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title: "High-dimensional data research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “high-dimensional data” appeared in 1,595 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (994), statistics (458) and operations research (57)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “high-dimensional data” appeared in 1,595 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (994), statistics (458) and operations research (57). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “high-dimensional data”

Research on “high-dimensional data” 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 “high-dimensional data” appeared in 1,595 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (994), statistics (458) and operations research (57).
- 215 of them were published in 2025, against 93 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Southwest Jiaotong University (22), Chinese Academy of Sciences (20) and Northwestern Polytechnical University (18).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (71), Pattern Recognition (52) and Knowledge-Based Systems (52).
- The most-cited of them is “Selecting critical features for data classification based on machine learning methods” (Journal Of Big Data, 2020), with 983 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) | 58 | 71 | 78 | 95 | 115 | 114 | 128 | 113 | 124 | 98 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 29 | 39 | 39 | 36 | 42 | 49 | 43 | 46 | 73 | 62 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 9 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 3 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 93 | 126 | 126 | 145 | 170 | 183 | 189 | 174 | 215 | 174 |

## 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) | 71 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 52 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 52 |
| 4 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 43 |
| 5 | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | 42 |
| 6 | [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics-data-analysis.md) | 34 |
| 7 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 32 |
| 8 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 27 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 27 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 26 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Southwest Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-jiaotong-university.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 20 |
| 3 | [Northwestern Polytechnical University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-polytechnical-university.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 17 |
| 5 | [Beijing Normal University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-normal-university.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [Southwest University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-university.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [University of Alberta](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-alberta.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 11 |
| 9 | Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai | 10 |
| 10 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 412 |
| 2 | United States | 96 |
| 3 | India | 38 |
| 4 | Canada | 35 |
| 5 | Australia | 33 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 30 |
| 7 | Italy | 28 |
| 8 | South Korea | 28 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 26 |
| 10 | Japan | 24 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 192 |
| 2 | [dimensionality reduction](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/dimensionality-reduction.md) | 87 |
| 3 | [computational efficiency](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/computational-efficiency.md) | 30 |
| 4 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 27 |
| 5 | classification | 27 |
| 6 | curse of dimensionality | 24 |
| 7 | [asymptotic normality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/asymptotic-normality.md) | 23 |
| 8 | [interpretability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/interpretability.md) | 22 |
| 9 | unsupervised feature selection | 21 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 983 | 13.0 | [Selecting critical features for data classification based on machine learning methods](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-020-00327-4) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2020-07-23 | Rung-Ching Chen, Christine Dewi, Su-Wen Huang et al. |
| 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 | 726 | 8.7 | [Principal component analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-815739-8.00012-2) | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 2019-11-15 | Ferath Kherif, Adeliya Latypova |
| 4 | 666 | 6.3 | [Problem formulations and solvers in linear SVM: a review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-018-9614-6) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2018-01-16 | Vinod Kumar Chauhan, Kalpana Dahiya, Anuj Sharma |
| 5 | 633 | 20.2 | [Feature selection strategies: a comparative analysis of SHAP-value and importance-based methods](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-024-00905-w) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2024-03-26 | Huanjing Wang, Qianxin Liang, John Hancock et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “high-dimensional data”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/high-dimensional-data

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  title = {Papers on “high-dimensional data”},
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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).