New Indicators of the Technological Impact of Scientific Production

Guerrero-Bote, Vicente P.; Moed, Henk F.; Moya-Anegón, Félix

New Indicators of the Technological Impact of Scientific Production

Journal of Data and Information Science

Volume 6 (2021): Issue 4 (November 2021)

By:

Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote, Henk F. Moed and Félix Moya-Anegón

Open Access

|Jun 2021

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Size-dependent indicators of the 12 countries with greatest Technical Force. Percentages relative to the global total.% Families: Percentage of PATSTAT patent families with filing year 2003 or later applying for protection in the country/region.% Output: Percentage of scientific papers indexed in Scopus.% BF: Brute Force percentage, i.e., %Output × Normalized Impact (NI).% Exc10: Percentage of scientific papers of excellence (Top 10%).% Exc1: Percentage of scientific papers of excellence (Top 1%).% Fam. Cit: Percentage of patent family citations received.% TFO: Percentage of Technological Force.

Technological Impact (TI) vs average number of patent family citations received per paper (Avg. Fam.Cit.) of the 28 countries/regions with the highest values of Technical Force.

Size-independent indicators of the 12 countries with greatest Technical Force.All indicators are relative to the global average.

% Q1: Percentage of scientific papers in Q1.
NI: Normalized Impact.
% Exc10: Percentage of scientific papers of excellence (Top 10%).
% Exc1: Percentage of scientific papers of excellence (Top 1%).
Fam. Cit. Avg.: Average number of patent family citations per paper.
TI: Technological Impact. — Size-independent indicators of the 12 countries with greatest Technical Force.All indicators are relative to the global average. % Q1: Percentage of scientific papers in Q1. NI: Normalized Impact. % Exc10: Percentage of scientific papers of excellence (Top 10%). % Exc1: Percentage of scientific papers of excellence (Top 1%). Fam. Cit. Avg.: Average number of patent family citations per paper. TI: Technological Impact.

Scatter plot of Technological Impact vs Scientific Impact of the 28 countries/regions with the highest values of TFO. The circumferences correspond to: Technological Force (the outer thin circumference), Excellence 10 (thick circumference), the number of patent family citations (the inner thin circumference).

Annual evolution of three indicators—Normalized Impact (NI), average number of patent family citations (Fam.Cit. Avg.), and Technological Impact (TI)—in four countries.

Patent citation according to publication year of the cited paper_

Year	# Patent families	Avg cites to papers	Avg refs in patents	Avg cites to papers (GDP-based weighting)	Avg cites to papers (fractional GDP-based weighting)
2003	230308	0.019	31.49	0.0218	0.00400
2004	232905	0.019	33.77	0.0212	0.00350
2005	229644	0.019	35.01	0.0208	0.00318
2006	214822	0.019	35.43	0.0203	0.00292
2007	205747	0.019	37.53	0.0202	0.00278
2008	192682	0.019	39.03	0.0201	0.00261
2009	177198	0.019	39.74	0.0195	0.00255
2010	160483	0.019	40.16	0.0193	0.00249
2011	140461	0.019	41.07	0.0191	0.00244
2012	116753	0.018	42.90	0.0189	0.00233
2013	87978	0.016	46.07	0.0188	0.00207
2014	61586	0.014	42.73	0.0186	0.00178
2015	38225	0.011	39.68	0.0185	0.00134
2016	18082	0.006	42.64	0.0189	0.00064
2017	6046	0.002	42.45	0.0202	0.00022
2018	806	0.000	38.90	0.0191	0.00003

Patent citation according to document type of the cited paper_

Document type	# Patent families	Avg cites to papers	Avg refs in patents	Avg cites to papers (GDP-based weighting)	Avg cites to papers (fractional GDP-based weighting)
Article	670831	0.008	38.9	0.020	0.0023
Conference Paper	340577	0.018	17.4	0.025	0.0048
Review	177172	0.012	47.1	0.018	0.0019
Short Survey	24580	0.020	48.1	0.018	0.0013

Pearson correlation matrix between size-independent indicators for the 40 countries/regions with the greatest scientific output_

