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title: "Robust estimation research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “robust estimation” appeared in 411 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (290), economics (44) and AI (39)."
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# Papers on “robust estimation”

Research on “robust estimation” 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 “robust estimation” appeared in 411 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (290), economics (44) and AI (39).
- 43 of them were published in 2025, against 44 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (6), Universidad de Buenos Aires (6) and Beijing University of Technology (4).
- The journals publishing most of them were Statistics and Computing (16), Statistical Papers (15) and Computational Statistics (14).
- The most-cited of them is “Shrinking the cross-section” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2019), with 792 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 28 | 30 | 25 | 29 | 29 | 31 | 28 | 31 | 30 | 29 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 6 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 44 | 39 | 33 | 40 | 41 | 38 | 40 | 49 | 43 | 44 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 16 |
| 2 | [Statistical Papers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-papers.md) | 15 |
| 3 | [Computational Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics-data-analysis.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-the-institute-of-statistical-mathematics.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Econometrics and Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/econometrics-and-statistics.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Metrika](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/metrika.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Statistics & Probability Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-probability-letters.md) | 5 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas | 6 |
| 2 | Universidad de Buenos Aires | 6 |
| 3 | [Beijing University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-university-of-technology.md) | 4 |
| 4 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 4 |
| 5 | [Shanghai University of International Business and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university-of-international-business-and-economics.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [University of Macau](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-macau.md) | 4 |
| 7 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 3 |
| 8 | Charles University | 3 |
| 9 | [Henan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/henan-university.md) | 3 |
| 10 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 60 |
| 2 | United States | 36 |
| 3 | South Korea | 12 |
| 4 | India | 10 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 9 |
| 6 | Italy | 9 |
| 7 | Australia | 8 |
| 8 | Canada | 8 |
| 9 | Germany | 8 |
| 10 | Argentina | 7 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [outliers](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/outliers.md) | 54 |
| 2 | [asymptotic normality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/asymptotic-normality.md) | 17 |
| 3 | [consistency](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/consistency.md) | 14 |
| 4 | heavy-tailed distributions | 12 |
| 5 | heavy-tailed errors | 12 |
| 6 | influence function | 12 |
| 7 | contaminated data | 10 |
| 8 | [convergence rate](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convergence-rate.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 792 | 8.9 | [Shrinking the cross-section](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.06.008) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-06-14 | Serhiy Kozak, Stefan Nagel, Shrihari Santosh |
| 2 | 388 | 5.3 | [Image Matching Across Wide Baselines: From Paper to Practice](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-020-01385-0) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2020-10-07 | Yuhe Jin, Dmytro Mishkin, Anastasiia Mishchuk et al. |
| 3 | 214 | 2.0 | [Guaranteed Outlier Removal for Point Cloud Registration with Correspondences](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2773482) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-11-14 | Álvaro Parra, Tat-Jun Chin |
| 4 | 159 | 1.4 | [Bayesian estimation of agent-based models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2017.01.014) | [Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-dynamics-and-control.md) | 2017-02-05 | Jakob Grazzini, Matteo Guido Richiardi, Efthymios G. Tsionas |
| 5 | 107 | 1.2 | [Forecasting Bitcoin risk measures: A robust approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2019.01.003) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2019-03-20 | Carlos Trucíos |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “robust estimation”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/robust-estimation

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