Munoz-Ecija T., Vargas-Quesada B. & Chinchilla-Rodriguez Z. (2017) Identification and visualization of the intellectual structure and the main research lines in nanoscience and nanotechnology at the worldwide level. J of Nanoparticle Research 19(2): 62

Abstract. The aim of this paper is to make manifest the intellectual and cognitive structure of nanoscience and nanotechnology (NST) by means of visualization techniques. To this end, we used data from the Web of Science (WoS), delimiting the data to the category NST during the period of 2000–2013, retrieving a total of 198,275 documents. Through direct author citation of these works, we identified their origins and the seminal papers, and through word co-occurrence extracted from the titles and abstracts, the main lines of research were identified.