	Fam.Rel.	%Q1	NI	%Exc10	%Exc1	Avg.Fam.Cit.	TI
Fam.Rel.	1	0.20	0.25	0.18	0.21	0.08	−0.00
%Q1	0.20	1	0.92	0.92	0.86	0.83	0.74
NI	0.25	0.92	1	0.99	0.98	0.74	0.69
%Exc10	0.18	0.92	0.99	1	0.98	0.75	0.73
%Exc1	0.21	0.86	0.98	0.98	1	0.70	0.69
Avg.Fam.Cit.	0.08	0.83	0.74	0.75	0.70	1	0.90
TI	−0.00	0.74	0.69	0.73	0.69	0.90	1

Pearson correlation matrix between the size-dependent indicators for the 40 countries/regions with the greatest scientific output_

	%Families	%Output	%BF	%Exc10	%Exc1	%Fam.Cit.	%TFO
%Families	1	0.72	0.60	0.61	0.58	0.55	0.68
%Output	0.72	1	0.97	0.97	0.95	0.92	0.987
%BF	0.60	0.97	1	0.99	0.99	0.98	0.98
%Exc10	0.61	0.97	0.99	1	0.99	0.97	0.98
%Exc1	0.58	0.95	0.99	0.99	1	0.97	0.97
%Fam.Cit.	0.54	0.92	0.98	0.97	0.97	1	0.97
%TFO	0.68	0.98	0.98	0.98	0.97	0.97	1

Patent citation based indicators by designated country/region_

Designated country/region	# Patent Families	Families with cites to papers (%)	# Pat Fam cites to papers	Avg cites to papers per Pat Fam	Weighted avg GDP share	Avg cites to papers per Pat Fam with ≥1 cites	Pat Fam with filing year ≥2003 (%)	Pat Fam cites to papers (%)	Weighted cites to papers (%)
United States	5400857	11.65	3533076	0.65	0.234	33.29	22.47	81.15	45.91
China	8571905	4.24	1463274	0.17	0.108	33.12	35.66	33.61	12.50
Germany	2408775	15.79	2158516	0.90	0.052	35.02	10.02	49.58	6.18
Japan	5096385	4.65	1410294	0.28	0.079	38.61	21.20	32.39	5.88
United Kingdom	2037468	18.02	2136675	1.05	0.041	35.47	8.48	49.08	4.72
France	1887911	19.15	2105069	1.12	0.040	35.66	7.85	48.35	4.47
Italy	1832796	19.28	2085714	1.14	0.031	35.94	7.62	47.91	3.49
Spain	1762192	20.08	2086719	1.18	0.021	35.92	7.33	47.93	2.28
Netherlands	1753318	20.02	2078575	1.19	0.013	36.03	7.29	47.74	1.37
Turkey	1742792	20.05	2074734	1.19	0.011	36.08	7.25	47.66	1.22
Canada	513166	25.89	1111076	2.17	0.024	47.31	2.13	25.52	0.96
Switzerland	1745305	20.05	2076016	1.19	0.009	36.06	7.26	47.69	0.95
Sweden	1748215	20.01	2075724	1.19	0.008	36.07	7.27	47.68	0.82
Belgium	1732148	20.18	2075083	1.20	0.007	36.08	7.21	47.66	0.78
South Korea	2348083	5.96	815412	0.35	0.018	41.86	9.77	18.73	0.78
Poland	1707430	20.20	2059367	1.21	0.007	36.21	7.10	47.30	0.74
Austria	1742992	20.07	2075891	1.19	0.006	36.07	7.25	47.68	0.65
Norway	1264904	22.10	1772202	1.40	0.006	38.36	5.26	40.71	0.55
Denmark	1740152	20.09	2076218	1.19	0.005	36.08	7.24	47.69	0.52
Brazil	296790	20.85	478260	1.61	0.029	47.00	1.23	10.99	0.52
Australia	446278	21.88	857725	1.92	0.018	49.69	1.86	19.70	0.52
Greece	1731130	20.19	2074796	1.20	0.004	36.08	7.20	47.66	0.45
Finland	1741247	20.10	2075883	1.19	0.004	36.07	7.24	47.68	0.41
Ireland	1730187	20.20	2074865	1.20	0.004	36.08	7.20	47.66	0.41
Portugal	1728495	20.23	2076124	1.20	0.003	36.08	7.19	47.69	0.37
Czech Republic	1734030	20.18	2075923	1.20	0.003	36.06	7.21	47.68	0.32
Russian Federation	534368	7.92	275369	0.52	0.025	43.57	2.22	6.33	0.31
Romania	1733753	20.15	2074321	1.20	0.003	36.09	7.21	47.65	0.27

