This repository is intended as a resource that aggregates the most-cited papers published within the most-influential Artificial Intelligence (AI) journals. The results are tabulated lower in this README; provided are all-time rankings and decadal rankings from 1970 to 2023. The most-influential AI journals considered are those according to SCImago's SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator; the number of citations are provided by Crossref.
| Rank | No. Citations | Title | Journal | DOI | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21479 | ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge | International Journal of Computer Vision | 10.1007/s11263-015-0816-y | 2015 |
| 2 | 20039 | LIBSVM | ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology | 10.1145/1961189.1961199 | 2011 |
| 3 | 18754 | A Computational Approach to Edge Detection | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.1986.4767851 | 1986 |
| 4 | 16958 | Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2016.2577031 | 2017 |
| 5 | 14541 | A theory for multiresolution signal decomposition: the wavelet representation | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.192463 | 1989 |
| 6 | 11759 | Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.1984.4767596 | 1984 |
| 7 | 11613 | A method for registration of 3-D shapes | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.121791 | 1992 |
| 8 | 11472 | Snakes: Active contour models | International Journal of Computer Vision | 10.1007/bf00133570 | 1988 |
| 9 | 11185 | Multiresolution gray-scale and rotation invariant texture classification with local binary patterns | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2002.1017623 | 2002 |
| 10 | 11056 | Distributed Optimization and Statistical Learning via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers | Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning | 10.1561/2200000016 | 2010 |
| 11 | 10745 | The Pascal Visual Object Classes (VOC) Challenge | International Journal of Computer Vision | 10.1007/s11263-009-0275-4 | 2009 |
| 12 | 10233 | DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2017.2699184 | 2018 |
| 13 | 9998 | The concept of a linguistic variable and its application to approximate reasoning—I | Information Sciences | 10.1016/0020-0255(75)90036-5 | 1975 |
| 14 | 9682 | SegNet: A Deep Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Image Segmentation | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2016.2644615 | 2017 |
| 15 | 9423 | A flexible new technique for camera calibration | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.888718 | 2000 |
| 16 | 9243 | Normalized cuts and image segmentation | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.868688 | 2000 |
| 17 | 8579 | Eigenfaces vs. Fisherfaces: recognition using class specific linear projection | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.598228 | 1997 |
| 18 | 8561 | Scale-space and edge detection using anisotropic diffusion | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.56205 | 1990 |
| 19 | 8178 | A model of saliency-based visual attention for rapid scene analysis | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.730558 | 1998 |
| 20 | 8075 | Mean shift: a robust approach toward feature space analysis | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.1000236 | 2002 |
| 21 | 7484 | Robust Face Recognition via Sparse Representation | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2008.79 | 2009 |
| 22 | 7064 | Object Detection with Discriminatively Trained Part-Based Models | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2009.167 | 2010 |
| 23 | 7035 | Representation Learning: A Review and New Perspectives | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2013.50 | 2013 |
| 24 | 6882 | Feature selection based on mutual information criteria of max-dependency, max-relevance, and min-redundancy | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2005.159 | 2005 |
| 25 | 6323 | SLIC Superpixels Compared to State-of-the-Art Superpixel Methods | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2012.120 | 2012 |
| 26 | 6262 | Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard-Real-Time Environment | Journal of the ACM | 10.1145/321738.321743 | 1973 |
| 27 | 5942 | Spatial Pyramid Pooling in Deep Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2015.2389824 | 2015 |
| 28 | 5709 | Random effects structure for confirmatory hypothesis testing: Keep it maximal | Journal of Memory and Language | 10.1016/j.jml.2012.11.001 | 2013 |
| 29 | 5551 | Image Super-Resolution Using Deep Convolutional Networks | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2015.2439281 | 2016 |
| 30 | 5273 | Learning Deep Architectures for AI | Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning | 10.1561/2200000006 | 2009 |
| 31 | 5191 | Fast approximate energy minimization via graph cuts | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.969114 | 2001 |
| 32 | 5183 | Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment | Journal of the ACM | 10.1145/324133.324140 | 1999 |
| 33 | 5158 | Mixed-effects modeling with crossed random effects for subjects and items | Journal of Memory and Language | 10.1016/j.jml.2007.12.005 | 2008 |
| 34 | 5048 | A Cluster Separation Measure | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.1979.4766909 | 1979 |
| 35 | 4964 | A comparative study of texture measures with classification based on featured distributions | Pattern Recognition | 10.1016/0031-3203(95)00067-4 | 1996 |
| 36 | 4942 | GSA: A Gravitational Search Algorithm | Information Sciences | 10.1016/j.ins.2009.03.004 | 2009 |
| 37 | 4792 | A performance evaluation of local descriptors | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2005.188 | 2005 |
