Back to The Emergence of Tissue Engineering as a Research Field Bibliometric Analysis of Core Papers Fundamental to Tissue Engineering |
Back to Table of Contents View PDF of this document (37 Kb) II. IntroductionCHI Research, Inc. was engaged by the National Science Foundation through a subcontract to Abt Associates to undertake a bibliometric analysis of the emerging area of tissue engineering with the intent of describing quantitatively NSF's role in the area and examining the co-authorship structure of the field. The project consisted of five parts:
This report describes each of these steps in turn. The first section describes how the foundation for the analysis was carefully laid through development of a sophisticated methodology developed specifically to identify core papers fundamental to tissue engineering. After this, a basic description is offered of the growth of tissue engineering, as revealed in the full paper set and in a special set of papers that use the term "tissue engineering" in their abstract or title. There follows a quantitative analysis of NSF's role as revealed through acknowledgments of funding reported on papers. Then maps and tables are presented that together reveal the patterns of coauthorship in the field and NSF's presence within the oeuvre of leading authors. Finally an analysis of international patenting in tissue engineering is reported. |