On November 28, the 2023 Research Frontier Release and Seminar jointly organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Strategic Consulting Institute (hereinafter referred to as the "Strategic Consulting Institute"), the Chinese Academy of Sciences Documentation and Information Center and Kerui Weian was held in Beijing. The conference released the "2023 Research Frontiers" report and the "2023 Research Frontiers Heat Index" report. The report shows that, based on the overall performance of 11 university disciplines, the United States continues to lead with a strong advantage, ranking first in over half of the research frontiers; China firmly ranks second, ranking first in approximately 1/4 of the research frontier; The UK, Germany, and France remain in the top five. Based on the 12922 research frontiers in the ESI database, "2023 Research Frontiers" selects and showcases the year 2023 in agricultural science, botany and zoology, ecology and environmental science, earth science, clinical medicine, biological science, chemistry and materials science, physics, astronomy and astrophysics, mathematics, information science, economics The 110 hot frontiers and 18 emerging frontiers in 11 highly aggregated university disciplines, including psychology and other social sciences, objectively reflect the development trends of related disciplines. "Overall, the research on major scientific issues in these 11 major scientific fields continues to deepen, cutting-edge technologies continue to emerge, application experiments continue to expand, theme directions cover a wide range, interdisciplinary integration and convergence, and theoretical applications promote each other," said researcher Yang Fan, Director of the Institute of Science and Technology Strategic Intelligence at the Strategic Consulting Institute, in a report. The 2023 Research Frontier Heat Index evaluates the performance of countries and regions such as China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Japan in the aforementioned research frontiers based on the 2023 Research Frontiers. Among the 110 hot research frontiers and 18 emerging frontiers in 11 university disciplines, the United States ranks first in the research frontier heat index with 69 frontiers, accounting for 53.91% of all 128 frontiers. China ranks first in 31 frontiers, accounting for 24.22% of all 128 frontiers. The United Kingdom ranks first in 8 frontiers and Germany ranks first in 7 frontiers. "China ranks first in the world in terms of research frontier heat index scores in five fields, while the United States ranks first in the world in terms of research frontier heat index scores in six fields." Yang Fan said that compared to the United States, China has outstanding advantages in the fields of chemistry and materials science, and ecological environment, agricultural science, and social science are expected to form new heights. The competition in information science, physics, and mathematics is fierce, and the gap between earth science and biological science is widening. Clinical medicine Astronomy and astrophysics differ the most. This year is the tenth year since the release of the "Research Frontiers" series of annual reports. "Since 2014, the strategic intelligence research team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has cooperated with Kerui Wei'an Company to release a series of annual research reports on Research Frontiers globally. After ten years of painstaking polishing, the research methods of the report have been continuously optimized, and the core content has been constantly enriched, which has attracted widespread attention from the scientific and technological community, government departments at all levels, mainstream media and the public." Pan Jiaofeng, president of the Strategic Advisory Academy, said. For the past decade, the research team has combined the content of reports and introduced expert wisdom