Papers on “particle swarm optimization”
Research on “particle swarm optimization” 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 “particle swarm optimization” appeared in 1,292 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (873), operations research (321) and economics (39).
- 139 of them were published in 2025, against 99 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Beijing University of Technology (8), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (8) and South China University of Technology (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (131), Neural Computing and Applications (79) and Computers & Industrial Engineering (39).
- The most-cited of them is “Equilibrium optimizer: A novel optimization algorithm” (Knowledge-Based Systems, 2019), with 2,345 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 63 | 69 | 64 | 85 | 100 | 124 | 110 | 90 | 90 | 78 |
| Operations Research | 32 | 31 | 20 | 30 | 41 | 37 | 34 | 36 | 36 | 24 |
| Economics | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Statistics | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Management | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 99 | 105 | 94 | 125 | 152 | 170 | 157 | 140 | 139 | 111 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 131 |
| 2 | Neural Computing and Applications | 79 |
| 3 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 39 |
| 4 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 27 |
| 5 | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 23 |
| 6 | Applied Intelligence | 21 |
| 7 | Annals of Operations Research | 19 |
| 8 | Knowledge and Information Systems | 13 |
| 9 | Neural Networks | 13 |
| 10 | Artificial Intelligence Review | 12 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing University of Technology | 8 |
| 2 | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology | 8 |
| 3 | South China University of Technology | 8 |
| 4 | China University of Mining and Technology | 7 |
| 5 | Mansoura University | 7 |
| 6 | Northeastern University | 7 |
| 7 | Shanghai University | 7 |
| 8 | Wuhan University | 7 |
| 9 | Amirkabir University of Technology | 6 |
| 10 | Beihang University | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 243 |
| 2 | India | 76 |
| 3 | Iran | 40 |
| 4 | United States | 36 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 31 |
| 6 | Turkey | 27 |
| 7 | Australia | 21 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 20 |
| 9 | Egypt | 18 |
| 10 | France | 17 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | genetic algorithm | 66 |
| 2 | metaheuristic optimization | 58 |
| 3 | hyperparameter optimization | 50 |
| 4 | feature selection | 37 |
| 5 | hybrid metaheuristic | 36 |
| 6 | multi-objective optimization | 32 |
| 7 | grey wolf optimizer | 29 |
| 8 | differential evolution | 22 |
| 9 | ant colony optimization | 21 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “particle swarm optimization”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/particle-swarm-optimization
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