Papers on “artificial neural networks”
Research on “artificial neural networks” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “artificial neural networks” appeared in 1,707 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,064), operations research (214) and economics (147).
- 166 of them were published in 2025, against 91 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (8), Xi'an Jiaotong University (7) and Brunel University of London (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were Neural Computing and Applications (139), Expert Systems with Applications (83) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (31).
- The most-cited of them is “Machine learning and deep learning” (Electronic Markets, 2021), with 2,962 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 67 | 74 | 88 | 119 | 151 | 152 | 122 | 130 | 90 | 71 |
| Operations Research | 7 | 15 | 18 | 16 | 26 | 31 | 32 | 30 | 25 | 14 |
| Economics | 6 | 10 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 18 | 22 | 20 | 16 | 15 |
| Finance | 2 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 4 |
| Statistics | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 10 |
| Information Systems | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Management | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Marketing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 91 | 110 | 154 | 174 | 223 | 237 | 209 | 215 | 166 | 128 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neural Computing and Applications | 139 |
| 2 | Expert Systems with Applications | 83 |
| 3 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 31 |
| 4 | Computational Economics | 30 |
| 5 | Artificial Intelligence Review | 26 |
| 6 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 22 |
| 7 | Annals of Operations Research | 16 |
| 8 | Journal Of Big Data | 16 |
| 9 | IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence | 13 |
| 10 | Machine Learning | 11 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals | 8 |
| 2 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 7 |
| 3 | Brunel University of London | 6 |
| 4 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 6 |
| 5 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 6 |
| 6 | Middle East Technical University | 6 |
| 7 | Nanjing University of Science and Technology | 6 |
| 8 | University of Sulaimani | 6 |
| 9 | University of Tehran | 6 |
| 10 | Central South University | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 154 |
| 2 | United States | 86 |
| 3 | India | 64 |
| 4 | Turkey | 55 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 52 |
| 6 | Germany | 35 |
| 7 | Italy | 34 |
| 8 | Spain | 31 |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 31 |
| 10 | Brazil | 27 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | random forest | 70 |
| 2 | support vector machine | 50 |
| 3 | machine learning | 38 |
| 4 | deep learning | 36 |
| 5 | genetic algorithm | 27 |
| 6 | XGBoost | 24 |
| 7 | convolutional neural networks | 22 |
| 8 | feature selection | 22 |
| 9 | k-nearest neighbors | 21 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,962 | 44.3 | Machine learning and deep learning | Electronic Markets | 2021-04-08 | Christian Janiesch, Patrick Zschech, Kai Heinrich |
| 2 | 2,861 | 28.8 | Virtual Adversarial Training: A Regularization Method for Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2018-07-23 | Takeru Miyato, Shin‐ichi Maeda, Masanori Koyama et al. |
| 3 | 2,828 | 26.4 | Deep learning with long short-term memory networks for financial market predictions | European Journal of Operational Research | 2017-12-05 | Thomas Günter Fischer, Christopher Krauß |
| 4 | 1,645 | 23.5 | A continual learning survey: Defying forgetting in classification tasks | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2021-01-01 | Matthias Delange, Rahaf Aljundi, Marc Masana et al. |
| 5 | 952 | 8.3 | Machine learning models and bankruptcy prediction | Expert Systems with Applications | 2017-04-10 | Flávio Barboza, Herbert Kimura, Edward I. Altman |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “artificial neural networks”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-neural-networks
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