| 38 | 4780 | Vision meets robotics: The KITTI dataset | International Journal of Robotics Research | 10.1177/0278364913491297 | 2013 |
| 39 | 4589 | Shape matching and object recognition using shape contexts | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.993558 | 2002 |
| 40 | 4424 | Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2016.2572683 | 2017 |
| 41 | 4341 | The random subspace method for constructing decision forests | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.709601 | 1998 |
| 42 | 4307 | The use of the area under the ROC curve in the evaluation of machine learning algorithms | Pattern Recognition | 10.1016/s0031-3203(96)00142-2 | 1997 |
| 43 | 4229 | Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance for Manipulators and Mobile Robots | International Journal of Robotics Research | 10.1177/027836498600500106 | 1986 |
| 44 | 4215 | High-Speed Tracking with Kernelized Correlation Filters | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2014.2345390 | 2015 |
| 45 | 4212 | Selective Search for Object Recognition | International Journal of Computer Vision | 10.1007/s11263-013-0620-5 | 2013 |
| 46 | 4177 | Face Description with Local Binary Patterns: Application to Face Recognition | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2006.244 | 2006 |
| 47 | 4150 | Statistical pattern recognition: a review | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.824819 | 2000 |
| 48 | 4116 | Content-based image retrieval at the end of the early years | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.895972 | 2000 |
| 49 | 4075 | Robust principal component analysis? | Journal of the ACM | 10.1145/1970392.1970395 | 2011 |
| 50 | 4049 | 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Action Recognition | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2012.59 | 2013 |
| Rank | No. Citations | Title | Journal | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9998 | The concept of a linguistic variable and its application to approximate reasoning—I | Information Sciences | 10.1016/0020-0255(75)90036-5 |
| 2 | 6262 | Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard-Real-Time Environment | Journal of the ACM | 10.1145/321738.321743 |
| 3 | 5048 | A Cluster Separation Measure | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.1979.4766909 |
| 4 | 2300 | The concept of a linguistic variable and its application to approximate reasoning-III | Information Sciences | 10.1016/0020-0255(75)90017-1 |
| 5 | 2189 | The concept of a linguistic variable and its application to approximate reasoning—II | Information Sciences | 10.1016/0020-0255(75)90046-8 |
| 6 | 1872 | The String-to-String Correction Problem | Journal of the ACM | 10.1145/321796.321811 |
| 7 | 1866 | Similarity relations and fuzzy orderings | Information Sciences | 10.1016/s0020-0255(71)80005-1 |
| 8 | 1678 | Open, Closed, and Mixed Networks of Queues with Different Classes of Customers | Journal of the ACM | 10.1145/321879.321887 |
| 9 | 1531 | Theoretical Improvements in Algorithmic Efficiency for Network Flow Problems | Journal of the ACM | 10.1145/321694.321699 |
| 10 | 1458 | An Algorithm for Subgraph Isomorphism | Journal of the ACM | 10.1145/321921.321925 |
| Rank | No. Citations | Title | Journal | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18754 | A Computational Approach to Edge Detection | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.1986.4767851 |
| 2 | 14541 | A theory for multiresolution signal decomposition: the wavelet representation | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.192463 |
| 3 | 11759 | Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.1984.4767596 |
| 4 | 11472 | Snakes: Active contour models | International Journal of Computer Vision | 10.1007/bf00133570 |
| 5 | 4229 | Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance for Manipulators and Mobile Robots | International Journal of Robotics Research | 10.1177/027836498600500106 |
| 6 | 3421 | Principal warps: thin-plate splines and the decomposition of deformations | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.24792 |
| 7 | 3063 | Generalizing the Hough transform to detect arbitrary shapes | Pattern Recognition | 10.1016/0031-3203(81)90009-1 |
| 8 | 2664 | Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process | Journal of the ACM | 10.1145/3149.214121 |
| 9 | 2646 | Least-Squares Fitting of Two 3-D Point Sets | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.1987.4767965 |
| 10 | 1807 | Digital Image Enhancement and Noise Filtering by Use of Local Statistics | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.1980.4766994 |
| Rank | No. Citations | Title | Journal | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11613 | A method for registration of 3-D shapes | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.121791 |
| 2 | 8579 | Eigenfaces vs. Fisherfaces: recognition using class specific linear projection | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.598228 |
| 3 | 8561 | Scale-space and edge detection using anisotropic diffusion | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.56205 |
| 4 | 8178 | A model of saliency-based visual attention for rapid scene analysis | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.730558 |
| 5 | 5183 | Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment | Journal of the ACM | 10.1145/324133.324140 |
| 6 | 4964 | A comparative study of texture measures with classification based on featured distributions | Pattern Recognition | 10.1016/0031-3203(95)00067-4 |
| 7 | 4341 | The random subspace method for constructing decision forests | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.709601 |
| 8 | 4307 | The use of the area under the ROC curve in the evaluation of machine learning algorithms | Pattern Recognition | 10.1016/s0031-3203(96)00142-2 |
