Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most momentous technologies of our time. Thus, it is of major importance to know which stakeholders influence AI research. Besides researchers at universities and colleges, researchers in companies have hardly been considered in this context. In this article, we consider how the influence of companies on AI research can be made measurable on the basis of scientific publishing activities. We compare academic- and company-authored AI publications published in the last decade and use scientometric data from multiple scholarly databases to look for differences across these groups and to disclose the top contributing organizations. While the vast majority of publications is still produced by academia, we find that the citation count an individual publication receives is significantly higher when it is (co-)authored by a company. Furthermore, using a variety of altmetric indicators, we notice that publications with company participation receive considerably more attention online. Finally, we place our analysis results in a broader context and present targeted recommendations to safeguard a harmonious balance between academia and industry in the realm of AI research.

翻译：人工智能是当代最具影响力的技术之一，因此明确哪些利益相关方主导着AI研究具有重大意义。除高校和大学的研究人员外，企业研究人员在这一领域的作用此前鲜少被关注。本文基于科学出版活动，探讨如何量化企业对AI研究的影响。我们对比了过去十年间学术界与企业界发表的AI论文，通过多个学术数据库的文献计量数据，揭示这两类群体间的差异，并列出贡献最大的研究机构。尽管绝大多数论文仍由学术界产出，但研究发现：当企业参与（共同）署名时，单篇论文获得的引用量显著更高。此外，通过多种替代计量指标，我们发现含企业参与的论文在网络上获得了更多关注。最后，本文将这些分析结果置于更宏观的背景下，为维护AI研究领域学术界与产业界的和谐平衡提供了针对性建议。