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title: "Data privacy research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-04)"
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# 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.

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

## 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

*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) | 6 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 31 | 38 | 46 | 85 | 149 | 104 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 11 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 11 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 6 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 56 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 49 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 29 |
| 4 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 28 |
| 5 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 28 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 22 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 20 |
| 8 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 19 |
| 9 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 15 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 15 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 14 |
| 2 | [Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 13 |
| 4 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Fudan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fudan-university.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [University of Technology Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-technology-sydney.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [Xidian University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xidian-university.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Guangzhou University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/guangzhou-university.md) | 8 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [federated learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/federated-learning.md) | 163 |
| 2 | non-IID data | 36 |
| 3 | [blockchain](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/blockchain.md) | 33 |
| 4 | [AI ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/ai-ethics.md) | 31 |
| 5 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 30 |
| 6 | data heterogeneity | 29 |
| 7 | privacy-preserving machine learning | 25 |
| 8 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 24 |
| 9 | algorithmic bias | 22 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,900 | 27.4 | [A survey on federated learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2021.106775) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2021.3124599) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2021-11-02 | Qinbin Li, Zeyi Wen, Zhaomin Wu et al. |
| 3 | 1,366 | 24.7 | [Towards Personalized Federated Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3160699) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-03-28 | Alysa Ziying Tan, Han Yu, Lizhen Cui et al. |
| 4 | 740 | 7.0 | [Big healthcare data: preserving security and privacy](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-017-0110-7) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2022.100068) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2022-01-01 | Aditi Bhutoria |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “data privacy”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/data-privacy

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