Papers on “vision transformer”
Research on “vision transformer” 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 “vision transformer” appeared in 711 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (694), operations research (9) and information systems (6).
- 237 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (33), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (22) and Harbin Institute of Technology (16).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (110), Pattern Recognition (101) and Neural Computing and Applications (73).
- The most-cited of them is “A Survey on Vision Transformer” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2022), with 4,688 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 38 | 101 | 152 | 232 | 170 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 102 | 155 | 237 | 177 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 110 |
| 2 | Pattern Recognition | 101 |
| 3 | Neural Computing and Applications | 73 |
| 4 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 66 |
| 5 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 61 |
| 6 | Neural Networks | 59 |
| 7 | International Journal of Computer Vision | 39 |
| 8 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 32 |
| 9 | Applied Intelligence | 24 |
| 10 | Information Fusion | 24 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 33 |
| 2 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 22 |
| 3 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 16 |
| 4 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 16 |
| 5 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 16 |
| 6 | Zhejiang University | 16 |
| 7 | Nanyang Technological University | 14 |
| 8 | University of Science and Technology of China | 14 |
| 9 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 13 |
| 10 | Fudan University | 13 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 398 |
| 2 | United States | 61 |
| 3 | Australia | 50 |
| 4 | India | 50 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 40 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 34 |
| 7 | South Korea | 29 |
| 8 | Singapore | 22 |
| 9 | Italy | 19 |
| 10 | United Arab Emirates | 15 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | convolutional neural networks | 76 |
| 2 | image classification | 54 |
| 3 | self-attention | 53 |
| 4 | computational efficiency | 45 |
| 5 | semantic segmentation | 40 |
| 6 | object detection | 38 |
| 7 | attention mechanism | 36 |
| 8 | transfer learning | 26 |
| 9 | contrastive learning | 25 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,688 | 83.0 | A Survey on Vision Transformer | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2022-02-18 | Kai Han, Yunhe Wang, Hanting Chen et al. |
| 2 | 1,075 | 25.7 | Multimodal Learning With Transformers: A Survey | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2023-05-11 | Peng Xu, Xiatian Zhu, David Andrew Clifton |
| 3 | 628 | 15.3 | UniFormer: Unifying Convolution and Self-Attention for Visual Recognition | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2023-06-05 | Kunchang Li, Yali Wang, Junhao Zhang et al. |
| 4 | 578 | 15.2 | Large Separable Kernel Attention: Rethinking the Large Kernel Attention design in CNN | Expert Systems with Applications | 2023-08-31 | Kin Wai Lau, Lai-Man Po, Yasar Abbas Ur Rehman |
| 5 | 574 | 13.3 | A Survey of Visual Transformers | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 2023-03-30 | Yang Liu, Yao Zhang, Yixin Wang et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “vision transformer”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vision-transformer
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title = {Papers on “vision transformer”},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vision-transformer}},
urldate = {2026-11-03},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}