Papers on “expectation-maximization algorithm”
Research on “expectation-maximization algorithm” 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 “expectation-maximization algorithm” appeared in 530 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (262), AI (181) and operations research (37).
- 61 of them were published in 2025, against 54 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (9), Renmin University of China (6) and Beihang University (5).
- The journals publishing most of them were Statistics and Computing (30), Computational Statistics (18) and Pattern Recognition (11).
- The most-cited of them is “Ensemble unsupervised autoencoders and Gaussian mixture model for cyberattack detection” (Information Processing & Management, 2022), with 251 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics | 25 | 18 | 30 | 33 | 29 | 20 | 31 | 25 | 29 | 22 |
| AI | 19 | 12 | 16 | 25 | 19 | 27 | 14 | 17 | 26 | 6 |
| Operations Research | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Economics | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Finance | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 54 | 37 | 53 | 67 | 61 | 58 | 55 | 52 | 61 | 32 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Statistics and Computing | 30 |
| 2 | Computational Statistics | 18 |
| 3 | Pattern Recognition | 11 |
| 4 | Journal of Multivariate Analysis | 9 |
| 5 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 9 |
| 6 | Statistical Papers | 9 |
| 7 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 8 |
| 8 | Expert Systems with Applications | 8 |
| 9 | Computational Statistics & Data Analysis | 7 |
| 10 | Journal of Econometrics | 6 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 9 |
| 2 | Renmin University of China | 6 |
| 3 | Beihang University | 5 |
| 4 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 5 |
| 5 | Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique | 5 |
| 6 | Institute of Automation | 4 |
| 7 | Peking University | 4 |
| 8 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 4 |
| 9 | University of Catania | 4 |
| 10 | University of Milano-Bicocca | 4 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 83 |
| 2 | United States | 36 |
| 3 | Italy | 21 |
| 4 | Canada | 16 |
| 5 | France | 15 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 13 |
| 7 | Australia | 8 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 8 |
| 9 | Japan | 7 |
| 10 | Iran | 5 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | maximum likelihood estimation | 26 |
| 2 | mixture models | 22 |
| 3 | Gaussian mixture model | 16 |
| 4 | parameter estimation | 14 |
| 5 | missing data | 12 |
| 6 | asymptotic normality | 11 |
| 7 | heavy-tailed distributions | 11 |
| 8 | model-based clustering | 10 |
| 9 | consistency | 9 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “expectation-maximization algorithm”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/expectation-maximization-algorithm
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title = {Papers on “expectation-maximization algorithm”},
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