---
title: "Yelp: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 255 archived papers mentioned Yelp in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (12)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/yelp
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/yelp.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 255 archived papers mentioned Yelp in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (12). (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)
---

# Yelp

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/7.md)

Product and service reviews, ratings, purchases and user-item interactions.

- data category: Online reviews, e-commerce and recommender data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Yelp

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Online reviews, e-commerce and recommender data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/online-reviews-e-commerce-and-recommender-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 255 archived papers mentioned Yelp in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (12).
- Yelp was mentioned in 2 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #127 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: AI (2).
- Most of them appeared in Expert Systems with Applications (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Yelp was mentioned in 362 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (174), information systems (54) and tourism and hospitality (37).
- 91 of them were published in 2025, against 9 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Harbin Institute of Technology (8), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (8) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (26), Artificial Intelligence Review (17) and Expert Systems with Applications (16).
- The most-cited of them is “Large language models (LLMs): survey, technical frameworks, and future challenges” (Artificial Intelligence Review, 2024), with 395 citations.
- Papers use Yelp most often with Twitter / X (72), Facebook (60) and TripAdvisor (51); it has 42 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok.

## 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 82 | 92 | 81 | 255 |

## 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 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 39 | 55 | 28 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 10 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 5 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 7 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 9 | 15 | 11 | 19 | 18 | 22 | 29 | 80 | 91 | 68 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 26 |
| 2 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 17 |
| 3 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [Electronic Commerce Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-commerce-research.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [Decision Support Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-support-systems.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 8 |
| 2 | [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 5 |
| 5 | [The University of Queensland](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-queensland.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [East China Normal University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/east-china-normal-university.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 4 |
| 10 | Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 88 |
| 2 | United States | 60 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 35 |
| 4 | Australia | 25 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 19 |
| 6 | Italy | 17 |
| 7 | Germany | 16 |
| 8 | Spain | 15 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 15 |
| 10 | India | 14 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [online reviews](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/online-reviews.md) | 44 |
| 2 | Yelp | 40 |
| 3 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 27 |
| 4 | [recommender systems](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/recommender-systems.md) | 26 |
| 5 | [sentiment analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/sentiment-analysis.md) | 22 |
| 6 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 15 |
| 7 | Yelp reviews | 12 |
| 8 | review helpfulness | 12 |
| 9 | user-generated content | 12 |
| 10 | collaborative filtering | 10 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 395 | 14.9 | [Large language models (LLMs): survey, technical frameworks, and future challenges](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10888-y) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2024-08-18 | Pranjal Kumar |
| 2 | 253 | 2.2 | [Whose online reviews to trust? Understanding reviewer trustworthiness and its impact on business](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2017.01.006) | [Decision Support Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-support-systems.md) | 2017-01-26 | Shankhadeep Banerjee, Samadrita Bhattacharyya, Indranil Bose |
| 3 | 182 | 2.6 | [Comparative study of deep learning models for analyzing online restaurant reviews in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102849) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2021-01-08 | Yi Luo, Xiaowei Xu |
| 4 | 177 | 1.8 | [The cultural impact on social commerce: A sentiment analysis on Yelp ethnic restaurant reviews](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2018.09.004) | [Information & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-management.md) | 2018-09-06 | Makoto Nakayama, Yun Wan |
| 5 | 150 | 4.9 | [Automated machine learning: past, present and future](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10726-1) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2024-04-18 | Mitra Baratchi, Can Wang, Steffen Limmer et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use Yelp most often with Twitter / X (72), Facebook (60) and TripAdvisor (51); it has 42 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok.

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 72 | 2.1 |
| [Facebook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facebook.md) | Dataset | 60 | 2.6 |
| [TripAdvisor](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/tripadvisor.md) | Dataset | 51 | 15.1 |
| [Amazon reviews](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/amazon-reviews.md) | Dataset | 48 | 26.3 |
| [YouTube / TikTok](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/youtube-tiktok.md) | Dataset | 45 | 3.2 |
| [IMDb](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imdb.md) | Dataset | 38 | 21.2 |
| [Location and social recommendation data (Gowalla, Foursquare, Yelp…](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/location-and-social-recommendation-data-gowalla-foursquare-yelp-epinions.md) | Dataset | 32 | 20.2 |
| [Airbnb](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/airbnb.md) | Dataset | 29 | 4.8 |
| [MovieLens](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/movielens.md) | Dataset | 25 | 17.7 |
| [Wikipedia](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wikipedia.md) | Dataset | 22 | 2.8 |
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 19 | 1.1 |
| [Reddit](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/reddit.md) | Dataset | 16 | 3.5 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning Yelp in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | [Semantic-collaborative alignment with LLM-driven explainable profiling for enhanced recommendation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134868) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Xuna Wang, Qingmei Tan | Nanjing Forestry University; Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| 2026-10-15 | [Periodic dynamic adaptive fine-tuning for adversarially robust recommender systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134719) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Cong Q, Wenbin Chen, Hai Chen et al. | Tsinghua University; Anhui University; Hong Kong Baptist University |

## Cite this page

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

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