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Clarivate and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Release Annual Joint Report to Identify 171 Research Fronts
Thursday, December 16, 2021
Selecting 110 hot and 61 emerging research specialties in 11 areas of sciences and social sciences
LONDON, Dec. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) today released "Research Fronts 2021" report, to identify the hottest and emerging areas in the world of scientific research. This is the eighth annual collaborative report between the two parties and it was launched at a joint forum today in Beijing.
"Research Fronts 2021" identified 171 research fronts, including 110 hot and 61 emerging fronts in 11 broad research areas in sciences and social sciences. Research Fronts are formed when clusters of highly cited papers are frequently cited together, reflecting a specific commonality in the research - sometimes experimental data, a method, a concept or a hypothesis. Around one third of the Research Fronts identified this year are related to COVID-19. These include six among the top 10 Research Fronts in clinical medicine and three among the top 10 Research Fronts in biological sciences. The research being produced in these areas is instrumental to the fight against the disease and will have enormous impact on the world.
Working in collaboration with the Institute of Science and Development and the National Science Library, both affiliated with CAS, bibliometric experts from Clarivate utilized the Essential Science Indicators (ESI)(TM) database which is built on the foundation of the Web of Science(TM) index to conduct co-citation analysis. The 2021 report starts with 12,147 Research Fronts in ESI from 2015 to 2020 and aims to discover which Research Fronts were most active or developing most rapidly. Analysts at CAS analyzed the 171 Research Fronts in great depth and interpreted them to highlight 31 key Research Fronts and two key Research Fronts groups.
"It has been our pleasure and privilege to collaborate with the Chinese Academy of Sciences on this important Research Fronts report for the past eight consecutive years. Its content guides us to look to the future of research and demonstrates Clarivate's vision to improve the way the world creates, protects and advances innovation," said Steen Lomholt-Thomsen, Chief Revenue Officer of Clarivate. "We are incredibly proud of the increasing influence this report has achieved over the years - not only in China but also in the other parts of the world."
Gao Hongjun, Vice President of CAS said: "Research Fronts 2021 is an important collaborative achievement, launched globally by Institute of Science and Development of CAS, the National Science Library of CAS and Clarivate. Basic research is the foundation of CAS. We have started strategic research programs including 'Study and analysis on China's major scientific and technological breakthrough that may impact the future global landscape', in a move to better understand the future direction and focus of science and technology. We will leverage our research resources to make better forward-looking analysis on China's key breakthrough in science and technology that may affect the future of the world, as well as better support China's strategic plan in scientific and technological innovation."
In conjunction with the Research Fronts 2021 report, Clarivate and CAS also published "2021 Research Fronts: Active Fields, Leading Countries", which examines and compares national performance across the 171 Research Fronts. It reveals that the US remains the leading nation for research in 11 areas of sciences and social sciences, followed by China. The gap between the US and China has been reduced. Other top 10 countries in terms of performance in these Research Fronts are UK, Germany, Italy, France, Australia, Canada, Spain and the Netherlands.
The 22 noteworthy topics among the 110 hottest Research Fronts are:
Hot Research Fronts
Field of Science
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Plant pan-genome research Agricultural, Plant and Animal
Sciences
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Research on the base editors Agricultural, Plant and Animal
of animals and plants Sciences
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Trend, extinctions, and the
drivers of insect declines Ecology and Environmental Sciences
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Distribution, exposure,
toxicology, and control of
perfluoroalkyl and
polyfluoroalkyl substances Ecology and Environmental Sciences
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Assessment of global fire
emissions using multiple
satellite data sets
Geosciences
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Development and evaluation
of multiple global
precipitation datasets
Geosciences
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Clinical characteristics of
COVID-19 patients
Clinical Medicine
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Clinical findings and
perinatal outcomes among
pregnant women with COVID-
19
Clinical Medicine
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Identification of pathogens
of COVID-19, complete
genome sequence analysis of
SARS-CoV-2 and
recognition of ACE2
receptor
Biological Sciences
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Structure, function and
antigenicity of SARS-CoV-
2 spike glycoprotein
Biological Sciences
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Non-covalent interactions
(halogen, chalcogen, etc.) Chemistry and Materials Sciences
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Chemodynamic therapy Chemistry and Materials Sciences
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High-temperature
superconductivity in
hydrogen-rich compounds
under high pressure
Physics
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Antiferromagnetic
spintronics
Physics
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Possible link between
primordial black holes and
dark matter
Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Scalar-tensor theories and
implications from
gravitational-wave
detections
Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Methods of solving high-
dimensional nonlinear
partial differential
equations
Mathematics
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Complex network analysis of
nonlinear time series
Mathematics
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Deep neural networks for
video action recognition
Information Science
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UVA-based wireless
communication technology
Information Science
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The impact of the COVID-19 Economics, Psychology and other
pandemic on mental health Social Sciences
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Application of robots in Economics, Psychology and other
tourism, marketing, and Social Sciences
services industries,
accelerated by the COVID-
19 pandemic
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The 11 noteworthy topics among the 61 emerging Research Fronts are:
Emerging Research Fronts
(Group) Field of Science
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The alleviating effect of Agricultural, Plant and Animal
ACC deaminase producing Sciences
PGPR on crop drought
stress
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Impact of nitrogen
dioxide levels on COVID-
19 mortality Ecology and Environmental Sciences
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Insight's seismic
experiment on Mars
Geosciences
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Organ damages and
complications caused by
new coronavirus
infection (Emerging
Research Front Group)
Clinical Medicine
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SARS-CoV-2 vaccine
research and development
(Emerging Research Front
Group)
Clinical Medicine
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Structural elucidation
and inhibitor discovery
of SARS-CoV-2 major
protease Mpro
Biological Sciences
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Rapid detection of COVID-
19 causative virus using
chemical sensor Chemistry and Materials Sciences
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Superconductivity of
infinite layer
nickelates
Physics
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Gravitational-wave
detections from
colliding black holes Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Research on deep neural
networks for detection
and diagnosis of COVID-
19 based on medical
images
Information Science
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Psychometric assessment Economics, Psychology and other
of COVID-19 anxiety Social Sciences
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About Clarivate
Clarivate(TM) is a global leader in providing solutions to accelerate the lifecycle of innovation. Our bold mission is to help customers solve some of the world's most complex problems by providing actionable information and insights that reduce the time from new ideas to life-changing inventions in the areas of science and intellectual property. We help customers discover, protect and commercialize their inventions using our trusted subscription and technology-based solutions coupled with deep domain expertise. For more information, please visit?clarivate.com.
About the Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is the linchpin of China's drive to explore and harness high technology and the natural sciences for the benefit of China and the world. Comprising a comprehensive research and development network, a merit-based learned society and a system of higher education, CAS brings together scientists and engineers from China and around the world to address both theoretical and applied problems using world-class scientific and management approaches. Since its founding, CAS has fulfilled multiple roles -- as a national team and a locomotive driving national technological innovation, a pioneer in supporting nationwide S&T development, a think tank delivering S&T advice, and a community for training young S&T talent. For more information, please visit http://english.cas.cn/.
Clarivate media contact
Jack Wan, External Communications Director
media.enquiries@clarivate.com
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