Hu Xiaojun, Rousseau Ronald
Medical Information Centre, Zhejiang University School of Medicine , Hangzhou , China.
Institute for Education and Information Sciences, IBW, University of Antwerp (UA) , Antwerp , Belgium ; Department of Mathematics, KU Leuven , Leuven , Belgium.
PeerJ. 2015 Jan 22;3:e728. doi: 10.7717/peerj.728. eCollection 2015.
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.
通过精心设计的搜索查询，我们从领先国家、组织和资金来源等方面描述了合成生物学领域。除了文章，我们还对专利给予了一定关注。美国是该领域的领先国家，其次是中国。在过去14年里，合成生物学领域有明显的指数增长。使用基于年份的h指数、核心差距和相对核心差距的概念对关键词进行了分析。我们得出结论，“合成生物学”一词背后隐藏着一个有待跨学科研究所探索的广阔世界。
