Tag: Technical Emergence

  • Determination of factors driving the genome editing field in the CRISPR era using bibliometrics (full-text)

    Over the past two decades, the discovery of CRISPR-Cas immune systems and the repurposing of their effector nucleases as biotechnological tools have revolutionized genome editing. The corresponding work has been captured by 90,000 authors representing 7,600 affiliations in 126 countries, who have published more than 19,000 papers spanning medicine, agriculture, and biotechnology. Here, we use…

  • Understanding the long-term emergence of autonomous vehicles technologies

    Identifying emerging technologies has been of long-standing interest to many scholars and practitioners. Previous studies have introduced methods to capture the concept of emergence from bibliographic records, including the recently proposed Technology Emergence Indicator (Carley et al. 2018). This indicator method has shown to be applicable to various technological fields. However, the indicator uses a…

  • Interdisciplinary knowledge combinations and emerging technological topics: Implications for reducing uncertainties in research evaluation (FULL-TEXT)

    This article puts forth a new indicator of emerging technological topics as a tool for addressing challenges inherent in the evaluation of interdisciplinary research. We present this indicator and test its relationship with interdisciplinary and atypical research combinations. We perform this test by using metadata of scientific publications in three domains with different interdisciplinarity challenges:…

  • Measuring tech emergence: A contest

    Highlights Thirteen teams strive to distinguish emerging research topics in synthetic biology. Analyses of ten years of article abstracts predict topics in the next two years. Augmenting, consolidating, embedding, and clustering text help detect emergence. Analyses of citation patterns and research networking also help discern emergence. We conducted a contest to predict highly active research…