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title: "Computational efficiency research: papers and trends"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# 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.

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

## 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

*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) | 52 | 69 | 84 | 92 | 132 | 143 | 189 | 202 | 337 | 273 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 20 | 24 | 15 | 22 | 24 | 27 | 37 | 29 | 27 | 33 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 27 | 27 | 18 | 24 | 25 | 17 | 23 | 23 | 26 | 18 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 7 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 17 | 7 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 174 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 144 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 101 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 83 |
| 5 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 72 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 59 |
| 7 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 59 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 51 |
| 9 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 40 |
| 10 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 40 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 32 |
| 2 | [Northwestern Polytechnical University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-polytechnical-university.md) | 30 |
| 3 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 27 |
| 4 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 24 |
| 5 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 21 |
| 6 | [Xidian University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xidian-university.md) | 21 |
| 7 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 20 |
| 8 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 20 |
| 9 | [Anhui University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/anhui-university.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chongqing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/lightweight-neural-networks.md) | 62 |
| 2 | Mamba | 48 |
| 3 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 45 |
| 4 | [vision transformer](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vision-transformer.md) | 45 |
| 5 | [image classification](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/image-classification.md) | 43 |
| 6 | [transformer models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transformer-models.md) | 41 |
| 7 | [self-attention](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/self-attention.md) | 38 |
| 8 | [high-dimensional data](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/high-dimensional-data.md) | 30 |
| 9 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2018.2807452) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.05.028) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-020-00701-z) | [Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/data-mining-and-knowledge-discovery.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2865304) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3166101) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-04-25 | Yuang Jiang, Shiqiang Wang, Víctor Valls et al. |

## Cite this page

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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