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title: "Feature extraction research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “feature extraction” appeared in 1,196 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,107), operations research (32) and information systems (20)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “feature extraction” appeared in 1,196 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,107), operations research (32) and information systems (20). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “feature extraction”

Research on “feature extraction” 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 “feature extraction” appeared in 1,196 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,107), operations research (32) and information systems (20).
- 173 of them were published in 2025, against 77 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were SRM Institute of Science and Technology (16), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (15) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (128), Neural Computing and Applications (74) and Knowledge-Based Systems (57).
- The most-cited of them is “Learning without Forgetting” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2017), with 4,192 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) | 71 | 59 | 88 | 103 | 125 | 147 | 133 | 150 | 157 | 74 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 77 | 64 | 95 | 109 | 131 | 158 | 142 | 162 | 173 | 85 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 128 |
| 2 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 74 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 57 |
| 4 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 40 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 37 |
| 6 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 26 |
| 7 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 22 |
| 8 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 19 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 19 |
| 10 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 18 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | SRM Institute of Science and Technology | 16 |
| 2 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 15 |
| 3 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [Shenzhen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shenzhen-university.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [Saveetha University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/saveetha-university.md) | 9 |
| 6 | Vellore Institute of Technology University | 9 |
| 7 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 8 |
| 9 | Qatar University | 8 |
| 10 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 266 |
| 2 | India | 103 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 37 |
| 4 | Australia | 26 |
| 5 | Turkey | 24 |
| 6 | United States | 23 |
| 7 | South Korea | 19 |
| 8 | Spain | 17 |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 16 |
| 10 | Canada | 13 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [convolutional neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convolutional-neural-networks.md) | 45 |
| 2 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 36 |
| 3 | [dimensionality reduction](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/dimensionality-reduction.md) | 31 |
| 4 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 26 |
| 5 | [deep learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/deep-learning.md) | 26 |
| 6 | [transfer learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transfer-learning.md) | 26 |
| 7 | [image classification](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/image-classification.md) | 25 |
| 8 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 22 |
| 9 | [data augmentation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/data-augmentation.md) | 22 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,192 | 39.0 | [Learning without Forgetting](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2773081) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-11-14 | Zhizhong Li, Derek Hoiem |
| 2 | 1,063 | 14.0 | [ROCKET: exceptionally fast and accurate time series classification using random convolutional kernels](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-020-00701-z) | [Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/data-mining-and-knowledge-discovery.md) | 2020-07-13 | Angus Dempster, François Petitjean, Geoffrey I. Webb |
| 3 | 643 | 7.0 | [CNNpred: CNN-based stock market prediction using a diverse set of variables](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.03.029) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2019-03-20 | Ehsan Hoseinzade, Saman Haratizadeh |
| 4 | 634 | 6.6 | [Data fusion and machine learning for industrial prognosis: Trends and perspectives towards Industry 4.0](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2018.10.005) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2018-10-15 | Alberto Diez-Olivan, Javier Del Ser, Diego Pascual Galar et al. |
| 5 | 627 | 18.4 | [Deep learning models for digital image processing: a review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-023-10631-z) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2024-01-01 | R. Archana, P. S. Eliahim Jeevaraj |

## Cite this page

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

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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).