---
title: "Label noise research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “label noise” appeared in 606 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (590), operations research (10) and statistics (3)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/label-noise
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “label noise” appeared in 606 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (590), operations research (10) and statistics (3). (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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---

# Papers on “label noise”

Research on “label noise” 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 “label noise” appeared in 606 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (590), operations research (10) and statistics (3).
- 125 of them were published in 2025, against 15 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Xidian University (19), Chinese Academy of Sciences (16) and Hong Kong Baptist University (16).
- The journals publishing most of them were Pattern Recognition (64), Knowledge-Based Systems (53) and Expert Systems with Applications (47).
- The most-cited of them is “Learning From Noisy Labels With Deep Neural Networks: A Survey” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2022), with 1,344 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) | 14 | 16 | 18 | 25 | 35 | 65 | 85 | 102 | 121 | 109 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 15 | 16 | 18 | 26 | 38 | 66 | 87 | 102 | 125 | 113 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 64 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 53 |
| 3 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 47 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 40 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 38 |
| 6 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 33 |
| 7 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 30 |
| 8 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 21 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 15 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Xidian University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xidian-university.md) | 19 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [Hong Kong Baptist University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-baptist-university.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [Nanjing University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Southwest Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-jiaotong-university.md) | 12 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 345 |
| 2 | Australia | 33 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 30 |
| 4 | United States | 28 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 17 |
| 6 | Japan | 17 |
| 7 | Singapore | 13 |
| 8 | France | 10 |
| 9 | India | 10 |
| 10 | Macao | 10 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [pseudo-labeling](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/pseudo-labeling.md) | 55 |
| 2 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 36 |
| 3 | [semi-supervised learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/semi-supervised-learning.md) | 33 |
| 4 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 24 |
| 5 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 24 |
| 6 | multi-label classification | 24 |
| 7 | label noise robustness | 22 |
| 8 | partial multi-label learning | 22 |
| 9 | label correction | 21 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,344 | 24.0 | [Learning From Noisy Labels With Deep Neural Networks: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3152527) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-03-07 | Hwanjun Song, Minseok Kim, Dongmin Park et al. |
| 2 | 392 | 5.6 | [Self-Correction for Human Parsing](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3048039) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-12-29 | Peike Li, Yunqiu Xu, Yunchao Wei et al. |
| 3 | 361 | 6.4 | [Robust Multi-View Clustering With Incomplete Information](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3155499) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-03-01 | Mouxing Yang, Yunfan Li, Peng Hu et al. |
| 4 | 339 | 4.9 | [Image classification with deep learning in the presence of noisy labels: A survey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2021.106771) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2021-01-14 | Görkem Algan, İlkay Ulusoy |
| 5 | 199 | 3.1 | [Affective Image Content Analysis: Two Decades Review and New Perspectives](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3094362) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-07-02 | Sicheng Zhao, Xingxu Yao, Jufeng Yang et al. |

## Research ideas that follow this keyword

- [Labels without labellers for financial documents](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/weak-supervision-for-financial-documents.md)

## Cite this page

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

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “label noise”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/label-noise}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).