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Tracking the emergence of synthetic biology.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Synthetic biology-inspired cell engineering in diagnosis, treatment, and drug development.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2023Review
- Epistemology of synthetic biology: a new theoretical framework based on its potential objects and objectives.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
- A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Bacterial Persisters.BioMed research international · 2023Article
- Ethical and social insights into synthetic biology: predicting research fronts in the post-COVID-19 era.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Advancing reproducibility can ease the 'hard truths' of synthetic biology.Synthetic biology (Oxford, England) · 2023Review
- What semantic analysis can tell us about long term trends in the global STI policy agenda.The Journal of technology transfer · 2022Article
- Bioterrorism: An analysis of biological agents used in terrorist events.The American journal of emergency medicine · 2022Article
- Immunoregulatory framework and the role of miRNA in the pathogenesis of NSCLC - A systematic review.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Review
- Synthetic biology landscape in the UK.Biotechnology notes (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2022Article
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- Synthetic biology in Europe: current community landscape and future perspectives.Biotechnology notes (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2022Article
- Synthetic biology landscape and community in Germany.Biotechnology notes (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2022Article
- Mapping technological innovation dynamics in artificial intelligence domains: Evidence from a global patent analysis.PloS one · 2021Article
- Tracking developments in artificial intelligence research: constructing and applying a new search strategy.Scientometrics · 2021Article
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Abstract
Synthetic biology is an emerging domain that combines biological and engineering concepts and which has seen rapid growth in research, innovation, and policy interest in recent years. This paper contributes to efforts to delineate this emerging domain by presenting a newly constructed bibliometric definition of synthetic biology. Our approach is dimensioned from a core set of papers in synthetic biology, using procedures to obtain benchmark synthetic biology publication records, extract keywords from these benchmark records, and refine the keywords, supplemented with articles published in dedicated synthetic biology journals. We compare our search strategy with other recent bibliometric approaches to define synthetic biology, using a common source of publication data for the period from 2000 to 2015. The paper details the rapid growth and international spread of research in synthetic biology in recent years, demonstrates that diverse research disciplines are contributing to the multidisciplinary development of synthetic biology research, and visualizes this by profiling synthetic biology research on the map of science. We further show the roles of a relatively concentrated set of research sponsors in funding the growth and trajectories of synthetic biology. In addition to discussing these analyses, the paper notes limitations and suggests lines for further work.
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