Papers on “convolutional neural networks”
Research on “convolutional neural networks” 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 “convolutional neural networks” appeared in 2,711 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (2,441), operations research (102) and information systems (47).
- 353 of them were published in 2025, against 79 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (19), SRM Institute of Science and Technology (16) and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (16).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (266), Neural Computing and Applications (264) and Knowledge-Based Systems (76).
- The most-cited of them is “A survey on Image Data Augmentation for Deep Learning” (Journal Of Big Data, 2019), with 13,151 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 77 | 123 | 172 | 243 | 356 | 368 | 333 | 310 | 300 | 159 |
| Operations Research | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 6 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 7 |
| Economics | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 79 | 130 | 189 | 268 | 383 | 402 | 371 | 352 | 353 | 184 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 266 |
| 2 | Neural Computing and Applications | 264 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 76 |
| 4 | Neural Networks | 69 |
| 5 | Artificial Intelligence Review | 62 |
| 6 | Applied Intelligence | 62 |
| 7 | Pattern Recognition | 42 |
| 8 | Journal Of Big Data | 34 |
| 9 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 33 |
| 10 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 24 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 19 |
| 2 | SRM Institute of Science and Technology | 16 |
| 3 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 16 |
| 4 | Zhejiang University | 16 |
| 5 | Vellore Institute of Technology University | 14 |
| 6 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 13 |
| 7 | Sichuan University | 13 |
| 8 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 11 |
| 9 | Southwest University | 11 |
| 10 | Chongqing University | 10 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 443 |
| 2 | India | 182 |
| 3 | United States | 117 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 84 |
| 5 | Saudi Arabia | 59 |
| 6 | Turkey | 56 |
| 7 | South Korea | 54 |
| 8 | Egypt | 51 |
| 9 | Australia | 47 |
| 10 | Spain | 47 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | transfer learning | 96 |
| 2 | image classification | 77 |
| 3 | vision transformer | 76 |
| 4 | deep learning | 72 |
| 5 | transformer models | 69 |
| 6 | recurrent neural networks | 60 |
| 7 | data augmentation | 59 |
| 8 | attention mechanism | 55 |
| 9 | explainable AI | 50 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13,151 | 149.5 | A survey on Image Data Augmentation for Deep Learning | Journal Of Big Data | 2019-07-06 | Connor Shorten, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar |
| 2 | 7,905 | 117.8 | Review of deep learning: concepts, CNN architectures, challenges, applications, future directions | Journal Of Big Data | 2021-03-31 | Laith Alzubaidi, Jinglan Zhang, Amjad J. Humaidi et al. |
| 3 | 6,898 | 81.4 | Grad-CAM: Visual Explanations from Deep Networks via Gradient-Based Localization | International Journal of Computer Vision | 2019-10-11 | Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju, Michael Cogswell, Abhishek Das et al. |
| 4 | 6,575 | 60.5 | Recent advances in convolutional neural networks | Pattern Recognition | 2017-10-13 | Jiuxiang Gu, Zhenhua Wang, Jason Kuen et al. |
| 5 | 5,543 | 59.5 | Object Detection With Deep Learning: A Review | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 2019-01-28 | Zhong‐Qiu Zhao, Peng Zheng, Shou-Tao Xu et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “convolutional neural networks”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convolutional-neural-networks
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