Papers on “autonomous vehicles”
Research on “autonomous vehicles” 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 vehicles” appeared in 1,168 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (622), AI (303) and economics (130).
- 148 of them were published in 2025, against 46 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Tsinghua University (22), Tongji University (21) and Southeast University (20).
- The journals publishing most of them were Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (118), Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (62) and Expert Systems with Applications (61).
- The most-cited of them is “Self-driving cars: A survey” (Expert Systems with Applications, 2020), with 1,225 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 33 | 47 | 63 | 55 | 86 | 53 | 53 | 74 | 67 | 91 |
| AI | 5 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 26 | 49 | 51 | 50 | 52 | 38 |
| Economics | 3 | 10 | 16 | 20 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 19 | 23 |
| Management | 0 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 9 |
| Information Systems | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Marketing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 46 | 70 | 102 | 101 | 137 | 123 | 127 | 150 | 148 | 164 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 118 |
| 2 | Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice | 62 |
| 3 | Expert Systems with Applications | 61 |
| 4 | Transport Policy | 52 |
| 5 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 22 |
| 6 | Transportation | 20 |
| 7 | AI & Society | 18 |
| 8 | Research in Transportation Business & Management | 18 |
| 9 | Transportation Research Part B Methodological | 17 |
| 10 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 16 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tsinghua University | 22 |
| 2 | Tongji University | 21 |
| 3 | Southeast University | 20 |
| 4 | Zhejiang University | 16 |
| 5 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 15 |
| 6 | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 15 |
| 7 | National University of Singapore | 14 |
| 8 | Nanyang Technological University | 13 |
| 9 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 12 |
| 10 | Delft University of Technology | 11 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 233 |
| 2 | United States | 144 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 54 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 34 |
| 5 | Germany | 32 |
| 6 | Australia | 31 |
| 7 | Singapore | 30 |
| 8 | South Korea | 29 |
| 9 | Canada | 27 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 21 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | mixed traffic | 47 |
| 2 | human-driven vehicles | 30 |
| 3 | traffic congestion | 28 |
| 4 | technology acceptance | 24 |
| 5 | technology adoption | 24 |
| 6 | ride-hailing | 21 |
| 7 | mode choice | 20 |
| 8 | public acceptance | 20 |
| 9 | road safety | 18 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,225 | 16.3 | Self-driving cars: A survey | Expert Systems with Applications | 2020-08-04 | Claudine Santos Badue, Rânik Guidolini, Raphael Vivacqua Carneiro et al. |
| 2 | 1,194 | 10.1 | The Future of Retailing | Journal of Retailing | 2017-01-12 | Dhruv Grewal, Anne L. Roggeveen, Jens Nordfält |
| 3 | 995 | 8.6 | User preferences regarding autonomous vehicles | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 2017-03-09 | Chana Joanne Haboucha, Robert Ishaq, Yoram Shiftan |
| 4 | 868 | 8.4 | Autonomous vehicle perception: The technology of today and tomorrow | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 2018-03-08 | Jessica Van Brummelen, Marie O’Brien, Dominique Gruyer et al. |
| 5 | 844 | 8.9 | The roles of initial trust and perceived risk in public’s acceptance of automated vehicles | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 2018-12-04 | Tingru Zhang, Da Tao, Xingda Qu et al. |
Research ideas that follow this keyword#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “autonomous vehicles”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/autonomous-vehicles
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