https://www.cas.cn/cm/202311/t20231129_4988857.shtml
Since 10 years, Research Frontiers Reports are jointly organized by the CAS Institute of Science and Technology Strategy and Consulting, the CAS Documentation and Intelligence Center , and Coretronic. A recent conference released the “2023 Research Frontiers” and the “2023 Research Frontiers Heat Index” report.
The report shows that, synthesizing the overall performance of 11 major subject areas, the United States continues to lead by a strong margin, ranking first on more than half of the research frontiers; China holds steady in second place, ranking first on about one-fourth of the research frontiers; and the United Kingdom, Germany, and France maintain the top five.
Among 110 hot frontiers and 18 emerging frontiers in the 11 major subject areas, the number of frontiers ranked first in the Research Frontier Heat Index of the United States is 69, accounting for 53.91% of all 128 frontiers, the number of China’s top-ranked frontiers is 31, accounting for 24.22% of all 128 frontiers, the United Kingdom is ranked first in 8 frontiers, and Germany is ranked first in 7 frontiers.
- chemistry and materials science,
- ecological environment, and
- agricultural science
Social science is expected to form a new high ground, information science, physics and mathematics are highly competitive, the gap between geoscience and bioscience is widening, and clinical medicine, astronomy and astrophysics have the biggest difference