Does involvement in patenting jeopardize one’s academic footprint? An analysis of patent-paper pairs in biotechnology
Does involvement in patenting jeopardize one’s academic footprint? An analysis of patent-paper pairs in biotechnology
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参与专利申请是否会损害一个人的学术足迹？对生物技术领域专利论文对的分析？
DOI：
10.1016/j.respol.2015.06.005
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发表时间：
2015
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影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
K. Debackere
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作者：
Tom Magerman;B. Looy;K. Debackere
参与专利申请是否会妨碍科学家发表的研究成果的传播，这是一个相关和重要的问题。为此，在生物技术的专利论文对进行详细的，大规模的引文分析。这些配对标志着同时导致科学出版物和专利申请的研究的发生。使用应用于大型数据集的文本挖掘算法检测专利论文对。从由948，432篇科学出版物和88，248篇EPO和USPTO专利文件组成的数据集开始，识别出584篇专利论文对。然后将这些专利论文对的前向引用模式与没有等效专利的生物技术出版物进行匹配和比较。链接到专利的出版物比没有专利链接的出版物获得更多的引用（考虑到必要的控制后）。此外，通过比较H指数，我们的研究结果显示，参与此类配对的作者比不参与专利活动的同行发展了更大的科学足迹。我们的结论是，参与专利申请并不妨碍生物技术领域已发表的研究成果的传播。
The question whether involvement in patenting hampers the dissemination of a scientist’s published research is a relevant and important one. To this end, a detailed, large-scale citation analysis of patent-paper pairs in biotechnology is conducted. Those pairs signal the occurrence of research resulting simultaneously in scientific publications and patent applications. Patent-paper pairs are detected using text-mining algorithms applied on a large dataset. Starting from a dataset consisting of 948,432 scientific publications and 88,248 EPO and USPTO patent documents, 584 patent-paper pairs are identified. The forward citation patterns of these patent-paper pairs are then matched and compared to biotechnology publications without an equivalent patent. Publications linked to a patent receive more citations than publications without a patent link (after taking into account the necessary controls). In addition, by comparing H-indexes, our findings reveal that the authors involved in such pairs develop a larger scientific footprint than comparable colleagues refraining from patent activity. We conclude that involvement in patenting does not hamper the dissemination of published research in the field of biotechnology.