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Show HN: Mapping AI research, from 496k indexed papers

Show HN: Mapping AI research, from 496k indexed papers

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AI Research Atlas Where the people who do AI research are, and what they are working on. We index the AI research literature ourselves, from arXiv, OpenAlex, ORCID and DBLP, and every figure here is a count on that index. Pick a country to see its subjects, pick a subject to see where it lives.

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Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 6,140 of its stories.

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Original publisherFounding Hires
Canonical URLhttps://foundinghires.tech/atlas.html
Publication timeWed, 23 Sep 2026 15:04:53 +0000
Retrieval time2026-09-23T15:09:30.654Z
Last seen2026-09-23T15:09:30.654Z
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AI Research Atlas Where the people who do AI research are, and what they are working on. We index the AI research literature ourselves, from arXiv, OpenAlex, ORCID and DBLP, and every figure here is a count on that index. Pick a country to see its subjects, pick a subject to see where it lives. Each number says how many profiles it stands on, and the aggregates behind the page are free to download. Reports by country and subject → Download the aggregates, CSV and JSON → / Method Subject Clear subject Map of researchers by country circle area follows the count Where the doctoral pipeline is heading People who started publishing in the last three years, by subject, against the three years before. The counts are counts.

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