Twelve years of nanoscience and nanotechnology publications in Mexico

Review of nanotechnology value chain for water treatment applications in Mexico

“…The list of institutions comprises UNAM, IPN, UAM, all the research centers of CONACyT and other private institutions. 8 The data obtained were registered in a database that includes the following fields: name of the institution, names of the researchers, research area of interest (nano & water) and email address.…”

“…The profile of each institution varies according to the regional location, but essentially the curricula remains the same, and this includes: Urban Normal Schools, Rural Normal Schools, Regional Centers of Normal Education and, in more recent years, the Normal Experimental Schools. 8 The names of some institutions do not have an "official translation" so, in order to avoid confusion, we used the actual Spanish name.…”

“…According to prior studies based on bibliometric research, which contemplates patents, companies, human resources and infrastructure, Mexico ranks second in Latin America, after Brazil, in the development of NTs [6][7][8]. Nevertheless, there are no data related to R&D, commercialization and consumption of nano-applications for water.…”

“…The next stage was the identification of Mexican companies manufacturing nanotechnology products oriented to remediation/purification, detection/filtration or desalination. This was developed from a previous inventory of nanotechnology companies in Mexico [8]. The full database is available at the website nano-economy in Mexico [33].…”

Identification and visualization of the intellectual structure and the main research lines in nanoscience and nanotechnology at the worldwide level

“…Other works have applied bibliometric techniques to analyze the evolution and position of NST in the international context, so as to gauge the scientific performance of countries (Chen et al 2013 ; Chinchilla-Rodríguez et al 2016a ); to compare developed and developing countries (Jafari and Zarghami 2016 ); to highlight activity and visibility in the global landscape of some countries, among them Russia (Terekhov 2012 ) or the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science (Lavrik et al 2015 ), in Latin America (Invernizzi et al 2015 ; Chinchilla-Rodríguez et al 2016b ), in Mexico (Lau et al 2014 ), in Venezuela (López Cadenas et al 2011 ), or Pakistan (Bajwa and Yaldram 2012 ); to evaluate the productivity, dominant research topics, and diffusion patterns in Russia, China, and India using papers from WoS and patents from US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (Liu et al 2009 ); to identify the risky nanomaterials that the nano-environmental, health, and safety community might examine through study of patent literature from USPTO and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies consumer product database (Leitch et al 2012 ); or to identify growth trends, research topics, and the evolution in National Science Foundation (NSF) funding and commercial patenting activities at USPTO (Huang et al 2006 ).…”