China ranks second in frontier research in the world, and the gap between the United States and the United States has narrowed

　　my country's frontier research fever ranks second in the world

Our newspaper, Beijing, December 8th (Reporter Qi Fang) The

Institute of Science and Technology Strategy Consulting of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Documentation and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Clarivate Analytics jointly released the "2021 Research Frontiers" report to the world on the 8th, and on this basis The "2021 Research Frontier Heat Index" was compiled to evaluate the performance of China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Japan in the above research frontiers.

　　The report shows that in 2021, the United States will remain the most active in 11 university disciplines as a whole; China will continue to rank second, and the gap with the United States will be further narrowed; the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy rank third, fourth and fifth respectively. .

　　According to Pan Jiaofeng, President of the Institute of Science and Technology Strategic Consulting of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the researchers first divided the 20 disciplines of the Basic Scientific Index Database (ESI) into agricultural sciences, botany and zoology, ecology and environmental sciences, earth sciences, and clinical medicine. , Biological sciences, chemistry and material sciences, physics, astronomy and astrophysics, mathematics, information science, economics, psychology and other social sciences and other 11 highly convergent university disciplines; and then for each ESI discipline The core papers of the research fronts are sorted according to the total citation frequency, and the top 10% of the research fronts with the most citation influence in each ESI discipline are extracted and integrated into 11 university subject areas.

Based on this data, and re-ranking according to the average value of the publication year of the core papers, the "youngest" research fronts in each field are selected, and the researchers will adjust and merge them, and finally select the hot fronts.

　　Researcher Yang Fan, deputy director of the Institute of Strategic Information of the Academy, introduced that the "2021 Research Frontiers" report selected and displayed 110 hot frontiers and 61 emerging frontiers that are relatively active or rapidly developing among 11 university disciplines, reflecting the development of related disciplines. trend.

For example, in the context of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, its related research occupies a high proportion of the research frontiers in the fields of clinical medicine and biological sciences.

The hot frontier represented by the "Clinical Features of New Coronary Pneumonia Cases", occupying 6 seats in the top ten hot frontiers in the field of clinical medicine, forming the "New Coronavirus Infection Causes Organ Damage and Complications" and "New Coronavirus Vaccine Research and Development" Waiting for the nine frontier groups.

In the field of biological sciences, research on the pathogenic mechanism of the new coronavirus and "Remdesivir's mechanism of inhibiting coronavirus" also occupy the mainstream-8 emerging frontiers all involve research on the new coronavirus.

In addition, research related to the new coronavirus is closely integrated with other disciplines, forming hotspots and emerging frontiers in other fields, such as the "application of chemical sensors in the detection of new coronaviruses" in the field of chemistry and materials science, and the "new coronary pneumonia" in the field of psychology. Psychometric evaluation of the fear scale".

This also shows that the overall trend of multi-point breakthroughs and cross-convergence of scientific and technological development in the world today is becoming clearer.

　　"Research Frontiers" series of annual reports have been released for 8 years since 2014.

Academician Gao Hongjun, deputy dean of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, stated that the Chinese Academy of Sciences has played a leading role in leading and demonstrating high-level scientific and technological think tanks in the pilot project for the construction of national high-end think tanks.

In order to accurately grasp the direction and focus of future science and technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has also launched major scientific and technological think tank research projects such as "Research and Judgment on China's Major Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs That May Affect the World’s Future Pattern". Analyze the major cutting-edge scientific and technological breakthroughs that may affect the world development pattern in China in the future, and serve the strategic layout of national scientific and technological innovation.