Citation analysis has been routinely used for several decades to help assess patent quality and determine how patents impact the competition and affect the world at large. A greater number of forward ...

Assessing the importance and quality of research is a complex and challenging task that is traditionally performed by a panel of experts familiar with the research field. Although the expert-based ...

Not all academic citations are positive ones, and a new paper finds that as many as one in 50 citations in a top immunology journal were critical in nature. The number of times academic articles are ...