Identifying author-inventors from Spain: methods and a first insight into results

Stéphane Maraut and Catalina Martínez

No 1302, Working Papers from Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos (IPP), CSIC

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to describe a matching and disambiguation methodology for the identification of author-inventors located in the same country. It aims to maximize precision and recall rates y taking into account national name writing customs in the name matching stage and by including a recursive validation step in the person disambiguation stage. An application to the identification of Spanish author-inventors is described in detail, where all SCOPUS 2003-2008 publications of Spanish authors are matched to all 1978-2009 EPO applications with Spanish inventors. Using this data, we identify 4,194 Spanish author-inventors. A first look at their patenting and publication patterns reveal that Spanish author-inventors make quite a significant contribution to the overall country's scientific and technological production in the time periods considered: 27% of all EPO patent applications invented in Spain and 15% of all SCOPUS scientific articles authored in Spain, with important differences across fields and excluding journals in non-technologically relevant fields.

Keywords: Authors-inventors; Spain; academic patenting; public research organisations; name-game; matching; disambiguation; SCOPUS; PATSTAT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-03
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