Papers on “knowledge transfer”
Research on “knowledge transfer” 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 “knowledge transfer” appeared in 1,154 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (486), management (355) and economics (109).
- 193 of them were published in 2025, against 76 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (23), Shenzhen University (19) and Nankai University (14).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (69), Expert Systems with Applications (51) and Knowledge-Based Systems (36).
- The most-cited of them is “Knowledge Distillation and Student-Teacher Learning for Visual Intelligence: A Review and New Outlooks” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021), with 909 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 10 | 12 | 14 | 26 | 38 | 58 | 70 | 92 | 102 | 64 |
| Management | 31 | 41 | 35 | 32 | 48 | 31 | 32 | 28 | 50 | 27 |
| Economics | 8 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 9 |
| Higher Education and Research | 9 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 4 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 6 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Information Systems | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Marketing | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Operations Research | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 |
| Accounting | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| All categories | 76 | 83 | 74 | 85 | 122 | 121 | 136 | 145 | 193 | 119 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 69 |
| 2 | Expert Systems with Applications | 51 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 36 |
| 4 | Pattern Recognition | 28 |
| 5 | The Journal of Technology Transfer | 28 |
| 6 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 19 |
| 7 | Neural Networks | 17 |
| 8 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 16 |
| 9 | Technovation | 15 |
| 10 | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 13 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 23 |
| 2 | Shenzhen University | 19 |
| 3 | Nankai University | 14 |
| 4 | Xidian University | 14 |
| 5 | Northeastern University | 13 |
| 6 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 13 |
| 7 | Nanyang Technological University | 12 |
| 8 | China University of Geosciences | 11 |
| 9 | City University of Hong Kong | 11 |
| 10 | Tsinghua University | 11 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 332 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 80 |
| 3 | United States | 70 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 50 |
| 5 | Australia | 31 |
| 6 | Italy | 30 |
| 7 | Germany | 28 |
| 8 | Spain | 21 |
| 9 | France | 19 |
| 10 | South Korea | 19 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | catastrophic forgetting | 27 |
| 2 | multinational corporations | 27 |
| 3 | university-industry collaboration | 25 |
| 4 | continual learning | 22 |
| 5 | transfer learning | 20 |
| 6 | domain adaptation | 19 |
| 7 | evolutionary multitasking | 18 |
| 8 | innovation | 17 |
| 9 | negative transfer | 17 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 909 | 13.2 | Knowledge Distillation and Student-Teacher Learning for Visual Intelligence: A Review and New Outlooks | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2021-01-29 | Lin Wang, Kuk-Jin Yoon |
| 2 | 861 | 21.5 | Transfer Learning in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Survey | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2023-07-04 | Zhuangdi Zhu, Kaixiang Lin, Anil K. Jain et al. |
| 3 | 697 | 6.4 | External knowledge sources, green innovation and performance | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2017-10-12 | Wissal Ben Arfi, Lubica Hikkerova, Jean‐Michel Sahut |
| 4 | 569 | 7.7 | Academic engagement: A review of the literature 2011-2019 | Research Policy | 2020-08-29 | Markus Perkmann, Rossella Salandra, Valentina Tartari et al. |
| 5 | 439 | 4.8 | Multifactorial Evolutionary Algorithm With Online Transfer Parameter Estimation: MFEA-II | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2019-03-22 | Kavitesh Kumar Bali, Yew-Soon Ong, Abhishek Gupta et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “knowledge transfer”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-transfer
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note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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