Papers on “image classification”
Research on “image classification” 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 “image classification” appeared in 1,557 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,514), operations research (16) and statistics (13).
- 243 of them were published in 2025, against 58 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (39), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (21) and Xidian University (20).
- The journals publishing most of them were Pattern Recognition (101), Neural Networks (93) and Expert Systems with Applications (90).
- The most-cited of them is “Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2019), with 12,153 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 56 | 51 | 90 | 110 | 159 | 230 | 210 | 234 | 233 | 141 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Economics | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 58 | 52 | 92 | 112 | 159 | 235 | 218 | 241 | 243 | 147 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pattern Recognition | 101 |
| 2 | Neural Networks | 93 |
| 3 | Expert Systems with Applications | 90 |
| 4 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 79 |
| 5 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 73 |
| 6 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 67 |
| 7 | Neural Computing and Applications | 60 |
| 8 | International Journal of Computer Vision | 50 |
| 9 | Applied Intelligence | 40 |
| 10 | IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence | 38 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 39 |
| 2 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 21 |
| 3 | Xidian University | 20 |
| 4 | Zhejiang University | 20 |
| 5 | Nanyang Technological University | 19 |
| 6 | Peking University | 19 |
| 7 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 17 |
| 8 | Institute of Automation | 17 |
| 9 | Tsinghua University | 17 |
| 10 | Nanjing University | 15 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 497 |
| 2 | United States | 84 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 55 |
| 4 | Australia | 54 |
| 5 | India | 39 |
| 6 | Germany | 33 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 33 |
| 8 | Canada | 31 |
| 9 | South Korea | 31 |
| 10 | Turkey | 31 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | object detection | 115 |
| 2 | semantic segmentation | 78 |
| 3 | convolutional neural networks | 77 |
| 4 | vision transformer | 54 |
| 5 | data augmentation | 49 |
| 6 | computational efficiency | 43 |
| 7 | knowledge distillation | 41 |
| 8 | adversarial robustness | 37 |
| 9 | transfer learning | 34 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12,153 | 134.9 | Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2019-05-02 | Jie Hu, Li Shen, Samuel Albanie et al. |
| 2 | 6,898 | 81.4 | Grad-CAM: Visual Explanations from Deep Networks via Gradient-Based Localization | International Journal of Computer Vision | 2019-10-11 | Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju, Michael Cogswell, Abhishek Das et al. |
| 3 | 3,314 | 64.8 | Learning to Prompt for Vision-Language Models | International Journal of Computer Vision | 2022-07-31 | Kaiyang Zhou, Jingkang Yang, Chen Change Loy et al. |
| 4 | 3,135 | 40.0 | A survey of the recent architectures of deep convolutional neural networks | Artificial Intelligence Review | 2020-04-21 | Asifullah Khan, Anabia Sohail, Umme Zahoora et al. |
| 5 | 2,404 | 25.6 | One Pixel Attack for Fooling Deep Neural Networks | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2019-01-04 | Jiawei Su, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas, Kouichi Sakurai |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “image classification”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/image-classification
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