TAS Landscape Mapping
Even though the TAS programme involves over 15 universities and 100 researchers, it cannot possibly involve all the researchers that are contributing to this research agenda. It is therefore crucial for the TAS programme to understand where and what the gaps exist in terms of disciplines and research areas in order to develop links with communities, researchers, and institutions that can fill these gaps and help develop a world-leading collaborative platform. To this end, through a procurement process, Digital Science (DS) Consultancy was contracted by the TAS Hub to carry out a landscape mapping exercise, using bibliometric analysis and keyword-based queries and guided by TAS Hub and Node researchers. The analyses carried out by the DS Consultancy team aimed to show both the strengths and the gaps in research fields, and to list the most prolific authors globally and in the UK.
Through this exercise, we have thus developed a fundamental understanding of the key areas where the TAS community should focus its efforts in the next three years of the programme. We expect these results to guide researchers in thinking about who they engage with and how they collaboratively develop their research within the Hub, Nodes, and beyond. These results also establish a baseline against which we can now measure progress in growing breadth and depth of the TAS research community.
Authors
Hélène Draux, Juergen Wastl, Joel Fischer, Richard Hyde, Derek Mcauley, Mohammad Mousavi, Paurav Shukla, Elvira Perez Vallejos, Sarvapali Ramchurn, “Trustworthy Autonomous Systems: Mapping the Research Landscape”, Online Resource, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.19739059, 2022.
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