nanoHUB.org - always "ON" New Paradigms in Global Scientific Knowledge Transfer, Publishing, and Assessment

Research communities face significant challenges in translating published results to other communities who may utilize the new knowledge in their working environments. nanoHUB has been on the forefront of developing solutions for this problem since 2002. By serving annually over 1.4 million users with an ever-growing collection of 6,250+ resources, including 530+ simulation tools, nanoHUB.org has become “the world's largest nanotechnology user facility” [1]. nanoHUB has become a publisher of a new type of publications: All nanoHUB tools and compact models are now listed in the Web of Science and Google Scholar as proper publications. nanoHUB.org is driving knowledge transfer measured with usage statistics, usage patterns, collaboration patterns, and citation data. Over 35,000 students used nanoHUB simulations in 1,800+ classes at 185 institution. Newly published research tools are typically adopted into classrooms in less than 6 months [2]. 2,200+ literature citations with over 30,000 secondary citations (h-index 82) prove that high quality research can be enabled. The open-source HUBzero platform is now powering many other hubs. The Klimeck research group utilizes nanoHUB to disseminate its Nanoelectronic Modeling tool (NEMO) [3], [4] through 9 easy-to-use apps to model nanowires, quantum dots, 2-D materials, and optical devices [5].