---
title: "Deep learning research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “deep learning” appeared in 1,691 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,258), operations research (131) and information systems (62)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “deep learning” appeared in 1,691 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,258), operations research (131) and information systems (62). (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# Papers on “deep learning”

Research on “deep learning” 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 “deep learning” appeared in 1,691 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,258), operations research (131) and information systems (62).
- 270 of them were published in 2025, against 30 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (16), Vellore Institute of Technology University (14) and Imperial College London (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were Artificial Intelligence Review (146), Expert Systems with Applications (129) and Neural Computing and Applications (114).
- The most-cited of them is “Review of deep learning: concepts, CNN architectures, challenges, applications, future directions” (Journal Of Big Data, 2021), with 7,905 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) | 22 | 28 | 54 | 111 | 151 | 173 | 157 | 233 | 198 | 131 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 12 | 19 | 21 | 28 | 19 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 5 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 8 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| All categories | 30 | 42 | 81 | 137 | 202 | 223 | 218 | 300 | 270 | 188 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 146 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 129 |
| 3 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 114 |
| 4 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 44 |
| 5 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 36 |
| 6 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 30 |
| 7 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 30 |
| 8 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 25 |
| 9 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 24 |
| 10 | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 22 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 16 |
| 2 | Vellore Institute of Technology University | 14 |
| 3 | [Imperial College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/imperial-college-london.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [UNSW Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/unsw-sydney.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Southwest Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-jiaotong-university.md) | 9 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 310 |
| 2 | United States | 127 |
| 3 | India | 118 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 92 |
| 5 | Australia | 69 |
| 6 | Spain | 50 |
| 7 | Saudi Arabia | 39 |
| 8 | Italy | 37 |
| 9 | South Korea | 37 |
| 10 | France | 33 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [machine learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/machine-learning.md) | 127 |
| 2 | [convolutional neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convolutional-neural-networks.md) | 72 |
| 3 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 46 |
| 4 | [artificial neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-neural-networks.md) | 36 |
| 5 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 33 |
| 6 | [transformer models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transformer-models.md) | 33 |
| 7 | [recurrent neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/recurrent-neural-networks.md) | 28 |
| 8 | evaluation metrics | 26 |
| 9 | [feature extraction](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-extraction.md) | 26 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,905 | 117.8 | [Review of deep learning: concepts, CNN architectures, challenges, applications, future directions](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-021-00444-8) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2021-03-31 | Laith Alzubaidi, Jinglan Zhang, Amjad J. Humaidi et al. |
| 2 | 5,543 | 59.5 | [Object Detection With Deep Learning: A Review](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2876865) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2019-01-28 | Zhong‐Qiu Zhao, Peng Zheng, Shou-Tao Xu et al. |
| 3 | 3,797 | 54.2 | [Image Segmentation Using Deep Learning: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3059968) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-01-01 | Shervin Minaee, Yuri Y. Boykov, Fatih Porikli et al. |
| 4 | 3,023 | 33.0 | [Survey on deep learning with class imbalance](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-019-0192-5) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2019-03-19 | Justin M. Johnson, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar |
| 5 | 2,963 | 35.2 | [Deep Learning for Generic Object Detection: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-019-01247-4) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2019-10-31 | Li Liu, Wanli Ouyang, Xiaogang Wang et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “deep learning”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/deep-learning

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).