Studies on the Outcome and Relevance of Research in Artificial Intelligence Domain in South Asian Subcontinent

摘要

South Asian subcontinent comprises of 08 different countries varying hugely in their size, population and diversity. While India stands to be the biggestamongallofthem, othercountrieslikeMaldivesandNepalarerelativelymuchsmall.However, allthesecountriesfacesimilarchallenges in providing quality technical education to its large base of students. This paper accounts for the quantitative analysis of count of research paper publications, their citations (that examines the quality), average citations/paper and growth of research work, in much sought after engineering domain now a days viz. Artificial Intelligence. In this regard, the important research-oriented details have been gathered from SCImago. InterpretationofthecollecteddatarevealsthatIndiacontributedto90%ofSouthAsia’spublicationsonAIduring2013-2018but, ittrailedthetop northern Asian country i.e., China. It was evident from estimated data that China published 66517 articles in the AI domain, whereas, India just have published 25277 articles. Moreover, on the basis of another benchmark i.e., citation per AI document, India trailed other Asian countries like China, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Pakistan. Artificial Intelligence research in the Southern Asian region still requires large scale national funding investment and international collaboration to solveeconomic and societal challenges.