Papers on “convergence analysis”
Research on “convergence analysis” 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 “convergence analysis” appeared in 1,777 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (946), operations research (742) and statistics (53).
- 255 of them were published in 2025, against 103 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (22), Northwestern Polytechnical University (22) and Sun Yat-sen University (22).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (103), Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (87) and Computational Optimization and Applications (62).
- The most-cited of them is “White Shark Optimizer: A novel bio-inspired meta-heuristic algorithm for global optimization problems” (Knowledge-Based Systems, 2022), with 751 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 43 | 56 | 55 | 95 | 93 | 133 | 113 | 125 | 145 | 88 |
| Operations Research | 57 | 63 | 79 | 58 | 72 | 76 | 84 | 86 | 97 | 70 |
| Statistics | 0 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| Economics | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| Finance | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 103 | 124 | 145 | 160 | 172 | 220 | 212 | 218 | 255 | 168 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 103 |
| 2 | Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications | 87 |
| 3 | Computational Optimization and Applications | 62 |
| 4 | Neural Networks | 61 |
| 5 | Pattern Recognition | 45 |
| 6 | Expert Systems with Applications | 45 |
| 7 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 33 |
| 8 | Applied Intelligence | 30 |
| 9 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 30 |
| 10 | Optimization Letters | 30 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 22 |
| 2 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 22 |
| 3 | Sun Yat-sen University | 22 |
| 4 | Beihang University | 18 |
| 5 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 16 |
| 6 | Chongqing University | 16 |
| 7 | City University of Hong Kong | 16 |
| 8 | Tsinghua University | 16 |
| 9 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 15 |
| 10 | Chongqing Normal University | 14 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 530 |
| 2 | United States | 99 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 48 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 39 |
| 5 | Germany | 37 |
| 6 | India | 36 |
| 7 | Italy | 35 |
| 8 | Australia | 34 |
| 9 | France | 32 |
| 10 | Singapore | 28 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | non-convex optimization | 94 |
| 2 | alternating direction method of multipliers | 37 |
| 3 | federated learning | 32 |
| 4 | distributed optimization | 29 |
| 5 | nonsmooth optimization | 27 |
| 6 | multi-objective optimization | 26 |
| 7 | convergence rate | 22 |
| 8 | critical points | 21 |
| 9 | computational complexity | 20 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 751 | 13.3 | White Shark Optimizer: A novel bio-inspired meta-heuristic algorithm for global optimization problems | Knowledge-Based Systems | 2022-02-22 | Malik Shehadeh Braik, Abdelaziz I. Hammouri, Jaffar M. Atwan et al. |
| 2 | 724 | 7.2 | Emperor penguin optimizer: A bio-inspired algorithm for engineering problems | Knowledge-Based Systems | 2018-06-15 | Gaurav Dhiman, Vijay Kumar |
| 3 | 611 | 19.5 | Black-winged kite algorithm: a nature-inspired meta-heuristic for solving benchmark functions and engineering problems | Artificial Intelligence Review | 2024-03-23 | Jun Wang, Wenchuan Wang, Xiao-xue Hu et al. |
| 4 | 473 | 4.5 | Subspace Clustering by Block Diagonal Representation | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2018-01-16 | Canyi Lu, Jiashi Feng, Zhouchen Lin et al. |
| 5 | 393 | 7.7 | Decentralized Federated Averaging | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2022-08-04 | Tao Sun, Dongsheng Li, Bao Wang |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “convergence analysis”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convergence-analysis
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