Artificial Intelligence and Citation Patterns

Increasing use of technology in the production of scientific knowledge is of course an uncertain path, because even the present is unpredictable. I am not an academic and have no citations to my name, however I have been discussing citation patterns with an Associate Professor at my university. We thought about how this could be influenced by machine learning techniques or the field of artificial intelligence in general. Lo and behold he sent me a picture from one of the groups he was participating in that led me to think it was worth looking closer. As you can see there is a highest concentration towards the top five percent with the same papers being cited over and over.