Table 1 Group characteristics for empirical articles on AI and SDGs

From: Artificial intelligence in sustainable development research

Group

Colour

Number of articles

Top ten words

Top three SDGs

Top three algorithms

Health care

Red

49

Care, health, healthcare, patient, hospital, privacy, adoption, society, access, medicine

Health, education, sustainable cities

Artificial Neural Network, Convolutional Neural Network, Random Forest

Vegetation

Green

62

Soil, vegetation, land, crop, conservation, cover, agriculture, area, water, slope

Zero hunger, gender equality, life on land

Artificial Neural Network, Adaptive Network-based Fuzzy Inference System, Back Propagation Neural Network

Forecasting

Brown

52

Vector, feature, accuracy, prediction, forecasting, input, parameter, weather, algorithm, electricity

Health, clean energy, responsible consumption

Artificial Neural Network, Convolutional Neural Network, Long Short Term Memory Network

Water

Neon blue

53

River, rainfall, hydrology, water, square, basin, evaporation, forecasting, reservoir, runoff

Clean water, clean energy, sustainable cities

Artificial Neural Network, Adaptive Network-based Fuzzy Inference System, Back Propagation Neural Network

Remote sensing

Olive green

47

Camera, detection, device, transmission, architecture, sensor, server, edge, image, cloud

Sustainable cities, responsible consumption, climate action

Artificial Neural Network, Convolutional Neural Network, Back Propagation Neural Network

Clean energy

Pink

42

Fuel, energy, hydrogen, gas, emission, carbon, design, generation, heat, building

Clean energy, responsible consumption, climate action

Artificial Neural Network, Genetic Algorithm, Adaptive Network-based Fuzzy Inference System

Industry

Violet

39

Manufacturing, chain, competitiveness, business, market, industry, customer, productivity, innovation, product

Industry, responsible consumption, climate action

Artificial Neural Network, Genetic Algorithm, Support Vector Machine

Education

Turquoise

39

Teaching, curriculum, student, teacher, education, classroom, course, instruction, school, university

Education, decent work, industry

Artificial Neural Network, Convolutional Neural Network, Decision Tree