JST chooses Scopus Custom Data to conduct citation linkage analysis

Jan 28 2010

Elsevier announced today that Scopus Custom Data, the underlying source of Scopus.com, the world's largest abstract and citation database, was chosen by Japan Science and Technology (JST) to conduct citation linkage analysis between scientific articles and patents. JST, as the funding agency for promoting innovation and providing research support to many organizations from industry and academia, selected Scopus Custom Data because it provides wider coverage and clear relations between authors and their affiliations.

According to a paper published by JST in the January edition of Journal of Information Processing and Management , an analysis of research papers cited in patents, shows the linkage between Japan's scientific articles and technology is increasing every year and enabling Japan to maintain its international competitiveness. It has also become clear that research papers written by researchers funded by JST are having greater effects on technology every year; and that JST is playing the political role of promoting the creation of innovation as a funding agency. For details of the published research paper, please refer to the website of Journal of Information Processing and Management http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/johokanri/52/10/52_601/_article/-char/ja/ . The analysis was conducted by using the integrated search system for research papers and patents developed by JST. JST plans to introduce this system at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2010 Annual Meeting, to be held from February 18 to 22, 2010 in San Diego, USA.

"Nowadays, there are needs to draw up policies for evidence-based scientific technology and innovation, and to construct systems to measure and evaluate them. JST has also began investigations toward achieving the measurement of scientific technology and innovation; and as part of those investigations, by analyzing the state of funding, research papers and patents, JST is seeing influences that return on investment and science have on technology. We selected Scopus Custom Data as the underlying database for our analysis because it provides citation information, a large amount of data, and clear relations between authors and their affiliations," commented Mari Jibu of JST's Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society.

"Attention is being placed on citations in patents as a new index to measure the influence of scientific articles. JST used Scopus data for its analysis on the return on investment of science and technology policies. We are honored to be able to cooperate with JST in this way, and will continue to provide support from now on," added Niels Weertman, Director, Performance & Planning and Collaboration Tools for Elsevier.