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

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

## 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

*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) | 14 | 18 | 35 | 62 | 107 | 153 | 208 | 264 | 318 | 205 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 3 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 7 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 220 |
| 2 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 122 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 105 |
| 4 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 81 |
| 5 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 60 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 52 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 52 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 44 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 38 |
| 10 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 33 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 28 |
| 2 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 27 |
| 3 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 23 |
| 4 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 22 |
| 5 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 22 |
| 6 | [Xidian University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xidian-university.md) | 22 |
| 7 | [Northeastern University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northeastern-university.md) | 19 |
| 8 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 18 |
| 9 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [Nanjing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university.md) | 16 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 117 |
| 2 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 89 |
| 3 | [generative adversarial networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generative-adversarial-networks.md) | 85 |
| 4 | [convolutional neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convolutional-neural-networks.md) | 59 |
| 5 | [transfer learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transfer-learning.md) | 56 |
| 6 | [image classification](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/image-classification.md) | 49 |
| 7 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 49 |
| 8 | data scarcity | 42 |
| 9 | [self-supervised learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/self-supervised-learning.md) | 40 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,209 | 20.8 | [Domain Generalization: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3195549) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-019-0276-2) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-023-00727-2) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3206148) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-09-12 | Hugo Touvron, Piotr Bojanowski, Mathilde Caron et al. |
| 5 | 627 | 18.4 | [Deep learning models for digital image processing: a review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-023-10631-z) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 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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