Abstract The United States patent system is unique in that it requires applicants to cite documents they know be relevant the examination of their applications. Lampe (2012) presents evidence strategically withhold 21%–33% citations from examiners, suggesting many patents are fraudulently obtained. We challenge this view. first show Lampe's empirical design inconsistent with both legal standard...

Software is a copyrightable creative work that foundationally important to the future of scholarly research, yet software citation not ubiquitous. Despite increasing acceptance general principles (Smith et al. 2016), challenges exist make their implementation difficult. As result, metadata facilitate goes unrecorded, uncited (Bouquin 2020), and authors continue be divorced from contributions sc...

objective(s): citation tracking is an important method to analyze the scientific impact of journal articles and can be done through scopus (sc), google scholar (gs), or isi web of knowledge (wos). in the current study, we analyzed the citations to 2011-2012 articles of iranian journal of basic medical sciences (ijbms) in these three resources.   material and methods: the relevant data from sc, ...

citation analysis is one of the most common techniques of bibliometrics in which the governing rules between the citing document and the cited document are studied. in other words, citation analysis is mainly based on who cites to whom.the aim of this research is to determine citation behavior of writers of m.sc thesis at agriculture field, and to specify behavioral patterns, informational them...