---
title: "Representation learning research: papers and trends"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/representation-learning
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# 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.

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

## 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

*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) | 16 | 28 | 35 | 44 | 62 | 69 | 91 | 102 | 124 | 105 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 55 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 53 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 51 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 39 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 35 |
| 6 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 35 |
| 7 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 21 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 19 |
| 9 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 15 |
| 10 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.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) | 23 |
| 2 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [Fuzhou University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fuzhou-university.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Xidian University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xidian-university.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 12 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 68 |
| 2 | [self-supervised learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/self-supervised-learning.md) | 44 |
| 3 | multi-view clustering | 27 |
| 4 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 21 |
| 5 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 19 |
| 6 | [data augmentation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/data-augmentation.md) | 19 |
| 7 | [domain generalization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/domain-generalization.md) | 18 |
| 8 | autoencoder | 16 |
| 9 | [graph convolutional networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-convolutional-networks.md) | 13 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,007 | 47.6 | [Multimodal Machine Learning: A Survey and Taxonomy](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2798607) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-01-25 | Tadas Baltrušaitis, Chaitanya Ahuja, Louis‐Philippe Morency |
| 2 | 3,023 | 33.0 | [Survey on deep learning with class imbalance](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-019-0192-5) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2019-03-19 | Justin M. Johnson, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar |
| 3 | 2,909 | 43.3 | [A Survey on Multi-Task Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2021.3070203) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2021-03-31 | Yu Zhang, Qiang Yang |
| 4 | 1,845 | 26.3 | [Self-supervised Learning: Generative or Contrastive](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2021.3090866) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2021-01-01 | Xiao Liu, Fanjin Zhang, Zhenyu Hou et al. |
| 5 | 1,226 | 11.4 | [A survey on deep learning for big data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2017.10.006) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “representation learning”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/representation-learning}},
  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/).