Big Tech influence over AI research revisited: Memetic analysis of attribution of ideas to affiliation

Stanislaw Gizinski, Paulina Kaczynska, Hubert Ruczynski, Emilia Wisnios, Bartosz Pielinski, Przemyslaw Biecek, Julian Sienkiewicz

Abstract: Highlights•Affiliation type, attributed to a paper, is a continuum between academia and industry.•Conditioned meme score measures idea spread given a type of affiliation.•Most highly cited papers are those co-authored with mixed affiliations.•In general, the contagiousness of single memes does not depend on affiliation.•Memes present in both affiliations spread more easily through Big Tech than Academia.