Most-cited papers published in 2020

Papers the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, marketing, information systems, tourism and hospitality, operations research and AI journals published in 2020, ranked by the citations OpenAlex counts for them so far. Citation counts are the ones OpenAlex reports, read again every day for the last year's papers, every week for the two years before and every month for older ones. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

The most-cited paper the tracked journals published in 2020 is “A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems), with 10,982 citations.
In finance, the most-cited was “Financial markets under the global pandemic of COVID-19” (Finance research letters), with 2,350 citations.
In accounting, the most-cited was “Disclosure processing costs, investors’ information choice, and equity market outcomes: A review” (Journal of Accounting and Economics), with 1,090 citations.
In economics, the most-cited was “Difference-in-Differences with multiple time periods” (Journal of Econometrics), with 9,073 citations.
In management, the most-cited was “The art of writing literature review: What do we know and what do we need to know?” (International Business Review), with 2,595 citations.
In marketing, the most-cited was “Designing conceptual articles: four approaches” (AMS Review), with 2,218 citations.
In information systems, the most-cited was “Setting the future of digital and social media marketing research: Perspectives and research propositions” (International Journal of Information Management), with 2,644 citations.
In tourism and hospitality, the most-cited was “A review of research into automation in tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Tourism” (Annals of Tourism Research), with 1,048 citations.
In operations research, the most-cited was “Predicting the impacts of epidemic outbreaks on global supply chains: A simulation-based analysis on the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) case” (Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review), with 2,278 citations.
In AI, the most-cited was “A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems), with 10,982 citations.

All journals#

The 25 most-cited papers published in 2020, all tracked journals
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	10,982	138.7	A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2020-03-24	Zonghan Wu, Shirui Pan, Fengwen Chen et al.
2	10,493	128.9	From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees	Nature Machine Intelligence	2020-01-17	Scott Lundberg, Gabriel Erion, Hugh Chen et al.
3	9,073	128.9	Difference-in-Differences with multiple time periods	Journal of Econometrics	2020-12-17	Brantly Callaway, Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna
4	5,601	79.6	Estimating dynamic treatment effects in event studies with heterogeneous treatment effects	Journal of Econometrics	2020-12-16	Liyang Sun, Sarah Abraham
5	4,889	62.0	Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-04-01	Jingdong Wang, Ke Sun, Tianheng Cheng et al.
6	3,135	40.1	A survey of the recent architectures of deep convolutional neural networks	Artificial Intelligence Review	2020-04-21	Asifullah Khan, Anabia Sohail, Umme Zahoora et al.
7	2,995	40.4	A comparative analysis of gradient boosting algorithms	Artificial Intelligence Review	2020-08-24	Candice Bentéjac, Anna Csörgő, Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz
8	2,755	35.6	General diagnostic tests for cross-sectional dependence in panels	Empirical Economics	2020-05-20	M. Hashem Pesaran
9	2,644	35.0	Setting the future of digital and social media marketing research: Perspectives and research propositions	International Journal of Information Management	2020-07-10	Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Elvira Ismagilova, D. Laurie Hughes et al.
10	2,595	33.9	The art of writing literature review: What do we know and what do we need to know?	International Business Review	2020-06-13	Justin Paul, Alex Rialp
11	2,558	33.8	Event-Based Vision: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-07-10	Guillermo Gallego, Tobi Delbrück, Garrick Orchard et al.
12	2,517	34.8	A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Toward Medical XAI	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2020-10-21	Erico Tjoa, Cuntai Guan
13	2,433	31.4	U2-Net: Going deeper with nested U-structure for salient object detection	Pattern Recognition	2020-05-16	Xuebin Qin, Zichen Zhang, Chenyang Huang et al.
14	2,424	30.5	Marine Predators Algorithm: A nature-inspired metaheuristic	Expert Systems with Applications	2020-03-13	Afshin Faramarzi, Mohammad Heidarinejad, Seyedali Mirjalili et al.
15	2,413	31.8	Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-06-29	Yulan Guo, Hanyun Wang, Qingyong Hu et al.
16	2,350	30.0	Financial markets under the global pandemic of COVID-19	Finance research letters	2020-04-16	Dayong Zhang, Min Hu, Qiang Ji
17	2,308	30.8	U2Fusion: A Unified Unsupervised Image Fusion Network	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-07-28	Han Xu, Jiayi Ma, Junjun Jiang et al.
18	2,289	29.9	Tourism and COVID-19: Impacts and implications for advancing and resetting industry and research	Journal of Business Research	2020-06-12	Μαριάννα Σιγάλα
19	2,278	28.8	Predicting the impacts of epidemic outbreaks on global supply chains: A simulation-based analysis on the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) case	Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review	2020-03-24	Dmitry Ivanov
20	2,232	31.9	Sustainable investing in equilibrium	Journal of Financial Economics	2020-12-31	Ľuboš Pástor, Robert F. Stambaugh, Lucian A. Taylor
21	2,218	27.8	Designing conceptual articles: four approaches	AMS Review	2020-03-09	Elina Jaakkola
22	2,214	30.9	Shortcut learning in deep neural networks	Nature Machine Intelligence	2020-11-10	Robert Geirhos, Jörn-Henrik Jacobsen, Claudio Michaelis et al.
23	2,115	27.4	Latent profile analysis: A review and “how to” guide of its application within vocational behavior research	Journal of Vocational Behavior	2020-05-25	Daniel Spurk, Andreas Hirschi, Mo Wang et al.
24	2,041	28.4	A strategic framework for artificial intelligence in marketing	Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science	2020-11-04	Ming‐Hui Huang, Roland T. Rust
25	2,036	26.2	Self-Supervised Visual Feature Learning With Deep Neural Networks: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-05-04	Longlong Jing, Yingli Tian

