Scientific publication activity in the field of artificial intelligence – Q12023 (The material was provided by the Department for Research Centers in the Field of Artificial Intelligence of the Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation together with the National Centre for AI Development for the Government of the Russian Federation)

The leaders in scientific publication activity in the field of artificial intelligence for the first quarter of 2023 are China, the USA and the UK. China leads by a significant margin and has maintained its place in the rankings for the past four quarters. At the same time, Russia is in 19th place, ahead of Singapore, but demonstrating a weakening of its position over the past four quarters. It should be noted the strengthening of the position of Singapore, which has risen over the past year from 26th to 20^th place in terms of the quarterly number of scientific publications in the field of artificial intelligence.

The most popular topic in terms of the number of publications in the first quarter of 2023 is electronic engineering. At the same time, the most popular topic in terms of the number of citations is software. In general, the lists of the five most popular and most cited topics correspond to each other.

In terms of the number of publications in the most popular topics, the leaders are China (the most active organization is the Chinese Academy of Sciences) and the United States (the most active organizations are Cornell, Harvard and Carnegie Mellon Universities). The same countries and organizations retain their leadership in the most popular topics. It should be noted that in the two most popular topics, Russia’s position in terms of the number of publications is significantly weaker than in other topics.

The most authoritative scientific journal that published articles in the field of artificial intelligence in the first quarter of 2023 is Imformation Fusion, which is assigned a citation quartile of 1 and has an impact factor of 4.56 (SJR). The main theme of the journal is the joint processing of information from various sensors from several sources.

The share of articles with the most significant results is 0.4% of the total number of publications.

The leader in publications in the most authoritative journals for the first quarter of 2023 is China.

Commercial companies publish the results of scientific research on the following topics: medicine, engineering (including electronics), materials science, biochemistry, computer networks, hardware. These practical results are published in journals that has a smaller impact factor than those publishing fundamental results.