2022 Research Fronts: Development Trends and Key Research Questions in 11 Broad Research Areas

Authors

Jiaofeng PAN, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China School of Public Plicy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, ChinaFollow
Haixia WANG, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Fuhai LENG, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, ChinaFollow
Feng ZHANG, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China School of Public Plicy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Fan YANG, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Jianxia YUAN, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Ying XING, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Weiwei FAN, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Qiuju ZHOU, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Wenyue BIAN, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Chaoxing ZHANG, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Longguang HUANG, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Haiming WANG, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Lin HAN, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Ruimin PEI, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Keywords

research front, highly cited paper, development trends in S&T

Document Type

Science and Technology Foresight

Abstract

In 2022, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASISD), the National Science Library, CAS, and Clarivate Analytics released their joint report Research Fronts 2022. The report utilized the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database to do co-citation analysis. The 2022 report started from 12 610 research fronts in ESI and identified a total of 165 research fronts, including hot and emerging specialties spanning 11 broad research areas in sciences and social sciences. With the 165 research fronts and the related core papers and citing papers as the basis for analysis, this study summarized 8 development trends in science and technology, and recent trends and key research questions in 11 broad research areas, aiming to provide reference for studying and forecasting the major development trends in science and technology, summarizing important research issues and then making systematic deployment.

First page

154

Last Page

166

Language

Chinese

Publisher

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Recommended Citation

PAN, Jiaofeng; WANG, Haixia; LENG, Fuhai; ZHANG, Feng; YANG, Fan; YUAN, Jianxia; XING, Ying; FAN, Weiwei; ZHOU, Qiuju; BIAN, Wenyue; ZHANG, Chaoxing; HUANG, Longguang; WANG, Haiming; HAN, Lin; and PEI, Ruimin (2023) "2022 Research Fronts: Development Trends and Key Research Questions in 11 Broad Research Areas," Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version): Vol. 38 : Iss. 1 , Article 15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16418/j.issn.1000-3045.20221219001
Available at: https://bulletinofcas.researchcommons.org/journal/vol38/iss1/15