Papers on “semi-supervised learning”
Research on “semi-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 “semi-supervised learning” appeared in 1,288 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,222), operations research (31) and information systems (12).
- 215 of them were published in 2025, against 44 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (36), Northwestern Polytechnical University (27) and Nanyang Technological University (21).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (110), Pattern Recognition (92) and Knowledge-Based Systems (81).
- The most-cited of them is “A Survey on Multi-Task Learning” (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2021), with 2,909 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 42 | 53 | 82 | 95 | 115 | 138 | 170 | 173 | 201 | 153 |
| Operations Research | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Statistics | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 44 | 57 | 86 | 98 | 117 | 150 | 176 | 184 | 215 | 161 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 110 |
| 2 | Pattern Recognition | 92 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 81 |
| 4 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 58 |
| 5 | Neural Networks | 50 |
| 6 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 46 |
| 7 | Applied Intelligence | 44 |
| 8 | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 31 |
| 9 | Information Fusion | 30 |
| 10 | Neural Computing and Applications | 24 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 36 |
| 2 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 27 |
| 3 | Nanyang Technological University | 21 |
| 4 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 20 |
| 5 | Shenzhen University | 19 |
| 6 | Shandong University | 18 |
| 7 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 18 |
| 8 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 18 |
| 9 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 17 |
| 10 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 16 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 524 |
| 2 | United States | 75 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 46 |
| 4 | Australia | 45 |
| 5 | Singapore | 38 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 27 |
| 7 | Canada | 21 |
| 8 | Spain | 20 |
| 9 | India | 17 |
| 10 | France | 15 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | pseudo-labeling | 158 |
| 2 | unlabeled data | 123 |
| 3 | limited labeled data | 86 |
| 4 | contrastive learning | 54 |
| 5 | class imbalance | 52 |
| 6 | data augmentation | 40 |
| 7 | medical image segmentation | 39 |
| 8 | consistency regularization | 36 |
| 9 | graph neural networks | 33 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,909 | 43.3 | A Survey on Multi-Task Learning | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 2021-03-31 | Yu Zhang, Qiang Yang |
| 2 | 2,861 | 28.8 | Virtual Adversarial Training: A Regularization Method for Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2018-07-23 | Takeru Miyato, Shin‐ichi Maeda, Masanori Koyama et al. |
| 3 | 2,665 | 31.9 | A survey on semi-supervised learning | Machine Learning | 2019-11-15 | Jesper E. van Engelen, Holger H. Hoos |
| 4 | 1,356 | 13.1 | Semantic Foggy Scene Understanding with Synthetic Data | International Journal of Computer Vision | 2018-03-23 | Christos Sakaridis, Dengxin Dai, Luc Van Gool |
| 5 | 1,050 | 9.0 | Ensemble learning for data stream analysis: A survey | Information Fusion | 2017-02-03 | Bartosz Krawczyk, Leandro Lei Minku, João Manuel Portela da Gama et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “semi-supervised learning”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/semi-supervised-learning
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