2020’s Statistical Review on Nanotechnology Publications

2021-01-07
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2020’s Statistical Review on Nanotechnology Publications

Almost 9 percent of the whole scientific publications of 2020, indexed in the Web of Science database, have been relevant to nanotechnology. In addition to China, USA, India, and Iran as the head participants of nanoscience generation, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia are the countries with the most progressive performance in the nanotechnology field this year.

Two decades have passed since the US national nanotechnology initiative program was designed and started, during which the number of nanotechnology-related publications (nano-articles) has actually grown from around 22,000 to 191,000 articles each year.

According to StatNano monthly evaluation accomplished in WoS databases by using a "nanotechnology specific search string", there have been 191304 nano-articles indexed in WoS that had to have a 9 percent growth compared to last year. The mentioned articles are 8.8 percent of the whole produced papers in 2020.

In line with China's trend in the past few years, this country is placed in the first stage with 78000 nano-articles (more than 40 percent of all nano-articles in 2020), and the US is at the next stage with 24425 papers. These countries have published nearly half of the whole world’s nano-articles.

In the following, India with 9 percent, Iran with 6 percent, and South Korea and Germany with 5 percent are the other head publishers, respectively. It's remarkable that prioritizing nanotechnology in Iran, has led to this country’s steady placement among the five pioneers of the nanotechnology field in recent years, and approximately 20 percent of all articles provided by Iranian researchers in 2020 are relative to this area of technology.

According to the 25 top countries selected by this indicator, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia had significant progress in the field. Vietnam has moved from the 31st to 24th stage, and additionally, we can point out Saudi Arabia moving from 15th to 11th stage.

In the past year, around 17 percent of all scientific publications in Vietnam had been related to nanotechnology and it can clearly describe the mentioned improvement. It's notable that among African countries, only Egypt is located between the first 20 pioneers. In the following, the second African country would be South Africa in the 33rd stage with 1324 nano-articles.

The top 25 nano-article publisher countries and their share of the total number of nano-articles published in 2020 are listed in the table below.

 

 

Rank

Country

Nano-articles

Share (%)

Rank change compared to 2019

1

China

78314

40.9

-

2

USA

24425

12.8

-

3

India

17212

9.0

-

4

Iran

11546

6.0

-

5

South Korea

9696

5.1

-

6

Germany

8766

5.1

-

7

Japan

7924

4.1

-

8

UK

6176

3.2

+1

9

Russia

5960

3.1

-1

10

France

5905

3.1

-

11

Saudi Arabia

5138

2.7

+4

12

Australia

4913

2.6

-1

13

Spain

4904

2.6

-1

14

Italy

4827

2.5

-1

15

Canada

4155

2.2

-1

16

Brazil

3936

2.1

-

17

Egypt

3887

2.0

+2

18

Turkey

3538

1.9

-1

19

Pakistan

3475

1.8

+2

20

Taiwan

3465

1.8

-2

21

Poland

3057

1.6

-1

22

Malaysia

2595

1.4

-

23

Singapore

2455

1.3

-

24

Vietnam

2223

1.2

+7

25

Netherlands

1937

1.0

-

 

 

Source
ISI Indexed Nano-articles Indicator

 

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