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title: "Survival analysis research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “survival analysis” appeared in 492 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (293), AI (98) and operations research (41)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “survival analysis” appeared in 492 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (293), AI (98) and operations research (41). (as of 2026-11-05)"
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# Papers on “survival analysis”

[Browse research topics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/directory/page/6.md)

Research on “survival 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 “survival analysis” appeared in 492 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (293), AI (98) and operations research (41).
- 66 of them were published in 2025, against 29 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (6), Chinese Academy of Sciences (6) and KU Leuven (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were BMC Medical Research Methodology (31), Lifetime Data Analysis (26) and Statistics and Computing (16).
- The most-cited of them is “DRIMUX: Dynamic Rumor Influence Minimization with User Experience in Social Networks” (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2017), with 183 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 17 | 23 | 29 | 17 | 24 | 28 | 40 | 34 | 39 | 42 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 4 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 22 | 11 | 9 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 8 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 29 | 37 | 45 | 34 | 41 | 44 | 62 | 70 | 66 | 64 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [BMC Medical Research Methodology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/bmc-medical-research-methodology.md) | 31 |
| 2 | [Lifetime Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/lifetime-data-analysis.md) | 26 |
| 3 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [Test](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/test.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [Computational Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Statistical Papers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-papers.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics-data-analysis.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [Artificial Intelligence in Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-in-medicine.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-statistical-theory-and-practice.md) | 8 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 6 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [KU Leuven](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ku-leuven.md) | 6 |
| 4 | Inserm | 5 |
| 5 | Changchun University of Technology | 4 |
| 6 | [Jilin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/jilin-university.md) | 4 |
| 7 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 4 |
| 8 | The University of Texas at Arlington | 4 |
| 9 | Universidade Federal de Pernambuco | 4 |
| 10 | [Chinese University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 60 |
| 2 | China | 56 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 20 |
| 4 | India | 19 |
| 5 | Germany | 14 |
| 6 | Canada | 13 |
| 7 | France | 13 |
| 8 | Italy | 13 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 12 |
| 10 | Spain | 11 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Cox proportional hazards model | 39 |
| 2 | competing risks | 18 |
| 3 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 16 |
| 4 | time-to-event data | 16 |
| 5 | accelerated failure time model | 14 |
| 6 | mixture cure models | 13 |
| 7 | censored data | 12 |
| 8 | [maximum likelihood estimation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/maximum-likelihood-estimation.md) | 12 |
| 9 | nonparametric estimation | 10 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 183 | 1.6 | [DRIMUX: Dynamic Rumor Influence Minimization with User Experience in Social Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2017.2728064) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2017-07-17 | Biao Wang, Ge Chen, Luoyi Fu et al. |
| 2 | 179 | 5.5 | [Deep learning for survival analysis: a review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-023-10681-3) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2024-02-19 | Simon Wiegrebe, Philipp Kopper, Raphael Sonabend et al. |
| 3 | 164 | 4.5 | [BEST: a web application for comprehensive biomarker exploration on large-scale data in solid tumors](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-023-00844-y) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2023-11-01 | Zaoqu Liu, Long Liu, Siyuan Weng et al. |
| 4 | 133 | 2.5 | [Machine learning applications for COVID-19 outbreak management](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-022-07424-w) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2022-06-10 | Arash Heidari, Nima Jafari Navimipour, Mehmet Ünal et al. |
| 5 | 116 | 1.3 | [Beyond positive and negative emotions: Looking into the role of achievement emotions in discussion forums of MOOCs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2019.100690) | [The Internet and Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-internet-and-higher-education.md) | 2019-06-10 | Wanli Xing, Hengtao Tang, Bo Pei |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “survival analysis”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/survival-analysis

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  title = {Papers on “survival analysis”},
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  urldate = {2026-11-05},
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).