From a word to a world: the current situation in the interdisciplinary field of synthetic biology

Using a carefully designed search query, we describe the field of synthetic biology in terms of leading countries, organizations and funding sources. Besides articles we also paid some attention to patents. The USA is the leading country in this field, followed by China. There is a clear exponential...

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Autores principales: Hu, Xiaojun, Rousseau, Ronald
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2015
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Science and Medical Education
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4312068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25650074
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.728
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description Using a carefully designed search query, we describe the field of synthetic biology in terms of leading countries, organizations and funding sources. Besides articles we also paid some attention to patents. The USA is the leading country in this field, followed by China. There is a clear exponential growth in the field of synthetic biology over the latest 14 years. Keywords were analyzed using the notion of year-based h-indices, core gap and relative core gap. We conclude that the term “synthetic biology” hides a large world ready to be explored by interdisciplinary research.
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spelling pubmed-43120682015-02-03 From a word to a world: the current situation in the interdisciplinary field of synthetic biology Hu, Xiaojun Rousseau, Ronald PeerJ Science and Medical Education Using a carefully designed search query, we describe the field of synthetic biology in terms of leading countries, organizations and funding sources. Besides articles we also paid some attention to patents. The USA is the leading country in this field, followed by China. There is a clear exponential growth in the field of synthetic biology over the latest 14 years. Keywords were analyzed using the notion of year-based h-indices, core gap and relative core gap. We conclude that the term “synthetic biology” hides a large world ready to be explored by interdisciplinary research. PeerJ Inc. 2015-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4312068/ /pubmed/25650074 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.728 Text en © 2015 Hu and Rousseau http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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