Papers on “model selection”
Research on “model selection” 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 “model selection” appeared in 688 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (284), AI (179) and economics (129).
- 73 of them were published in 2025, against 44 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (10), The University of Tokyo (6) and Leiden University (5).
- The journals publishing most of them were Statistics and Computing (22), Expert Systems with Applications (21) and Journal of Econometrics (14).
- The most-cited of them is “Executing and interpreting applications of PLS-SEM: Updates for family business researchers” (Journal of Family Business Strategy, 2020), with 854 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics | 20 | 32 | 32 | 25 | 30 | 34 | 26 | 30 | 26 | 29 |
| AI | 12 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 23 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 24 | 25 |
| Economics | 8 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 17 | 10 | 16 | 14 | 12 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 4 |
| Finance | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 44 | 70 | 69 | 62 | 78 | 81 | 67 | 70 | 73 | 74 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Statistics and Computing | 22 |
| 2 | Expert Systems with Applications | 21 |
| 3 | Journal of Econometrics | 14 |
| 4 | Machine Learning | 11 |
| 5 | Computational Statistics & Data Analysis | 10 |
| 6 | Spatial Statistics | 10 |
| 7 | Statistics & Probability Letters | 8 |
| 8 | Computational Statistics | 8 |
| 9 | Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics | 7 |
| 10 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 7 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 10 |
| 2 | The University of Tokyo | 6 |
| 3 | Leiden University | 5 |
| 4 | KU Leuven | 4 |
| 5 | Renmin University of China | 4 |
| 6 | Sorbonne Université | 4 |
| 7 | The University of Osaka | 4 |
| 8 | University College Dublin | 4 |
| 9 | Zhejiang University | 4 |
| 10 | Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science | 3 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 64 |
| 2 | United States | 52 |
| 3 | Italy | 26 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 22 |
| 5 | Japan | 20 |
| 6 | France | 18 |
| 7 | Spain | 14 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 12 |
| 9 | Australia | 11 |
| 10 | Canada | 11 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akaike information criterion | 15 |
| 2 | hyperparameter optimization | 13 |
| 3 | information criteria | 12 |
| 4 | Bayesian information criterion | 11 |
| 5 | feature selection | 10 |
| 6 | model averaging | 10 |
| 7 | model misspecification | 10 |
| 8 | ensemble learning | 8 |
| 9 | asymptotic optimality | 7 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 854 | 12.0 | Executing and interpreting applications of PLS-SEM: Updates for family business researchers | Journal of Family Business Strategy | 2020-11-23 | Joseph F. Hair, Claudia Binz Astrachan, Ovidiu Ioan Moisescu et al. |
| 2 | 413 | 6.6 | Model complexity of deep learning: a survey | Knowledge and Information Systems | 2021-08-22 | Xia Hu, Lingyang Chu, Jian Pei et al. |
| 3 | 411 | 5.0 | A novel selective naïve Bayes algorithm | Knowledge-Based Systems | 2019-12-16 | Shenglei Chen, Geoffrey I. Webb, Linyuan Liu et al. |
| 4 | 342 | 7.7 | Condition Monitoring using Machine Learning: A Review of Theory, Applications, and Recent Advances | Expert Systems with Applications | 2023-02-24 | Onur Surucu, S. Andrew Gadsden, John Yawney |
| 5 | 323 | 5.3 | Latent class analysis in PLS-SEM: A review and recommendations for future applications | Journal of Business Research | 2021-09-27 | Marko Sarstedt, Lăcrămioara Radomir, Ovidiu Ioan Moisescu et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “model selection”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/model-selection
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note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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