Finance# Dashboard →

Most-cited finance papers published in 2020
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,350	30.0	Financial markets under the global pandemic of COVID-19	Finance research letters	2020-04-16	Dayong Zhang, Min Hu, Qiang Ji
2	2,232	31.9	Sustainable investing in equilibrium	Journal of Financial Economics	2020-12-31	Ľuboš Pástor, Robert F. Stambaugh, Lucian A. Taylor
3	1,688	22.7	The role of ESG performance during times of financial crisis: Evidence from COVID-19 in China	Finance research letters	2020-08-13	David C. Broadstock, Kalok Chan, Louis T. W. Cheng et al.
4	1,597	20.3	COVID-19 and finance: Agendas for future research	Finance research letters	2020-04-12	John W. Goodell
5	1,488	19.2	COVID-19 pandemic, oil prices, stock market, geopolitical risk and policy uncertainty nexus in the US economy: Fresh evidence from the wavelet-based approach	International Review of Financial Analysis	2020-05-15	Arshian Sharif, Chaker Aloui, Larisa Yarovaya
6	1,481	18.1	Corporate Immunity to the COVID-19 Pandemic	Journal of Financial Economics	2020-01-01	Wenzhi Ding, Ross Eric Levine, Chen Lin et al.
7	1,436	18.3	Death and contagious infectious diseases: Impact of the COVID-19 virus on stock market returns	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	2020-04-08	Abdullah M. Al-Awadhi, Abdullah M. Al-Awadhi, Khaled Alsaifi et al.
8	1,254	16.2	Stock markets’ reaction to COVID-19: Cases or fatalities?	Research in International Business and Finance	2020-05-22	Badar Nadeem Ashraf
9	1,138	14.0	Greenwashing in environmental, social and governance disclosures	Research in International Business and Finance	2020-01-27	Ellen Pei‐yi Yu, Bac Van Luu, Catherine Huirong Chen
10	995	13.0	Theories of Risk Perception: Who Fears What and Why?	Risk Management	2020-06-18	Aaron Wíldavsky, Karl Dake

