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title: "Convergence analysis research: papers and trends"
description: "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)."
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# 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.

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

## 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

*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) | 43 | 56 | 55 | 95 | 93 | 133 | 113 | 125 | 145 | 88 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 57 | 63 | 79 | 58 | 72 | 76 | 84 | 86 | 97 | 70 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 103 |
| 2 | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | 87 |
| 3 | [Computational Optimization and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-optimization-and-applications.md) | 62 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 61 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 45 |
| 6 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 45 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 33 |
| 8 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 30 |
| 9 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 30 |
| 10 | [Optimization Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/optimization-letters.md) | 30 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [Northwestern Polytechnical University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-polytechnical-university.md) | 22 |
| 3 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 22 |
| 4 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 18 |
| 5 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [Chongqing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chongqing-university.md) | 16 |
| 7 | [City University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 16 |
| 8 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 15 |
| 10 | Chongqing Normal University | 14 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [non-convex optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/non-convex-optimization.md) | 94 |
| 2 | alternating direction method of multipliers | 37 |
| 3 | [federated learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/federated-learning.md) | 32 |
| 4 | distributed optimization | 29 |
| 5 | nonsmooth optimization | 27 |
| 6 | [multi-objective optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-objective-optimization.md) | 26 |
| 7 | [convergence rate](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convergence-rate.md) | 22 |
| 8 | critical points | 21 |
| 9 | computational complexity | 20 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.108457) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2018.06.001) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10723-4) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2024-03-23 | Jun Wang, Wenchuan Wang, Xiao-xue Hu et al. |
| 4 | 473 | 4.5 | [Subspace Clustering by Block Diagonal Representation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2794348) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-01-16 | Canyi Lu, Jiashi Feng, Zhouchen Lin et al. |
| 5 | 393 | 7.7 | [Decentralized Federated Averaging](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3196503) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “convergence analysis”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convergence-analysis}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).