Abstract Purpose Building upon pioneering work by Francis Narin and others, a new methodological approach to assessing the technological impact of scientific research is presented. Design/methodology/approach It is based on the analysis of citations made in patent families included in the PATSTAT database that is to scientific papers indexed in Scopus. Findings An advanced citation matching procedure is applied to the data in order to construct two indicators of technological impact: on the citing (patent) side, the country/region in which protection is sought and a patent family's propensity to cite scientific papers are taken into account, and on the cited (paper) side, a relative citation rate is defined for patent citations to papers that is similar to the scientific paper-to-paper citation rate in classical bibliometrics. Research limitations The results are limited by the available data, in our case Scopus and PATSTAT, and especially by the lack of standardization of references in patents. This required a matching procedure that is neither trivial nor exact. Practical implications Results at the country/region, document type, and publication age levels are presented. The country/region-level results in particular reveal features that have remained hidden in analyses of straight counts. Especially notable is that the rankings of some Asian countries/regions move upwards when the proposed normalized indicator of technological impact is applied as against the case with straight counts of patent citations to those countries/regions’ published papers. Originality/value In our opinion, the level of sophistication of the indicators proposed in the current paper is unparalleled in the scientific literature, and provides a solid basis for the assessment of the technological impact of scientific research in countries/regions and institutions.

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科学生产技术影响的新指标

摘要目的在弗朗西斯·纳林和其他人的开创性工作的基础上，提出了一种评估科学研究技术影响的新方法。设计/方法/方法 它基于对 PATSTAT 数据库中专利家族的引用分析，该数据库是对 Scopus 索引的科学论文的引用。结果 对数据应用高级引文匹配程序，以构建两个技术影响指标：在引文（专利）方面，考虑寻求保护的国家/地区和专利家族引用科学论文的倾向帐户，在被引用（论文）方面，专利引用对论文的相对引用率与经典文献计量学中的科学论文对论文引用率相似。研究限制 结果受到现有数据的限制，在我们的案例中是 Scopus 和 PATSTAT，尤其是缺乏专利参考文献的标准化。这需要一个既不简单也不精确的匹配过程。实际意义 介绍了国家/地区、文件类型和出版年龄级别的结果。国家/地区层面的结果尤其揭示了在直接计数分析中仍然隐藏的特征。尤其值得注意的是，与直接统计这些国家/地区已发表论文的专利引用情况相比，应用拟议的技术影响标准化指标时，一些亚洲国家/地区的排名上升。原创性/价值 我们认为，本文提出的指标的复杂程度在科学文献中是无与伦比的，为评估国家/地区和机构的科学研究的技术影响提供了坚实的基础。