Papers on “digital twin”
Research on “digital twin” 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 “digital twin” appeared in 533 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (188), AI (155) and information systems (131).
- 140 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (19), Chongqing University (13) and Donghua University (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Industrial Information Integration (89), Expert Systems with Applications (73) and Computers & Industrial Engineering (69).
- The most-cited of them is “Industry 5.0: A survey on enabling technologies and potential applications” (Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2021), with 1,891 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 28 | 44 | 39 | 54 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 20 | 29 | 47 | 46 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 22 | 32 | 34 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 5 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 23 | 37 | 71 | 101 | 140 | 145 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Industrial Information Integration | 89 |
| 2 | Expert Systems with Applications | 73 |
| 3 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 69 |
| 4 | International Journal of Production Economics | 20 |
| 5 | Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal | 15 |
| 6 | AI & Society | 11 |
| 7 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 10 |
| 8 | Applied Intelligence | 9 |
| 9 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 9 |
| 10 | Decision Analytics Journal | 8 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 19 |
| 2 | Chongqing University | 13 |
| 3 | Donghua University | 9 |
| 4 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 9 |
| 5 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 8 |
| 6 | University of Hong Kong | 8 |
| 7 | State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Transmission | 7 |
| 8 | University of Science and Technology Beijing | 6 |
| 9 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 5 |
| 10 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 148 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 52 |
| 3 | United States | 41 |
| 4 | Italy | 35 |
| 5 | India | 34 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 26 |
| 7 | Germany | 24 |
| 8 | France | 23 |
| 9 | Canada | 18 |
| 10 | Australia | 17 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Industry 4.0 | 47 |
| 2 | Internet of Things | 35 |
| 3 | blockchain | 31 |
| 4 | artificial intelligence | 23 |
| 5 | supply chain resilience | 22 |
| 6 | Industry 5.0 | 21 |
| 7 | interoperability | 20 |
| 8 | metaverse | 19 |
| 9 | predictive maintenance | 19 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,891 | 30.1 | Industry 5.0: A survey on enabling technologies and potential applications | Journal of Industrial Information Integration | 2021-08-11 | Praveen Kumar Reddy Maddikunta, Quoc‐Viet Pham, B. Prabadevi et al. |
| 2 | 933 | 13.6 | Digital Twin: Generalization, characterization and implementation | Decision Support Systems | 2021-02-17 | Eric VanDerHorn, Sankaran Mahadevan |
| 3 | 933 | 20.5 | Metaverse as a disruptive technology revolutionising tourism management and marketing | Tourism Management | 2023-01-17 | Dimitrios Buhalis, Daniel Leung, Michael S. Lin |
| 4 | 705 | 15.5 | Digital Twin: Benefits, use cases, challenges, and opportunities | Decision Analytics Journal | 2023-01-21 | Mohsen Attaran, Bilge Gokhan Çelik |
| 5 | 589 | 11.6 | Digital Twins: State of the art theory and practice, challenges, and open research questions | Journal of Industrial Information Integration | 2022-08-08 | Angira Sharma, Edward Elson Kosasih, Jie Zhang et al. |
Research ideas that follow this keyword#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “digital twin”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-twin
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