Papers on “data privacy”
Research on “data privacy” 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 privacy” appeared in 818 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (483), information systems (91) and management (55).
- 209 of them were published in 2025, against 12 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (14), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (13) and Tsinghua University (13).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (56), Knowledge-Based Systems (49) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (29).
- The most-cited of them is “A survey on federated learning” (Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021), with 1,900 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 6 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 31 | 38 | 46 | 85 | 149 | 104 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 |
| Management | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 11 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 11 |
| Economics | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 6 |
| Marketing | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Statistics | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 12 | 26 | 22 | 35 | 61 | 68 | 85 | 132 | 209 | 168 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 56 |
| 2 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 49 |
| 3 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 29 |
| 4 | Artificial Intelligence Review | 28 |
| 5 | Information Fusion | 28 |
| 6 | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 22 |
| 7 | IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence | 20 |
| 8 | Neural Computing and Applications | 19 |
| 9 | Pattern Recognition | 15 |
| 10 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 15 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 14 |
| 2 | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications | 13 |
| 3 | Tsinghua University | 13 |
| 4 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 11 |
| 5 | Nanyang Technological University | 11 |
| 6 | Fudan University | 9 |
| 7 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 9 |
| 8 | University of Technology Sydney | 9 |
| 9 | Xidian University | 9 |
| 10 | Guangzhou University | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 251 |
| 2 | United States | 93 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 49 |
| 4 | India | 47 |
| 5 | Germany | 41 |
| 6 | Australia | 38 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 26 |
| 8 | Italy | 26 |
| 9 | Singapore | 24 |
| 10 | South Korea | 23 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | federated learning | 163 |
| 2 | non-IID data | 36 |
| 3 | blockchain | 33 |
| 4 | AI ethics | 31 |
| 5 | large language models | 30 |
| 6 | data heterogeneity | 29 |
| 7 | privacy-preserving machine learning | 25 |
| 8 | artificial intelligence | 24 |
| 9 | algorithmic bias | 22 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,900 | 27.4 | A survey on federated learning | Knowledge-Based Systems | 2021-01-21 | Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Yu Xie, Hang Bai et al. |
| 2 | 1,409 | 23.5 | A Survey on Federated Learning Systems: Vision, Hype and Reality for Data Privacy and Protection | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 2021-11-02 | Qinbin Li, Zeyi Wen, Zhaomin Wu et al. |
| 3 | 1,366 | 24.7 | Towards Personalized Federated Learning | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 2022-03-28 | Alysa Ziying Tan, Han Yu, Lizhen Cui et al. |
| 4 | 740 | 7.0 | Big healthcare data: preserving security and privacy | Journal Of Big Data | 2018-01-09 | Karim Abouelmehdi, Abderrahim Beni-Hessane, Hayat Khaloufi |
| 5 | 678 | 11.7 | Personalized education and Artificial Intelligence in the United States, China, and India: A systematic review using a Human-In-The-Loop model | Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence | 2022-01-01 | Aditi Bhutoria |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “data privacy”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/data-privacy
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