Papers on “recurrent neural networks”
Research on “recurrent neural networks” 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 “recurrent neural networks” appeared in 1,016 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (866), operations research (61) and economics (35).
- 110 of them were published in 2025, against 45 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Zhejiang University (7), Beihang University (6) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (62), Neural Computing and Applications (58) and Neural Networks (30).
- The most-cited of them is “Image Segmentation Using Deep Learning: A Survey” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021), with 3,797 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 42 | 56 | 70 | 96 | 134 | 141 | 94 | 88 | 92 | 53 |
| Operations Research | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 2 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 5 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 45 | 62 | 74 | 108 | 152 | 159 | 124 | 117 | 110 | 65 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 62 |
| 2 | Neural Computing and Applications | 58 |
| 3 | Neural Networks | 30 |
| 4 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 25 |
| 5 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 23 |
| 6 | Artificial Intelligence Review | 16 |
| 7 | Applied Intelligence | 16 |
| 8 | Nature Machine Intelligence | 16 |
| 9 | Knowledge and Information Systems | 12 |
| 10 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zhejiang University | 7 |
| 2 | Beihang University | 6 |
| 3 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 6 |
| 4 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 6 |
| 5 | Sichuan University | 6 |
| 6 | Hunan Normal University | 5 |
| 7 | SRM Institute of Science and Technology | 5 |
| 8 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 5 |
| 9 | Zhengzhou University | 5 |
| 10 | Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation | 4 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 140 |
| 2 | India | 57 |
| 3 | United States | 53 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 23 |
| 5 | Australia | 19 |
| 6 | Italy | 18 |
| 7 | Germany | 17 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 17 |
| 9 | Spain | 13 |
| 10 | South Korea | 12 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | convolutional neural networks | 60 |
| 2 | LSTM | 35 |
| 3 | deep learning | 28 |
| 4 | long short-term memory | 28 |
| 5 | transformer models | 28 |
| 6 | gated recurrent unit | 26 |
| 7 | time series forecasting | 25 |
| 8 | attention mechanism | 23 |
| 9 | graph neural networks | 17 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,797 | 54.2 | Image Segmentation Using Deep Learning: A Survey | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2021-01-01 | Shervin Minaee, Yuri Y. Boykov, Fatih Porikli et al. |
| 2 | 2,141 | 23.4 | Recent advances in physical reservoir computing: A review | Neural Networks | 2019-03-20 | Gouhei Tanaka, Toshiyuki Yamane, J. B. Héroux et al. |
| 3 | 1,998 | 25.7 | A review on the long short-term memory model | Artificial Intelligence Review | 2020-05-13 | Greg Van Houdt, Carlos Mosquera, Gonzalo Nápoles |
| 4 | 1,369 | 18.3 | Recurrent Neural Networks for Time Series Forecasting: Current status and future directions | International Journal of Forecasting | 2020-08-10 | Hansika Hewamalage, Christoph Bergmeir, Kasun Bandara |
| 5 | 1,081 | 25.4 | Deep learning modelling techniques: current progress, applications, advantages, and challenges | Artificial Intelligence Review | 2023-04-17 | Shams Forruque Ahmed, Md. Sakib Bin Alam, Maruf Hassan et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “recurrent neural networks”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/recurrent-neural-networks
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