AI + pharmacology – ETO Research Almanac

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Between 2017 and 2022, researchers published roughly

3,000

English-language articles on AI + pharmacology

The global AI + pharmacology literature grew

272%

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 March 14, 2024

Vital signs

3,330
AI + pharmacology articles were released between 2017 and 2022 (estd.)
272%
growth in research between 2017 and 2022
<1%
of all artificial intelligence articles focused on AI + pharmacology

Citation impact

16
citations for the average AI + pharmacology article
16
citations for the average artificial intelligence article

Countries

21%
of AI + pharmacology articles have American authors
38%
have Chinese authors
12%
have European authors

Country	Articles (2017-2021)	Growth (2017-2021)	Global share	Citations per article
China	916	214%	38%	17.3
United States	517	185%	21%	37.1
India	142	308%	6%	18.3

Top-cited articles

Applications of machine learning in drug discovery and development
2019: Nature reviews. Drug discovery. 1,379 citations
Generating Focussed Molecule Libraries for Drug Discovery with Recurrent Neural Networks
2017: arXiv. 1,133 citations
Modeling polypharmacy side effects with graph convolutional networks
2018: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 918 citations
DeepDTA: deep drug–target binding affinity prediction
2018: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). 767 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). 697 citations
Machine learning in chemoinformatics and drug discovery
2018: Drug discovery today. 663 citations
Concepts of Artificial Intelligence for Computer-Assisted Drug Discovery
2019: Chemical reviews. 510 citations
Pushing the Boundaries of Molecular Representation for Drug Discovery with the Graph Attention Mechanism
2019: Journal of medicinal chemistry. 474 citations
Artificial intelligence in drug discovery and development
2020: Drug discovery today. 460 citations
Rethinking drug design in the artificial intelligence era
2019: Nature reviews. Drug discovery. 425 citations

Research organizations

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

#1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
#2 Central South University (China)
#3 Harvard University (United States)

Organization	Articles (2017-2022)	Citations per article	Country
Chinese Academy of Sciences	59	25.1	China
Central South University	52	34.7	China
Harvard University	40	26.4	United States

Patents and industry

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

Top industry organizations by publication count

Company	Articles (2017-2022)	Citations per article	Country
IBM	24	35.2	United States
AstraZeneca	22	98.3	United Kingdom
Tencent	13	35.9	China

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.