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title: "BERT research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# 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.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 52 | 79 | 82 | 82 | 87 | 51 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 4 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 62 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 38 |
| 3 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 33 |
| 4 | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 26 |
| 5 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 19 |
| 6 | [Computer Speech & Language](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-speech-language.md) | 17 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 15 |
| 8 | [Language Resources and Evaluation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/language-resources-and-evaluation.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [International Journal of Information Management Data Insights](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management-data-insights.md) | 13 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 11 |
| 2 | [Dalian University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/dalian-university-of-technology.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Sungkyunkwan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sungkyunkwan-university.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications.md) | 4 |
| 10 | Qilu University of Technology | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 52 |
| 2 | [sentiment analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/sentiment-analysis.md) | 49 |
| 3 | text classification | 32 |
| 4 | pre-trained language models | 31 |
| 5 | [transformer models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transformer-models.md) | 31 |
| 6 | RoBERTa | 30 |
| 7 | fine-tuning | 20 |
| 8 | [social media](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-media.md) | 20 |
| 9 | aspect-based sentiment analysis | 19 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,339 | 36.6 | [ProtTrans: Toward Understanding the Language of Life Through Self-Supervised Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3095381) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-07-07 | Ahmed Elnaggar, Michael Heinzinger, Christian Dallago et al. |
| 2 | 664 | 9.7 | [Transformer models for text-based emotion detection: a review of BERT-based approaches](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-021-09958-2) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2021-02-08 | Francisca Adoma Acheampong, Henry Nunoo‐Mensah, Wenyu Chen |
| 3 | 345 | 7.9 | [A review on sentiment analysis from social media platforms](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.119862) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2023-03-13 | Margarita Rodríguez-Ibáñez, Antonio Casánez-Ventura, Félix Castejón-Mateos et al. |
| 4 | 259 | 13.2 | [BERT applications in natural language processing: a review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11162-5) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2025-03-15 | Nadia Mushtaq Gardazi, Ali Daud, Muhammad Kamran Malik et al. |
| 5 | 239 | 2.9 | [Shall We Talk? The Role of Interactive Investor Platforms in Corporate Communication](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2022.101524) | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 2020-01-01 | Charles M.C. Lee, Qinlin Zhong |

## 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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