Papers on “BERT”
Research on “BERT” 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 “BERT” appeared in 593 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (454), information systems (38) and higher education and research (27).
- 126 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (11), Dalian University of Technology (9) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (62), Knowledge-Based Systems (38) and Neural Computing and Applications (33).
- The most-cited of them is “ProtTrans: Toward Understanding the Language of Life Through Self-Supervised Learning” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021), with 2,339 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 52 | 79 | 82 | 82 | 87 | 51 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 3 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 4 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 58 | 89 | 102 | 119 | 126 | 72 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 62 |
| 2 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 38 |
| 3 | Neural Computing and Applications | 33 |
| 4 | Knowledge and Information Systems | 26 |
| 5 | Information Processing & Management | 19 |
| 6 | Computer Speech & Language | 17 |
| 7 | Neural Networks | 15 |
| 8 | Language Resources and Evaluation | 13 |
| 9 | Journal Of Big Data | 13 |
| 10 | International Journal of Information Management Data Insights | 13 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 11 |
| 2 | Dalian University of Technology | 9 |
| 3 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 8 |
| 4 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 7 |
| 5 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 6 |
| 6 | Zhejiang University | 6 |
| 7 | Sungkyunkwan University | 5 |
| 8 | Beihang University | 4 |
| 9 | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications | 4 |
| 10 | Qilu University of Technology | 4 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 162 |
| 2 | India | 50 |
| 3 | United States | 39 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 20 |
| 5 | South Korea | 17 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 16 |
| 7 | Australia | 15 |
| 8 | Spain | 15 |
| 9 | Brazil | 14 |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia | 14 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | large language models | 52 |
| 2 | sentiment analysis | 49 |
| 3 | text classification | 32 |
| 4 | pre-trained language models | 31 |
| 5 | transformer models | 31 |
| 6 | RoBERTa | 30 |
| 7 | fine-tuning | 20 |
| 8 | social media | 20 |
| 9 | aspect-based sentiment analysis | 19 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “BERT”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bert
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