---
title: "Overfitting research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# 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.

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

## 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

*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) | 32 | 27 | 48 | 69 | 83 | 89 | 101 | 147 | 137 | 73 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 7 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 66 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 60 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 44 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 43 |
| 5 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 36 |
| 6 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 32 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 26 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 23 |
| 9 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 16 |
| 10 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 15 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 14 |
| 3 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-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 | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [generalization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generalization.md) | 39 |
| 2 | [data augmentation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/data-augmentation.md) | 35 |
| 3 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 30 |
| 4 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 26 |
| 5 | [few-shot learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/few-shot-learning.md) | 21 |
| 6 | [label noise](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/label-noise.md) | 21 |
| 7 | [catastrophic forgetting](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/catastrophic-forgetting.md) | 20 |
| 8 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 20 |
| 9 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 20 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13,151 | 149.5 | [A survey on Image Data Augmentation for Deep Learning](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-019-0197-0) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2018.07.011) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2956516) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-11-28 | Zhaowei Cai, Nuno M. Vasconcelos |
| 4 | 1,743 | 27.4 | [Text Data Augmentation for Deep Learning](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-021-00492-0) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2021-07-19 | Connor Shorten, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Borko Furht |
| 5 | 1,196 | 14.3 | [Support vector machine](https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-815739-8.00006-7) | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “overfitting”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/overfitting}},
  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/).