Assessing single author's research contributions in artificial intelligence: A comprehensive analysis

The aim of the present study is to measure the single author's journal articles contributions on Artificial Intelligence for the selected countries namely USA, UK, Germany and Japan. The period of coverage is 4 years spanning between 2003–2006. The analysis method referred as “relative to an identified distribution1” has been adopted to carry out the present study. Analysis helps to measure the significance of differences among the groups. The year wise comparisons also have been made to capture the single author research output on the same discipline. Study has been focused on single author contribution on AI towards journal sources only and didn't cover any other joint authors and other sources.