Accounting# Dashboard →

Most-cited accounting papers published in 2020
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	1,090	14.6	Disclosure processing costs, investors’ information choice, and equity market outcomes: A review	Journal of Accounting and Economics	2020-08-15	Elizabeth Blankespoor, Ed deHaan, Iván Marinovic
2	761	9.3	Entropy-balanced accruals	Review of Accounting Studies	2020-01-10	Jeff L. McMullin, Bryce Schonberger
3	656	8.2	State-owned enterprises in China: A review of 40 years of research and practice	China Journal of Accounting Research	2020-02-15	Karen Jingrong Lin, LU Xiao-yan, Junsheng Zhang et al.
4	348	4.2	Estimating the COVID-19 Cash Crunch: Global Evidence and Policy	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy	2020-01-01	Antonio De Vito, Juan-Pedro Gómez
5	303	4.2	Using machine learning to detect misstatements	Review of Accounting Studies	2020-10-02	Jeremy Bertomeu, Edwige Cheynel, Eric Floyd et al.
6	271	3.5	Financial distress, internal control, and earnings management: Evidence from China	Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics	2020-05-29	Yuanhui Li, Li Xiao, Erwei Xiang et al.
7	269	3.4	Does the market value greenhouse gas emissions? Evidence from multi-country firm data	The British Accounting Review	2020-03-16	Bobae Choi, Le Luo
8	265	3.5	Determinants of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) disclosure: a study of Indian companies	International Journal of Disclosure and Governance	2020-08-01	Preeti Sharma, Priyanka Panday, Ramesh Chandra Dangwal
9	260	3.2	Elusive boundaries, power relations, and knowledge production: A systematic review of the literature on digitalization in accounting	International Journal of Accounting Information Systems	2020-01-08	Dan-Richard Knudsen
10	255	3.1	European firms’ corporate biodiversity disclosures and board gender diversity from 2002 to 2016	The British Accounting Review	2020-01-24	Faizul Haque, Michael John Jones

Economics# Dashboard →

Most-cited economics papers published in 2020
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	9,073	128.9	Difference-in-Differences with multiple time periods	Journal of Econometrics	2020-12-17	Brantly Callaway, Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna
2	5,601	79.6	Estimating dynamic treatment effects in event studies with heterogeneous treatment effects	Journal of Econometrics	2020-12-16	Liyang Sun, Sarah Abraham
3	2,755	35.6	General diagnostic tests for cross-sectional dependence in panels	Empirical Economics	2020-05-20	M. Hashem Pesaran
4	2,032	26.9	How many jobs can be done at home?	Journal of Public Economics	2020-07-09	Jonathan I. Dingel, Brent Neiman
5	1,415	18.9	Inequality in the impact of the coronavirus shock: Evidence from real time surveys	Journal of Public Economics	2020-07-31	Abi Adams‐Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin et al.
6	1,369	18.3	Recurrent Neural Networks for Time Series Forecasting: Current status and future directions	International Journal of Forecasting	2020-08-10	Hansika Hewamalage, Christoph Bergmeir, Kasun Bandara
7	1,170	15.4	Digitalization and energy consumption. Does ICT reduce energy demand?	Ecological Economics	2020-06-23	Steffen Lange, Johanna Pohl, Tilman Santarius
8	1,129	13.9	Systemic Banking Crises Database II	IMF Economic Review	2020-01-30	Luc A. Laeven, Fabian V. Valencia
9	1,044	13.8	Doubly robust difference-in-differences estimators	Journal of Econometrics	2020-07-07	Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna, Jun B. Zhao
10	1,013	13.3	Once we have it, will we use it? A European survey on willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19	The European Journal of Health Economics	2020-06-26	Sebastian Neumann‐Böhme, Nirosha Elsem Varghese, Iryna Sabat et al.

