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title: "Privacy preservation research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “privacy preservation” appeared in 926 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (651), information systems (164) and operations research (36)."
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# Papers on “privacy preservation”

[Browse research topics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/directory/page/5.md)

Research on “privacy preservation” 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 “privacy preservation” appeared in 926 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (651), information systems (164) and operations research (36).
- 161 of them were published in 2025, against 27 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Xidian University (18), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (16) and Nanyang Technological University (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (66), Knowledge-Based Systems (63) and Information Sciences (62).
- The most-cited of them is “The privacy paradox – Investigating discrepancies between expressed privacy concerns and actual online behavior – A systematic literature review” (Telematics and Informatics, 2017), with 802 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) | 12 | 22 | 31 | 33 | 44 | 54 | 99 | 110 | 132 | 114 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 12 | 14 | 13 | 22 | 22 | 18 | 15 | 21 | 18 | 9 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 9 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 27 | 46 | 50 | 61 | 73 | 82 | 129 | 152 | 161 | 145 |

## 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 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 63 |
| 3 | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | 62 |
| 4 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 39 |
| 5 | [Computers & Security](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-security.md) | 29 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 23 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 22 |
| 8 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 21 |
| 9 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 16 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Xidian University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xidian-university.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [University of Technology Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-technology-sydney.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications.md) | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 402 |
| 2 | United States | 55 |
| 3 | Australia | 49 |
| 4 | India | 41 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 28 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 27 |
| 7 | Singapore | 27 |
| 8 | South Korea | 19 |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 18 |
| 10 | Italy | 17 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [federated learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/federated-learning.md) | 211 |
| 2 | differential privacy | 44 |
| 3 | non-IID data | 42 |
| 4 | communication efficiency | 37 |
| 5 | [blockchain](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/blockchain.md) | 31 |
| 6 | data heterogeneity | 30 |
| 7 | homomorphic encryption | 24 |
| 8 | edge computing | 22 |
| 9 | [data privacy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/data-privacy.md) | 20 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 802 | 7.0 | [The privacy paradox – Investigating discrepancies between expressed privacy concerns and actual online behavior – A systematic literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.04.013) | [Telematics and Informatics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics.md) | 2017-04-28 | Susanne Barth, Menno D.T. de Jong |
| 2 | 548 | 11.5 | [Privacy and Robustness in Federated Learning: Attacks and Defenses](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3216981) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-11-10 | Lingjuan Lyu, Han Yu, Xingjun Ma et al. |
| 3 | 355 | 4.4 | [Driver behavior detection and classification using deep convolutional neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113240) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2020-01-23 | Mohammad Shahverdy, Mahmood Fathy, Reza Berangi et al. |
| 4 | 252 | 4.0 | [A federated learning system with enhanced feature extraction for human activity recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2021.107338) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2021-07-28 | Zhiwen Xiao, Xin Xu, Huanlai Xing et al. |
| 5 | 230 | 2.4 | [A survey on data fusion in internet of things: Towards secure and privacy-preserving fusion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2018.12.001) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2018-12-04 | Wenxiu Ding, Xuyang Jing, Zheng Yan et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “privacy preservation”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/privacy-preservation

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  title = {Papers on “privacy preservation”},
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  urldate = {2026-11-05},
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