Academic Publishing on Geoscience Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Its been 10 years since my first academic research into Natural Language Processing (NLP) applied to Geoscience. I’ve done a quick analysis in Google Scholar for one measure on how the discipline has evolved. It is exciting to see the probable exponential growth in the number of papers about (or referencing) this topic. I’ve also added some country subsets (China, United States and United Kingdom) to show where the growth is distributed from a geographical perspective.

For 2023 I have extrapolated Q4 based on Q1-3 numbers. There are some potential limitations of these data. The numbers refer to counts generated by Google Scholar so are a surrogate for the number of publications. I have however cross correlated by looking at precise numbers at one publisher (Elsevier), where in 2013 there were just 2 papers on this topic, by 2023 there were 104 per year, confirming the exponential growth.

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