Presence of nanotechnology in agriculture: bibliometric approach | Uporaba nanotehnologije v kmetijstvu: bibliometrični pristop
2016
Stopar, Karmen
English. Increasing number of scientific publications points to quick developments in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanotechnology offers potentials of unimaginable proportions. Innovative possibilities present themselves in many areas of human activity, including agriculture, for example in precision farming, reduction of pollution and increasing crop yields. We bibliometrically assessed interactions between nanotechnology and agriculture. With co-word analysis in particular, we examined aspects of agro-nano applications related to plant protection. In order to analyze and map the structure of knowledge, we employed selected terms from a general citation database Web of Science (WOS) as well as specialized bibliographic database CAB Abstracts which covers life sciences with a special emphasis on agriculture. Our thematic maps (visualization) present some principal themes and relations among them. Pesticides, biosensors and detection are the main keywords in the network of words from article titles and network of the KeyWords+. Analysis of controlled terms (descriptors, classification codes) from CAB Abstracts in connection with pesticides shows two important directions of research: pollution and environmental topics, and topics related to human health, experimental animals and related.
Show more [+] Less [-]Slovenian. Naraščajoče število znanstvenih objav kaže na hiter razvoj področja nanoznanosti in nanotehnologije. Nanotehnologiji pripisujejo danes potencial neslutenih razsežnosti. Inovativne možnosti reševanja aktualnih problemov se kažejo na vseh področjih človekovega delovanja, s ciljem preciznega kmetovanja, zmanjšanja onesnaževanja in povečanja pridelka, tudi na področju kmetijstva. V našem delu smo prepletanje nanotehnologije s področjem kmetijstva bibliometrično ovrednotili. S sobesedno analizo smo proučili predvsem tisti vidik agro-nano aplikacij, ki se nanaša na fitofarmacevtska sredstva. Pri analizi in kartiranju strukture znanja smo uporabili različne ključne besede iz splošne zbirke WOS in specializirane zbirke CAB Abstracts, ki zajema širše področje kmetijstva. S tematskimi kartami smo prikazali najbolj poudarjena vsebinska področja in relacije med njimi. Osrednje ključne besede v omrežju besed iz naslovov člankov in v omrežju KeyWords+ se nanašajo na fitofarmacevtska sredstva, biosenzorje in detekcijo. Analiza deskriptorjev iz zbirke CAB Abstracts izpostavi predvsem dve pomembni smeri raziskav; onesnaževanje oziroma okoljske študije ter vsebine, ki se nanašajo na zdravje človeka, poskusne živali in s tem povezane modele proučevanja.
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