TY - JOUR
T1 - Navigating the frontier of synthetic biology
T2 - an AI-driven analytics platform for exploring research trends and relationships
AU - Meier, Felix
AU - Dixon, Thom
AU - Williams, Tom
AU - Paulsen, Ian
PY - 2023/11/17
Y1 - 2023/11/17
N2 - The field of synthetic biology has experienced rapid growth in recent years, leading to an overwhelming amount of literature that can make it difficult to comprehend the scope and trends of the discipline. In this study, we employ topic modeling to comprehensively map research topics within synthetic biology, revealing subtopics and their relationships, as well as trends over time. We utilize metadata to identify the most significant journals and countries in the field and discuss potential policy impact on the research output. In addition, we investigate co-authorship networks to analyze collaborations among authors, institutions, and countries. We believe that our findings could serve as a valuable resource for gaining a deeper understanding of synthetic biology and provide a foundation for analyzing other disciplines.
AB - The field of synthetic biology has experienced rapid growth in recent years, leading to an overwhelming amount of literature that can make it difficult to comprehend the scope and trends of the discipline. In this study, we employ topic modeling to comprehensively map research topics within synthetic biology, revealing subtopics and their relationships, as well as trends over time. We utilize metadata to identify the most significant journals and countries in the field and discuss potential policy impact on the research output. In addition, we investigate co-authorship networks to analyze collaborations among authors, institutions, and countries. We believe that our findings could serve as a valuable resource for gaining a deeper understanding of synthetic biology and provide a foundation for analyzing other disciplines.
KW - metabolic engineering
KW - natural language processing
KW - network analysis
KW - synthetic biology
KW - topic modelling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85171774797&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1021/acssynbio.3c00192
DO - 10.1021/acssynbio.3c00192
M3 - Article
C2 - 37648657
AN - SCOPUS:85171774797
SN - 2161-5063
VL - 12
SP - 3229
EP - 3241
JO - ACS Synthetic Biology
JF - ACS Synthetic Biology
IS - 11
ER -