Papers on “autonomous driving”
Research on “autonomous driving” 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 “autonomous driving” appeared in 768 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (610), operations research (118) and management (22).
- 193 of them were published in 2025, against 14 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (26), Tongji University (26) and Nanyang Technological University (25).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (114), Pattern Recognition (59) and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (56).
- The most-cited of them is “Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: A Survey” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 2,413 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 7 | 7 | 11 | 24 | 29 | 57 | 67 | 92 | 172 | 144 |
| Operations Research | 6 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 25 |
| Management | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Economics | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 14 | 18 | 19 | 40 | 39 | 73 | 87 | 109 | 193 | 176 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 114 |
| 2 | Pattern Recognition | 59 |
| 3 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 56 |
| 4 | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 51 |
| 5 | Information Fusion | 37 |
| 6 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 36 |
| 7 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 30 |
| 8 | International Journal of Computer Vision | 29 |
| 9 | Applied Intelligence | 28 |
| 10 | Neural Networks | 17 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 26 |
| 2 | Tongji University | 26 |
| 3 | Nanyang Technological University | 25 |
| 4 | Beihang University | 23 |
| 5 | Tsinghua University | 22 |
| 6 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 19 |
| 7 | Wuhan University | 16 |
| 8 | Chang'an University | 15 |
| 9 | Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | 15 |
| 10 | Institute of Automation | 14 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 415 |
| 2 | United States | 61 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 36 |
| 4 | Singapore | 35 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 30 |
| 6 | Germany | 29 |
| 7 | Italy | 18 |
| 8 | Australia | 16 |
| 9 | India | 14 |
| 10 | Macao | 14 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3D object detection | 60 |
| 2 | multimodal fusion | 35 |
| 3 | semantic segmentation | 35 |
| 4 | object detection | 33 |
| 5 | trajectory prediction | 33 |
| 6 | nuScenes | 29 |
| 7 | point clouds | 22 |
| 8 | LiDAR | 19 |
| 9 | large language models | 19 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,413 | 31.7 | Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: A Survey | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2020-06-29 | Yulan Guo, Hanyun Wang, Qingyong Hu et al. |
| 2 | 790 | 14.3 | Human Action Recognition and Prediction: A Survey | International Journal of Computer Vision | 2022-03-28 | Yu Kong, Yun Fu |
| 3 | 743 | 14.0 | KITTI-360: A Novel Dataset and Benchmarks for Urban Scene Understanding in 2D and 3D | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2022-06-01 | Yiyi Liao, Jun Xie, Andreas Geiger |
| 4 | 616 | 8.3 | Deep Learning for LiDAR Point Clouds in Autonomous Driving: A Review | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 2020-08-21 | Ying Li, Lingfei Ma, Zilong Zhong et al. |
| 5 | 614 | 7.0 | The ApolloScape Open Dataset for Autonomous Driving and Its Application | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2019-07-07 | Xinyu Huang, Peng Wang, Xinjing Cheng et al. |
Research ideas that follow this keyword#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “autonomous driving”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/autonomous-driving
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