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University Patenting Activities and Their Link to the Quantity and Quality of Scientific Publications

Title:  University Patenting Activities and Their Link to the Quantity and Quality of Scientific Publications.

Abstract: Integrating data from three independent data sources – USPTO patenting data, Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) and the Times Higher Education Supplement’s World University Ranking (WUR), this paper examines the possible link between patenting output and the quantity and quality of scientific publications among 281 leading universities world-wide. 

Publication: Scientometrics vol 83 no 1 (April 2010)

Authors: Wong, P.K. and Singh, A.