NANO

The Nano S&T dynamics database (Nano) collects publications and patents between 1991 and 2011 about Nano S&T. One central characteristics of emerging S&T is that they do not correspond to pre-existing categorisations and require the elaboration of semantic based queries. IFRIS has developed a dynamic query gathering 1.18 million Nano-related publications and 735000 priority patents. Services currently offered by the infrastructure: The facility offers harmonised and integrative analysis of Nano S&T dynamics globally, due to four types of enrichments that have been conducted: (i) categorisation and harmonisation of institutional affiliations, (ii) geolocalisation of all authors and inventors; (iii) geographical clustering of S&T activities; and (iv) thematic clustering of S&T activities.