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

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

## 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

*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) | 17 | 25 | 24 | 43 | 64 | 57 | 83 | 97 | 130 | 96 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 47 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 47 |
| 3 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 47 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 40 |
| 5 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 34 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 30 |
| 7 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 21 |
| 8 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 16 |
| 10 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 15 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 17 |
| 2 | [University of Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 17 |
| 3 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 11 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [overfitting](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/overfitting.md) | 39 |
| 2 | [image classification](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/image-classification.md) | 30 |
| 3 | robustness | 25 |
| 4 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 18 |
| 6 | [data augmentation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/data-augmentation.md) | 18 |
| 7 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 18 |
| 8 | flat minima | 17 |
| 9 | [interpretability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/interpretability.md) | 17 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3019967) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-08-27 | Rene Ranftl, Katrin Lasinger, David Hafner et al. |
| 2 | 1,743 | 27.4 | [Text Data Augmentation for Deep Learning](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-021-00492-0) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3152527) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-03-07 | Hwanjun Song, Minseok Kim, Dongmin Park et al. |
| 4 | 888 | 12.7 | [Meta-Learning in Neural Networks: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3079209) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3051099) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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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