Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Huang, Can
Author-Email: can.huang@merit.unimaas.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, and Maastricht University
Author-Name: Notten, Ad
Author-Email: notten@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Author-Name: Rasters, Nico
Author-Email: n.rasters@merit.unimaas.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Nanotechnology Publications and Patents: A Review of Social Science Studies and 
	 Search Strategies  
Abstract: This paper provides a comprehensive review of more than 120 social 
	 science studies in nanoscience and technology, all of which analyze 
	 publication and patent data. We conduct a comparative analysis of 
	 bibliometric search strategies that these studies use to harvest 
	 publication and patent data related to nanoscience and technology. We 
	 implement these strategies on 2006 publication data and find that 
	 Mogoutov and Kahane (2007), with their evolutionary lexical query search strategy, 
	 extract the highest number of records from the Web of Science. The strategies of
	 Glanzel et al. (2003), Noyons et al. (2003), Porter et al. (2008) and
	 Mogoutov and Kahane (2007) produce very similar ranking tables of the top ten
	 nanotechnology subject areas and the top ten most prolific countries and institutions.
Classification-JEL: O14, O31
Keywords: nanotechnology, research and development, productivity, publications, patents,
	 bibliometric analysis, search strategy
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2008
Number: 058
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2008/wp2008-058.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2008058