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Where does Patent Article Citations data come from?

Last updated on September 14, 2026

Patent Article Citations data comes from LexisNexis IP DataDirect. SciVal collects patent data from 107 patent offices worldwide.

Of these 107 patent offices, 43 actively cite scholarly output covered by SciVal. Some of the remaining 64 non-citing patent offices will also be visible, through the Main Patent Family Count.

SciVal identifies and counts citations that research papers have received from Patents. From the perspective of a research publication, these would be “forward citations”, indicating whether the research results have subsequently been used in the Patent world. It is important to remember that patents are published and can only become available for use in research metrics around eighteen months after the application date.

Citation of Scholarly Output in Patents indicates a connection between academia and industry.
SciVal’s Patent-related metrics serve as a tool to help detect and demonstrate research impact.
SciVal looks at the citations of Scholarly Output in Patents and links to both the citing Patents and cited articles.

Metric	Short Description
Patents Count	The count of patents citing the scholarly output published by the selected entity. i.e. 200 patents have cited articles published by Athena University over the past 5 years
Scholarly Output cited by Patents	The count of scholarly outputs published by the selected entity that have been cited in patents. i.e. 400 publications from Athena University have been cited by patents over the past 5 years
Patent-Citations Count	The count of patent citations received by the selected entity. i.e. Athena University has been cited 600 times by patents over the past 5 years. In practice this means that the 400 publications from Athena University have been cited 600 times by the 200 patents
Patent-Citations per Scholarly Output	Average patent-citations received by 1,000 scholarly outputs published by the selected entity. i.e. divide the patent-citation counts by the total scholarly output of the university for that period of time and multiply by 1,000. So if Athena University had published 10,000 publications in the 5 year period, their patent-citations per scholarly output would be (600/10,000) x 1,000 = 60

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Patents Count

The count of patents citing the scholarly output published by the selected entity.

i.e. 200 patents have cited articles published by Athena University over the past 5 years

Scholarly Output cited by Patents

The count of scholarly outputs published by the selected entity that have been cited in patents.

i.e. 400 publications from Athena University have been cited by patents over the past 5 years

Patent-Citations Count

The count of patent citations received by the selected entity.

i.e. Athena University has been cited 600 times by patents over the past 5 years. In practice this means that the 400 publications from Athena University have been cited 600 times by the 200 patents

Patent-Citations per Scholarly Output

Average patent-citations received by 1,000 scholarly outputs published by the selected entity.

i.e. divide the patent-citation counts by the total scholarly output of the university for that period of time and multiply by 1,000. So if Athena University had published 10,000 publications in the 5 year period, their patent-citations per scholarly output would be (600/10,000) x 1,000 = 60

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