China News Service Beijing, December 8 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The "2021 Research Frontier Hot Index" released in Beijing on the 8th showed that in 2021, the National Research Frontier Hot Index, composed of national contribution and national influence, was the most active in the overall level of 11 university fields, with a score of 209.23 points, ranking first in the world, and China ranked second with 191.43 points. The gap between the two was only 17.80 points, which has narrowed to less than 10%.
The picture shows , the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Science and Technology Strategy Consulting, , President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, hosting the release of the report "2021 Research Frontier". Photo by Sun Zifa, China News Service reporter,
Institute of Science and Technology Strategy Consulting, Chinese Academy of Sciences, , Literature and Intelligence Center and Clarivian jointly released the "2021 Research Frontier" report to the world on the same day. Among the 11 highly aggregated university fields such as "Agricultural Science, Botany and Zoology ", "Ecological and Environmental Science", "Earth Science", "Clinical Medicine", " Biological Science ", "Chemistry and Materials Science", "Physics", "Astronomy and Astrophysics ", "Mathematics", "Information Science", "Economics, Psychology and Other Social Sciences", 110 hot frontiers and 61 emerging frontiers that are more active or rapidly developing are selected, which more objectively reflects the development trends of related disciplines.
The picture shows Yang Fan, deputy director of the Institute of Strategic Intelligence, Institute of Science and Technology Strategic Consulting, Chinese Academy of Sciences, released the report "2021 Research Frontier". Photo by Sun Zifa, China News Service reporter
Based on the "2021 Research Frontier", the "2021 Research Frontier Hot Index" evaluates the performance of China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan and other countries in research frontiers, showing that except for China and the United States firmly ranked in the top two, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy ranked third to fifth with research frontier hot index scores of 85.59, 64.13, and 51.71 respectively, France, Australia, Canada, Spain, and Netherlands ranked six to ten with scores of 35-50, and Japan Research Frontier Hot Index ranked 11th with scores of 31.59.
comparison of 0 fields, the United States ranked first in the research frontier hot index scores of four fields: "earth science", "biological science", "physics", and "astronomy and astrophysics", and ranked second in the other seven fields. China ranks first in seven fields: "Agricultural Science, Botany and Zoology", "Ecological and Environmental Science", "Clinical Medicine", "Chemistry and Materials Science", "Mathematics", "Information Science and Economics, Psychology and Other Social Sciences", ranking second in three fields: "Earth Science", "Bioscience" and "Physics", and eighth in the fields of "Astronomy and Astrophysics".
Among the 171 hot spots and emerging frontiers in the 11 university fields, the number of frontiers ranked first in the US research frontier popularity index is 81, accounting for 47.37%; the number of frontiers ranked first in China is 65, accounting for 38.01%, and the number of frontiers ranked first in the two countries accounts for about 85% of the total. In addition, the top three research frontiers in the US are 147, accounting for 85.96% of all 171 frontiers; the top three research frontiers in the China are 101, accounting for 59.06% of all 171 frontiers.
The picture shows the Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Gao Hongjun Academician delivered a speech at the release and seminar. Photo by Sun Zifa, China News Service reporter
Academician Gao Hongjun, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, attended the release event and delivered a speech, pointing out that in the six years since the establishment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Science and Technology Strategy Consulting has explored a unique path to the construction and development of academic, research-oriented, and cross-type high-end new science and technology think tanks. In the national high-end think tank construction pilot, it has played a backbone leading and exemplary role of high-level science and technology think tanks.
He emphasized that as the main force of national strategic scientific and technological forces, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has always regarded basic research as the foundation of the Legislative Yuan. In order to accurately grasp the future direction and focus of science and technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has launched major science and technology think tank research projects such as "Analysis and judgment of China's major scientific and technological breakthroughs that may affect the future pattern of the world", widely organized research forces, and based on the world's frontier science and technology and major national needs, forward-looking analysis of major frontier scientific and technological breakthroughs that may affect the world's development pattern in the future, and serve the national scientific and technological innovation strategic layout. (End)
Source: China News Network
