Some more/better data: I added up the number of university researchers who publish in top AI conferences (according to csrankings.org) between 2017 and 2018. H

Some more/better data: I added up the number of university researchers who publish in top AI conferences (according to csrankings.org) between 2017 and 2018. Here are rough/approximate numbers of faculty members/university researchers who published as above in each country/continent: US 770 Canada 92 Asia (including China) 340 China 240 Europe 280 Australia + New Zealand 86 South America 12 The world excluding the US 810 So the US is still far ahead of other nations/regions, but it now has a bit below 50% of the world's university researchers who recently published in top conferences in AI. (AI is the field I'm interested in. Feel free to look into other fields.) An issue with the data is that some researchers in larger regions (Asia/Europe) may only choose to publish in their regional conferences instead. The number of researchers is not weighted by the number of papers published but this number is useful since it counts the number of people who are capable to advising graduate students to produce world-class research. Using the number of papers is complicated by the number of highly capable international graduate students who choose to study in each program (in addition to the researcher's capability). http://csrankings.org/#/fromyear/2017/toyear/2018/index?ai&vision&mlmining&nlp&ir&world http://csrankings.org/#/fromyear/2017/toyear/2018/index?ai&v...