---
title: "StarCraft: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 116 archived papers mentioned StarCraft in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Nov 2023 (6)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/starcraft
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/starcraft.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 116 archived papers mentioned StarCraft in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Nov 2023 (6). (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)
---

# StarCraft

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

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, 116 archived papers mentioned StarCraft in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Nov 2023 (6).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned StarCraft in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), StarCraft was mentioned in 141 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (130), operations research (5) and economics (2).
- 43 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (10), Nanyang Technological University (9) and Institute of Automation (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Neural Networks (18), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (18) and Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (12).
- The most-cited of them is “A Comprehensive Survey of Continual Learning: Theory, Method and Application” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2024), with 1,114 citations.
- Papers use StarCraft most often with Atari (Arcade Learning Environment) (15), MuJoCo (12) and ImageNet (9); 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 41 | 48 | 27 | 116 |

## 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) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 43 | 40 | 18 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 46 | 43 | 20 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/autonomous-agents-and-multi-agent-systems.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.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 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Institute of Automation](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/institute-of-automation.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-university.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [King's College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/king-s-college-london.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Nanjing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university.md) | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 72 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 15 |
| 3 | Singapore | 11 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 10 |
| 5 | United States | 9 |
| 6 | Australia | 7 |
| 7 | Canada | 7 |
| 8 | Germany | 7 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 7 |
| 10 | Italy | 4 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | multi-agent reinforcement learning | 54 |
| 2 | StarCraft II | 19 |
| 3 | StarCraft Multi-Agent Challenge | 18 |
| 4 | sample efficiency | 11 |
| 5 | StarCraft II micromanagement | 10 |
| 6 | centralized training decentralized execution | 10 |
| 7 | [reinforcement learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/reinforcement-learning.md) | 10 |
| 8 | Google Research Football | 9 |
| 9 | [deep reinforcement learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/deep-reinforcement-learning.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,114 | 34.5 | [A Comprehensive Survey of Continual Learning: Theory, Method and Application](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3367329) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-02-26 | Liyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang, Hang Su et al. |
| 2 | 176 | 7.5 | [Survey on Large Language Model-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning: Concept, Taxonomy, and Methods](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2024.3497992) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2024-11-25 | Yuji Cao, Huan Qi Zhao, Yuheng Cheng et al. |
| 3 | 164 | 4.8 | [A survey of multi-agent deep reinforcement learning with communication](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-023-09633-6) | [Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/autonomous-agents-and-multi-agent-systems.md) | 2024-01-06 | Changxi Zhu, Mehdi M. Dastani, Shihan Wang |
| 4 | 110 | 3.6 | [A survey on interpretable reinforcement learning](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-024-06543-w) | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 2024-04-19 | Claire Glanois, Paul Weng, Matthieu Zimmer et al. |
| 5 | 91 | 3.8 | [A Comprehensive Survey of Forgetting in Deep Learning Beyond Continual Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3498346) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-11-14 | Zhenyi Wang, Enneng Yang, Li Shen et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use StarCraft most often with Atari (Arcade Learning Environment) (15), MuJoCo (12) and ImageNet (9); 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 StarCraft together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Atari (Arcade Learning Environment)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/atari-arcade-learning-environment.md) | Dataset | 15 | 39.5 |
| [MuJoCo](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mujoco.md) | Dataset | 12 | 26.9 |
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 9 | 1.3 |
| [OpenAI Gym / Gymnasium](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/openai-gym-gymnasium.md) | Dataset | 8 | 21.7 |
| [D4RL](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/d4rl.md) | Dataset | 7 | 42.9 |
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 5 | 0.4 |
| [CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cifar-10-cifar-100.md) | Dataset | 4 | 1.0 |
| [AG News / 20 Newsgroups](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ag-news-20-newsgroups.md) | Dataset | 3 | 5.2 |
| [MNIST / Fashion-MNIST](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mnist-fashion-mnist.md) | Dataset | 3 | 0.9 |
| [Russell 1000 / 2000 / 3000](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/russell-1000-2000-3000.md) | Dataset | 3 | 9.7 |
| [TIMSS / PIRLS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/timss-pirls.md) | Dataset | 3 | 6.7 |

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

## Cite this page

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

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