"As one of the category 2 centres of UNESCO, the International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Science and Technology (IKCEST) is committed to providing knowledge services for engineering science and technology personnel from the developing countries. In order to accomplish this mission better, IKCEST intends to identify research interests, focus and trends of UNESCO in the field of science and technology through literature research. In this study, the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) in Web of Science are used as data sources. The statistics shows that 4,416 academic papers are published by UNESCO from 2008 to 2017. This report describes UNESCO's academic research efforts subject research topics, international cooperation, and so on. Consequently, the number of academic papers published by UNESCO during this decade has been steadily increasing every year, and the proportion of highly cited papers are as high as 1.05% in total. The research papers cover 201 fields, focusing on natural science, social science, the humanities, management science, and their interdisciplines. This reflects the interdisciplinary research efforts of UNESCO. There are 42 subjects with the number of published papers of more than 1% of the total. The top 10 key research fields include ""Water Resources"", ""Environmental Science"", ""Geoscience, Multidisciplinary"", ""Environmental Engineering"", ""Civil Engineering"", ""Chemical Engineering"", ""Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology"", ""Meteorology and Atmospheric Science"", ""Electrochemical"", and ""Ecology"". The report also reveals key research topics of UNESCO from 2008 to 2017. In terms of international cooperation, the Netherlands, Spain, and China contribute the highest number of publications in the UNESCO cooperation network and occupy important positions and play critical roles. UNESCO's cooperation with Belgium, Canada, Benin, the United States, Japan, Germany, the Czech Republic, and other countries is slightly less frequent, but the quality of the cooperation output is high. UNESCO's cooperation with France, the Czech Republic, South Africa, Greece, etc., has witnessed a sharp increase in recent output."
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