Papers on “self-supervised learning”
Research on “self-supervised 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 “self-supervised learning” appeared in 1,264 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,241), operations research (11) and information systems (7).
- 330 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (62), Tsinghua University (34) and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (33).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (152), Pattern Recognition (139) and Knowledge-Based Systems (126).
- The most-cited of them is “ProtTrans: Toward Understanding the Language of Life Through Self-Supervised Learning” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021), with 2,339 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 0 | 2 | 10 | 25 | 53 | 134 | 178 | 293 | 324 | 222 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 0 | 2 | 10 | 26 | 55 | 136 | 181 | 298 | 330 | 226 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 152 |
| 2 | Pattern Recognition | 139 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 126 |
| 4 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 99 |
| 5 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 83 |
| 6 | Neural Networks | 80 |
| 7 | Information Fusion | 57 |
| 8 | Applied Intelligence | 56 |
| 9 | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 45 |
| 10 | International Journal of Computer Vision | 41 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 62 |
| 2 | Tsinghua University | 34 |
| 3 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 33 |
| 4 | Zhejiang University | 31 |
| 5 | Southeast University | 26 |
| 6 | Sun Yat-sen University | 25 |
| 7 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 24 |
| 8 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 24 |
| 9 | Wuhan University | 23 |
| 10 | Xidian University | 23 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 793 |
| 2 | United States | 111 |
| 3 | Australia | 75 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 68 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 46 |
| 6 | South Korea | 41 |
| 7 | Singapore | 28 |
| 8 | Spain | 21 |
| 9 | India | 21 |
| 10 | Germany | 19 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | contrastive learning | 205 |
| 2 | graph neural networks | 76 |
| 3 | pseudo-labeling | 48 |
| 4 | representation learning | 44 |
| 5 | limited labeled data | 43 |
| 6 | unlabeled data | 43 |
| 7 | data augmentation | 40 |
| 8 | graph contrastive learning | 36 |
| 9 | transfer learning | 34 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,339 | 36.6 | ProtTrans: Toward Understanding the Language of Life Through Self-Supervised Learning | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2021-07-07 | Ahmed Elnaggar, Michael Heinzinger, Christian Dallago et al. |
| 2 | 2,036 | 26.1 | Self-Supervised Visual Feature Learning With Deep Neural Networks: A Survey | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2020-05-04 | Longlong Jing, Yingli Tian |
| 3 | 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. |
| 4 | 1,743 | 27.4 | Text Data Augmentation for Deep Learning | Journal Of Big Data | 2021-07-19 | Connor Shorten, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Borko Furht |
| 5 | 1,400 | 15.1 | Video Enhancement with Task-Oriented Flow | International Journal of Computer Vision | 2019-02-12 | Tianfan Xue, Baian Chen, Jiajun Wu et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “self-supervised learning”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/self-supervised-learning
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