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title: "SHAP research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “SHAP” appeared in 707 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (362), operations research (106) and finance (71)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “SHAP” appeared in 707 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (362), operations research (106) and finance (71). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “SHAP”

Research on “SHAP” 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 “SHAP” appeared in 707 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (362), operations research (106) and finance (71).
- 220 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (11), Central South University (10) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (120), Neural Computing and Applications (53) and Knowledge-Based Systems (37).
- The most-cited of them is “Explaining anomalies detected by autoencoders using Shapley Additive Explanations” (Expert Systems with Applications, 2021), with 497 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) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 25 | 47 | 53 | 117 | 110 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 19 | 39 | 33 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 23 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 30 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 14 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 43 | 80 | 113 | 220 | 234 |

## 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) | 120 |
| 2 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 53 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 37 |
| 4 | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | 30 |
| 5 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 20 |
| 6 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 19 |
| 7 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 18 |
| 8 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [Decision Support Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-support-systems.md) | 13 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 11 |
| 2 | [Central South University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-south-university.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 8 |
| 4 | King Saud University | 8 |
| 5 | China Three Gorges University | 7 |
| 6 | [Norwegian University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/norwegian-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Southwest Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-jiaotong-university.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 210 |
| 2 | United States | 88 |
| 3 | India | 51 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 47 |
| 5 | South Korea | 38 |
| 6 | Turkey | 38 |
| 7 | Australia | 33 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 26 |
| 9 | Spain | 25 |
| 10 | Italy | 25 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 218 |
| 2 | [XGBoost](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/xgboost.md) | 108 |
| 3 | lime | 98 |
| 4 | [model interpretability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/model-interpretability.md) | 90 |
| 5 | [random forest](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/random-forest.md) | 65 |
| 6 | explainable machine learning | 63 |
| 7 | feature importance | 57 |
| 8 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 52 |
| 9 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 52 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 497 | 7.9 | [Explaining anomalies detected by autoencoders using Shapley Additive Explanations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115736) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2021-08-11 | Liat Antwarg, Ronnie Mindlin Miller, Bracha Shapira et al. |
| 2 | 335 | 5.3 | [Forecasting gold price with the XGBoost algorithm and SHAP interaction values](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04187-w) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 2021-07-23 | Sami Ben Jabeur, Salma Mefteh‐Wali, Jean‐Laurent Viviani |
| 3 | 318 | 11.7 | [Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in finance: a systematic literature review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10854-8) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2024-07-26 | Jurgita Černevičienė, Audrius Kabašinskas |
| 4 | 256 | 6.9 | [Explainable artificial intelligence for intrusion detection in IoT networks: A deep learning based approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.121751) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2023-09-25 | B.L. Sharma, Lokesh Sharma, Chhagan Lal et al. |
| 5 | 249 | 6.6 | [Data-driven interpretable ensemble learning methods for the prediction of wind turbine power incorporating SHAP analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.121464) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2023-09-07 | Celal Çakıroğlu, Sercan Demir, Mehmet Hakan Özdemir et al. |

## Cite this page

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

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@misc{scholar4ai-keywords-shap,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “SHAP”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/shap}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).