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This paper first describes the recent development that scientists and engineers of many disciplines, countries, and institutions increasingly engage in nanoscale research at breathtaking speed. By co-author analysis of over 600 papers published in “nano journals” in 2002 and 2003, I investigate if this apparent concurrence is accompanied by new forms and degrees of multi- and interdisciplinarity as well as of institutional and geographic research collaboration. Based on a new visualization method, patterns of research collaboration are analyzed and compared with those of classical disciplinary research. I argue that current nanoscale research reveals no particular patterns and degrees of interdisciplinarity and that its apparent multidisciplinarity consists of different largely mono-disciplinary fields which are rather unrelated to each other and which hardly share more than the prefix “nano”.
early growth of the nanotechnology articles during the period of 1986–1995. They provided a set of simple keywords which had mostly begun with nano prefixes. Similarly, a website belonging to Thomson Scientific ( http
the quantity of input, quality associated with the input and the energy associated with these terms. This missing link, we shall call quasity, inspired by quasi -, a prefix, which when used with – ty implies that the object has some of the attributes
that the term exergy should be used to denote “technical working capacity”—energy literally means “internal work” (from the Greek en [∊ν] and ergon [∊ργον]), and the prefix ex [∊ξ] implies instead an “external” quantity.’ An excellent
externally sensed energy X (usually called exergy, ex- for external). Energy literally means “internal work” (from the Greek en [∊ν] and ergon [∊ργον]), and the prefix ex [∊ξ] implies instead an “external” quantity. This is then a thermodynamical
hashtag means a tag embedded in a Twitter message, consisting of a word prefixed with a hash sign, for example ‘#blackberry’ (see: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hashtag ). Fig. 1 Number of hashtags (daily
compound words. Stemming all ID words using the Sci 2 tool. Common or low-content prefixes and suffixes are removed to identify the core concept. For example “emergent” will be replaced by “emerg
a high-precision query for bio- and pharma- nanotechnology documents. Therefore, we use the 32 bio- and pharma-relevant topic terms and nano* together as the query to collect the documents. In addition, we add to three prefixes, nano*, bio* and pharm
developed, and their potential economic impacts. Braun et al. ( 1997 ) were established the growth and trends of the nano prefixed terms especially the journal papers has been measured. Meyer and Persson ( 1998 ) show the interdisciplinary nature of