Management# Dashboard →

Most-cited management papers published in 2020
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,595	33.9	The art of writing literature review: What do we know and what do we need to know?	International Business Review	2020-06-13	Justin Paul, Alex Rialp
2	2,289	29.9	Tourism and COVID-19: Impacts and implications for advancing and resetting industry and research	Journal of Business Research	2020-06-12	Μαριάννα Σιγάλα
3	2,115	27.4	Latent profile analysis: A review and “how to” guide of its application within vocational behavior research	Journal of Vocational Behavior	2020-05-25	Daniel Spurk, Andreas Hirschi, Mo Wang et al.
4	2,021	26.4	Effects of COVID-19 on business and research	Journal of Business Research	2020-06-08	Naveen Donthu, Anders Gustafsson
5	1,765	23.0	Impact of Covid-19 on consumer behavior: Will the old habits return or die?	Journal of Business Research	2020-06-03	Jagdish N. Sheth
6	1,456	18.8	The impact of Covid-19 pandemic on corporate social responsibility and marketing philosophy	Journal of Business Research	2020-05-21	Hongwei He, Lloyd C. Harris
7	1,317	16.3	The art of crafting a systematic literature review in entrepreneurship research	International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal	2020-01-31	Sascha Kraus, Matthias Breier, Sonia Dasí Rodríguez
8	1,266	16.4	Employee adjustment and well-being in the era of COVID-19: Implications for human resource management	Journal of Business Research	2020-05-21	Joel B. Carnevale, Isabella Hatak
9	1,191	16.5	Digital transformation and customer value creation in Made in Italy SMEs: A dynamic capabilities perspective	Journal of Business Research	2020-10-21	Michela Matarazzo, Lara Penco, Giorgia Profumo et al.
10	1,182	14.4	Startups in Times of Crisis – A Rapid Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic	Journal of Business Venturing Insights	2020-01-01	Andreas Kuckertz, Leif Brändle, Anja Gaudig et al.

Marketing# Dashboard →

Most-cited marketing papers published in 2020
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,218	27.8	Designing conceptual articles: four approaches	AMS Review	2020-03-09	Elina Jaakkola
2	2,041	28.4	A strategic framework for artificial intelligence in marketing	Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science	2020-11-04	Ming‐Hui Huang, Roland T. Rust
3	941	11.5	Customer experience: fundamental premises and implications for research	Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science	2020-01-13	Larissa Becker, Elina Jaakkola
4	853	11.3	Unusual purchasing behavior during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: The stimulus-organism-response approach	Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services	2020-07-21	Samuli Laato, A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Ali Farooq et al.
5	778	10.2	Social media marketing strategy: definition, conceptualization, taxonomy, validation, and future agenda	Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science	2020-06-10	Fangfang Li, Jorma Antero Larimo, Leonidas C. Leonidou
6	700	9.0	Influencer marketing: Social media influencers as human brands attaching to followers and yielding positive marketing results by fulfilling needs	Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services	2020-04-30	Chung-Wha Chloe Ki, Leslie M. Cuevas, Sze Man Chong et al.
7	664	8.5	To recover faster from Covid-19, open up: Managerial implications from an open innovation perspective	Industrial Marketing Management	2020-04-16	Henry W. Chesbrough
8	656	9.1	‘Instagram made Me buy it’: Generation Z impulse purchases in fashion industry	Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services	2020-10-23	Elmira Djafarova, Tamar Bowes
9	602	8.1	Machine learning and AI in marketing – Connecting computing power to human insights	International Journal of Research in Marketing	2020-08-21	Liye Ma, Baohong Sun
10	601	8.4	A first look at online reputation on Airbnb, where every stay is above average	Marketing Letters	2020-11-04	Georgios Zervas, Davide Proserpio, John W. Byers

