Papers on “ensemble learning”
Research on “ensemble 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. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “ensemble learning” appeared in 1,291 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,040), operations research (83) and economics (49).
- 196 of them were published in 2025, against 67 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (14), Northwestern Polytechnical University (14) and South China University of Technology (13).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (138), Neural Computing and Applications (80) and Knowledge-Based Systems (58).
- The most-cited of them is “A comparative analysis of gradient boosting algorithms” (Artificial Intelligence Review, 2020), with 2,995 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 60 | 47 | 65 | 79 | 97 | 119 | 143 | 162 | 149 | 119 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 8 |
| Economics | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 8 |
| Information Systems | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| Management | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Statistics | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 67 | 61 | 73 | 89 | 120 | 146 | 180 | 204 | 196 | 155 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 138 |
| 2 | Neural Computing and Applications | 80 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 58 |
| 4 | Journal Of Big Data | 35 |
| 5 | Pattern Recognition | 27 |
| 6 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 26 |
| 7 | Information Fusion | 22 |
| 8 | Knowledge and Information Systems | 20 |
| 9 | Applied Intelligence | 20 |
| 10 | Computational Economics | 20 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 14 |
| 2 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 14 |
| 3 | South China University of Technology | 13 |
| 4 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 12 |
| 5 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 11 |
| 6 | Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen | 10 |
| 7 | Hefei University of Technology | 7 |
| 8 | Northeastern University | 7 |
| 9 | Southeast University | 7 |
| 10 | Sun Yat-sen University | 7 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 308 |
| 2 | India | 85 |
| 3 | United States | 69 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 42 |
| 5 | Australia | 32 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 32 |
| 7 | Egypt | 31 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 31 |
| 9 | Spain | 29 |
| 10 | Turkey | 28 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | class imbalance | 102 |
| 2 | random forest | 63 |
| 3 | XGBoost | 54 |
| 4 | feature selection | 44 |
| 5 | convolutional neural networks | 39 |
| 6 | SHAP | 36 |
| 7 | bagging | 31 |
| 8 | hyperparameter optimization | 28 |
| 9 | data augmentation | 27 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,995 | 40.3 | A comparative analysis of gradient boosting algorithms | Artificial Intelligence Review | 2020-08-24 | Candice Bentéjac, Anna Csörgő, Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz |
| 2 | 2,788 | 42.6 | A review of uncertainty quantification in deep learning: Techniques, applications and challenges | Information Fusion | 2021-05-23 | Moloud Abdar, Farhad Pourpanah, Sadiq Hussain et al. |
| 3 | 1,209 | 20.8 | Domain Generalization: A Survey | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2022-01-01 | Kaiyang Zhou, Ziwei Liu, Yu Qiao et al. |
| 4 | 1,050 | 9.0 | Ensemble learning for data stream analysis: A survey | Information Fusion | 2017-02-03 | Bartosz Krawczyk, Leandro Lei Minku, João Manuel Portela da Gama et al. |
| 5 | 684 | 9.4 | Machine learning and data mining in manufacturing | Expert Systems with Applications | 2020-09-29 | Alican Doğan, Derya Birant |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “ensemble learning”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/ensemble-learning
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