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Breakthroughs by field

Frontier files every breakthrough under one field and anchors its impact on field-normalized measures (influential citations are an absolute count, and so is citation pace except where NIH iCite supplies a field rate), so a physics result is not judged by biology's citation habits alone. Each field has its own median, its own leaders and its own pace.
10fields tracked
390breakthroughs
136most in Biomedicine & Health
62top median, Biomedicine & Health
FieldEntriesMedianLeading now
  1. AI & ComputingMachine learning, foundation models, algorithms, and the systems that run them.

    Entries3928 in the last 12 months

    Median61

    Leading now · An open vision-language model for diverse medical applicationsScore 74 · Notable · Oct 1, 2026
  2. Biomedicine & HealthGenomics, drug discovery, immunology, clinical results, and the biology of disease.

    Entries136124 in the last 12 months

    Median62

    Leading now · Tracing the spread of Germanic languages using ancient genomicsScore 78 · Notable · Oct 28, 2026
  3. NeuroscienceBrains and minds: neural circuits, cognition, and brain-computer interfaces.

    Entries5750 in the last 12 months

    Median62

    Leading now · Aggression experience and observation drive shared behavioural and neural changesScore 70 · Notable · Nov 4, 2026
  4. PhysicsParticles, fields, condensed matter, and the fundamental laws of the universe.

    Entries2824 in the last 12 months

    Median62

    Leading now · Multimodal X-ray imaging reveals hierarchical fibre mechanicsScore 77 · Notable · Nov 4, 2026
  5. QuantumQuantum computing, information, sensing, and the strange rules underneath.

    Entries1810 in the last 12 months

    Median57

    Leading now · Simultaneous high-fidelity single-qubit gates in a spin qubit arrayScore 69 · Notable · Oct 15, 2026
  6. Materials & EnergyNew materials, batteries, catalysis, fusion, and the future of energy.

    Entries3726 in the last 12 months

    Median52

    Leading now · Scale-rich network-based metamaterialsScore 68 · Notable · Nov 11, 2026
  7. Climate & EnvironmentClimate science, carbon, ecosystems, and the planet's changing systems.

    Entries3933 in the last 12 months

    Median55

    Leading now · The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseasesScore 69 · Notable · Sep 23, 2026
  8. Space & AstronomyAstrophysics, cosmology, planetary science, and what the great telescopes see.

    Entries2820 in the last 12 months

    Median59

    Leading now · Exorcising ghosts with gravitational wavesScore 66 · Notable · Nov 4, 2026
  9. MathematicsProofs, structures, and the abstract machinery behind everything else.

    Entries11 in the last 12 months

    Median56

    Leading now · The ABCD hypothesisScore 56 · Notable · Oct 29, 2026
  10. Other frontiersCross-disciplinary and emerging work that does not fit one box yet.

    Entries77 in the last 12 months

    Median60

    Leading now · Educational intervention can rewire village social networksScore 70 · Notable · Oct 14, 2026

Each motif is drawn from the field's average pillars. Fields are assigned automatically from each work's title and OpenAlex topic, and corrected by hand where review finds a misfiling; see the limits of the method.

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Dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22750330