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title: "Event-triggered control research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “event-triggered control” appeared in 1,054 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,041), operations research (12) and information systems (1)."
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# Papers on “event-triggered control”

[Browse research topics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/directory/page/3.md)

Research on “event-triggered control” 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 “event-triggered control” appeared in 1,054 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,041), operations research (12) and information systems (1).
- 116 of them were published in 2025, against 21 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Northeastern University (45), Southeast University (41) and State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries (31).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (132), IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (119) and Information Sciences (104).
- The most-cited of them is “Observer-Based Fuzzy Adaptive Event-Triggered Control for Pure-Feedback Nonlinear Systems With Prescribed Performance” (IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2019), with 548 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) | 21 | 61 | 82 | 112 | 145 | 137 | 150 | 134 | 112 | 87 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 21 | 61 | 82 | 112 | 149 | 137 | 150 | 135 | 116 | 91 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-cybernetics.md) | 132 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 119 |
| 3 | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | 104 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 38 |
| 5 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 25 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 23 |
| 7 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 15 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Cognitive Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cognitive-computation.md) | 4 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Northeastern University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northeastern-university.md) | 45 |
| 2 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 41 |
| 3 | State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries | 31 |
| 4 | Liaoning University of Technology | 26 |
| 5 | [Yanshan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/yanshan-university.md) | 26 |
| 6 | Bohai University | 24 |
| 7 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 22 |
| 8 | [Dalian University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/dalian-university-of-technology.md) | 20 |
| 9 | [Nanjing University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 19 |
| 10 | [East China University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/east-china-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 17 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 456 |
| 2 | South Korea | 34 |
| 3 | Australia | 22 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 21 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 16 |
| 6 | India | 12 |
| 7 | United States | 12 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 11 |
| 9 | Singapore | 10 |
| 10 | Bahrain | 8 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [multi-agent systems](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-agent-systems.md) | 71 |
| 2 | backstepping control | 64 |
| 3 | denial-of-service attacks | 60 |
| 4 | adaptive fuzzy control | 49 |
| 5 | communication resource reduction | 47 |
| 6 | networked control systems | 44 |
| 7 | Zeno behavior avoidance | 43 |
| 8 | actuator faults | 39 |
| 9 | nonlinear multi-agent systems | 38 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 548 | 5.9 | [Observer-Based Fuzzy Adaptive Event-Triggered Control for Pure-Feedback Nonlinear Systems With Prescribed Performance](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2019.2895560) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2019-01-25 | Jianbin Qiu, Kangkang Sun, Tong Wang et al. |
| 2 | 519 | 6.9 | [Neural-Network-Based Event-Triggered Adaptive Control of Nonaffine Nonlinear Multiagent Systems With Dynamic Uncertainties](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.3003950) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-07-14 | Hongjing Liang, Guangliang Liu, Huaguang Zhang et al. |
| 3 | 477 | 8.4 | [Security-Based Fuzzy Control for Nonlinear Networked Control Systems With DoS Attacks via a Resilient Event-Triggered Scheme](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2022.3148875) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2022-02-07 | Yingnan Pan, Yanmin Wu, Hak‐Keung Lam |
| 4 | 458 | 4.3 | [Finite-Time Event-Triggered $\\mathcal{H}_{\\infty }$ Control for T–S Fuzzy Markov Jump Systems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2017.2788891) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2018-01-05 | Hao Shen, Feng Li, Huaicheng Yan et al. |
| 5 | 379 | 4.8 | [Event-Triggered Fuzzy Bipartite Tracking Control for Network Systems Based on Distributed Reduced-Order Observers](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2020.2982618) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2020-03-24 | Hongjing Liang, Xiyue Guo, Yingnan Pan et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “event-triggered control”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/event-triggered-control

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