Papers on “genetic algorithm”
Research on “genetic algorithm” 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 “genetic algorithm” appeared in 1,591 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (720), operations research (710) and economics (65).
- 167 of them were published in 2025, against 155 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Ghent University (10), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (9) and University of Tehran (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (118), Computers & Industrial Engineering (73) and Neural Computing and Applications (58).
- The most-cited of them is “Evolving Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification” (IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2019), with 781 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 72 | 49 | 59 | 74 | 80 | 108 | 87 | 61 | 79 | 51 |
| Operations Research | 65 | 79 | 58 | 78 | 77 | 87 | 58 | 77 | 71 | 60 |
| Economics | 6 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 5 |
| Information Systems | 6 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| Statistics | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Finance | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 155 | 135 | 131 | 173 | 178 | 212 | 160 | 155 | 167 | 125 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 118 |
| 2 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 73 |
| 3 | Neural Computing and Applications | 58 |
| 4 | Computers & Operations Research | 36 |
| 5 | Annals of Operations Research | 28 |
| 6 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 21 |
| 7 | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 17 |
| 8 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 17 |
| 9 | European Journal of Operational Research | 13 |
| 10 | Knowledge and Information Systems | 12 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ghent University | 10 |
| 2 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 9 |
| 3 | University of Tehran | 9 |
| 4 | Shanghai University | 8 |
| 5 | Southwest Jiaotong University | 8 |
| 6 | University College London | 8 |
| 7 | Central South University | 7 |
| 8 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 7 |
| 9 | Jiangnan University | 7 |
| 10 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 7 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 199 |
| 2 | India | 57 |
| 3 | United States | 56 |
| 4 | Iran | 43 |
| 5 | Turkey | 43 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 39 |
| 7 | Spain | 34 |
| 8 | France | 23 |
| 9 | Italy | 22 |
| 10 | Taiwan | 20 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | particle swarm optimization | 66 |
| 2 | multi-objective optimization | 53 |
| 3 | metaheuristic optimization | 49 |
| 4 | simulated annealing | 42 |
| 5 | hybrid metaheuristic | 38 |
| 6 | feature selection | 35 |
| 7 | mixed-integer linear programming | 34 |
| 8 | artificial neural networks | 27 |
| 9 | ant colony optimization | 25 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 781 | 8.7 | Evolving Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2019-05-10 | Yanan Sun, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang et al. |
| 2 | 778 | 14.6 | A comparative analysis of K-Nearest Neighbor, Genetic, Support Vector Machine, Decision Tree, and Long Short Term Memory algorithms in machine learning | Decision Analytics Journal | 2022-05-27 | Malti Bansal, Apoorva Goyal, Apoorva Choudhary |
| 3 | 720 | 6.8 | Adaptive network based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) training approaches: a comprehensive survey | Artificial Intelligence Review | 2018-01-03 | Derviş Karaboğa, Ebubekir Kaya |
| 4 | 716 | 9.0 | Evolutionary algorithms and their applications to engineering problems | Neural Computing and Applications | 2020-03-16 | Adam Słowik, Halina Kwaśnicka |
| 5 | 716 | 17.0 | Path planning techniques for mobile robots: Review and prospect | Expert Systems with Applications | 2023-05-03 | Lixing Liu, Xu Wang, Xin Yang et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “genetic algorithm”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/genetic-algorithm
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