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title: "Support vector machine research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “support vector machine” appeared in 1,388 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,023), operations research (161) and economics (55)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “support vector machine” appeared in 1,388 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,023), operations research (161) and economics (55). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “support vector machine”

Research on “support vector machine” 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 “support vector machine” appeared in 1,388 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,023), operations research (161) and economics (55).
- 125 of them were published in 2025, against 147 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Fırat University (8), Hainan University (7) and University of Southern Queensland (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (84), Neural Computing and Applications (82) and Knowledge-Based Systems (17).
- The most-cited of them is “Support vector machine” (Machine Learning, 2019), with 1,196 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) | 116 | 114 | 118 | 93 | 129 | 152 | 92 | 88 | 82 | 39 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 13 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 19 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 15 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 147 | 144 | 151 | 128 | 172 | 196 | 124 | 134 | 125 | 67 |

## 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) | 84 |
| 2 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 82 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 17 |
| 4 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 17 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 10 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Fırat University | 8 |
| 2 | [Hainan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hainan-university.md) | 7 |
| 3 | University of Southern Queensland | 7 |
| 4 | Erzurum Technical University | 6 |
| 5 | Kafrelsheikh University | 6 |
| 6 | [Central South University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-south-university.md) | 5 |
| 7 | Changsha University of Science and Technology | 5 |
| 8 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 5 |
| 9 | Menoufia University | 5 |
| 10 | [Universidad de Granada](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universidad-de-granada.md) | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 122 |
| 2 | India | 61 |
| 3 | United States | 46 |
| 4 | Turkey | 42 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 28 |
| 6 | Spain | 26 |
| 7 | Egypt | 25 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 23 |
| 9 | Iran | 18 |
| 10 | Australia | 17 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [random forest](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/random-forest.md) | 99 |
| 2 | k-nearest neighbors | 61 |
| 3 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 60 |
| 4 | [artificial neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-neural-networks.md) | 50 |
| 5 | [convolutional neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convolutional-neural-networks.md) | 40 |
| 6 | [XGBoost](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/xgboost.md) | 38 |
| 7 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 37 |
| 8 | decision tree | 32 |
| 9 | logistic regression | 32 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,196 | 14.3 | [Support vector machine](https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-815739-8.00006-7) | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 2019-11-15 | Derek Pisner, David M. Schnyer |
| 2 | 1,068 | 12.9 | [Deep convolutional neural network based medical image classification for disease diagnosis](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-019-0276-2) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2019-12-01 | Samir S. Yadav, Shivajirao Manikrao Jadhav |
| 3 | 983 | 13.0 | [Selecting critical features for data classification based on machine learning methods](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-020-00327-4) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2020-07-23 | Rung-Ching Chen, Christine Dewi, Su-Wen Huang et al. |
| 4 | 952 | 8.3 | [Machine learning models and bankruptcy prediction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.04.006) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2017-04-10 | Flávio Barboza, Herbert Kimura, Edward I. Altman |
| 5 | 778 | 14.6 | [A comparative analysis of K-Nearest Neighbor, Genetic, Support Vector Machine, Decision Tree, and Long Short Term Memory algorithms in machine learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dajour.2022.100071) | [Decision Analytics Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-analytics-journal.md) | 2022-05-27 | Malti Bansal, Apoorva Goyal, Apoorva Choudhary |

## Cite this page

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

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).