Papers on “clustering”
Research on “clustering” 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 “clustering” appeared in 1,040 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (620), operations research (171) and statistics (85).
- 112 of them were published in 2025, against 84 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Northwestern Polytechnical University (15), Sichuan University (8) and Southwest Jiaotong University (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (58), Pattern Recognition (34) and Knowledge-Based Systems (31).
- The most-cited of them is “Machine learning and data mining in manufacturing” (Expert Systems with Applications, 2020), with 684 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 55 | 51 | 48 | 59 | 71 | 92 | 80 | 57 | 69 | 38 |
| Operations Research | 12 | 14 | 12 | 24 | 13 | 26 | 24 | 15 | 15 | 16 |
| Statistics | 6 | 8 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 8 |
| Economics | 4 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 3 |
| Finance | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Management | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Marketing | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Accounting | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 84 | 90 | 86 | 115 | 102 | 146 | 133 | 101 | 112 | 71 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 58 |
| 2 | Pattern Recognition | 34 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 31 |
| 4 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 13 |
| 5 | Applied Intelligence | 12 |
| 6 | Neural Computing and Applications | 11 |
| 7 | Artificial Intelligence Review | 10 |
| 8 | Neural Networks | 10 |
| 9 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 9 |
| 10 | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 9 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 15 |
| 2 | Sichuan University | 8 |
| 3 | Southwest Jiaotong University | 8 |
| 4 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 7 |
| 5 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 6 |
| 6 | Xidian University | 6 |
| 7 | Beihang University | 5 |
| 8 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 5 |
| 9 | National University of Defense Technology | 5 |
| 10 | Ningbo University | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 165 |
| 2 | United States | 40 |
| 3 | Spain | 28 |
| 4 | India | 25 |
| 5 | Italy | 20 |
| 6 | Germany | 19 |
| 7 | France | 17 |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 17 |
| 9 | Iran | 17 |
| 10 | Canada | 15 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | dimensionality reduction | 24 |
| 2 | classification | 21 |
| 3 | feature selection | 21 |
| 4 | high-dimensional data | 17 |
| 5 | unsupervised feature selection | 15 |
| 6 | pseudo-labeling | 13 |
| 7 | unsupervised learning | 13 |
| 8 | anomaly detection | 11 |
| 9 | hierarchical clustering | 11 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 684 | 9.4 | Machine learning and data mining in manufacturing | Expert Systems with Applications | 2020-09-29 | Alican Doğan, Derya Birant |
| 2 | 505 | 6.7 | Predictive big data analytics for supply chain demand forecasting: methods, applications, and research opportunities | Journal Of Big Data | 2020-07-25 | Mahya Seyedan, Fereshteh Mafakheri |
| 3 | 499 | 4.8 | Review of studies on the public–private partnerships (PPP) for infrastructure projects | International Journal of Project Management | 2018-04-04 | Caiyun Cui, Yong Liu, Alex John Hope et al. |
| 4 | 376 | 3.2 | Learning analytics to unveil learning strategies in a flipped classroom | The Internet and Higher Education | 2017-02-20 | Jelena Jovanović, Dragan Gašević, Shane Dawson et al. |
| 5 | 368 | 5.0 | Optimization problems for machine learning: A survey | European Journal of Operational Research | 2020-08-29 | Claudio Gambella, Bissan Ghaddar, Joe Naoum‐Sawaya |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “clustering”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/clustering
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