Thomson Reuters

Research Fronts lets you survey active areas of current scientific research and their intellectual and demographic characteristics. You can explore bibliographic and citation information on 25,000 clusters of related research papers. These clusters represent research fronts and are identified by co-citation analysis.

Provides invaluable information for science policy makers, corporate R&D strategists, and anyone interested in identifying emerging research areas.

With Research Fronts, you can:

• Analyze emerging areas of research within broad fields and fast-moving areas of current research.
• Identify authors, institutions, and countries that are actively participating in these Fronts.
• Identify a group of related specialties that make up a subfield.
• Explore the discipline or field structure of science, and beyond that, a global map of current research.

Why choose Research Fronts?

• Access to a complete dataset or subset based on one or more disciplines, countries, institutions, journals or other criteria.
• Complete bibliographic information and citation counts on each core paper; Front names; and number and average year of all core papers within each Front.
• A complementary file of the Citing Papers is an option for each Front.
• Co-citation analysis establishes subject familiarity among highly cited documents by finding pairs of papers that are often cited together by other research papers during a currently yearly time period. You can examine a Research Front consisting of recently citing papers and the core publications that tie them together through co-citations.
  

Format and Delivery Options

Data delivered on CD in MS Access format.