A panorama of nanoscience developments in Mexico based on the comparison and crossing of nanoscience monitoring...

This paper characterises nanoscience developments in Mexico. A panorama of the development trends of these emerging sciences in Mexico is presented on the basis of bibliometric data gathered using different strategies. The results reveal the nanoscience output trend, which knowledge areas are developing, and which journals are publishing the articles and also enable us to identify the main institutional actors involved, and their international collaborations. We have discovered that the most important collaboration networks are maintained with industrialised countries; however, collaborative project work outside Mexico is becoming rarer. Lastly we present our findings on the growth of nanoscience development in Mexico and so-called emerging countries where we demonstrate that Mexico is at a disadvantage to its main economic rivals.