Social science contributions compared in synthetic biology and nanotechnology

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Figure 1. Nanotechnology social science citation clusters.

Source: Analysis of Web of Science & Scopus, 308 nanotechnology social science articles (7248 backward citations) through 2007 and 314 synthetic biology social science articles (8661 backward citations) through May 2014. Analysis conducted using VantagePoint text-mining software. For further discussion of methods and results, see Shapira, Youtie, and Porter (2010) and Youtie, Shapira, and Li (2014).

Figure 2. Synthetic biology social science citation clusters.

Source: Analysis of Web of Science & Scopus, 308 nanotechnology social science articles (7248 backward citations) through 2007 and 314 synthetic biology social science articles (8661 backward citations) through May 2014. Analysis conducted using VantagePoint text-mining software. For further discussion of methods and results, see Shapira, Youtie, and Porter (2010) and Youtie, Shapira, and Li (2014).

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