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title: "Sentiment analysis research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “sentiment analysis” appeared in 1,505 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (741), information systems (174) and operations research (113)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “sentiment analysis” appeared in 1,505 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (741), information systems (174) and operations research (113). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “sentiment analysis”

Research on “sentiment analysis” 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 “sentiment analysis” appeared in 1,505 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (741), information systems (174) and operations research (113).
- 207 of them were published in 2025, against 77 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (10), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (10) and Sichuan University (10).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (65), Knowledge-Based Systems (34) and Neural Computing and Applications (31).
- The most-cited of them is “A survey on sentiment analysis methods, applications, and challenges” (Artificial Intelligence Review, 2022), with 1,544 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) | 47 | 55 | 48 | 68 | 73 | 103 | 90 | 86 | 96 | 75 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 19 | 20 | 13 | 18 | 17 | 21 | 18 | 23 | 16 | 9 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 21 | 18 | 18 | 19 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 21 | 19 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 13 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 11 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 4 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 6 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 77 | 98 | 89 | 135 | 160 | 189 | 181 | 202 | 207 | 167 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 65 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 34 |
| 3 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 31 |
| 4 | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 30 |
| 5 | [Language Resources and Evaluation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/language-resources-and-evaluation.md) | 29 |
| 6 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 27 |
| 7 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 18 |
| 8 | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [Decision Analytics Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-analytics-journal.md) | 17 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 10 |
| 4 | [University College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-london.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Dalian University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/dalian-university-of-technology.md) | 7 |
| 7 | Delhi Technological University | 7 |
| 8 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-university.md) | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 224 |
| 2 | India | 103 |
| 3 | United States | 78 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 66 |
| 5 | Spain | 44 |
| 6 | Italy | 40 |
| 7 | South Korea | 29 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 28 |
| 9 | Turkey | 28 |
| 10 | Australia | 24 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Twitter](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/twitter.md) | 76 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 67 |
| 3 | [online reviews](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/online-reviews.md) | 61 |
| 4 | topic modeling | 58 |
| 5 | [BERT](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bert.md) | 49 |
| 6 | [social media](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-media.md) | 41 |
| 7 | [customer satisfaction](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/customer-satisfaction.md) | 29 |
| 8 | text classification | 28 |
| 9 | user-generated content | 28 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,544 | 27.2 | [A survey on sentiment analysis methods, applications, and challenges](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10144-1) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2022-02-07 | Mayur Wankhade, Annavarapu Chandra Sekhara Rao, Chaitanya Kulkarni |
| 2 | 929 | 14.1 | [A comprehensive survey on sentiment analysis: Approaches, challenges and trends](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2021.107134) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2021-05-14 | Marouane Birjali, Mohammed Kasri, Abderrahim Beni‐Hssane |
| 3 | 841 | 10.1 | [Sentiment analysis using deep learning architectures: a review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-019-09794-5) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2019-12-02 | Ashima Yadav, Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma |
| 4 | 758 | 18.5 | [ChatGPT: Jack of all trades, master of none](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.101861) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2023-06-03 | Jan Kocoń, Igor Cichecki, Oliwier Kaszyca et al. |
| 5 | 727 | 11.7 | [Artificial intelligence and machine learning in finance: Identifying foundations, themes, and research clusters from bibliometric analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2021.100577) | [Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-behavioral-and-experimental-finance.md) | 2021-08-31 | John W. Goodell, Satish Kumar, Weng Marc Lim et al. |

## Research ideas that follow this keyword

- [Financial sentiment beyond English](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/financial-sentiment-beyond-english.md)

## Cite this page

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

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “sentiment analysis”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/sentiment-analysis}},
  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/).