Papers on “generalization”
Research on “generalization” 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 “generalization” appeared in 667 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (636), operations research (17) and statistics (4).
- 139 of them were published in 2025, against 19 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (17), University of Science and Technology of China (17) and Nanyang Technological University (14).
- The journals publishing most of them were Pattern Recognition (47), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (47) and Neural Networks (47).
- The most-cited of them is “Towards Robust Monocular Depth Estimation: Mixing Datasets for Zero-Shot Cross-Dataset Transfer” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 1,788 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 17 | 25 | 24 | 43 | 64 | 57 | 83 | 97 | 130 | 96 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 19 | 26 | 26 | 45 | 66 | 60 | 85 | 103 | 139 | 98 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pattern Recognition | 47 |
| 2 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 47 |
| 3 | Neural Networks | 47 |
| 4 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 40 |
| 5 | Expert Systems with Applications | 34 |
| 6 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 30 |
| 7 | Applied Intelligence | 21 |
| 8 | Machine Learning | 17 |
| 9 | Information Fusion | 16 |
| 10 | International Journal of Computer Vision | 15 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 17 |
| 2 | University of Science and Technology of China | 17 |
| 3 | Nanyang Technological University | 14 |
| 4 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 14 |
| 5 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 13 |
| 6 | Zhejiang University | 13 |
| 7 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 12 |
| 8 | Beihang University | 11 |
| 9 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 11 |
| 10 | Peking University | 11 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 270 |
| 2 | United States | 63 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 36 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 28 |
| 5 | Australia | 24 |
| 6 | Singapore | 21 |
| 7 | Germany | 17 |
| 8 | Italy | 16 |
| 9 | Japan | 13 |
| 10 | South Korea | 13 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | overfitting | 39 |
| 2 | image classification | 30 |
| 3 | robustness | 25 |
| 4 | large language models | 20 |
| 5 | contrastive learning | 18 |
| 6 | data augmentation | 18 |
| 7 | graph neural networks | 18 |
| 8 | flat minima | 17 |
| 9 | interpretability | 17 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,788 | 24.1 | Towards Robust Monocular Depth Estimation: Mixing Datasets for Zero-Shot Cross-Dataset Transfer | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2020-08-27 | Rene Ranftl, Katrin Lasinger, David Hafner et al. |
| 2 | 1,743 | 27.4 | Text Data Augmentation for Deep Learning | Journal Of Big Data | 2021-07-19 | Connor Shorten, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Borko Furht |
| 3 | 1,344 | 24.0 | Learning From Noisy Labels With Deep Neural Networks: A Survey | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 2022-03-07 | Hwanjun Song, Minseok Kim, Dongmin Park et al. |
| 4 | 888 | 12.7 | Meta-Learning in Neural Networks: A Survey | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2021-01-01 | Timothy M. Hospedales, Antreas Antoniou, Paul Micaelli et al. |
| 5 | 827 | 11.9 | Salient Object Detection in the Deep Learning Era: An In-Depth Survey | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2021-01-13 | Wenguan Wang, Qiuxia Lai, Huazhu Fu et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “generalization”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generalization
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