Papers on “overfitting”
Research on “overfitting” 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 “overfitting” appeared in 959 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (806), operations research (56) and economics (33).
- 157 of them were published in 2025, against 44 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (22), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (14) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (14).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (66), Pattern Recognition (60) and Knowledge-Based Systems (44).
- The most-cited of them is “A survey on Image Data Augmentation for Deep Learning” (Journal Of Big Data, 2019), with 13,151 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 32 | 27 | 48 | 69 | 83 | 89 | 101 | 147 | 137 | 73 |
| Operations Research | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 7 |
| Economics | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| Statistics | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 44 | 37 | 63 | 80 | 94 | 112 | 113 | 170 | 157 | 89 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 66 |
| 2 | Pattern Recognition | 60 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 44 |
| 4 | Neural Networks | 43 |
| 5 | Applied Intelligence | 36 |
| 6 | Neural Computing and Applications | 32 |
| 7 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 26 |
| 8 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 23 |
| 9 | International Journal of Computer Vision | 16 |
| 10 | Machine Learning | 15 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 22 |
| 2 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 14 |
| 3 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 14 |
| 4 | Zhejiang University | 14 |
| 5 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 11 |
| 6 | Southeast University | 11 |
| 7 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 11 |
| 8 | Nanyang Technological University | 10 |
| 9 | Tianjin University | 10 |
| 10 | Tsinghua University | 10 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 326 |
| 2 | United States | 65 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 26 |
| 4 | Australia | 25 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 25 |
| 6 | India | 23 |
| 7 | Spain | 22 |
| 8 | South Korea | 19 |
| 9 | Canada | 17 |
| 10 | Italy | 16 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | generalization | 39 |
| 2 | data augmentation | 35 |
| 3 | class imbalance | 30 |
| 4 | graph neural networks | 26 |
| 5 | few-shot learning | 21 |
| 6 | label noise | 21 |
| 7 | catastrophic forgetting | 20 |
| 8 | feature selection | 20 |
| 9 | knowledge distillation | 20 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13,151 | 149.5 | A survey on Image Data Augmentation for Deep Learning | Journal Of Big Data | 2019-07-06 | Connor Shorten, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar |
| 2 | 3,086 | 31.1 | A systematic study of the class imbalance problem in convolutional neural networks | Neural Networks | 2018-07-29 | Mateusz Buda, Atsuto Maki, Maciej A. Mazurowski |
| 3 | 1,961 | 23.6 | Cascade R-CNN: High Quality Object Detection and Instance Segmentation | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2019-11-28 | Zhaowei Cai, Nuno M. Vasconcelos |
| 4 | 1,743 | 27.4 | Text Data Augmentation for Deep Learning | Journal Of Big Data | 2021-07-19 | Connor Shorten, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Borko Furht |
| 5 | 1,196 | 14.3 | Support vector machine | Machine Learning | 2019-11-15 | Derek Pisner, David M. Schnyer |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “overfitting”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/overfitting
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