Measuring the development of a common scientific lexicon in nanotechnology

摘要: Over the last two decades, nanotechnology has not only grown considerably but also evolved in its use of scientific terminology. This paper examines growth nano-prefixed terms a corpus scholarly publications over 21-year time period. The percentage using term increased from <10 % early 1990s to nearly 80 % by 2010. A co-word analysis indicates that network these moved being densely organized around few common such as “nanostructure” 2000 becoming less dense and more differentiated additional while continuing coalesce We further observe share papers oriented toward biomedical clinical medicine applications risen just 5 % than 11 %. While results cannot fully distinguish between response broader policy or societal influences, they do suggest there are intellectual underpinnings collectively shared vocabulary. consider whether our findings signify maturation field extent which this denotes emergence understanding regarding nanotechnology.