---
title: "UCI Machine Learning Repository: papers using it"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 527 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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/uci-machine-learning-repository
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license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 527 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). (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-04T18:03:26+09:00
window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
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---

# UCI Machine Learning Repository

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

Repositories and competition platforms that host many tabular and other datasets.

- data category: Public machine learning repositories
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: UCI Machine Learning Repository, UCI repository, UCI dataset, UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Public machine learning repositories datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/public-machine-learning-repositories.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 527 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 628 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (501), operations research (60) and statistics (54).
- 173 of them were published in 2025, against 11 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) (60) and MNIST / Fashion-MNIST (56); it has 47 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 | 178 | 176 | 527 |

## 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) | 11 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 43 | 140 | 139 | 105 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 19 | 19 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 20 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 11 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 18 | 17 | 57 | 170 | 173 | 151 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 69 |
| 2 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 37 |
| 3 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 31 |
| 4 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 29 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 27 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 27 |
| 7 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 26 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 25 |
| 9 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 22 |
| 10 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 20 |

*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) | 12 |
| 2 | Indian Institute of Technology Indore | 11 |
| 3 | [KU Leuven](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ku-leuven.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [Hong Kong Baptist University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-baptist-university.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [Sapienza University of Rome](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sapienza-university-of-rome.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [Southern University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southern-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Universidad de Sevilla](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universidad-de-sevilla.md) | 7 |
| 8 | University of Florence | 7 |
| 9 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chongqing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications.md) | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 118 |
| 2 | United States | 71 |
| 3 | Spain | 52 |
| 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 46 |
| 2 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 37 |
| 3 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 30 |
| 4 | tabular data | 28 |
| 5 | classification | 27 |
| 6 | [high-dimensional data](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/high-dimensional-data.md) | 23 |
| 7 | [computational efficiency](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/computational-efficiency.md) | 21 |
| 8 | [support vector machine](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/support-vector-machine.md) | 21 |
| 9 | algorithmic fairness | 20 |
| 10 | [interpretability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/interpretability.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-024-00905-w) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2024-03-26 | Huanjing Wang, Qianxin Liang, John Hancock et al. |
| 2 | 395 | 11.9 | [Vertical Federated Learning: Concepts, Advances, and Challenges](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2024.3352628) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.113122) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-023-10622-0) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2024-01-01 | Nour Makke, Sanjay Chawla |
| 5 | 312 | 9.0 | [PromptCast: A New Prompt-Based Learning Paradigm for Time Series Forecasting](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2023.3342137) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2023-12-13 | Hao Xue, Flora Dilys Salim |

## Used together with

Papers use UCI Machine Learning Repository most often with Kaggle (76), German Credit (UCI Statlog) (60) and MNIST / Fashion-MNIST (56); it has 47 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST.

*What papers use UCI Machine Learning Repository together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Kaggle](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kaggle.md) | Dataset | 76 | 10.0 |
| [German Credit (UCI Statlog)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/german-credit-uci-statlog.md) | Dataset | 60 | 40.0 |
| [MNIST / Fashion-MNIST](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mnist-fashion-mnist.md) | Dataset | 56 | 3.8 |
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 40 | 1.3 |
| [CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cifar-10-cifar-100.md) | Dataset | 34 | 1.9 |
| [OpenML](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/openml.md) | Dataset | 25 | 24.3 |
| [Taiwan credit card default (UCI)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/taiwan-credit-card-default-uci.md) | Dataset | 21 | 53.2 |
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 19 | 0.3 |
| [MIMIC](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mimic.md) | Dataset | 17 | 3.8 |
| [KEEL](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/keel.md) | Dataset | 16 | 27.0 |
| [CEC benchmark functions](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cec-benchmark-functions.md) | Dataset | 15 | 1.8 |
| [NSL-KDD / KDD Cup 99](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/nsl-kdd-kdd-cup-99.md) | Dataset | 14 | 4.6 |

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

## Papers

*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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-026-01274-z) | [Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/data-mining-and-knowledge-discovery.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10589-026-00838-5) | [Computational Optimization and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-optimization-and-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-026-07562-x) | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10589-026-00847-4) | [Computational Optimization and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-optimization-and-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2026.109853) | [International Journal of Approximate Reasoning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reasoning.md) | Qingzheng Jiao, Jingqian Wang | Shaanxi University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-21 | [Optimization-aware trustworthy AI: A gradient-based multi-objective learning framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117225) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Mirka Saarela, Prabha M. Kumarage | University of Jyväskylä |
| 2026-10-17 | [PCCL: A privacy-preserving concept-cognitive learning framework with partially homomorphic encryption](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2026.109852) | [International Journal of Approximate Reasoning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reasoning.md) | 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](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 |
| 2026-10-16 | [Generative deep learning for class imbalance in credit risk modeling: comparative evaluation of synthetic oversampling methods and an elastic oversampling extension](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854-026-00970-5) | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | Tae Yeon Kwon | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies |
| 2026-10-16 | [A decomposable branch-and-price formulation for optimal classification trees](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-026-00343-0) | [Mathematical Programming Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming-computation.md) | 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](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 |
| 2026-10-09 | [$$\\phi $$-Extropy in Discrete and Continuous Settings](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-026-10339-x) | [Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/methodology-and-computing-in-applied-probability.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10589-026-00830-z) | [Computational Optimization and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-optimization-and-applications.md) | Keita Kume, Isao Yamada | Institute of Science Tokyo |

## Cite this page

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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  title = {UCI Machine Learning Repository},
  year = {2026},
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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/).