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<article xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/xsd/JATS-journalpublishing1-mathml3.xsd" dtd-version="1.1" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">SSR</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Scientific and Social Research</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn>2661-4332</issn><eissn>2981-9946</eissn><publisher><publisher-name>Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty. Ltd.</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.26689/ssr.v7i12.13363</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title>A Ten-year Review and Visual Analysis of Global Artificial Intelligence Research—A Bibliometric Analysis in CiteSpace Based on Highly Cited Literature</title><url>https://artdesignp.com/journal/SSR/7/12/10.26689/ssr.v7i12.13363</url><author>LaiHongbo,HanZhang,ZhaoYiwei,ZhangYunxi</author><pub-date pub-type="publication-year"><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>7</volume><issue>12</issue><history><date date-type="pub"><published-time>2025-12-31</published-time></date></history><abstract>Taking the highly cited literature related to artificial intelligence over the ten-year span between 2009 and 2019 from the Web of Science database as the data sample, this paper has analyzed the distribution of literature, hot topics of research, frontier research and evolution of artificial intelligence by using CiteSpace and applying dual-map overlay, co-word and co-citation analysis, among other bibliometric approaches. 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