Papers on “computational efficiency”

Research on “computational efficiency” 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 “computational efficiency” appeared in 2,201 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,573), statistics (258) and operations research (228).
415 of them were published in 2025, against 106 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (32), Northwestern Polytechnical University (30) and Tsinghua University (27).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (174), Pattern Recognition (144) and Knowledge-Based Systems (101).
The most-cited of them is “A Comprehensive Survey of Graph Embedding: Problems, Techniques, and Applications” (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2018), with 2,033 citations.

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	52	69	84	92	132	143	189	202	337	273
Statistics	20	24	15	22	24	27	37	29	27	33
Operations Research	27	27	18	24	25	17	23	23	26	18
Economics	7	7	9	16	12	6	12	7	17	7
Finance	0	1	0	2	2	3	3	3	4	1
Information Systems	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	2	2
Higher Education and Research	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Management	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1
Marketing	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
All categories	106	130	132	157	198	196	264	266	415	337

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	174
2	Pattern Recognition	144
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	101
4	Neural Networks	83
5	Neural Computing and Applications	72
6	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	59
7	Applied Intelligence	59
8	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	51
9	Statistics and Computing	40
10	Information Fusion	40

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	32
2	Northwestern Polytechnical University	30
3	Tsinghua University	27
4	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	24
5	Sun Yat-sen University	21
6	Xidian University	21
7	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	20
8	Zhejiang University	20
9	Anhui University	17
10	Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications	17

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	730
2	United States	137
3	Australia	72
4	United Kingdom	69
5	India	55
6	Hong Kong	52
7	South Korea	43
8	Canada	38
9	Italy	38
10	France	37

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	lightweight neural networks	62
2	Mamba	48
3	attention mechanism	45
4	vision transformer	45
5	image classification	43
6	transformer models	41
7	self-attention	38
8	high-dimensional data	30
9	feature selection	29

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,033	19.5	A Comprehensive Survey of Graph Embedding: Problems, Techniques, and Applications	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2018-02-19	Hongyun Cai, Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Kevin Chen–Chuan Chang
2	1,561	17.5	A comparison of random forest variable selection methods for classification prediction modeling	Expert Systems with Applications	2019-05-23	Jaime Lynn Speiser, Michael E. Miller, Janet Austin Tooze et al.
3	1,063	14.0	ROCKET: exceptionally fast and accurate time series classification using random convolutional kernels	Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	2020-07-13	Angus Dempster, François Petitjean, Geoffrey I. Webb
4	956	9.7	Fast and Accurate Image Super-Resolution with Deep Laplacian Pyramid Networks	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2018-08-13	Wei‐Sheng Lai, Jia‐Bin Huang, Narendra Ahuja et al.
5	596	11.0	Model Pruning Enables Efficient Federated Learning on Edge Devices	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2022-04-25	Yuang Jiang, Shiqiang Wang, Víctor Valls et al.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “computational efficiency”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/computational-efficiency

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