajah Thuseethan, Roshan Ragel et al. | University of Peradeniya; NSBM Green University; Charles Darwin University |
| 2026-10-21 | [BioDiff: Spectrally consistent diffusion modeling for high-fidelity physiological signal generation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134824) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Hengyu Dai, Hongwei Ding, Yanxin Zhang et al. | Northeastern University; Westlake University |
| 2026-10-17 | [Language modeling on tabular data: a survey of foundations, techniques and evolution](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11726-z) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | Yucheng Ruan, Xiang Lan, Jingying Ma et al. | National University of Singapore; Institute of Data Science |
| 2026-10-15 | [A Cognitive, Quantum-Inspired Learning Framework for Energy-Efficient and Reliable Routing in Wireless Body Area Networks](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-026-10665-9) | [Cognitive Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cognitive-computation.md) | Soufiane Ben Othman, Naima Saeed | King Faisal University; University of Aden |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). PhysioNet / MIT-BIH. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/physionet-mit-bih

```bibtex
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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {PhysioNet / MIT-BIH},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/physionet-mit-bih}},
  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/).