Engineering Fronts 2025
Clarivate, the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the Higher Education Press of China released the Engineering Fronts 2025 report, identifying the most impactful global engineering research and development trends.
An engineering front is defined as a key forward-looking direction that is leading and exploratory. It significantly influences the future of engineering science and technology and serves as an important guide for fostering innovation. Engineering Fronts 2025 provides a data driven, expert validated overview of 189 global engineering fronts, including 94 engineering research fronts and 95 engineering development fronts, spanning nine major engineering fields.
The report combines large scale data mining with multi round expert evaluation, drawing on research output from 12,840 academic journals and 65,558 international conferences collected from the Web of Science Core Collection, highly cited scientific publications from 2019–2024, patent analysis based on the Derwent Innovation database, contributions from nearly 1,000 academicians and experts across disciplines.
Complete the form to read the report.
An engineering front is defined as a key forward-looking direction that is leading and exploratory. It significantly influences the future of engineering science and technology and serves as an important guide for fostering innovation. Engineering Fronts 2025 provides a data driven, expert validated overview of 189 global engineering fronts, including 94 engineering research fronts and 95 engineering development fronts, spanning nine major engineering fields.
The report combines large scale data mining with multi round expert evaluation, drawing on research output from 12,840 academic journals and 65,558 international conferences collected from the Web of Science Core Collection, highly cited scientific publications from 2019–2024, patent analysis based on the Derwent Innovation database, contributions from nearly 1,000 academicians and experts across disciplines.
Complete the form to read the report.


