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Where does nanotechnology belong in the map of science?

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By analysing publication and citation data, it is possible to explore the relationships between nanoscience and nanotechnology and the rest of science and technology.

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Figure 1: The position of nanoscience and nanotechnology over a base map of science.
Figure 2: Fields of science that are cited by nanotechnology papers.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to Georgia Tech (Award 0830207), Arizona State University (Award 0531194) and North Carolina State University (Award EEC-0438684). We also thank P. Shapira for leadership and helpful guidance, I. Rafols for major input in the analyses and mapping, and Thomson Reuters for providing the initial thesaurus to match journal to subject category. J. Garner generated the science maps in this paper.

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  1. Alan L. Porter is in the Technology Policy and Assessment Center, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0345, USA and Search Technology, Inc., Norcross, Georgia 30092, USA aporter@isye.gatech.edu,

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  2. Jan Youtie is in the Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0640, USA. jan.youtie@innovate.gatech.edu,

    Alan L. Porter

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Porter, A., Youtie, J. Where does nanotechnology belong in the map of science?. Nature Nanotech 4, 534–536 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.207

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