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title: "Multi-scale feature fusion research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “multi-scale feature fusion” appeared in 615 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (610), information systems (4) and operations research (1)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “multi-scale feature fusion” appeared in 615 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (610), information systems (4) and operations research (1). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “multi-scale feature fusion”

Research on “multi-scale feature fusion” 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 “multi-scale feature fusion” appeared in 615 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (610), information systems (4) and operations research (1).
- 182 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (27), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (18) and Northwestern Polytechnical University (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (147), Pattern Recognition (84) and Knowledge-Based Systems (71).
- The most-cited of them is “Hierarchical Fully Convolutional Network for Joint Atrophy Localization and Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis Using Structural MRI” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2018), with 544 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) | 1 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 34 | 45 | 74 | 101 | 179 | 155 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 1 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 34 | 46 | 74 | 101 | 182 | 156 |

## 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) | 147 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 84 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 71 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 48 |
| 5 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 46 |
| 6 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 32 |
| 7 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 23 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [Cognitive Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cognitive-computation.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 27 |
| 2 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [Northwestern Polytechnical University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-polytechnical-university.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [Shenzhen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shenzhen-university.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Xidian University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xidian-university.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [Hunan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hunan-university.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Northeastern University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northeastern-university.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 469 |
| 2 | United States | 23 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 21 |
| 4 | South Korea | 14 |
| 5 | Canada | 11 |
| 6 | Australia | 10 |
| 7 | Japan | 9 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 8 |
| 9 | Singapore | 8 |
| 10 | Italy | 7 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | small object detection | 48 |
| 2 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 47 |
| 3 | medical image segmentation | 31 |
| 4 | [lightweight neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/lightweight-neural-networks.md) | 28 |
| 5 | [semantic segmentation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/semantic-segmentation.md) | 24 |
| 6 | [transformer models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transformer-models.md) | 23 |
| 7 | U-Net | 22 |
| 8 | [self-attention](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/self-attention.md) | 20 |
| 9 | lightweight object detection | 17 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 544 | 5.8 | [Hierarchical Fully Convolutional Network for Joint Atrophy Localization and Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis Using Structural MRI](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2889096) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-12-21 | Chunfeng Lian, Mingxia Liu, Jun Zhang et al. |
| 2 | 434 | 7.7 | [Real-Time Scene Text Detection With Differentiable Binarization and Adaptive Scale Fusion](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3155612) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-03-03 | Minghui Liao, Zhisheng Zou, Zhaoyi Wan et al. |
| 3 | 358 | 8.3 | [Cross-level Feature Aggregation Network for Polyp Segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2023.109555) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2023-03-26 | Tao Zhou, Yi Zhou, Kelei He et al. |
| 4 | 350 | 5.2 | [Learning Generalisable Omni-Scale Representations for Person Re-Identification](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3069237) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-03-26 | Kaiyang Zhou, Yongxin Yang, Andrea Cavallaro et al. |
| 5 | 246 | 3.6 | [EfficientPS: Efficient Panoptic Segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-021-01445-z) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2021-02-26 | Rohit Mohan, Abhinav Valada |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “multi-scale feature fusion”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-scale-feature-fusion

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “multi-scale feature fusion”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-scale-feature-fusion}},
  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/).