Information Systems# Dashboard →

Most-cited information systems papers published in 2020
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,644	35.0	Setting the future of digital and social media marketing research: Perspectives and research propositions	International Journal of Information Management	2020-07-10	Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Elvira Ismagilova, D. Laurie Hughes et al.
2	1,231	16.4	Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on information management research and practice: Transforming education, work and life	International Journal of Information Management	2020-07-31	Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, D. Laurie Hughes, Crispin R. Coombs et al.
3	1,202	15.4	Artificial intelligence for sustainability: Challenges, opportunities, and a research agenda	International Journal of Information Management	2020-04-20	Rohit Nishant, Mike Kennedy, Jacqueline Corbett
4	1,194	15.0	AI-based chatbots in customer service and their effects on user compliance	Electronic Markets	2020-03-17	Martin Adam, Michael Wessel, Alexander Benlian
5	1,110	14.5	Impact of digital surge during Covid-19 pandemic: A viewpoint on research and practice	International Journal of Information Management	2020-06-08	Rahul Dé, Neena Pandey, Abhipsa Pal
6	1,051	13.8	Digital transformation of everyday life – How COVID-19 pandemic transformed the basic education of the young generation and why information management research should care?	International Journal of Information Management	2020-06-27	Netta Iivari, Sumita Sharma, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen
7	1,002	13.3	I, Chatbot: Modeling the determinants of users’ satisfaction and continuance intention of AI-powered service agents	Telematics and Informatics	2020-07-22	Muhammad Ashfaq, Jiang Yun, Shubin Yu et al.
8	827	10.7	Understanding consumer adoption of mobile payment in India: Extending Meta-UTAUT model with personal innovativeness, anxiety, trust, and grievance redressal	International Journal of Information Management	2020-05-14	Pushp P. Patil, Kuttimani Tamilmani, Nripendra Pratap Rana et al.
9	806	10.6	Data governance: Organizing data for trustworthy Artificial Intelligence	Government Information Quarterly	2020-06-21	Marijn Janssen, Paul Brous, Elsa Estévez et al.
10	760	10.3	The strategic use of artificial intelligence in the digital era: Systematic literature review and future research directions	International Journal of Information Management	2020-09-14	Aline de Fátima Soares Borges, Fernando J.B. Laurindo, Mauro de Mesquita Spínola et al.

Tourism and Hospitality# Dashboard →

Most-cited tourism and hospitality papers published in 2020
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	1,048	13.0	A review of research into automation in tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Tourism	Annals of Tourism Research	2020-02-14	Iis P. Tussyadiah
2	951	12.4	The coronavirus pandemic – A critical discussion of a tourism research agenda	Tourism Management	2020-06-04	Sebastian Zenker, Florian Köck
3	903	12.9	Reviving tourism industry post-COVID-19: A resilience-based framework	Tourism Management Perspectives	2020-12-29	Gagan Deep Sharma, Asha Thomas, Justin Paul
4	738	10.3	Afraid to travel after COVID-19? Self-protection, coping and resilience against pandemic ‘travel fear’	Tourism Management	2020-11-13	Danni Zheng, Qiuju Luo, Brent W. Ritchie
5	693	9.3	COVID-19 and China’s Hotel Industry: Impacts, a Disaster Management Framework, and Post-Pandemic Agenda	International Journal of Hospitality Management	2020-08-05	Fei Hao, Qu Xiao, Kaye Chon
6	632	8.7	Hospitality and tourism industry amid COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives on challenges and learnings from India	International Journal of Hospitality Management	2020-10-01	Vikrant Kaushal, Sidharth Srivastava
7	608	7.9	e-Tourism beyond COVID-19: a call for transformative research	Information Technology & Tourism	2020-05-29	Ulrike Gretzel B, Matthias Fuchs, Rodolfo Baggio et al.
8	590	7.8	Social costs of tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic	Annals of Tourism Research	2020-07-07	Richard T.R. Qiu, Jinah Park, ShiNa Li et al.
9	575	7.8	Impacts of COVID-19 on global tourism industry: A cross-regional comparison	Tourism Management Perspectives	2020-09-06	Naciye Güliz Uğur, Adem Akbıyık
10	572	7.4	Destination image and tourist behavioural intentions: A meta-analysis	Tourism Management	2020-05-19	Mona Afshardoost, Mohammad Sadegh Eshaghi

