SynthesisPloS one2016
Mapping the Emergence of Synthetic Biology.
Synthesis in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The view of synthetic biology in the field of ethics: a thematic systematic review.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Pooled it
- Improving governance in the age of synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and diverging threats.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Article
- A new symbiotic, holistic and gradualist model proposal for the concept of "living organism".Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2025Article
- The advancement of artificial intelligence in biomedical research and health innovation: challenges and opportunities in emerging economies.Globalization and health · 2024Review
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- Epistemology of synthetic biology: a new theoretical framework based on its potential objects and objectives.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Improving Deproteinization in Colombian Latex fromPolymers · 2022Article
- Function-based classification of hazardous biological sequences: Demonstration of a new paradigm for biohazard assessments.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
- Regulation of Synthetic Biology: Developments Under the Convention on Biological Diversity and Its Protocols.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020Review
- YouTube resources for synthetic biology education.Synthetic biology (Oxford, England) · 2019Article
- Tracking the emergence of synthetic biology.ScientometricsArticle
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3 authors.
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Abstract
In this paper, we apply an original scientometric analyses to a corpus comprising synthetic biology (SynBio) publications in Thomson Reuters Web of Science to characterize the emergence of this new scientific field. Three results were drawn from this empirical investigation. First, despite the exponential growth of publications, the study of population level statistics (newcomers proportion, collaboration network structure) shows that SynBio has entered a stabilization process since 2010. Second, the mapping of textual and citational networks shows that SynBio is characterized by high heterogeneity and four different approaches: the central approach, where biobrick engineering is the most widespread; genome engineering; protocell creation; and metabolic engineering. We suggest that synthetic biology acts as an umbrella term allowing for the mobilization of resources, and also serves to relate scientific content and promises of applications. Third, we observed a strong intertwinement between epistemic and socio-economic dynamics. Measuring scientific production and impact and using structural analysis data, we identified a core set of mostly American scientists. Biographical analysis shows that these central and influential scientists act as "boundary spanners," meaning that their importance to the field lies not only in their academic contributions, but also in their capacity to interact with other social spaces that are outside the academic sphere.
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