Understanding Team Collaboration in Artificial Intelligence from the perspective of Geographic Distance
This study provides insights into the evolving landscape of AI research collaboration for policymakers and researchers, showing trends in geographic distribution and key contributing countries.
This paper analyzed 1,584,175 AI publications from 1950-2019 to understand team collaboration patterns based on geographic distance. It found that multi-affiliation AI publications increased to 38.4% by 2019, and both domestic and international collaborations expanded in breadth and density over time.
This paper analyzes team collaboration in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the perspective of geographic distance. We obtained 1,584,175 AI related publications during 1950-2019 from the Microsoft Academic Graph. Three latitude-and-longitude-based indicators were employed to quantify the geographic distance of collaborations in AI over time at domestic and international levels. The results show team collaborations in AI has been more popular in the field over time with around 42,000 (38.4%) multiple-affiliation AI publications in 2019. The changes in geographic distances of team collaborations indicate the increase of breadth and density for both domestic and international collaborations in AI over time. In addition, the United States produced the largest number of single-country and internationally collaborated AI publications, and China has played an important role in international collaborations in AI after 2010.