Operations Research# Dashboard →

Most-cited operations research papers published in 2020
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,278	28.8	Predicting the impacts of epidemic outbreaks on global supply chains: A simulation-based analysis on the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) case	Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review	2020-03-24	Dmitry Ivanov
2	1,545	21.2	Blockchain technology in supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research opportunities	Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review	2020-09-29	Pankaj Dutta, Tsan‐Ming Choi, Surabhi Somani et al.
3	1,524	20.8	A review of applications in federated learning	Computers & Industrial Engineering	2020-09-17	Li Li, Yuxi Fan, Ying Kei Tse et al.
4	1,488	19.5	Blockchain technology and the sustainable supply chain: Theoretically exploring adoption barriers	International Journal of Production Economics	2020-06-20	Mahtab Kouhizadeh, Sara Saberi, Joseph Sarkis
5	1,428	18.4	Industry 4.0 technologies assessment: A sustainability perspective	International Journal of Production Economics	2020-05-06	Chunguang April Bai, Patrick Dallasega, Guido Orzes et al.
6	1,357	17.6	Viable supply chain model: integrating agility, resilience and sustainability perspectives—lessons from and thinking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	Annals of Operations Research	2020-05-22	Dmitry Ivanov
7	1,319	18.1	Predictive maintenance in the Industry 4.0: A systematic literature review	Computers & Industrial Engineering	2020-10-06	Tiago Zonta, Cristiano André da Costa, Rodrigo da Rosa Righi et al.
8	1,236	15.4	OSQP: an operator splitting solver for quadratic programs	Mathematical Programming Computation	2020-02-20	Bartolomeo Stellato, Goran Banjac, Paul J. Goulart et al.
9	1,011	13.2	Impacts of epidemic outbreaks on supply chains: mapping a research agenda amid the COVID-19 pandemic through a structured literature review	Annals of Operations Research	2020-06-16	Maciel Manoel de Queiroz, Dmitry Ivanov, Alexandre B. Dolgui et al.
10	922	11.8	The impact of digital technologies on economic and environmental performance in the context of industry 4.0: A moderated mediation model	International Journal of Production Economics	2020-04-30	Ying Li, Jing Dai, Li Cui

AI# Dashboard →

Most-cited AI papers published in 2020
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	10,982	138.7	A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2020-03-24	Zonghan Wu, Shirui Pan, Fengwen Chen et al.
2	10,493	128.9	From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees	Nature Machine Intelligence	2020-01-17	Scott Lundberg, Gabriel Erion, Hugh Chen et al.
3	4,889	62.0	Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-04-01	Jingdong Wang, Ke Sun, Tianheng Cheng et al.
4	3,135	40.1	A survey of the recent architectures of deep convolutional neural networks	Artificial Intelligence Review	2020-04-21	Asifullah Khan, Anabia Sohail, Umme Zahoora et al.
5	2,995	40.4	A comparative analysis of gradient boosting algorithms	Artificial Intelligence Review	2020-08-24	Candice Bentéjac, Anna Csörgő, Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz
6	2,558	33.8	Event-Based Vision: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-07-10	Guillermo Gallego, Tobi Delbrück, Garrick Orchard et al.
7	2,517	34.8	A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Toward Medical XAI	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2020-10-21	Erico Tjoa, Cuntai Guan
8	2,433	31.4	U2-Net: Going deeper with nested U-structure for salient object detection	Pattern Recognition	2020-05-16	Xuebin Qin, Zichen Zhang, Chenyang Huang et al.
9	2,424	30.5	Marine Predators Algorithm: A nature-inspired metaheuristic	Expert Systems with Applications	2020-03-13	Afshin Faramarzi, Mohammad Heidarinejad, Seyedali Mirjalili et al.
10	2,413	31.8	Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-06-29	Yulan Guo, Hanyun Wang, Qingyong Hu et al.

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