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title: "Pattern Recognition Letters: impact and top papers"
description: "Pattern Recognition Letters has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.90 and an h-index of 222 in OpenAlex, #35 of 41 tracked AI journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 353 papers, and its papers received 20,768 citations."
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share_text: "Pattern Recognition Letters has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.90 and an h-index of 222 in OpenAlex, #35 of 41 tracked AI journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 353 papers, and its papers received 20,768 citations. (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Pattern Recognition Letters

- 2 papers in the last 7 days
- category: AI
- publisher: Elsevier BV
- ISSN 0167-8655
- Journal website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pattern-recognition-letters/
- ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/0167-8655
- OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S151820558

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## Key findings

- Pattern Recognition Letters has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.90 and an h-index of 222 in OpenAlex, #35 of 41 tracked AI journals by citedness.
- In 2025 it published 353 papers, and its papers received 20,768 citations.
- Pattern Recognition Letters published 30 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #28 of 480 journals.
- Leading institutions: Hefei University of Technology (2), Singapore Management University (2) and Sichuan University (2).
- Countries: China (20), India (4) and Singapore (2).
- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, Pattern Recognition Letters published 29 papers (1 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex).
- Its most frequent keywords over that period were “CLIP” (2), “Mamba” (2) and “cross-dataset generalization” (2).

## Citation metrics

*Citation metrics (OpenAlex)*

| Metric | Value |
|---|---:|
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.90 |
| h-index | 222 |
| i10-index | 5,781 |
| Papers in OpenAlex | 9,918 |
| Citations in OpenAlex | 379,924 |
| Rank among tracked AI journals | [#35 of 41](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai.md) |

*Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)*

| Year | Papers | Citations received |
|---|---:|---:|
| 2026 (so far) | 337 | 14,492 |
| 2025 | 353 | 20,768 |
| 2024 | 316 | 23,267 |
| 2023 | 291 | 25,007 |
| 2022 | 321 | 25,661 |
| 2021 | 373 | 26,151 |
| 2020 | 367 | 23,327 |
| 2019 | 354 | 21,953 |
| 2018 | 383 | 19,917 |
| 2017 | 339 | 17,469 |
| 2016 | 320 | 16,487 |

2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly.

Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pattern-recognition-letters/

## The last 36 months

*Papers by publication date, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026*

| Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 0 | 0 | 29 | 29 |

*Most frequent keywords, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | CLIP | 2 |
| 2 | Mamba | 2 |
| 3 | cross-dataset generalization | 2 |
| 4 | [few-shot learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/few-shot-learning.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [generative adversarial networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generative-adversarial-networks.md) | 2 |
| 6 | medical image segmentation | 2 |
| 7 | [semi-supervised learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/semi-supervised-learning.md) | 2 |
| 8 | skeleton-based action recognition | 2 |
| 9 | 3D Gaussian Splatting | 1 |
| 10 | CNN-Transformer hybrid | 1 |

