Intellectual Property: A Scientometric Study of Scholarly Output Singh Mukhtiar1**, Hasan Nabi2* 1Library Officer, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur-176 061, Himachal Pradesh, India 2Deputy Librarian, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India *E-mail id: nabihasan@gmail.com
**E-mail id: singh_m_m@yahoo.com
Abstract The following paper evaluates the output of world literature on intellectual property that are researched for publications and are indexed in the Science Citation Index (SCI) database during the period from 2001 to 2010. A total of 1439 papers were published by the authors in the field of intellectual property during this period. The average number of publications published per year was 143.9 papers. The highest number of papers, i.e. 172 were published in the year 2010. The countries involved in producing publications were 74 in number. United States was at the top of producing 572 (39.75%) publications followed by Great Britain with 119 (8.23%) and India stood at the eighth position with 54 (3.75%) publications. Top Keywords Intellectual property, IPR, Science Citation Index, Research output, Scientometric analysis, Mapping research, WIPO. Top |