Paper ID: 2211.12424

One Venue, Two Conferences: The Separation of Chinese and American Citation Networks

Bingchen Zhao, Yuling Gu, Jessica Zosa Forde, Naomi Saphra

At NeurIPS, American and Chinese institutions cite papers from each other's regions substantially less than they cite endogamously. We build a citation graph to quantify this divide, compare it to European connectivity, and discuss the causes and consequences of the separation.

Submitted: Nov 17, 2022