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title: "Object detection research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “object detection” appeared in 997 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (970), operations research (14) and information systems (7)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “object detection” appeared in 997 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (970), operations research (14) and information systems (7). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “object detection”

Research on “object detection” 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 “object detection” appeared in 997 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (970), operations research (14) and information systems (7).
- 184 of them were published in 2025, against 17 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (51), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (36) and Tsinghua University (24).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (125), Pattern Recognition (99) and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (92).
- The most-cited of them is “Object Detection With Deep Learning: A Review” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2019), with 5,543 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) | 17 | 20 | 31 | 49 | 92 | 119 | 136 | 174 | 178 | 154 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 17 | 21 | 31 | 52 | 93 | 122 | 142 | 177 | 184 | 158 |

## 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) | 125 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 99 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 92 |
| 4 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 64 |
| 5 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 46 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 45 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 40 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 33 |
| 9 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 26 |
| 10 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 22 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 51 |
| 2 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 36 |
| 3 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 24 |
| 4 | [Institute of Automation](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/institute-of-automation.md) | 23 |
| 5 | [Northwestern Polytechnical University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-polytechnical-university.md) | 18 |
| 6 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 17 |
| 7 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 17 |
| 8 | [Xidian University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xidian-university.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 16 |
| 10 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 15 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 443 |
| 2 | United States | 59 |
| 3 | India | 41 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 35 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 34 |
| 6 | Australia | 32 |
| 7 | South Korea | 24 |
| 8 | Singapore | 21 |
| 9 | Canada | 20 |
| 10 | Germany | 20 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [semantic segmentation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/semantic-segmentation.md) | 141 |
| 2 | [image classification](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/image-classification.md) | 115 |
| 3 | instance segmentation | 48 |
| 4 | small object detection | 38 |
| 5 | [vision transformer](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vision-transformer.md) | 38 |
| 6 | [autonomous driving](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/autonomous-driving.md) | 33 |
| 7 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 30 |
| 8 | YOLOv8 | 28 |
| 9 | [computational efficiency](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/computational-efficiency.md) | 28 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,543 | 59.5 | [Object Detection With Deep Learning: A Review](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2876865) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2019-01-28 | Zhong‐Qiu Zhao, Peng Zheng, Shou-Tao Xu et al. |
| 2 | 4,889 | 61.8 | [Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.2983686) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-04-01 | Jingdong Wang, Ke Sun, Tianheng Cheng et al. |
| 3 | 3,459 | 34.3 | [Mask R-CNN](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2844175) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-06-05 | Kaiming He, Georgia Gkioxari, Piotr Dollár et al. |
| 4 | 3,404 | 39.5 | [Res2Net: A New Multi-Scale Backbone Architecture](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2938758) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-08-30 | Shanghua Gao, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Kai Zhao et al. |
| 5 | 3,135 | 40.0 | [A survey of the recent architectures of deep convolutional neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-020-09825-6) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2020-04-21 | Asifullah Khan, Anabia Sohail, Umme Zahoora et al. |

## Cite this page

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

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