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Research Impact

Patent citations

Patenting your work will give you intellectual property rights and also make your work visible, including appearing in research databases such as Dimensions, or search engines like Google Scholar or Google Patents.

More information about Patents

Indicators of patent impact:

  • Citations in articles and other patents
  • Impact from articles cited in patents
  • Economic - for example start-ups, companies and products resulting from the patent

Patents can be included in researcher profiles.  Research papers cited in a Patent will appear in a researcher's profile as citations in some databases. 
The following tools enable you to investigate patent impact.

Patent impact tools