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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a very active research area with a number of applications in business, communication, healthcare, etc. AI attracts great attention in Russia and in late 2019 was included in the country strategy till 2030. In this paper we analyze Russia's position in the space of international scholarly publications on AI. While AI research is interdisciplinary, its core fits the computer science field, where most of the original results are published in conference proceedings and not in journals. Therefore, we consider the list of key AI conferences based on the Australian CORE and Microsoft Academic rankings. We conduct a comparative analysis Russia vs World based on the Scopus data. The metrics used in the analysis allow us to tackle both quantity and quality dimensions. The results of the study are essential for developing measures for the further implementation of the National Strategy for the Development of Artificial Intelligence in Russia and better understanding its position in the international scientific community.

Conferences are an essential tool for scientific communication. In disciplines such as Computer Science, over 50% of original research results are published in conference proceedings. In this study, we have analyzed the role of conference proceedings in various disciplines and propose an alternative approach to research evaluation based on conference proceedings and Scimago Journal Rank (SJR). The result of the study is a list of conference proceedings, categorized Q1 -Q4 in several disciplines by analogy with SJR journal quartiles. The comparison of this bibliometric-driven ranking with the expert-driven CORE ranking in Computer Science showed a 62% overlap, as well as a significant average rank correlation of the category distribution. Moreover, 38 conference proceedings in Engineering (45% of the list) and 23 in Computer Science (32% of the list) have an SJR level corresponding to the first quartile journals in these areas. This again emphasizes the exceptional importance of conferences in these disciplines.

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