SciVal Metric: Patent-Citations per Scholarly Output

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This is the average patent-citations received per 1,000 scholarly outputs published by the entity (e.g. a university). i.e. the patentcitation counts divided by the total scholarly output of the university for that period and multiplied by 1,000.

Example: If Athena University published 10,000 publications in a five-year period, their patent-citations per scholarly output would be (600/10,000) x 1,000 = 60. We look at this metric per 1,000 publications because otherwise the typical average patent-citations per output is a small number that is harder to interpret.

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