Trends from a Scientific Perspective
Find tomorrow’s startups in today’s research.See which science is ready for the market before the funding arrives.
Each point is one of 2,182 research topics, sized by its works in the corpus and grouped by field. Size, not momentum.Source: OpenAlex · harvested
The gap between science and the market.
Every technology goes through the same stages: research papers, then patents, then funding and public attention. The Lag Score measures how far patents and the market still trail the science.
- High lag
- Strong science, little market activity. The early window.
- Closing lag
- Patents and first funding follow. The trend is taking shape.
- Low lag
- The market has caught up. The trend is in the open.
The brightest stars
The research topics growing fastest, and how far patents and the market have followed.
- Energy
Solid-state lithium-metal batteries
+38% growth in works over 12 months
- works
- 4,820
- patents
- 312
- market
- 9
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Base and prime editing
+27% growth in works over 12 months
- works
- 3,165
- patents
- 148
- market
- 4
- Materials Science
Perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells
+44% growth in works over 12 months
- works
- 2,740
- patents
- 96
- market
- 2
Three goals decide what gets in.
A source, a feature or a metric that serves none of them does not belong in the product. That filter is why the source set is narrow.
- Early detection
- Catch a trend while it exists only in research papers, before patents, funding or the news pick it up.
- The gap between science and market
- For every trend, state how far its scientific stage has run ahead of its economic stage. That gap is the Lag Score.
- Signal, not noise
- Surface only topics with real, sustained growth — not one-off spikes or subjects that are cyclically popular.
See where the research stands, and how every number was produced.