1、Research Fronts:Active Fields,Leading CountriesInstitutes of Science and Development,Chinese Academy of SciencesClarivate2Research Fronts 2022:Active Fields,Leading CountriesResearch Fronts:Active Fields,Leading Countries20223Research Fronts 2022:Active Fields,Leading CountriesHot Research FrontsEme
2、rging Research Fronts11055Science and technology are universal and epochal,and the development of science and technology must be viewed from a global perspective.At present,major breakthroughs and accelerated applications of technological innovation have been instrumental in reshaping the global eco
3、nomic structure and transforming the arena of industrial and economic competition.The“Research Fronts 2022”report is a prequel to another survey,“Research Fronts 2022:Active Fields,Leading Countries”,which selects and discusses 110 hot fronts and 55 emerging fronts in 11 broad research areas.Based o
4、n the findings of“Research Fronts 2022”,this second report uses the Research Leadership Index to assess the research activity of the worlds major countries and to observe how that activity,in the face of global competition in innovation and technological advancement,is demonstrated in these Research
5、 Fronts.1.Methodology1.1 The logic model of Research Leadership Index(RLI)The Research Leadership Index(RLI)is a comprehensive evaluation measure to determine the degree of activity in Research Fronts.Since a Research Front itself is composed of a group of highly cited core papers along with subsequ
6、ent papers that cite the core literature,the design of the Research Leadership Index takes into account the numbers of the core papers and citing papers,as well as their respective citations.These calculations underlie two indicators:Output Share and Citation Share.The logical model of Research Lead