World Patent Information
Impact Factor & Key Scientometrics

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Overview

Impact Factor

NA

H Index

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Impact Factor

1.758

I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United Kingdom
Journal ISSN: 1722190
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
History: 1979-2021
Journal Hompage: Link
How to Get Published:

Research Categories

Scope/Description:

World Patent Information aims to encompass the world of IP information and focus the journal towards IPRs for industrially applicable innovations and their management analysis big data analysis policy education. IPRspatents utility models copyright trademarks registered design design rights trade secrets database rights traditional knowledge indigenous knowledge geographical indications may all be considered.World Patent Information publishes articles regarding best practice in legal and commercial patent search and analysis articles which focus on particular types of search such as freedom to operate FTO clearance state of the art invalidity validity prior art technical landscaping scouting forecasting patentability decision searching competitive intelligence using patent information. We are also interested in articles researching into meta data relating to IPRs such as legal status data for IPR classifications and bibliographic data. We are interested in IP documentation search documentation classification and IP information news from IP Offices.Always welcome are reviews of state of the art in a particular industry reviews of patent and other IP and scientific and technical databases search and analysis for IP purposes.

II. Science Citation Report (SCR)



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SCR Impact Factor

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SCR Journal Ranking

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SCImago SJR Rank

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR indicator) is a measure of scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from.

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Scopus 2-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Scopus 3-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Scopus 4-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Impact Factor History

2-year 3-year 4-year
  • 2022 Impact Factor
    2.934 2.406 2.468
  • 2021 Impact Factor
    1.758 1.838 1.673
  • 2020 Impact Factor
    1.062 1.026 1.065
  • 2019 Impact Factor
    0.765 1 0.804
  • 2018 Impact Factor
    0.986 0.839 0.933
  • 2017 Impact Factor
    0.671 0.969 0.869
  • 2016 Impact Factor
    0.824 0.731 0.659
  • 2015 Impact Factor
    0.581 0.593 0.615
  • 2014 Impact Factor
    0.58 NA NA
  • 2013 Impact Factor
    0.822 NA NA
  • 2012 Impact Factor
    0.78 NA NA
  • 2011 Impact Factor
    0.625 NA NA
  • 2010 Impact Factor
    0.67 NA NA
  • 2009 Impact Factor
    0.536 NA NA
  • 2008 Impact Factor
    0.363 NA NA
  • 2007 Impact Factor
    0.444 NA NA
  • 2006 Impact Factor
    0.453 NA NA
  • 2005 Impact Factor
    0.536 NA NA
  • 2004 Impact Factor
    0.523 NA NA
  • 2003 Impact Factor
    0.342 NA NA
  • 2002 Impact Factor
    0.143 NA NA
  • 2001 Impact Factor
    0.524 NA NA
  • 2000 Impact Factor
    0.25 NA NA
Note: impact factor data for reference only

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Impact Factor

Impact factor (IF) is a scientometric factor based on the yearly average number of citations on articles published by a particular journal in the last two years. A journal impact factor is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. Find out more: What is a good impact factor?


III. Other Science Influence Indicators

Any impact factor or scientometric indicator alone will not give you the full picture of a science journal. There are also other factors such as H-Index, Self-Citation Ratio, SJR, SNIP, etc. Researchers may also consider the practical aspect of a journal such as publication fees, acceptance rate, review speed. (Learn More)

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H-Index

The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications

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H-Index History