AI Research: chart data from AI Adoption (https://aiadoption.org/ai-research-statistics/)

Data from the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI) and the partners named below. Licence: CC BY-ND 4.0, as for the AI Index.
Each CSV is the data behind one chart. Cite the chart page and its original source.

ai-publications-worldwide.csv  AI publications reached 258,000 in 2024, 41% of all computer science papers
    Source: AI Index, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-publications-worldwide/
ai-publications-by-venue.csv  Journals published 47% of AI papers in 2024; conferences' share fell to 23.5%
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-publications-by-venue/
ai-publications-by-sector.csv  Universities produced 68% of AI publications in 2024; industry 11.5%
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-publications-by-sector/
ai-publications-by-topic.csv  Generative AI papers rose 2.6 times in a year to 34,200 in 2024
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-publications-by-topic/
ai-publications-by-country.csv  China has published the largest share of AI research of any country or region every year since 2021
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-publications-by-country/
ai-publications-by-world-region.csv  East Asia and the Pacific produced 26% of AI publications in 2024, twice Europe and Central Asia
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-publications-by-world-region/
ai-publications-sector-us-china-europe.csv  A quarter of US AI papers come from industry; in China, a quarter come from government
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-publications-sector-us-china-europe/
ai-conference-attendance.csv  Attendance at 16 major AI conferences passed 100,000 in 2025
    Source: AI Index, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-conference-attendance/
largest-ai-conferences-attendance.csv  NeurIPS drew 26,400 attendees in 2025, more than twice any other AI conference
    Source: AI Index, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/largest-ai-conferences-attendance/
smaller-ai-conferences-attendance.csv  FAccT and AAMAS each drew about 600 attendees in 2025, the largest of the smaller AI conferences
    Source: AI Index, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/smaller-ai-conferences-attendance/
ai-patents-granted-worldwide.csv  131,121 AI patents were granted worldwide in 2024, 34 times as many as in 2010
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-patents-granted-worldwide/
ai-patents-share-by-country.csv  China was granted 74% of the world's AI patents in 2024; the US 12%
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-patents-share-by-country/
ai-patents-granted-by-country.csv  China was granted almost 98,000 AI patents in 2024, six times the US
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-patents-granted-by-country/
ai-patents-per-capita.csv  South Korea was granted 14.3 AI patents per 100,000 people in 2024, the most of any country
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-patents-per-capita/
ai-patent-portfolios-us-china-proximity.csv  Every other country's AI patents look more like the US's portfolio than China's
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-patent-portfolios-us-china-proximity/
ai-natural-science-publications.csv  AI-related natural science publications rose 26% to about 80,150 in 2025
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-natural-science-publications/
ai-share-of-natural-science-research.csv  AI-related work was 8.8% of Earth science publications in 2025, the highest share of the fields tracked
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-share-of-natural-science-research/
astabench-science-agents-score-cost.csv  Ai2's Asta v0 agent scored 0.53 on AstaBench at $3.40 a problem; no other agent tested passed 0.44
    Source: AstaBench Leaderboard, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/astabench-science-agents-score-cost/
paperarena-single-vs-multi-agent.csv  Gemini 2.5 Pro scored 38.8% on PaperArena as a multi-agent system, the best of nine models tested
    Source: Wang et al., 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/paperarena-single-vs-multi-agent/
