Category: Research profiling

  • Patent Analysis of Shale Gas Technology in China and Implications for its Exploitation

    China has made significant progress in developing new energy sources such as solar energy and wind power in recent decades. However, commercial exploitation of shale gas in China is in the very early stages, in sharp contrast to that in the United States. Patents related to shale gas exploitation are analyzed by using data mining…

  • The global intellectual property landscape of induced pluripotent stem cell technologies

    Will freedom to research and innovate be restricted as the induced pluripotent stem cell field advances toward the clinic, or are concerns premature within a rapidly changing ecosystem? Intellectual property (IP) rights lie at the core of the commercialization process, serving as a powerful incentive to harness the potential of technologies for therapeutic applications. However,…

  • Current performance and future trends in health care sciences and services research

    Health care sciences and services research (HCSSR) has come to the fore in recent years and related research literature increased rapidly over the last few decades. The main purpose of this study is to describe the global progress and to determine the current trends on HCSSR by using a scientometrics approach to survey related literature…

  • Feature report on China: a bibliometric analysis of China-related articles

    China’s rise in science has been widely acknowledged. Yet we know little empirically about academic research focusing on China. Utilizing a uniquely constructed large-scale dataset, this paper explores China-related publications through bibliometric analysis. Our data suggests that not only interest in China but also knowledge about China has developed rapidly over the years. Despite an…

  • Development of carbon-based nanomaterials indicators using the analytical tools and data provided by the web of science database

    The recent rise of nanotechnology and nanomaterial research is marked by the huge amount of publications indexed in electronic databases, which can be evaluated using bibliometric indicators in order to help researchers find hidden trends, gain novel insights and support new scientific developments. Although in-depth analyses require specialized software and advanced methodologies, some initial indicators…

  • Scientometric trends and knowledge maps of global health systems research

    In the last few decades, health systems research (HSR) has garnered much attention with a rapid  increase in the related literature. This study aims to review and evaluate the global progress in HSR and assess the current quantitative trends. Based on data from the Web of Science database, scientometric methods and knowledge visualization techniques were applied…

  • Bibliometrics: Visualizing the Impact of Nursing Research

    Nurse scientists commonly weigh the impact of their work on the discipline of nursing as well as within the larger healthcare arena. Bibliometrics, a statistical method used in citation and content analysis, is a quantitative approach for calculating output and for analyzing value and merit of scientific output. Bibliometric mapping is a method for visually…

  • Prospects and Trends in the Brazilian Market for Biologically Sourced Products

    The aim of this paper was to select the most interesting Brazilian biopharmaceuticals, with the best market opportunity for production.

  • China’s Growing Contribution to Global Intracranial Aneurysm Research (1991–2012): A Bibliometric Study

    We sought to analyze the growing worldwide trends of intracranial aneurysm research, investigate China’s recent contribution, and compare the contributions of mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

  • Graphene: The Worldwide Patent Landscape in 2013

    In 2011 the Patent Informatics team at the Intellectual Property Office analysed patenting activity relating to graphene following a noticeable increase in the number of graphene-related patent applications filed in the UK. Since then the activity in this area has continued to grow in a seemingly exponential manner, as has the media hype surrounding it.…