SciVal Metric: Scholarly Output cited by Patents

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This is the count of Scholarly Output published by an entity (e.g. a university) that have been cited by Patents.

Example: 400 publications from Athena University have been cited by Patents. The Patent-Cited Scholarly Output metrics equals 400.

For customers with access to the Impact module, SciVal collects Patent data from 107 Patent Offices worldwide. From those 107 Ptent Offices, 43 actively cite Scolarly Output covered by SciVal. For all other customers, SciVal collects data from 5 Patent Offices (World, Japanese, European, UK and US Patent Offices).

For customers with access to the Impact module, this metric can also be show as a percentage in both the Impact and Benchmarking modules.

Example: Athena University has published 4,000 Scholarly Outputs, of which 400 have been cited by Patents. Athena University have a Scholarly Output cited by Patents Percentage of 10%. 

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