Papers on “feature fusion”
Research on “feature fusion” 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 “feature fusion” appeared in 1,132 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,109), operations research (10) and economics (6).
- 247 of them were published in 2025, against 23 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (37), Zhejiang University (24) and Wuhan University (22).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (201), Knowledge-Based Systems (102) and Pattern Recognition (97).
- The most-cited of them is “HyperFace: A Deep Multi-Task Learning Framework for Face Detection, Landmark Localization, Pose Estimation, and Gender Recognition” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2017), with 1,332 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 23 | 21 | 28 | 70 | 85 | 127 | 144 | 192 | 240 | 179 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 23 | 21 | 28 | 71 | 86 | 129 | 146 | 197 | 247 | 184 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 201 |
| 2 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 102 |
| 3 | Pattern Recognition | 97 |
| 4 | Applied Intelligence | 66 |
| 5 | Information Fusion | 61 |
| 6 | Neural Computing and Applications | 48 |
| 7 | Neural Networks | 42 |
| 8 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 33 |
| 9 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 13 |
| 10 | Information Processing & Management | 13 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 37 |
| 2 | Zhejiang University | 24 |
| 3 | Wuhan University | 22 |
| 4 | Xidian University | 19 |
| 5 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 18 |
| 6 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 15 |
| 7 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 15 |
| 8 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 14 |
| 9 | Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications | 13 |
| 10 | Hangzhou Dianzi University | 13 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 639 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 49 |
| 3 | India | 41 |
| 4 | Australia | 31 |
| 5 | United States | 26 |
| 6 | Canada | 20 |
| 7 | South Korea | 19 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 17 |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 13 |
| 10 | Japan | 12 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | attention mechanism | 59 |
| 2 | lightweight neural networks | 29 |
| 3 | graph convolutional networks | 27 |
| 4 | contrastive learning | 25 |
| 5 | transformer models | 23 |
| 6 | self-attention | 20 |
| 7 | Mamba | 19 |
| 8 | multimodal fusion | 19 |
| 9 | computational efficiency | 18 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “feature fusion”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-fusion
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