Papers on “big data”
Research on “big data” 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 “big data” appeared in 1,427 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (428), management (195) and operations research (163).
- 111 of them were published in 2025, against 121 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Nankai University (10), Chongqing University (7) and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal Of Big Data (26), Expert Systems with Applications (21) and Statistics and Computing (19).
- The most-cited of them is “Siri, Siri, in my hand: Who’s the fairest in the land? On the interpretations, illustrations, and implications of artificial intelligence” (Business Horizons, 2018), with 3,134 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 39 | 54 | 63 | 55 | 50 | 50 | 43 | 33 | 30 | 11 |
| Management | 12 | 20 | 20 | 26 | 37 | 20 | 19 | 20 | 11 | 10 |
| Operations Research | 22 | 21 | 16 | 13 | 22 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 6 |
| Economics | 7 | 20 | 17 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 13 |
| Statistics | 5 | 34 | 7 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 12 | 9 |
| Information Systems | 19 | 23 | 24 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 2 |
| Finance | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 7 |
| Marketing | 3 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| Accounting | 5 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 6 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 121 | 193 | 173 | 168 | 173 | 154 | 134 | 137 | 111 | 63 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal Of Big Data | 26 |
| 2 | Expert Systems with Applications | 21 |
| 3 | Statistics and Computing | 19 |
| 4 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 15 |
| 5 | Annals of Operations Research | 11 |
| 6 | Statistical Papers | 11 |
| 7 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 8 |
| 8 | Neural Computing and Applications | 8 |
| 9 | Computational Statistics | 8 |
| 10 | AI & Society | 8 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nankai University | 10 |
| 2 | Chongqing University | 7 |
| 3 | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | 7 |
| 4 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 6 |
| 5 | East China Normal University | 6 |
| 6 | Shanghai University of International Business and Economics | 6 |
| 7 | South China University of Technology | 6 |
| 8 | University of Science and Technology of China | 6 |
| 9 | Zhejiang University | 6 |
| 10 | Capital University of Economics and Business | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 166 |
| 2 | United States | 73 |
| 3 | Italy | 41 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 37 |
| 5 | India | 26 |
| 6 | France | 24 |
| 7 | Australia | 23 |
| 8 | Germany | 23 |
| 9 | Spain | 16 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 13 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | artificial intelligence | 73 |
| 2 | Internet of Things | 39 |
| 3 | blockchain | 34 |
| 4 | machine learning | 34 |
| 5 | digital transformation | 25 |
| 6 | cloud computing | 24 |
| 7 | computational efficiency | 22 |
| 8 | research trends | 17 |
| 9 | feature selection | 15 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,134 | 32.7 | Siri, Siri, in my hand: Who’s the fairest in the land? On the interpretations, illustrations, and implications of artificial intelligence | Business Horizons | 2018-11-06 | Andreas Kaplan, Michael Haenlein |
| 2 | 3,023 | 33.0 | Survey on deep learning with class imbalance | Journal Of Big Data | 2019-03-19 | Justin M. Johnson, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar |
| 3 | 2,619 | 28.2 | Artificial intelligence for decision making in the era of Big Data – evolution, challenges and research agenda | International Journal of Information Management | 2019-02-09 | Yanqing Duan, John Steven Edwards, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi |
| 4 | 2,052 | 22.1 | Algorithm appreciation: People prefer algorithmic to human judgment | Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes | 2019-02-05 | Jennifer Marie Logg, Julia Alexandra Minson, Don A. Moore |
| 5 | 1,840 | 25.6 | CatBoost for big data: an interdisciplinary review | Journal Of Big Data | 2020-11-04 | John Hancock, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “big data”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/big-data
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