"research frontier" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a particular area of research that is currently undergoing a lot of development and exploration. For example, "Artificial intelligence is a rapidly growing research frontier that is transforming the world."
China, for instance, is moving toward the research frontier in areas such as solar power, scientific instruments, engineering and nanoscience, all of which can benefit the United States.
Boredom is also a window into important shifts in American intellectual life — not to mention a new research frontier for the sometimes-embattled scholars who study it.
I have also found that the academy can be much more open-minded and imaginative than some popular publishers, whose vision of "historical importance" lags generations behind the research frontier, and in some cases would not be out of place in the Victorian senior common room.
Microbial communities present the next research frontier.
The future developments of this research frontier are also envisaged.
The major advances, ongoing challenges and future perspectives of this research frontier are also critically discussed.
The present paper provides a brief overview of the framework and reports on the results of a literature search designed to assess the extent to which and how researchers are currently working at these research frontiers in the case of nutrition.
To those of us committed to the education and research frontiers of technology, the election of Jon S. Corzine as governor presents significant opportunities for New Jersey to leapfrog ahead in global business vision.
However, perhaps in the face of criticism from the academic community for failing to support academically and ethically sound research, Frontiers later revised its statement to depart from the contractually agreed statement and shift all the blame to the authors, contradicting the contractually agreed upon statement.
Trends and research frontiers in data mining are focused on.
Big data have been one of the current and future research frontiers.
