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| The main objective is to know the degree of incidence of publications through their citation in patents to trace a possible parallel between the scientific impact of this type of bibliography with respect to the technological impact | The enormous scientific production that emerged as a result of the pandemic and its rapid appearance in the form of articles in scientific journals, as well as in preprints published in scientific repositories, is showing the great interest and capacity of the scientific community in the search for treatments and vaccines to stop the health crisis.

Fact that is reflected in the citations of these publications in the patents. In this sense, a project carried out by the Department of Information and Communication of the University of Murcia (UMU), specifically by the researchers Gema Velayos Ortega and Rosana L pez Carreño, has analyzed the cited scientific literature on patents on coronaviruses prior to SARS-CoV2, through the Lens.org patent search engine.

The objective was to know the characteristics of these publications and assess their impact on patents prior to Covid-19. Regarding the methodology used, the UMU researchers have used two preselected sets of patents by the search engine: one that covers the generality of coronaviruses and another more specific on treatments and vaccines. The most significant results, published in the journal The Information Professional, show that of the 20 journals most cited in patents, most of them, including the Journal of Virology and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, coincide in the first positions with the ranking of the Journal Citation Reports 2019 (JCR) of the Web of Science.

However, it is striking that some of these publications such as Virology or Infection and Immunity are not high impact within their category. According to the researchers, "it will be necessary to observe the evolution of the citations in the next patents of the current coronavirus to confirm this trend and to reassess the impact of these journals from the technological perspective" function { ;(, , {});}

Source: Universidad de Murcia