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# AI-related work was 8.8% of Earth science publications in 2025, the highest share of the fields tracked
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-share-of-natural-science-research/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:37:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:56.000Z
- Description: In 2025, 8.8% of Earth science publications were AI-related, up from 0.7% in 2010. Across the natural sciences as a whole the share was 6.8%.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Research, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-research

8.8%

▲ 8.1 pts since 2010

share of Earth science publications that were AI-related in 2025

20102025

## What the chart shows

AI-related work made up 8.8% of Earth science publications in 2025, the highest share of the three fields the AI Index tracks and up from 0.7% in 2010\. Across the natural sciences as a whole the share was 6.8%.

The life sciences (6.5%) and physical sciences (5.8%) follow. All four measures were below 1% in 2010 and climbed after 2018; the share for the natural sciences as a whole rose 1.1 percentage points in 2025 alone.

## Key numbers

| Measure                    | Value |
| -------------------------- | ----- |
| Earth science, 2025        | 8.79% |
| All natural sciences, 2025 | 6.80% |
| Life sciences, 2025        | 6.48% |
| Physical sciences, 2025    | 5.84% |
| Earth science, 2010        | 0.72% |
| All natural sciences, 2010 | 0.47% |

## How to read it

- Share of each field’s publications in the Web of Science that the AI Index classifies as AI-related.
- Earth science is counted separately from the physical sciences here; a paper can belong to more than one field.
- Differences between shares are in percentage points.

**Source:** [AI Index](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#ai-index), 2026, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 5.1.2: *AI-related publications in natural sciences (% of total), 2010–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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