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title: "Model selection research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# 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.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 20 | 32 | 32 | 25 | 30 | 34 | 26 | 30 | 26 | 29 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 12 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 23 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 24 | 25 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 8 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 17 | 10 | 16 | 14 | 12 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 2 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 21 |
| 3 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics-data-analysis.md) | 10 |
| 6 | [Spatial Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/spatial-statistics.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [Statistics & Probability Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-probability-letters.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [Computational Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-the-institute-of-statistical-mathematics.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [The University of Tokyo](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-tokyo.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [Leiden University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/leiden-university.md) | 5 |
| 4 | [KU Leuven](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ku-leuven.md) | 4 |
| 5 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 4 |
| 6 | Sorbonne Université | 4 |
| 7 | The University of Osaka | 4 |
| 8 | [University College Dublin](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-dublin.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 4 |
| 10 | Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Akaike information criterion | 15 |
| 2 | [hyperparameter optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/hyperparameter-optimization.md) | 13 |
| 3 | information criteria | 12 |
| 4 | Bayesian information criterion | 11 |
| 5 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 10 |
| 6 | model averaging | 10 |
| 7 | model misspecification | 10 |
| 8 | [ensemble learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/ensemble-learning.md) | 8 |
| 9 | asymptotic optimality | 7 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 854 | 12.0 | [Executing and interpreting applications of PLS-SEM: Updates for family business researchers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfbs.2020.100392) | [Journal of Family Business Strategy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-family-business-strategy.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-021-01605-0) | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 2021-08-22 | Xia Hu, Lingyang Chu, Jian Pei et al. |
| 3 | 411 | 5.0 | [A novel selective naïve Bayes algorithm](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2019.105361) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.119738) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.08.051) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 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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@misc{scholar4ai-keywords-model-selection,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “model selection”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/model-selection}},
  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/).