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title: "Feature fusion research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# 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.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## 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

*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) | 23 | 21 | 28 | 70 | 85 | 127 | 144 | 192 | 240 | 179 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 201 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 102 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 97 |
| 4 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 66 |
| 5 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 61 |
| 6 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 48 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 42 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 33 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 13 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 37 |
| 2 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 24 |
| 3 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 22 |
| 4 | [Xidian University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xidian-university.md) | 19 |
| 5 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 18 |
| 6 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [Northwestern Polytechnical University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-polytechnical-university.md) | 15 |
| 8 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 14 |
| 9 | [Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chongqing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Hangzhou Dianzi University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hangzhou-dianzi-university.md) | 13 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 59 |
| 2 | [lightweight neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/lightweight-neural-networks.md) | 29 |
| 3 | [graph convolutional networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-convolutional-networks.md) | 27 |
| 4 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 25 |
| 5 | [transformer models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transformer-models.md) | 23 |
| 6 | [self-attention](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/self-attention.md) | 20 |
| 7 | Mamba | 19 |
| 8 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 19 |
| 9 | [computational efficiency](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/computational-efficiency.md) | 18 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,332 | 12.5 | [HyperFace: A Deep Multi-Task Learning Framework for Face Detection, Landmark Localization, Pose Estimation, and Gender Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2781233) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-12-08 | Rajeev Ranjan, Vishal M. Patel, Rama Chellappa |
| 2 | 822 | 10.8 | [A smart healthcare monitoring system for heart disease prediction based on ensemble deep learning and feature fusion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2020.06.008) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2020-06-26 | Farman Ali, Shaker El–Sappagh, S. M. Riazul Islam et al. |
| 3 | 716 | 16.4 | [A systematic review of trustworthy and explainable artificial intelligence in healthcare: Assessment of quality, bias risk, and data fusion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.03.008) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2023-03-14 | Ahmed Shihab Albahri, Ali M. Duhaim, Mohammed Abdulraheem Fadhel et al. |
| 4 | 595 | 12.3 | [Brain tumor segmentation based on the fusion of deep semantics and edge information in multimodal MRI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.10.022) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2022-10-27 | Zhiqin Zhu, Xianyu He, Guanqiu Qi et al. |
| 5 | 578 | 15.1 | [ICAFusion: Iterative cross-attention guided feature fusion for multispectral object detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2023.109913) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2023-08-26 | Jifeng Shen, Yifei Chen, Yue Liu et al. |

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