One Venue, Two Conferences: The Separation of Chinese and American Citation Networks
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arXiv:2211.12424v13 citationsh-index: 15
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This highlights a separation in academic collaboration that could impact global AI research progress.
The study quantified the citation divide between American and Chinese institutions at NeurIPS, finding they cite each other's regions substantially less than endogamously, and compared it to European connectivity.
At NeurIPS, American and Chinese institutions cite papers from each other's regions substantially less than they cite endogamously. We build a citation graph to quantify this divide, compare it to European connectivity, and discuss the causes and consequences of the separation.