Research Horizon Navigator
Innovate at the edge
Discover new topics emerging on the research horizon
Research Horizon Navigator™ is a module within InCites Benchmarking & Analytics that allows you to quickly discover emerging topics that point to where future breakthroughs are likely to occur.
Innovate in areas with velocity
Invest in interdisciplinary fields
Inform strategy and policy
What can I do with Research Horizon Navigator?
Identify emerging research topics
Explore topics that are shaping the future of science and innovation.
Foster collaboration
Make decisions about program structure, stimulate cross-departmental collaboration and align institutional goals with developing fields.
Track organizational contributions
Discover which emerging research topics your organization and others have contributed to with foundational papers or co-citing papers.
Connect researchers
View researchers who have authored foundational papers or have connected topics through their citations.
Uncover interdisciplinarity
Understand how topics intersect across multiple disciplines using a new indicator.
Deeper analysis
Export publication lists or analyze emerging topics in InCites Benchmarking & Analytics™.
Discover where future breakthroughs are likely to occur
Trusted methodology
The emerging topics methodology is founded on decades of research conducted by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)™.
Measure interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity metrics show how topics grow, branch and merge across the different disciplines to form distinctive new fields.
Discover strategic insights
Benchmark against your peers, identify strategic partnerships and uncover key funding channels by discovering top contributors in each emerging topic.
Research Horizon Navigator by the numbers
10,000+
700k+
254
Resources
Reimagining research impact: Introducing Web of Science Research Intelligence
Frequently asked questions
You can use Research Horizon Navigator to monitor new topics emerging in research papers in a particular domain. Reviews, conference proceedings and articles are included in the Research Horizon Navigator tool. One way to support horizon scanning efforts is to start your search at the category level, which will display all emerging topics connected to a defined subject area.
After selecting an emerging topic, you can discover top contributing authors or explore author connections using the interactive Citation Map visualization.
Emerging topic publication lists can be exported to the Web of Science and analyzed in InCites Benchmarking & Analytics. Clarivate A&G Consulting can also be contracted to conduct additional analysis using the Research Horizon Navigator metadata or historical trend data.
Use Research Horizon Navigator to inform the publishing portfolio strategy and align with future interests and fields. Inform business proposals for new journals, societies or special issues. Recruit experts in emerging fields to contribute as authors, reviewers or editorial board members.
You can find help documentation, reference user tips, read an explanation of each feature and watch a video demo within our Help file.
Research Horizon Navigator is an AI-native platform. Generative AI is used to automatically assign a research theme to each topic so you can succinctly communicate about emerging topics.
