Papers on “outliers”
Research on “outliers” 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 “outliers” appeared in 477 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (225), AI (147) and operations research (47).
- 66 of them were published in 2025, against 36 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Beijing Normal University (5), Huazhong Agricultural University (5) and Indian Statistical Institute (5).
- The journals publishing most of them were Statistics and Computing (23), Statistical Papers (14) and Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (13).
- The most-cited of them is “A comprehensive survey of loss functions and metrics in deep learning” (Artificial Intelligence Review, 2025), with 401 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics | 19 | 16 | 17 | 31 | 15 | 22 | 21 | 27 | 30 | 27 |
| AI | 9 | 22 | 10 | 14 | 22 | 10 | 18 | 13 | 21 | 8 |
| Operations Research | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 |
| Economics | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| Finance | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Accounting | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 36 | 50 | 35 | 59 | 53 | 41 | 47 | 49 | 66 | 41 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Statistics and Computing | 23 |
| 2 | Statistical Papers | 14 |
| 3 | Computational Statistics & Data Analysis | 13 |
| 4 | Computational Statistics | 12 |
| 5 | Expert Systems with Applications | 11 |
| 6 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 11 |
| 7 | Journal of Multivariate Analysis | 8 |
| 8 | Machine Learning | 6 |
| 9 | Pattern Recognition | 5 |
| 10 | Statistics & Probability Letters | 5 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing Normal University | 5 |
| 2 | Huazhong Agricultural University | 5 |
| 3 | Indian Statistical Institute | 5 |
| 4 | The University of Texas at El Paso | 5 |
| 5 | Beihang University | 4 |
| 6 | Australian National University | 3 |
| 7 | Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai | 3 |
| 8 | Chiba University | 3 |
| 9 | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas | 3 |
| 10 | Henan University | 3 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 81 |
| 2 | United States | 30 |
| 3 | Australia | 12 |
| 4 | India | 12 |
| 5 | Canada | 11 |
| 6 | Turkey | 10 |
| 7 | Italy | 9 |
| 8 | South Korea | 9 |
| 9 | Japan | 8 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 6 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | robust estimation | 54 |
| 2 | robust regression | 21 |
| 3 | heavy-tailed errors | 17 |
| 4 | heavy-tailed distributions | 15 |
| 5 | high-dimensional data | 15 |
| 6 | influence function | 15 |
| 7 | contaminated data | 14 |
| 8 | feature selection | 12 |
| 9 | asymptotic normality | 10 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 401 | 21.4 | A comprehensive survey of loss functions and metrics in deep learning | Artificial Intelligence Review | 2025-04-11 | Juan R. Terven, Diana Margarita Córdova Esparza, Julio-Alejandro Romero-González et al. |
| 2 | 340 | 3.4 | A generalized mean distance-based k-nearest neighbor classifier | Expert Systems with Applications | 2018-08-13 | Jianping Gou, Hongxing Ma, Weihua Ou et al. |
| 3 | 209 | 2.0 | Mixture correntropy for robust learning | Pattern Recognition | 2018-02-21 | Badong Chen, Xin Wang, Na Lü et al. |
| 4 | 192 | 2.4 | Radial-Based Undersampling for imbalanced data classification | Pattern Recognition | 2020-02-06 | Michał Koziarski |
| 5 | 138 | 1.4 | The impact of globalization and economic freedom on economic growth: the case of the Latin America and Caribbean countries | Economic Change and Restructuring | 2018-11-12 | Renato Santiago, José Alberto Fuinhas, António Cardoso Marques |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “outliers”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/outliers
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