| 9 | 3889 | Watersheds in digital spaces: an efficient algorithm based on immersion simulations | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.87344 |
| 10 | 3873 | Color indexing | International Journal of Computer Vision | 10.1007/bf00130487 |
| Rank | No. Citations | Title | Journal | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11185 | Multiresolution gray-scale and rotation invariant texture classification with local binary patterns | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2002.1017623 |
| 2 | 10745 | The Pascal Visual Object Classes (VOC) Challenge | International Journal of Computer Vision | 10.1007/s11263-009-0275-4 |
| 3 | 9423 | A flexible new technique for camera calibration | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.888718 |
| 4 | 9243 | Normalized cuts and image segmentation | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.868688 |
| 5 | 8075 | Mean shift: a robust approach toward feature space analysis | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.1000236 |
| 6 | 7484 | Robust Face Recognition via Sparse Representation | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2008.79 |
| 7 | 6882 | Feature selection based on mutual information criteria of max-dependency, max-relevance, and min-redundancy | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2005.159 |
| 8 | 5273 | Learning Deep Architectures for AI | Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning | 10.1561/2200000006 |
| 9 | 5191 | Fast approximate energy minimization via graph cuts | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/34.969114 |
| 10 | 5158 | Mixed-effects modeling with crossed random effects for subjects and items | Journal of Memory and Language | 10.1016/j.jml.2007.12.005 |
| Rank | No. Citations | Title | Journal | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21479 | ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge | International Journal of Computer Vision | 10.1007/s11263-015-0816-y |
| 2 | 20039 | LIBSVM | ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology | 10.1145/1961189.1961199 |
| 3 | 16958 | Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2016.2577031 |
| 4 | 11056 | Distributed Optimization and Statistical Learning via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers | Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning | 10.1561/2200000016 |
| 5 | 10233 | DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2017.2699184 |
| 6 | 9682 | SegNet: A Deep Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Image Segmentation | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2016.2644615 |
| 7 | 7064 | Object Detection with Discriminatively Trained Part-Based Models | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2009.167 |
| 8 | 7035 | Representation Learning: A Review and New Perspectives | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2013.50 |
| 9 | 6323 | SLIC Superpixels Compared to State-of-the-Art Superpixel Methods | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2012.120 |
| 10 | 5942 | Spatial Pyramid Pooling in Deep Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2015.2389824 |
| Rank | No. Citations | Title | Journal | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3041 | A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 10.1109/tnnls.2020.2978386 |
| 2 | 2673 | Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2019.2913372 |
| 3 | 2556 | Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2018.2858826 |
| 4 | 2307 | From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees | Nature Machine Intelligence | 10.1038/s42256-019-0138-9 |
| 5 | 1671 | OpenPose: Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation Using Part Affinity Fields | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2019.2929257 |
| 6 | 1490 | Graph neural networks: A review of methods and applications | AI Open | 10.1016/j.aiopen.2021.01.001 |
| 7 | 1477 | Mask R-CNN | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2018.2844175 |
| 8 | 1150 | Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2020.2983686 |
| 9 | 1103 | Res2Net: A New Multi-Scale Backbone Architecture | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2019.2938758 |
| 10 | 825 | Image Segmentation Using Deep Learning: A Survey | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 10.1109/tpami.2021.3059968 |
| Rank | Journal | No. Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 415874 |
| 2 | International Journal of Computer Vision | 79093 |
| 3 | Journal of the ACM | 58992 |
| 4 | Pattern Recognition | 31552 |
| 5 | Information Sciences | 30598 |
| 6 | International Journal of Robotics Research | 22593 |
| 7 | ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology | 22233 |
| 8 | Journal of Memory and Language | 20556 |
| 9 | Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning | 16329 |
| 10 | IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems | 14106 |
| 11 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 11136 |
| 12 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 5989 |
| 13 | Nature Machine Intelligence | 4956 |
| 14 | IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine | 4829 |
| 15 | Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics | 3668 |
| 16 | AI Open | 1490 |
| 17 | International Journal of Information Management | 280 |
This section provides instructions for running the scraper. Only Python version 3.10.10 has been tested.curl must also be available in order to fetch the journal data. To install the dependencies for the scraper, first run pip install -r requirements.txt. To run the scraper and add the results to the README.md, run:
make clean && make
This project is subject to the GPLv3 license. Please refer to COPYING.rst for the details.