Category: Research profiling
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The Role of the National Science Foundation in the Origin and Evolution of Additive Manufacturing in the United States
Additive manufacturing (AM) is growing rapidly as a field of research, as well as an emerging technology with the potential to revolutionize manufacturing. Firms in the United States are a dominant player in the field, selling over 70% of the professional grade machines to date. This is a fitting time to look at the evolution…
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Mapping the emerging field of genome editing
Targeted genetic modification (TagMo) technologies are being used for new approaches to genetic engineering often called ‘genome editing’. These approaches are in the early stages of development, and basic understandings of what TagMo is, of its likely future, and how it should be governed are still being established.
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Portrait of China’s R&D Activities in Nano-Science and Nanotechnology in Bibliometric Study
China has made great improvement in some critical scientific subject, like nanoscience and nanotechnology. This study explores the state-of-the-art developments of China in nanoscience and nanotechnology, as the previous study showed that China has become the second leading nation in terms of its share of “nano-prefixed” publications all over the world. Patent applications are also…
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Effects of international collaboration and knowledge moderation on China’s nanotechnology research impacts
Recent studies report that China is becoming a leading nation in the quantity of scientific output, including in the emerging field of nanotechnology. In nanotechnology, bibliometric measures based on citations also indicate improvements in the research impacts of Chinese scientific papers.