Comparing scientific and technological impact of biomedical research

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Highlights：

• Non-patent references made by US utility patents are matched with MEDLINE papers.

• Papers’ citations from patents are counted and compared with citations from papers.

• There is a positive correlation between citations from patents and from papers.

• There is little overlap between top cited papers ranked by the two types of citations.

• Patent citations lag behind paper citations for the majority of papers.

摘要

•Non-patent references made by US utility patents are matched with MEDLINE papers.•Papers’ citations from patents are counted and compared with citations from papers.•There is a positive correlation between citations from patents and from papers.•There is little overlap between top cited papers ranked by the two types of citations.•Patent citations lag behind paper citations for the majority of papers.

论文关键词：Patent-to-paper citation,Non-patent reference,Technological impact

论文评审过程：Received 16 March 2018, Revised 22 June 2018, Accepted 22 June 2018, Available online 29 June 2018, Version of Record 29 June 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.06.010