Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, and Chinese Academy of Sciences have released 'Research Fronts 2016', an annual report identifying prominent areas of scientific research over the past year. This is the third collaborative report from these two organisations.
The paper identifies 180 key research fronts including 100 hot and 80 emerging fronts, based on a comprehensive analysis of scientific literature citations. The analysis generated 12,188 research fronts in the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database from 2009 until 2015. Research fronts are specialties discovered when scientists cite one another's work, reflecting a specific commonality in the research, which can be experimental data, a concept or hypothesis or even a method.
Working in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Clarivate bibliometric experts utilised the ESI database, a web-based research analytics platform and a unique compilation of science performance metrics and trend data based on scholarly paper publication counts and citation data from the Web of ScienceTM. Once identified, the research fronts built on recently published ‘core’ or foundational journal articles.
The 2016 report also features an analysis of the current and potential performance of six leading countries in the 180 research fronts – USA, China, UK, Germany, France and Japan. Analysts at the Institutes of Science and Development and the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences also analyzed the 180 research fronts provided by Clarivate in great depth and interpreted it to highlight 28 research fronts of particular interest.
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