*Papers, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | [Density-based 3D Occlusion Modeling for Multi-view Pedestrian Detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.032) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Feipeng Sun, Jiaqiu Ai, Yanan Zhu et al. | Hefei University of Technology |
| 2026-10-30 | [High-performance hierarchical rendering and parallel sorting strategy for large-scale 3D Gaussian splatting via WebGPU](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.028) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Wei Ma, Shengwang An, Qiang Tu et al. |  |
| 2026-10-27 | [Weak ties guided mining for social recommendation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.027) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Fei Ling, Zheyan Zhu | Zhejiang Technical Institute of Economics |
| 2026-10-24 | [Semi-supervised vanishing point detection based on uncertainty of multi-modal pseudo-labels](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.024) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Yukun Wang, Shuo Gu, Zhiyuan Zhang et al. | Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Singapore Management University; University of Macau |
| 2026-10-24 | [MAGNet: Multi-domain aware and gated network for low-light image enhancement](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.026) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Hairu Guo, Yunjie Jiao, Zhanqiang Huo et al. | Henan Polytechnic University |
| 2026-10-24 | [RLSTM-HANC-FBPN: Robust LSTM in hybrid active noise control systems with feedback path neutralization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.022) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Zeyu Cao, Lu Lu, Guangya Zhu et al. | Sichuan University; Qingdao University of Science and Technology; Xi'an Jiaotong University |
| 2026-10-24 | [Cross-hierarchical consistency learning network for semi-supervised visible-infrared person re-identification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.023) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Rui Sun, Haohao Wang, Jicheng Shen et al. | Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China; Hefei University of Technology |
| 2026-10-22 | [Hetero-MedSAM: Lightweight medical image segmentation via heterogeneous mixture of experts and evolutionary pruning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.021) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Lieqiang Liu, Chengping Zhao | Sichuan University |
| 2026-10-21 | [Stage-aware spatial-temporal placement for skeleton-based action recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.020) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Yuanyuan Yang, Zhengwen Zhang, Cheng Yang et al. |  |
| 2026-10-18 | [AnomalyVPT: Category-agnostic visual prompt tuning for zero-shot anomaly detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.019) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Yuanyuan Li, Canyu Chen, Yuguang Yang et al. | China Electronic Product Reliability and Environmental Test Institute; Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; Beihang University; … |
| 2026-10-15 | [Multi-hybrid Mamba network for efficient learned image compression](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.09.050) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Zejun Huang, Zifu Zhang, Tie Liu et al. | Beihang University |
| 2026-10-15 | [Statistical pattern-constrained generative adversarial network via maximum entropy estimation with piecewise frequency constraints](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.09.051) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Yifei Liu, Jie Wang, Peng Yan | Capital Normal University |
| 2026-10-15 | [Sensitive area-guided adversarial attack via Transformer-based generative network](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.018) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Yunlong Bie, Jiaze Sun | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications |
| 2026-10-15 | [MGMA-Net: Multi-granularity music-action modeling for dance action segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.014) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Zhengping Hu, Xingyu Li, Yifan Wu et al. | Yanshan University |
| 2026-10-14 | [Spiking VoteNet for indoor 3D object detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.09.049) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Zhoutao Wang, Zikuan Li, Anyi Huang et al. | Singapore Management University; National University of Defense Technology; Nanjing Institute of Railway Technology; … |
| 2026-10-14 | [RASM: Relationship-aware augmentation selection through structural redundancy modeling](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.017) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Prasad Kanhegaonkar, Surya Prakash | Indian Institute of Technology Indore |
| 2026-10-13 | [Topology-aware pairwise distance regularization for multi-view 3D hand mesh reconstruction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.015) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Shuishan Zhang, Yu Ji, Zhijie Ren et al. | University of Science and Technology of China; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology |
| 2026-10-13 | [Wavelet-guided attention convolutional wavelet neural network for SAR image change detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.016) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Satyakam Baraha, Buddepu Santhosh Kumar, Bikash Kumar Pradhan | Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering |
| 2026-10-13 | [CrystalTrans-YOLO: A weak-contrast object detection model for microscopic crystal screening](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.012) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | KuiXian Cai, Fenglong Zhao, Shuchang Wu et al. | Shanghai University of Engineering Science; Chongqing College of Mobile Communication; Ningbo University of Technology; … |
| 2026-10-12 | [DiffMamba-FSL: A diffusion-augmented mamba state space network for few-shot plant disease recognition under heterogeneous imaging conditions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.011) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Saravanan Srinivasan, J. Faritha Banu, Sudhan M B et al. | SRM Institute of Science and Technology; Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-10 | [Automatic grammar extension for online multi-stroke recognition of hand-drawn semi-structured sketches](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.003) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | S. Serre, Islam Barchouch, Nathalie Girard et al. | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires; Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes; … |
| 2026-10-10 | [CrowdFake: Advancing face manipulation detection from portraits to group photographs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.010) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Sharayu Borade, Poulomi Bhattacharya, Akshay Agarwal | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal |
| 2026-10-10 | [FEMSF-Net: A frequency-enhanced multi-scale fusion network for kidney tumor segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.013) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Qinghui Meng, Cancan Yang, Yanjun Peng et al. | Shandong University of Science and Technology; Northeastern University |
| 2026-10-08 | [KMUKT: A dynamic knowledge graph convolution and long-memory-enhanced uncertainty-calibrated knowledge tracing model](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.009) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Chaonan Duan, Wenlong Zhang, Hongjia Cai et al. | Zhejiang Normal University |
| 2026-10-07 | [A multi-head network based on squeeze-and-excitation for reconstructing the handwriting trajectory of an IMU-based digital pen](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.004) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Florent Imbert, Yann Soullard, Éric Anquetil et al. | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Luleå University of Technology; Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires; … |
| 2026-10-07 | [Transformation-response geometry for test-time defense in 3D vision-language models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.008) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Xuanxiang Lin, Yan Huang, Kangjun Liu et al. | South China University of Technology; Peng Cheng Laboratory |
| 2026-10-07 | [Minimal sensor configuration for IMU-based online handwriting recognition: A systematic ablation study on the OnHW-chars dataset](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.005) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Fatih KÖKSAL | Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi; S.B.Ü. Bursa Yüksek İhtisas Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi |
| 2026-10-07 | [Editorial Board](https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-8655(26)00369-7) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) |  |  |
| 2026-10-06 | [Short-term power load forecasting for regional grids based on DSECA-TCN-transformer](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.006) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Zhi Chong Yang, Huai Shuo Shen, Bin Liu et al. | Hechi University |
| 2026-10-06 | [AGLB-Net: Adaptive global-local balance network for few-shot fine-grained image classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.007) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Yongqi Liu, Yao Chen, Zhi-Jie Wang | Chongqing University; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Computer Software Testing and Evaluating |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Pattern Recognition Letters. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters

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