Papers on “machine learning”
Research on “machine learning” 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 “machine learning” appeared in 1,316 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (477), operations research (216) and economics (160).
- 206 of them were published in 2025, against 21 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (9), Lebanese American University (8) and Mansoura University (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Artificial Intelligence Review (60), Expert Systems with Applications (51) and Neural Computing and Applications (34).
- The most-cited of them is “Machine learning and deep learning” (Electronic Markets, 2021), with 2,962 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 12 | 14 | 31 | 43 | 51 | 64 | 58 | 88 | 70 | 46 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 47 | 32 |
| Economics | 0 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 21 | 25 | 22 | 16 | 29 | 16 |
| Finance | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 17 | 21 | 26 |
| Management | 0 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 26 | 15 | 15 |
| Information Systems | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 19 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 5 |
| Statistics | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Marketing | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| All categories | 21 | 42 | 68 | 112 | 137 | 189 | 172 | 208 | 206 | 161 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Artificial Intelligence Review | 60 |
| 2 | Expert Systems with Applications | 51 |
| 3 | Neural Computing and Applications | 34 |
| 4 | Journal Of Big Data | 28 |
| 5 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 26 |
| 6 | AI & Society | 25 |
| 7 | Annals of Operations Research | 23 |
| 8 | Computational Economics | 16 |
| 9 | Finance research letters | 15 |
| 10 | Nature Machine Intelligence | 12 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 9 |
| 2 | Lebanese American University | 8 |
| 3 | Mansoura University | 8 |
| 4 | Florida Atlantic University | 7 |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 7 |
| 6 | Purdue University West Lafayette | 7 |
| 7 | Shanghai University | 7 |
| 8 | Sungkyunkwan University | 7 |
| 9 | Technical University of Munich | 7 |
| 10 | University of Bologna | 7 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 154 |
| 2 | China | 123 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 91 |
| 4 | Italy | 58 |
| 5 | India | 56 |
| 6 | Germany | 52 |
| 7 | Australia | 43 |
| 8 | France | 42 |
| 9 | Canada | 36 |
| 10 | Turkey | 31 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | deep learning | 127 |
| 2 | artificial intelligence | 117 |
| 3 | artificial neural networks | 38 |
| 4 | random forest | 38 |
| 5 | research trends | 35 |
| 6 | big data | 34 |
| 7 | Internet of Things | 30 |
| 8 | blockchain | 27 |
| 9 | natural language processing | 26 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “machine learning”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/machine-learning
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