AI + neuroscience – ETO Research Almanac

ETO Research Almanac

Between 2018 and 2023, researchers published roughly

30,000

English-language articles on AI + neuroscience

The global AI + neuroscience literature grew

164%

between 2018 and 2023

Articles on AI + neuroscience made up

of all articles on artificial intelligence

Authors from private companies contributed to

of AI + neuroscience articles

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Data last updated January 6, 2025

Vital signs

31,009
AI + neuroscience articles were released between 2018 and 2023 (estd.)
164%
growth in research between 2018 and 2023
2%
of all artificial intelligence articles focused on AI + neuroscience

Citation impact

15
citations for the average AI + neuroscience article
16
citations for the average artificial intelligence article

Countries

19%
of AI + neuroscience articles have American authors
20%
have Chinese authors
15%
have European authors

Country	Articles (2018-2023)	Growth (2018-2023)	Global share	Citations per article
China	6,257	236%	20%	17.5
United States	5,867	73%	19%	23.6
India	5,859	330%	19%	11.3

Top-cited articles

Identifying the Best Machine Learning Algorithms for Brain Tumor Segmentation, Progression Assessment, and Overall Survival Prediction in the BRATS Challenge
2018: arXiv. 1,686 citations
Deep learning for electroencephalogram (EEG) classification tasks: a review
2019: Journal of neural engineering. 1,189 citations
3D MRI brain tumor segmentation using autoencoder regularization
2018: arXiv. 1,176 citations
Deep Learning in Spiking Neural Networks
2018: Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society. 1,075 citations
Brain tumor classification using deep CNN features via transfer learning
2019: Computers in biology and medicine. 997 citations
Swin UNETR: Swin Transformers for Semantic Segmentation of Brain Tumors in MRI Images
2022: arXiv. 996 citations
SimAM: A Simple, Parameter-Free Attention Module for Convolutional Neural Networks
2021: International Conference on Machine Learning. 920 citations
Weighted Res-UNet for High-Quality Retina Vessel Segmentation
2018: International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education. 916 citations
TransBTS: Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Transformer
2021: arXiv. 869 citations
A deep learning framework for neuroscience
2019: Nature neuroscience. 863 citations

Research organizations

Top producers of AI + neuroscience research (by article count)

#1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
#2 Harvard University (United States)
#3 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (United States)

Organization	Articles (2018-2023)	Citations per article	Country
Chinese Academy of Sciences	384	28.3	China
Harvard University	377	35.6	United States
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	256	33.6	United States

Patents and industry

4%
of AI + neuroscience articles are cited in patents
5%
of artificial intelligence articles are cited in patents
4%
of AI + neuroscience articles had authors from private companies (vs 6% of artificial intelligence articles in general)

Top industry organizations by publication count

Company	Articles (2018-2023)	Citations per article	Country
United Imaging Healthcare	78	16.6	China
Google	62	78	United States
Intel	40	62.4	United States

The Research Almanac runs on bibliometric data from Clarivate Web of Science and other sources. Research subject classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.