Papers on “representation learning”
Research on “representation learning” 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 “representation learning” appeared in 702 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (676), operations research (7) and statistics (7).
- 126 of them were published in 2025, against 16 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (23), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (16) and Fuzhou University (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Knowledge-Based Systems (55), Expert Systems with Applications (53) and Pattern Recognition (51).
- The most-cited of them is “Multimodal Machine Learning: A Survey and Taxonomy” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2018), with 5,007 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 16 | 28 | 35 | 44 | 62 | 69 | 91 | 102 | 124 | 105 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Statistics | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 16 | 29 | 38 | 47 | 65 | 72 | 93 | 105 | 126 | 111 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 55 |
| 2 | Expert Systems with Applications | 53 |
| 3 | Pattern Recognition | 51 |
| 4 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 39 |
| 5 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 35 |
| 6 | Neural Networks | 35 |
| 7 | Applied Intelligence | 21 |
| 8 | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 19 |
| 9 | Neural Computing and Applications | 15 |
| 10 | Information Fusion | 15 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 23 |
| 2 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 16 |
| 3 | Fuzhou University | 15 |
| 4 | Nanyang Technological University | 15 |
| 5 | Xidian University | 14 |
| 6 | Zhejiang University | 14 |
| 7 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 13 |
| 8 | Beihang University | 12 |
| 9 | Tsinghua University | 12 |
| 10 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 12 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 329 |
| 2 | United States | 40 |
| 3 | Australia | 33 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 27 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 23 |
| 6 | Singapore | 20 |
| 7 | South Korea | 17 |
| 8 | Germany | 12 |
| 9 | Canada | 10 |
| 10 | France | 9 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | contrastive learning | 68 |
| 2 | self-supervised learning | 44 |
| 3 | multi-view clustering | 27 |
| 4 | graph neural networks | 21 |
| 5 | class imbalance | 19 |
| 6 | data augmentation | 19 |
| 7 | domain generalization | 18 |
| 8 | autoencoder | 16 |
| 9 | graph convolutional networks | 13 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,007 | 47.6 | Multimodal Machine Learning: A Survey and Taxonomy | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2018-01-25 | Tadas Baltrušaitis, Chaitanya Ahuja, Louis‐Philippe Morency |
| 2 | 3,023 | 33.0 | Survey on deep learning with class imbalance | Journal Of Big Data | 2019-03-19 | Justin M. Johnson, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar |
| 3 | 2,909 | 43.3 | A Survey on Multi-Task Learning | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 2021-03-31 | Yu Zhang, Qiang Yang |
| 4 | 1,845 | 26.3 | Self-supervised Learning: Generative or Contrastive | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 2021-01-01 | Xiao Liu, Fanjin Zhang, Zhenyu Hou et al. |
| 5 | 1,226 | 11.4 | A survey on deep learning for big data | Information Fusion | 2017-11-11 | Qingchen Zhang, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Zhikui Chen et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “representation learning”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/representation-learning
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year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/representation-learning}},
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note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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