摘要
The emerging field of synthetic biology has gained great attractions in recent years, both in China and around the world. As a result, the number of publications in this field has grown exponentially in the past decade. Analysis of this trend can be found in the article ＂Bibliometrics analysis of synthetic biology based on Web of Science＂ [1], which is authored in 2015 by researchers from Peking Union Medical College/Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences with support from the Consulting Project of Chinese Academy of Engineedng. Just using ＂synthetic biology＂ as the ＂topic＂ in Web of Science Core Collection, we can get a coarse estimate of the speed of its growth （Fig. 1）. Only 56 papers were published in 1998 globally and in 2016 the number reached more than 1000. In China, only 10 papers were published in 2007 and the numbers reached over 150 each year in 2015 and 2016.
The emerging field of synthetic biology has gained great attractions in recent years, both in China and around the world. As a result, the number of publications in this field has grown exponentially in the past decade. Analysis of this trend can be found in the article ＂Bibliometrics analysis of synthetic biology based on Web of Science＂ [1], which is authored in 2015 by researchers from Peking Union Medical College/Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences with support from the Consulting Project of Chinese Academy of Engineedng. Just using ＂synthetic biology＂ as the ＂topic＂ in Web of Science Core Collection, we can get a coarse estimate of the speed of its growth （Fig. 1）. Only 56 papers were published in 1998 globally and in 2016 the number reached more than 1000. In China, only 10 papers were published in 2007 and the numbers reached over 150 each year in 2015 and 2016.