Patent citation according to Scientific Area of the cited paper_

Scientific Area	# Patent families	Avg cites to papers	Avg refs in patents	Avg cites to papers (GDP-based weighting)	Avg cites to papers (fractional GDP-based weighting)
Computer Science	251649	0.019	16.10	0.025	0.00525
Engineering	394749	0.018	21.55	0.024	0.00466
Materials Science	228670	0.018	23.88	0.024	0.00428
Physics and Astronomy	204802	0.017	24.03	0.025	0.00401
Energy	56034	0.020	15.61	0.022	0.00395
Mathematics	111652	0.021	18.10	0.024	0.00386
Chemistry	241128	0.015	27.28	0.020	0.00350
Chemical Engineering	154459	0.017	33.27	0.020	0.00309
Decision Sciences	11859	0.021	13.79	0.028	0.00280
Health Professions	21004	0.017	29.71	0.021	0.00247
Environmental Science	51047	0.015	24.88	0.020	0.00230
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics	120068	0.011	40.29	0.018	0.00227
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	78973	0.012	34.36	0.018	0.00193
Dentistry	4080	0.011	28.90	0.019	0.00192
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	271492	0.007	45.62	0.018	0.00187
Earth and Planetary Sciences	19357	0.009	15.67	0.022	0.00172
Medicine	270703	0.006	46.07	0.018	0.00164
Multidisciplinary	67184	0.017	55.33	0.019	0.00161
Immunology and Microbiology	94414	0.009	46.12	0.018	0.00160
Business, Management and Accounting	10229	0.010	11.89	0.030	0.00154
Veterinary	10619	0.012	32.96	0.018	0.00153
Neuroscience	43846	0.011	55.51	0.019	0.00141
Nursing	13688	0.011	54.48	0.018	0.00132
Arts and Humanities	37896	0.015	50.43	0.021	0.00128
Social Sciences	22800	0.007	19.65	0.025	0.00100
Economics, Econometrics and Finance	2044	0.004	11.76	0.034	0.00062
Psychology	6026	0.006	63.15	0.021	0.00059

Size-dependent indicators of the 28 top-ranked %TFO countries/regions_

Country/Region	%Families	%Output	%BF	%Exc10	%Exc1	%Fam.Cit.	%TFO
United States	22.47	24.25	36.37	37.76	46.45	43.74	36.88
China	35.66	14.05	11.48	13.09	13.58	6.68	14.32
Germany	10.02	6.13	8.32	8.71	10.05	7.93	8.31
Japan	21.20	5.21	4.80	4.59	4.10	7.64	7.83
United Kingdom	8.48	7.05	10.85	11.23	14.03	7.19	6.50
France	7.85	4.30	5.57	5.86	6.56	4.59	4.74
South Korea	9.77	2.50	2.53	2.71	2.65	3.51	4.56
Canada	2.13	3.66	5.50	5.76	7.16	4.25	4.40
Italy	7.62	3.65	5.01	5.26	5.82	3.27	3.29
India	0.23	3.80	3.06	2.89	2.52	1.53	2.74
Netherlands	7.29	2.02	3.55	3.90	5.22	2.64	2.56
Spain	7.33	2.97	3.71	3.98	4.41	2.19	2.49
Switzerland	7.26	1.50	2.70	2.91	4.11	2.48	2.48
Australia	1.86	2.97	4.52	4.83	6.05	2.22	2.36
Chinese Taiwan	2.74	1.44	1.43	1.58	1.34	1.59	2.19
Sweden	7.27	1.33	2.16	2.31	2.93	1.70	1.65
Belgium	7.21	1.12	1.81	1.94	2.58	1.47	1.48
Singapore	0.31	0.66	1.11	1.25	1.79	0.97	1.33
Denmark	7.24	0.83	1.49	1.59	2.18	1.03	1.12
Austria	7.25	0.82	1.23	1.27	1.63	1.05	1.10
Israel	0.32	0.75	1.10	1.15	1.41	1.18	1.03
Finland	7.24	0.69	1.06	1.10	1.33	0.83	1.03
Chinese Hong Kong	0.30	0.69	1.13	1.31	1.71	0.79	1.00
Brazil	1.23	2.14	1.84	1.66	1.55	0.75	0.92
Russian Federation	2.22	2.12	1.36	1.06	1.04	0.60	0.78
Poland	7.10	1.41	1.23	1.07	1.15	0.59	0.76
Norway	5.26	0.67	1.08	1.08	1.37	0.51	0.72
Iran	0.00	1.28	1.16	1.28	1.17	0.33	0.65

