Clarivate Analytics & Chinese Academy of Sciences announce annual report identifying 100 hottest and 43 emerging areas in global scientific research

This report reveals that based on the 143 Research Fronts, the USA is still leading global research followed by China in second place ahead of the UK and Germany. China is most prolific in chemistry, materials science, mathematics, computer science and engineering, and is leading the rest of the world in terms of research in mathematics, computer science and engineering. Twenty noteworthy topics among the 100 hottest Research Fronts are: Hot Research Fronts Field of Science Research on genome editing in plants and the utility in crops Agricultural, Plant and Animal Sciences Regulation mechanism and function of DNA Methylation in plants Agricultural, Plant and Animal Sciences The formation mechanism of east-central China’s heavy haze pollution in January 2013 Ecology and Environmental Sciences Monitoring of biodiversity using environmental DNA  metabarcoding Ecology and Environmental Sciences Precambrian geological evolution of the North China Craton Geosciences Types and characterization of gas shale pore systems Geosciences Radionuclides-labeled PSMA PET for diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer Clinical Medicine Clinical whole-exome sequencing for the diagnosis of genetic diseases Clinical Medicine Application of cryo-electron microscopy in 3D Structure Analysis of Biological Macromolecules (related to research by 2017 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry) Biological Sciences Application of chromatin conformation capture and its derivative ...
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