Papers on “data augmentation”
Research on “data augmentation” 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 “data augmentation” appeared in 1,526 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,384), statistics (44) and operations research (43).
- 342 of them were published in 2025, against 21 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (28), Nanyang Technological University (27) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (23).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (220), Neural Computing and Applications (122) and Knowledge-Based Systems (105).
- The most-cited of them is “Domain Generalization: A Survey” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2022), with 1,209 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 14 | 18 | 35 | 62 | 107 | 153 | 208 | 264 | 318 | 205 |
| Statistics | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 3 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 7 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| Economics | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Marketing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 21 | 23 | 42 | 70 | 120 | 166 | 221 | 292 | 342 | 229 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 220 |
| 2 | Neural Computing and Applications | 122 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 105 |
| 4 | Pattern Recognition | 81 |
| 5 | Applied Intelligence | 60 |
| 6 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 52 |
| 7 | Neural Networks | 52 |
| 8 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 44 |
| 9 | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 38 |
| 10 | Information Fusion | 33 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 28 |
| 2 | Nanyang Technological University | 27 |
| 3 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 23 |
| 4 | Sun Yat-sen University | 22 |
| 5 | Tsinghua University | 22 |
| 6 | Xidian University | 22 |
| 7 | Northeastern University | 19 |
| 8 | Zhejiang University | 18 |
| 9 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 17 |
| 10 | Nanjing University | 16 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 620 |
| 2 | United States | 94 |
| 3 | India | 88 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 66 |
| 5 | Australia | 54 |
| 6 | South Korea | 50 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 42 |
| 8 | Singapore | 35 |
| 9 | Canada | 30 |
| 10 | Spain | 30 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | class imbalance | 117 |
| 2 | contrastive learning | 89 |
| 3 | generative adversarial networks | 85 |
| 4 | convolutional neural networks | 59 |
| 5 | transfer learning | 56 |
| 6 | image classification | 49 |
| 7 | large language models | 49 |
| 8 | data scarcity | 42 |
| 9 | self-supervised learning | 40 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,209 | 20.8 | Domain Generalization: A Survey | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2022-01-01 | Kaiyang Zhou, Ziwei Liu, Yu Qiao et al. |
| 2 | 1,068 | 12.9 | Deep convolutional neural network based medical image classification for disease diagnosis | Journal Of Big Data | 2019-12-01 | Samir S. Yadav, Shivajirao Manikrao Jadhav |
| 3 | 927 | 21.7 | A survey on deep learning tools dealing with data scarcity: definitions, challenges, solutions, tips, and applications | Journal Of Big Data | 2023-04-14 | Laith Alzubaidi, Jinshuai Bai, Aiman Al-Sabaawi et al. |
| 4 | 809 | 16.3 | ResMLP: Feedforward Networks for Image Classification With Data-Efficient Training | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2022-09-12 | Hugo Touvron, Piotr Bojanowski, Mathilde Caron et al. |
| 5 | 627 | 18.4 | Deep learning models for digital image processing: a review | Artificial Intelligence Review | 2024-01-01 | R. Archana, P. S. Eliahim Jeevaraj |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “data augmentation”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/data-augmentation
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