Papers on “meta-learning”
Research on “meta-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 “meta-learning” appeared in 624 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (570), operations research (29) and economics (6).
- 106 of them were published in 2025, against 9 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (20), Tsinghua University (15) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (61), Knowledge-Based Systems (48) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (34).
- The most-cited of them is “A survey on Image Data Augmentation for Deep Learning” (Journal Of Big Data, 2019), with 13,151 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 8 | 8 | 9 | 20 | 57 | 71 | 109 | 114 | 91 | 83 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| Economics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 9 | 8 | 9 | 22 | 58 | 74 | 114 | 123 | 106 | 101 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 61 |
| 2 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 48 |
| 3 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 34 |
| 4 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 32 |
| 5 | Pattern Recognition | 31 |
| 6 | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 26 |
| 7 | Neural Networks | 20 |
| 8 | Applied Intelligence | 20 |
| 9 | Neural Computing and Applications | 17 |
| 10 | Machine Learning | 15 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 20 |
| 2 | Tsinghua University | 15 |
| 3 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 15 |
| 4 | Zhejiang University | 12 |
| 5 | Peking University | 11 |
| 6 | Chongqing University | 10 |
| 7 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 10 |
| 8 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 10 |
| 9 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 9 |
| 10 | Sun Yat-sen University | 9 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 299 |
| 2 | United States | 77 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 27 |
| 4 | Australia | 24 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 20 |
| 6 | Singapore | 16 |
| 7 | Canada | 15 |
| 8 | India | 15 |
| 9 | South Korea | 13 |
| 10 | Brazil | 10 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | few-shot learning | 81 |
| 2 | domain generalization | 29 |
| 3 | transfer learning | 26 |
| 4 | class imbalance | 19 |
| 5 | few-shot classification | 19 |
| 6 | graph neural networks | 19 |
| 7 | model-agnostic meta-learning | 19 |
| 8 | domain adaptation | 17 |
| 9 | generalization | 15 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13,151 | 149.5 | A survey on Image Data Augmentation for Deep Learning | Journal Of Big Data | 2019-07-06 | Connor Shorten, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar |
| 2 | 1,209 | 20.8 | Domain Generalization: A Survey | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2022-01-01 | Kaiyang Zhou, Ziwei Liu, Yu Qiao et al. |
| 3 | 888 | 12.7 | Meta-Learning in Neural Networks: A Survey | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2021-01-01 | Timothy M. Hospedales, Antreas Antoniou, Paul Micaelli et al. |
| 4 | 695 | 9.9 | A Survey on Curriculum Learning | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2021-01-01 | Xin Wang, Yudong Chen, Wenwu Zhu |
| 5 | 694 | 7.4 | Designing neural networks through neuroevolution | Nature Machine Intelligence | 2018-12-29 | Kenneth Owen Stanley, Jeff Clune, Joel Lehman et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “meta-learning”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/meta-learning
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