Measuring the development of a common scientific lexicon in nanotechnology

Sanjay Arora, Jan Youtie, Stephen Carley, Alan Porter, Philip Shapira

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Abstract

Over the last two decades, nanotechnology has not only grown considerably but also evolved in its use of scientific terminology. This paper examines the growth in nano-prefixed terms in a corpus of nanotechnology scholarly publications over a 21-year time period. The percentage of publications using a nano-prefixed term has increased from
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Nanoparticle Research
Volume16
Issue number1
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Publication statusPublished - 2014

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