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IQVIA
IQVIA provides analytics, compliance, and management solutions to the life sciences industry.
Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Sector | Pharmaceuticals & Medical Research |
| Website | https://www.iqvia.com/ |
Between 2015 and 2025, IQVIA researchers released144 AI research articles
- #78in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 27.67citations per AI article on average (#157 in PARAT, #84 in the S&P 500)
- 21highly cited articles (#59 in PARAT, #21 in the S&P 500)
- -16.5%growth in IQVIA's public AI research (2020–2023)
- 32articles at top AI conferences (#51 in PARAT, #18 in the S&P 500)
- 2.7%of IQVIA's total public research was AI-focused
IQVIA's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2020–2023) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 13 | 11.3 | 50 |
| NLP publications | 18 | 28.9 | 71.43 |
| Robotics publications | 2 | 5.5 | -100 |
| AI safety publications | 3 | 35.3 | -50 |
| Large language model publications | 14 | 53.8 | -27.78 |
Between 2015 and 2025, IQVIA filed51 AI-related patents
- #164in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- 4%growth in IQVIA's AI-related patent filing (2017–2020)
- 27AI-related patents were granted to IQVIA (2017–2020)
- 39.2%of IQVIA's filed patents were AI-related
Top AI application areas across IQVIA's filed patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Knowledge representation patents | 8 | 33.33% |
| Planning and scheduling patents | 4 | -100% |
| Analytics and algorithms patents | 2 | -100% |
| Language processing patents | 0 | N/A |
| Speech processing patents | 0 | N/A |
Top use cases across IQVIA's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Life sciences patents | 32 | 69.44% |
| Personal devices and computing patents | 27 | 22.22% |
| Security patents | 10 | -16.67% |
| Business patents | 8 | -50% |
| Telecommunications patents | 2 | -50% |
1,735
AI jobs
According to our data, IQVIA currently employs about 1,735 AI workers (#20 rank in PARAT, #16 in the S&P 500). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
7,244
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, IQVIA currently employs about 7,244 Tech Team 1 workers (#60 rank in PARAT, #48 in the S&P 500).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, ETO's Merged Academic Corpus, and other sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.