AI + pharmacology – ETO Research Almanac

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Between 2017 and 2022, researchers published roughly

4,000

English-language articles on AI + pharmacology

The global AI + pharmacology literature grew

381%

between 2017 and 2022

Articles on AI + pharmacology made up

<1%

of all articles on artificial intelligence

Authors from private companies contributed to

of AI + pharmacology articles

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Data last updated October 15, 2024

Vital signs

3,555
AI + pharmacology articles were released between 2017 and 2022 (estd.)
381%
growth in research between 2017 and 2022
<1%
of all artificial intelligence articles focused on AI + pharmacology

Citation impact

23
citations for the average AI + pharmacology article
20
citations for the average artificial intelligence article

Countries

24%
of AI + pharmacology articles have American authors
29%
have Chinese authors
15%
have European authors

Country	Articles (2017-2022)	Growth (2017-2022)	Global share	Citations per article
China	1,031	544%	29%	23.9
United States	837	194%	24%	36.9
India	361	658%	10%	14.9

Top-cited articles

Applications of machine learning in drug discovery and development
2019: Nature reviews. Drug discovery. 1,741 citations
The rise of deep learning in drug discovery.
2018: Drug discovery today. 1,354 citations
Modeling polypharmacy side effects with graph convolutional networks
2018: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 1,058 citations
DeepDTA: deep drug–target binding affinity prediction
2018: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). 994 citations
Predicting commercially available antiviral drugs that may act on the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) through a drug-target interaction deep learning model
2020: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 776 citations
Artificial intelligence in drug discovery and development
2020: Drug discovery today. 755 citations
Machine learning in chemoinformatics and drug discovery.
2018: Drug discovery today. 751 citations
A network integration approach for drug-target interaction prediction and computational drug repositioning from heterogeneous information
2017: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 682 citations
Artificial intelligence to deep learning: machine intelligence approach for drug discovery
2021: Molecular diversity. 649 citations
Concepts of Artificial Intelligence for Computer-Assisted Drug Discovery
2019: Chemical reviews. 633 citations

Research organizations

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

#1 Central South University (China)
#2 Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
#3 Hunan University (China)

Organization	Articles (2017-2022)	Citations per article	Country
Central South University	63	40.3	China
Chinese Academy of Sciences	55	29.9	China
Hunan University	39	44.8	China

Patents and industry

8%
of AI + pharmacology articles are cited in patents
6%
of artificial intelligence articles are cited in patents
8%
of AI + pharmacology articles had authors from private companies (vs 6% of artificial intelligence articles in general)

Top industry organizations by publication count

Company	Articles (2017-2022)	Citations per article	Country
AstraZeneca	28	104.4	United Kingdom
Tencent	16	44.4	China
IBM	12	62.1	United States

The Research Almanac runs on bibliometric data from Clarivate Web of Science and other sources. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.