Los Angeles, December 11, 2025 — Marktechpost has released ML Global Impact Report 2025 (AIResearchTrends.com). This educational report’s analysis includes over 5,000 articles from more than 125 countries, all published within the Nature family of journals between January 1 and September 30, 2025. The scope of this report is strictly confined to this specific body of work and is not a comprehensive assessment of global research.This report focuses solely on the specific work presented and does not represent a full evaluation of worldwide research.
The ML Global Impact Report 2025 focuses on three core questions:
- In which disciplines has ML become part of the standard methodological toolkit, and where is adoption still sparse.
- Which kinds of problems are most likely to rely on ML, such as high-dimensional imaging, sequence data, or complex physical simulations.
- How ML usage patterns differ by geography and research ecosystem, based on the global footprint of these selected 5,000 papers.
ML has most frequently become part of the standard methodological toolkit within the disciplines of applied sciences and health research, where it is often employed as a critical step within a larger experimental workflow rather than being the main subject of research itself. The analysis of the papers indicates that ML’s adoption is concentrated in these domains, with the tools serving to augment existing research pipelines. The report aims to distinguish these areas of common use from other fields where the integration of machine learning remains less frequent.
The kinds of problems most likely to rely on machine learning are those involving complex data analysis tasks, such as high-dimensional imaging, sequence data analysis, and intricate physical simulations. The report tracks the specific task types, including prediction, classification, segmentation, sequence modeling, feature extraction, and simulation, to understand where ML is being applied. This categorization highlights the utility of machine learning across different stages of the research process, from initial data processing to final output generation.
ML usage patterns show a distinct geographical separation between the origins of the tools and the heavy users of the technology. The majority of machine learning tools cited in the corpus originate from organizations based in the United States, which maintains many widely used frameworks and libraries. In contrast, China is identified as the largest contributor to the research papers, accounting for about 40% of all ML-tagged papers, significantly more than the United States’ contribution of around 18%. The report also highlights the global ecosystem by citing frequently used non-US tools, such as Scikit-learn (France), U-Net (Germany), and CatBoost (Russia), along with tools originated from Canada including GAN and RNN families.Overall, the ML Global Impact Report 2025 provides deep insights into the global research ecosystem, highlighting that Machine Learning has become a standard methodological tool primarily within applied sciences and health research. The analysis reveals a concentration of ML usage on complex data challenges, such as high-dimensional imaging and physical simulations. A core finding is the clear geographical split between the origin of ML tools—many maintained by US organizations—and the heaviest users of the technology, with China accounting for a significantly higher number of ML-tagged research papers in the analyzed corpus. These patterns are specific to the 5,000+ Nature family articles analysed, underscoring the report’s focused view on current research workflows.
Michal Sutter is a data science professional with a Master of Science in Data Science from the University of Padova. With a solid foundation in statistical analysis, machine learning, and data engineering, Michal excels at transforming complex datasets into actionable insights.
