Times Higher Education chooses the Web of Science to assess innovation in research

Times Higher Education’s May 25 issue features 19 hot topics in current research that have the potential to change the world. These hot topics were identified using Web of Science citation data and Essential Science IndicatorsSM insights from Clarivate Analytics. Times Higher Education (THE) chose Web of Science citation data to gain an objective view of contemporary research for its May feature “The next big bang”. The featured research includes enhancing the body’s potential to kill cancer cells; development of genes driven to modify plants, animals and insects; producing clean power sources such as redox flow batteries and “green” hydrogen cars; reducing energy use by low-power LED lighting; discoveries in the environment and ecology field to improve environmental health; next-generation electronics and big physics. Clarivate Analytics has, for five decades, been the world leader in understanding trends in research through analysis of the curated, high-quality data in Web of Science. Dr. Henry Small and the late Dr. Eugene Garfield pioneered science mapping in the 1970s and 1980s using co-citation analysis. Since then, insights gleaned through this method have informed policymakers and funders on hot or emerging topics and where they should focus their attention and resources. “The citation network linking one paper to another reveals the organic structure and dynamics of specialty areas,” notes David Pendlebury, senior citat...
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