An analysis of the most-cited research papers has found that climate change provides a common bond across research disciplines.
Other prominent themes include cell signalling, quantum behaviour, energy and computing.
The work was conducted by the company Thomson Reuters and published in the report Research Fronts 2013. The project’s methodology was to analyse the papers most highly cited between 2007 and 2012 to find the 10 most active disciplines, or research fronts, for each of 10 broad areas of science and social science.
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