  Synthetic biology is one of the battlefields where the main countries fight
for the supremacy in science. The word synthetic biology hides a big world,
ready to be explored by interdisciplinary research collaborations. The purpose
of this investigation is to reveal the what, where, when of the current
situation in this emerging field. A keyword search string for the field was
constructed and applied in the Web of Science and in the Derwent Innovations
Index. In particular, we calculated year based h-type indices for high-frequent
keywords.
