Qiangfan Meng
Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University
Builder The claim is about what the hardware does, and the philosophy is left open
Qiangfan Meng is a neuroengineering and bibliometrics researcher at Tianjin University working with Dong Ming, Minpeng Xu, and Steven Laureys on quantitative mapping of consciousness science and translational neurotechnology.
In their November 2026 Reviews in the Neurosciences study (doi:10.1515/revneuro-2026-0217) mapping three decades of consciousness research in neuroscience, Meng and co-authors analyzed 24,934 retrieved Web of Science records (filtering to 22,836 core publications and 639,975 cited references from 1998 to 2025) using CiteSpace, VOSviewer, and Bibliometrix. The study reconstructs the structural evolution of the field into three primary trajectories covering neural correlates of conscious contents and states, internal awareness and self-consciousness, and integrative predictive/network bridges, while demonstrating quantitatively that clinical Disorders of Consciousness research remains sparsely cross-linked with basic interoception and subjective-experience studies.
Meng is classified as a Builder on this site for constructing the large-scale scientometric dataset and citation-network map of modern consciousness neuroscience.
Known for. Scientometric synthesis of three decades of consciousness neuroscience (1998-2025), co-citation and keyword burst mapping
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