Status and Factors Associated with Citedness of Scholarly Outputs by Patents for the Type 1 Medical Science Universities in Iran during the Years 2000-2015

One of the indicators of research outputs of universities is assessment of the capability to of transferring knowledge to technology via assessment of citedness of scholarly outputs by patents. Current research aimed to investigate the status and factors associated with the citedness of scholarly outputs by patents in Scopus for the type 1 medical science universities of Iran during 2000-2015 period. Research population comprised of all scholarly output published by eight type 1 Iranian medical science universities (Tehran, Shahid Beheshti, Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz, Mashhad, Ahwaz, and Kerman) in Scopus database during 2000-2015 period. Data were collected from Elsevier’s SciVal. Moreover, data analysis was conducted using descriptive correlation statistics. Of 76111 studied publications, 998 scientific outputs were cited 3145 times from patents. Citedness rate of medical science universities’ scholarly output were found to be higher than the average rate of Iran (0.39%), but lower than the international average rate (1.1%). The highest and lowest shares of cited publications by patents were seen in the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (1.53%) and Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (0.58%), respectively. Results of running a series of multiple linear regression tests showed that four indicators, namely Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), total number of publication’s authors, and total number of publication’s contributing institutions had statistically significant impacts on possibility of citedness of scholarly outputs by patents. In addition to the topic and practical nature of the scholarly output, results of the study showed that research collaboration, as well as publishing in high quality journals, has an impact on getting cited by patents.