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Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research

Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research is a research topic within Artificial Intelligence. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses advancements in data clustering techniques and algorithms, covering topics such as K-means, cluster validation, high-dimensional data clustering, density-based clustering, semi-supervised clustering, document clustering, fuzzy clustering, evolutionary algorithms for clustering, and stream data clustering.

  • Clustering Algorithms
  • K-means
  • Cluster Validation
  • High-dimensional Data
  • Density-based Clustering
  • Semi-supervised Clustering
  • Document Clustering
  • Fuzzy Clustering
  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Stream Data Clustering
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
51% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research

Which countries lead Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.1k and 298 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 India 298 works
  3. 3 United States 256 works
  4. 4 France 97 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 94 works
  6. 6 Italy 86 works
  7. 7 Canada 60 works
  8. 8 Iran 58 works
  9. 9 Japan 58 works
  10. 10 Germany 56 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 51.0%India: 13.7%United States: 11.8%France: 4.5%6 others listed: 19.0%51%largest
China1,105 · 51.0%India298 · 13.7%United States256 · 11.8%France97 · 4.5%6 others listed411 · 19.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Northwestern Polytechnical University publishes the most Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research research, followed by National University of Defense Technology and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 33 works
  2. 2 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 28 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 28 works
  4. 4 Xidian UniversityChina 18 works
  5. 5 Xi’an University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 18 works
  6. 6 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 16 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 16 works
  8. 8 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 16 works
  9. 9 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 15 works
  10. 10 Shenzhen UniversityChina 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research include Yoshua Bengio, Robert John Tibshirani and Xiaogang Wang.

  1. 1 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  2. 2 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
  3. 3 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  4. 4 Vladimir N. Vapnik United States 227k citations
  5. 5 Jerome H. Friedman United States 224k citations
  6. 6 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  7. 7 Michael I. Jordan United States 182k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research?

The most cited paper in Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research is "Silhouettes: A graphical aid to the interpretation and validation of cluster analysis" (Peter J. Rousseeuw, 1987), with 21,780 citations. Next come "A density-based algorithm for discovering clusters in large spatial Databases with Noise" (19,125) and "Algorithm AS 136: A K-Means Clustering Algorithm" (14,594).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Silhouettes: A graphical aid to the interpretation and validation of cluster analysis Peter J. Rousseeuw · Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics Open access Nov 1987 21,780
2 A density-based algorithm for discovering clusters in large spatial Databases with Noise Martin Ester, Hans‐Peter Kriegel, Jörg Sander et al. 1996 19,125
3 Algorithm AS 136: A K-Means Clustering Algorithm John A. Hartigan, M. Anthony Wong · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) 1979 14,594
4 Data clustering Anil Kumar Jain, Musti Narasimha Murty, Patrick J. Flynn · ACM Computing Surveys Open access Sep 1999 13,296
5 Data clustering: 50 years beyond K-means Anil Kumar Jain · Pattern Recognition Letters 10 Sep 2009 9,458
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Chengdu (China) and Changsha (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Xi'an, Taiyuan and Changsha.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 130 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 105 works
  3. 3 ChengduChina 58 works
  4. 4 ChangshaChina 53 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 49 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 43 works
  7. 7 ChongqingChina 41 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 37 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 33 works
  10. 10 ShenzhenChina 32 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Xi'anCN · 105.4 works4.7×
  2. TaiyuanCN · 21.5 works4.3×
  3. ChangshaCN · 52.8 works3.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, National University of Defense Technology and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 24.82%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National University …Northwestern Polytec…Shanxi UniversityUniversity of Electr…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 94.836.8%11.4×33 +42.8%
2National University of Defense TechnologyChina 80.839.4%14.2×28 +77.4%
3University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 58.223.3%5.8×16 +23.3%
4Shanxi UniversityChina 57.523.6%15.4×11 +61.8%
5Xidian UniversityChina 52.912.9%9.9×18 +58.0%
6Shenzhen UniversityChina 52.815.7%6.9×13 +41.4%
7Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 51.631.6%2.9×12 +108.1%
8Dalian University of TechnologyChina 51.118.9%6.5×16 +83.2%
9Guangdong University of TechnologyChina 49.519.0%9.1×13 +90.5%
10Chongqing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 47.627.0%13.7×10 +17.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research, country by country

Is Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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