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title: "Genetic algorithm research: papers and trends"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# 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.

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

## 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

*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) | 72 | 49 | 59 | 74 | 80 | 108 | 87 | 61 | 79 | 51 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 65 | 79 | 58 | 78 | 77 | 87 | 58 | 77 | 71 | 60 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 6 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 6 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 118 |
| 2 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 73 |
| 3 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 58 |
| 4 | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 36 |
| 5 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 28 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 21 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 17 |
| 8 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 12 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Ghent University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ghent-university.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [University of Tehran](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-tehran.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [Shanghai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [Southwest Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-jiaotong-university.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [University College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-london.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Central South University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-south-university.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Jiangnan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/jiangnan-university.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [particle swarm optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/particle-swarm-optimization.md) | 66 |
| 2 | [multi-objective optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-objective-optimization.md) | 53 |
| 3 | [metaheuristic optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/metaheuristic-optimization.md) | 49 |
| 4 | simulated annealing | 42 |
| 5 | hybrid metaheuristic | 38 |
| 6 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 35 |
| 7 | [mixed-integer linear programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-linear-programming.md) | 34 |
| 8 | [artificial neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-neural-networks.md) | 27 |
| 9 | ant colony optimization | 25 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 781 | 8.7 | [Evolving Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2019.2916183) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dajour.2022.100071) | [Decision Analytics Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-analytics-journal.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-017-9610-2) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2018-01-03 | Derviş Karaboğa, Ebubekir Kaya |
| 4 | 716 | 9.0 | [Evolutionary algorithms and their applications to engineering problems](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-04832-8) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2020-03-16 | Adam Słowik, Halina Kwaśnicka |
| 5 | 716 | 17.0 | [Path planning techniques for mobile robots: Review and prospect](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.120254) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
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