UCI Machine Learning Repository

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Names searched for: UCI Machine Learning Repository, UCI repository, UCI dataset, UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository

Key findings#

From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 522 archived papers mentioned UCI Machine Learning Repository in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (23).
UCI Machine Learning Repository was mentioned in 13 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #13 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
By journal category: AI (7), Operations Research (5) and Finance (1).
Most of them appeared in Computational Optimization and Applications (3), International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (2) and Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), UCI Machine Learning Repository was mentioned in 600 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (475), operations research (60) and statistics (52).
171 of them were published in 2025, against 9 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (12), Indian Institute of Technology Indore (11) and KU Leuven (9).
The journals publishing most of them were Machine Learning (69), Artificial Intelligence Review (37) and Neural Computing and Applications (31).
The most-cited of them is “Feature selection strategies: a comparative analysis of SHAP-value and importance-based methods” (Journal Of Big Data, 2024), with 633 citations.
Papers use UCI Machine Learning Repository most often with Kaggle (76), German Credit (UCI Statlog) (59) and MNIST / Fashion-MNIST (56); it has 46 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
	173	176	173	522

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	9	4	3	10	15	11	43	140	137	103
Operations Research	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	12	19	19
Statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	15	13	19
Information Systems	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2
Finance	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3
Marketing	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Higher Education and Research	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
All categories	9	4	3	10	16	12	57	170	171	148

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Machine Learning	69
2	Artificial Intelligence Review	37
3	Neural Computing and Applications	31
4	Journal Of Big Data	29
5	Pattern Recognition	27
6	Knowledge-Based Systems	27
7	Statistics and Computing	26
8	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	25
9	Expert Systems with Applications	22
10	Neural Networks	20

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	12
2	Indian Institute of Technology Indore	11
3	KU Leuven	9
4	Hong Kong Baptist University	7
5	Sapienza University of Rome	7
6	Southern University of Science and Technology	7
7	Universidad de Sevilla	7
8	University of Florence	7
9	Zhejiang University	7
10	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	6

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	116
2	United States	71
3	Spain	50
4	Italy	48
5	Germany	46
6	United Kingdom	46
7	France	28
8	Australia	27
9	India	25
10	Hong Kong	23

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	feature selection	45
2	explainable AI	37
3	class imbalance	30
4	tabular data	28
5	classification	26
6	high-dimensional data	23
7	support vector machine	21
8	algorithmic fairness	20
9	computational efficiency	20
10	interpretability	20

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	633	20.2	Feature selection strategies: a comparative analysis of SHAP-value and importance-based methods	Journal Of Big Data	2024-03-26	Huanjing Wang, Qianxin Liang, John Hancock et al.
2	395	11.9	Vertical Federated Learning: Concepts, Advances, and Challenges	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2024-01-26	Yang Liu, Yan Kang, Tianyuan Zou et al.
3	377	4.5	Improved Salp Swarm Algorithm based on opposition based learning and novel local search algorithm for feature selection	Expert Systems with Applications	2019-12-05	Mohammad Tubishat, Norisma Binti Idris, Liyana Mohd Shuib et al.
4	339	9.9	Interpretable scientific discovery with symbolic regression: a review	Artificial Intelligence Review	2024-01-01	Nour Makke, Sanjay Chawla
5	312	9.0	PromptCast: A New Prompt-Based Learning Paradigm for Time Series Forecasting	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2023-12-13	Hao Xue, Flora Dilys Salim

Archive counts by publication year: a paper counts when its title, abstract or keywords name the dataset, or when OpenAlex's full-text search finds it there (searched for the last 30 days' papers and, by a pass over the past years, for older ones). Names added to the list later are looked for in older papers as the archive is read again.

Used together with#

Papers use UCI Machine Learning Repository most often with Kaggle (76), German Credit (UCI Statlog) (59) and MNIST / Fashion-MNIST (56); it has 46 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST. The whole network →

What papers use UCI Machine Learning Repository together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used with	Type	Papers using both	Lift
Kaggle	Dataset	76	9.2
German Credit (UCI Statlog)	Dataset	59	36.1
MNIST / Fashion-MNIST	Dataset	56	3.7
ImageNet	Dataset	40	1.2
CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	Dataset	34	1.8
OpenML	Dataset	25	22.7
Taiwan credit card default (UCI)	Dataset	21	48.4
Twitter / X	Dataset	19	0.3
MIMIC	Dataset	17	4.5
KEEL	Dataset	16	27.0
CEC benchmark functions	Dataset	15	2.1
NSL-KDD / KDD Cup 99	Dataset	14	5.3

Papers mentioning UCI Machine Learning Repository in the last 30 days, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-27	Meta additive model: interpretable sparse learning with auto weighting	Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	Xuelin Zhang, Xinyue Liu, Lingjuan Wu et al.	Huazhong Agricultural University; Dongfeng Motor (China)
2026-10-27	Nonmonotone subgradient methods based on a local descent lemma	Computational Optimization and Applications	Francisco J. Aragón Artacho, Rubén Campoy, Pedro Pérez-Aros et al.	University of Alicante; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Center for Mathematical Modeling; …
2026-10-23	Multimodal continual federated learning for human activity recognition: Trends and challenges	Applied Intelligence	André L. S. Conde, Rodolfo I. Meneguette, Robson E. De Grande et al.	Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp); Universidade de São Paulo; Brock University
2026-10-23	A cubic regularization method for multiobjective optimization	Computational Optimization and Applications	Douglas Soares Gonçalves, Max L. N. Gonçalves, Jefferson G. Melo	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina; Universidade Federal de Goiás
2026-10-22	Sugeno integral-based multi-granularity fuzzy rough set model and its application	International Journal of Approximate Reasoning	Qingzheng Jiao, Jingqian Wang	Shaanxi University of Science and Technology
2026-10-21	Optimization-aware trustworthy AI: A gradient-based multi-objective learning framework	Knowledge-Based Systems	Mirka Saarela, Prabha M. Kumarage	University of Jyväskylä
2026-10-17	PCCL: A privacy-preserving concept-cognitive learning framework with partially homomorphic encryption	International Journal of Approximate Reasoning	Shunyu Yao, Yu Chen, Jinhai Li et al.	Kunming University of Science and Technology
2026-10-17	Language modeling on tabular data: a survey of foundations, techniques and evolution	Artificial Intelligence Review	Yucheng Ruan, Xiang Lan, Jingying Ma et al.	National University of Singapore; Institute of Data Science
2026-10-16	Generative deep learning for class imbalance in credit risk modeling: comparative evaluation of synthetic oversampling methods and an elastic oversampling extension	Financial Innovation	Tae Yeon Kwon	Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
2026-10-16	A decomposable branch-and-price formulation for optimal classification trees	Mathematical Programming Computation	Elif Rana Yöner, Taghi Khaniyev, Özlem Karsu	Bilkent University
2026-10-15	A Cognitive, Quantum-Inspired Learning Framework for Energy-Efficient and Reliable Routing in Wireless Body Area Networks	Cognitive Computation	Soufiane Ben Othman, Naima Saeed	King Faisal University; University of Aden
2026-10-09	$$\phi $$-Extropy in Discrete and Continuous Settings	Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability	Francesco Buono, Maria Kateri	University of Naples Federico II; RWTH Aachen University
2026-10-06	A variable smoothing for weakly convex composite minimization with manifold constraint via parametrization	Computational Optimization and Applications	Keita Kume, Isao Yamada	Institute of Science Tokyo

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Scholar4AI. (2026). UCI Machine Learning Repository. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/uci-machine-learning-repository

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  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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