---
title: "Sentinel / Copernicus: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 247 archived papers mentioned Sentinel / Copernicus in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2026 (16)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/sentinel-copernicus
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/sentinel-copernicus.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 247 archived papers mentioned Sentinel / Copernicus in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2026 (16). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Sentinel / Copernicus

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/6.md)

Night-time lights, land cover, satellite imagery and maps.

- data category: Satellite and geospatial data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Copernicus

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Satellite and geospatial data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/satellite-and-geospatial-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 247 archived papers mentioned Sentinel / Copernicus in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2026 (16).
- Sentinel / Copernicus 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: Economics (2), AI (1) and Statistics (1).
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Cultural Economics (1), Expert Systems with Applications (1) and Resources Policy (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Sentinel / Copernicus was mentioned in 276 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (116), AI (96) and operations research (19).
- 85 of them were published in 2025, against 2 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (7), Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (6) and Politecnico di Milano (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were Neural Computing and Applications (22), Land Use Policy (20) and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (10).
- The most-cited of them is “Convolutional neural networks for global human settlements mapping from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery” (Neural Computing and Applications, 2020), with 176 citations.
- Papers use Sentinel / Copernicus most often with Landsat (50), ERA5 reanalysis (42) and MODIS (27); it has 30 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

## 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 69 | 78 | 100 | 247 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 28 | 35 | 42 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 25 | 28 | 20 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 17 | 70 | 85 | 83 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 20 |
| 3 | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 10 |
| 4 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [Environmental and Resource Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-and-resource-economics.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 7 |
| 2 | [Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/institut-national-de-recherche-pour-l-agriculture-l-alimentation-et-l-environnem.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [Politecnico di Milano](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/politecnico-di-milano.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 6 |
| 5 | RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment | 5 |
| 6 | [University College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-london.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [University of Bologna](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bologna.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [University of Southampton](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-southampton.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Bocconi University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/bocconi-university.md) | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Italy | 49 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 42 |
| 3 | Spain | 30 |
| 4 | United States | 27 |
| 5 | France | 26 |
| 6 | Germany | 25 |
| 7 | China | 22 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 21 |
| 9 | Belgium | 11 |
| 10 | Australia | 8 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Sentinel-2 | 13 |
| 2 | [climate change adaptation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-change-adaptation.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [climate change](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-change.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 9 |
| 5 | Sentinel-2 imagery | 8 |
| 6 | satellite imagery | 8 |
| 7 | Sentinel-1 | 7 |
| 8 | [air pollution](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/air-pollution.md) | 7 |
| 9 | NDVI | 6 |
| 10 | PM2.5 | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 176 | 2.4 | [Convolutional neural networks for global human settlements mapping from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-05449-7) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2020-10-27 | Christina Corbane, Vasileios Syrris, Filip Sabo et al. |
| 2 | 174 | 2.6 | [Spatial dependence between training and test sets: another pitfall of classification accuracy assessment in remote sensing](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-021-05972-1) | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 2021-04-26 | Nicolas Karasiak, Jean-François Dejoux, Claude Monteil et al. |
| 3 | 158 | 6.0 | [Recent Advances in Generative AI and Large Language Models: Current Status, Challenges, and Perspectives](https://doi.org/10.1109/tai.2024.3444742) | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2024-08-19 | Desta Haileselassie Hagos, Rick Battle, Danda B. Rawat |
| 4 | 136 | 1.2 | [A decision support system for vessel speed decision in maritime logistics using weather archive big data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2017.06.005) | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 2017-06-13 | Habin Lee, Nurşen Aydın, Youngseok Thomas Choi et al. |
| 5 | 110 | 4.1 | [Self-Supervised Multimodal Learning: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3429301) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-08-07 | Yongshuo Zong, Oisin Mac Aodha, Timothy M. Hospedales |

## Used together with

Papers use Sentinel / Copernicus most often with Landsat (50), ERA5 reanalysis (42) and MODIS (27); it has 30 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Landsat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/landsat.md) | Dataset | 50 | 46.1 |
| [ERA5 reanalysis](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/era5-reanalysis.md) | Dataset | 42 | 68.0 |
| [MODIS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/modis.md) | Dataset | 27 | 11.5 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 25 | 3.0 |
| [Night-time lights (VIIRS, DMSP)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/night-time-lights-viirs-dmsp.md) | Dataset | 16 | 8.1 |
| [CMIP climate projections](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cmip-climate-projections.md) | Dataset | 15 | 31.3 |
| [NOAA](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/noaa.md) | Dataset | 15 | 11.3 |
| [OpenStreetMap](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/openstreetmap.md) | Dataset | 14 | 8.7 |
| [Google Earth Engine](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/google-earth-engine.md) | Dataset | 13 | 47.9 |
| [International Energy Agency (IEA)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/international-energy-agency-iea.md) | Dataset | 11 | 2.0 |
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 9 | 0.7 |
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 9 | 0.3 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning Sentinel / Copernicus in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | [The economic geography of Churches: housing market effects in Stockholm](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-026-09609-w) | [Journal of Cultural Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-cultural-economics.md) | Mats Wilhelmsson | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-16 | [Transductive few-shot learning for ecosystem classification from satellite time series: A systematic study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134761) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Minsu Cho, Hyunwoo Park, Dohyun Park et al. | Kwangwoon University; Seoul National University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-14 | [A blockchain and geospatial AI-enabled governance system for illegal gold mining detection and supply chain traceability](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2026.106070) | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | Pratyush Kumar Patro, Adolf  Akwei Acquaye, Malick NDIAYE et al. | Khalifa University of Science and Technology; American University of Sharjah; Imperial College London |
| 2026-10-10 | [Local inference for functional data on manifold domains using permutation tests](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2026.105719) | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | Niels Lundtorp Olsen, Alessia Pini, Simone Vantini | Technical University of Denmark; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Politecnico di Milano |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Sentinel / Copernicus. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/sentinel-copernicus

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@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-sentinel-copernicus,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Sentinel / Copernicus},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/sentinel-copernicus}},
  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/).