Size-independent indicators of the 28 top-ranked %TFO countries/regions_

Country/Region	Fam.Rel.	%Q1	NI	%Exc10	%Exc1	Avg.Fam.Cit.	TI
United States	2.99	1.38	1.50	1.68	2.24	1.98	1.55
China	2.97	0.83	0.82	1.00	1.13	0.46	0.92
Germany	7.14	1.24	1.36	1.53	1.92	1.35	1.32
Japan	5.23	1.09	0.92	0.95	0.92	1.47	1.40
United Kingdom	6.00	1.37	1.54	1.72	2.33	1.17	0.98
France	9.69	1.26	1.30	1.47	1.79	1.11	1.06
South Korea	6.44	1.13	1.01	1.17	1.24	1.38	1.67
Canada	4.17	1.39	1.50	1.69	2.29	1.25	1.20
Italy	11.14	1.25	1.37	1.55	1.87	0.95	0.88
India	0.18	0.70	0.81	0.82	0.78	0.41	0.69
Netherlands	20.03	1.55	1.76	2.08	3.04	1.40	1.26
Spain	13.70	1.24	1.25	1.44	1.74	0.77	0.81
Switzerland	26.89	1.49	1.81	2.09	3.21	1.75	1.62
Australia	3.78	1.38	1.52	1.75	2.39	0.81	0.80
Chinese Taiwan	5.22	1.20	0.99	1.18	1.08	1.09	1.40
Sweden	30.30	1.52	1.63	1.87	2.58	1.34	1.20
Belgium	36.04	1.42	1.62	1.87	2.71	1.39	1.30
Singapore	4.02	1.34	1.69	2.06	3.20	1.54	1.97
Denmark	48.57	1.54	1.80	2.07	3.09	1.32	1.33
Austria	48.83	1.27	1.50	1.66	2.32	1.35	1.30
Israel	4.36	1.46	1.47	1.66	2.20	1.67	1.35
Finland	58.69	1.38	1.54	1.73	2.27	1.25	1.44
Chinese Hong Kong	3.53	1.39	1.64	2.06	2.92	1.20	1.41
Brazil	3.33	0.88	0.86	0.84	0.85	0.36	0.40
Russian Fed.	2.30	0.49	0.64	0.54	0.58	0.28	0.33
Poland	28.16	0.79	0.87	0.82	0.95	0.42	0.50
Norway	47.68	1.37	1.60	1.73	2.37	0.81	1.07
Iran	0.00	0.74	0.91	1.08	1.07	0.25	0.47

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2021-0028 | Journal eISSN: 2543-683X | Journal ISSN: 2096-157X

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Language: English

Page range: 36 - 61

Submitted on: Mar 5, 2021

Accepted on: Jun 3, 2021

Published on: Jun 24, 2021

Published by: Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Library

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 4 times per year

Keywords:

Technological Impact,

Patents,

Scientometric,

PATSTAT,

Scopus

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Computer sciences,

Information technology,

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Patent citation according to publication year of the cited paper_

Patent citation according to document type of the cited paper_

Pearson correlation matrix between size-independent indicators for the 40 countries/regions with the greatest scientific output_

Pearson correlation matrix between the size-dependent indicators for the 40 countries/regions with the greatest scientific output_

Patent citation based indicators by designated country/region_

Patent citation according to Scientific Area of the cited paper_

Size-dependent indicators of the 28 top-ranked %TFO countries/regions_

Size-independent indicators of the 28 top-ranked %TFO countries/regions_

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