Executive Summary

The challenge of identifying emerging areas and technologies in research is not new, but more data, new methods, and more computational power allow for novel approaches. We build on existing research to develop two new solutions for identifying research relevant to emerging technology areas, specifically artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, as well as chip design and fabrication. First, we trained and deployed machine learning models to predict publication relevance to select emerging technology topics. Second, we assigned publications into research fields within those topics, based on a hierarchical research field taxonomy. We deployed our solutions for emerging technology topic classification and research field scoring over a large corpus of scientific literature. Our evaluated solutions reliably identify research relevant to important emerging technology areas, enabling analysis and monitoring of developments and applications in these areas. We share our publication-level predictions and top fields of study in open datasets. Through interactive tools, we enable researchers to make use of them for analysis.