---
title: "LSTM research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “LSTM” appeared in 732 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (497), operations research (72) and economics (54)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “LSTM” appeared in 732 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (497), operations research (72) and economics (54). (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# Papers on “LSTM”

Research on “LSTM” 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 “LSTM” appeared in 732 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (497), operations research (72) and economics (54).
- 170 of them were published in 2025, against 2 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Northwestern Polytechnical University (8), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (6) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (116), Neural Computing and Applications (57) and Applied Intelligence (31).
- The most-cited of them is “A review on the long short-term memory model” (Artificial Intelligence Review, 2020), with 1,998 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) | 2 | 7 | 23 | 37 | 56 | 64 | 71 | 77 | 103 | 57 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 8 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 16 | 7 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 11 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 2 | 8 | 24 | 49 | 74 | 90 | 95 | 124 | 170 | 96 |

## 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) | 116 |
| 2 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 57 |
| 3 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 31 |
| 4 | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | 25 |
| 5 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 25 |
| 6 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Northwestern Polytechnical University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-polytechnical-university.md) | 8 |
| 2 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [University of Naples Federico II](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-naples-federico-ii.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [University of Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 5 |
| 10 | Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 173 |
| 2 | India | 66 |
| 3 | United States | 39 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 28 |
| 5 | Turkey | 23 |
| 6 | Italy | 22 |
| 7 | Australia | 21 |
| 8 | Iran | 19 |
| 9 | Egypt | 17 |
| 10 | South Korea | 17 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | GRU | 47 |
| 2 | [convolutional neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convolutional-neural-networks.md) | 46 |
| 3 | [XGBoost](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/xgboost.md) | 40 |
| 4 | [time series forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/time-series-forecasting.md) | 38 |
| 5 | [transformer models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transformer-models.md) | 36 |
| 6 | [recurrent neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/recurrent-neural-networks.md) | 35 |
| 7 | [random forest](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/random-forest.md) | 27 |
| 8 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 25 |
| 9 | [deep learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/deep-learning.md) | 24 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,998 | 25.7 | [A review on the long short-term memory model](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-020-09838-1) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2020-05-13 | Greg Van Houdt, Carlos Mosquera, Gonzalo Nápoles |
| 2 | 963 | 10.8 | [Temporal pattern attention for multivariate time series forecasting](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-019-05815-0) | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 2019-06-11 | Shun-Yao Shih, Fan-Keng Sun, Hung-yi Lee |
| 3 | 538 | 6.8 | [An optimized model using LSTM network for demand forecasting](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2020.106435) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2020-03-30 | Hossein Abbasimehr, Mostafa Shabani, Mohsen Yousefi |
| 4 | 523 | 5.6 | [View Adaptive Neural Networks for High Performance Skeleton-Based Human Action Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2896631) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-01-31 | Pengfei Zhang, Cuiling Lan, Junliang Xing et al. |
| 5 | 499 | 7.1 | [Forecasting and Anomaly Detection approaches using LSTM and LSTM Autoencoder techniques with the applications in supply chain management](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102282) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2020-12-16 | Huu Du Nguyen, Kim Phuc Tran, Sébastien Thomassey et al. |

## Cite this page

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

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “LSTM”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/lstm}},
  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/).