Recent examples of patent litigation show the evidence of firms strategic patent use. Thus forecasting patent litigation becomes a greater priority. Patent citations have been prevalent in its usage in analyzing business environment as diverse patent indicators or a tool to predict patent litigation. However, most previous research has considered only direct patent citations. In order to overco...

BACKGROUND A previous survey has highlighted the fact that most individuals in chemical pathology identifiable from specialist society membership failed to publish material in Medline cited journals during a five year period. It could be considered that published research that is not cited in other work is not useful unless it has achieved visibility, as demonstrated by citation in another rese...

In this paper we introduce a new method to estimate the co-citation similarity between scientific papers using a Web search engine. In this method, the similarity between two papers is computed based on the frequency that they are mentioned together on the Web. We call this method Web co-citation. We conducted experiments to compare performance of different citation-based methods: bibliographic...

AbstractObjectives When the probability of being cited depends on outcome that study, this is called citation bias. The aim study to assess determinants and how these compare across six different biomedical research fields. Study Design Setting Citation network analyses were performed for questions. After identifying all relevant publications, potential citations mapp...

Citation statistics can affect major professional decisions, but little is known about how important a particular reference is to the citing document. We asked 49 psychologists to rate the importance of every reference in their own empirical paper and to indicate the primary citation reason. References cited for conceptual ideas or to justify methods and data analyses were regarded as more impo...

visualization of scientific maps enhances the awareness and general recognition of the scientific domains and their structures. it facilitates the study of the existing situation and planning of the future researches as well. the present study sought to discover and generate the scientific map of medicine in iran between 2003 and 2007. it also aimed to determine the most effective medical subje...