---
title: "NBER patent data: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 50 archived papers mentioned NBER patent data in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (7)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 50 archived papers mentioned NBER patent data in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (7). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# NBER patent data

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/5.md)

Patent applications, grants and citations, and research and development records.

- data category: Patents and innovation data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: NBER patent

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Patents and innovation data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/patents-and-innovation-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 50 archived papers mentioned NBER patent data in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (7).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned NBER patent data in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), NBER patent data was mentioned in 54 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (25), management (14) and finance (11).
- 15 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were KU Leuven (3), University of Leeds (3) and University of Sheffield (3).
- The journals publishing most of them were Research Policy (17), Journal of International Business Studies (4) and The Journal of Technology Transfer (3).
- The most-cited of them is “Local media sentiment towards pollution and its effect on corporate green innovation” (International Review of Financial Analysis, 2024), with 50 citations.
- Papers use NBER patent data most often with USPTO / PatentsView (27), European Patent Office / WIPO (20) and Compustat (18); it has 18 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 19 | 17 | 14 | 50 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 7 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 19 | 15 | 14 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 17 |
| 2 | [Journal of International Business Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-studies.md) | 4 |
| 3 | [The Journal of Technology Transfer](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-technology-transfer.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [Eurasian economic review :](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/eurasian-economic-review.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Technovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technovation.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [KU Leuven](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ku-leuven.md) | 3 |
| 2 | [University of Leeds](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-leeds.md) | 3 |
| 3 | [University of Sheffield](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-sheffield.md) | 3 |
| 4 | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique | 3 |
| 5 | Centre for European Economic Research | 2 |
| 6 | [Eindhoven University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/eindhoven-university-of-technology.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 2 |
| 8 | Kobe University | 2 |
| 9 | Konkuk University | 2 |
| 10 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 21 |
| 2 | United States | 13 |
| 3 | China | 9 |
| 4 | Italy | 8 |
| 5 | Germany | 6 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 6 |
| 7 | Belgium | 5 |
| 8 | Spain | 3 |
| 9 | France | 3 |
| 10 | Morocco | 3 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/innovation.md) | 11 |
| 2 | patent citations | 9 |
| 3 | corporate innovation | 7 |
| 4 | patents | 7 |
| 5 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [multinational corporations](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multinational-corporations.md) | 5 |
| 7 | patenting | 5 |
| 8 | [R&D investment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/r-d-investment.md) | 4 |
| 9 | patent quality | 4 |
| 10 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 3 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | 1.6 | [Local media sentiment towards pollution and its effect on corporate green innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2024.103332) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2024-04-20 | He Yu, Shanglin Lu, Ran Wei et al. |
| 2 | 46 | 1.4 | [Financial market integration and the effects of financing constraints on innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.104988) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2024-03-07 | David Heller |
| 3 | 42 | 1.1 | [The role of human capital: Evidence from corporate innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2023.101435) | [Journal of Empirical Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-empirical-finance.md) | 2023-10-05 | Tong Liu, Yifei Mao, Xuan Tian |
| 4 | 42 | 1.9 | [Green intelligence: the AI content of green technologies](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40821-024-00288-1) | [Eurasian economic review :](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/eurasian-economic-review.md) | 2025-01-16 | Gianluca Biggi, Martina Iori, Julia Mazzei et al. |
| 5 | 37 | 1.0 | [Climate impact, institutional context, and national climate change adaptation IP protection rates](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2023.106359) | [Journal of Business Venturing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing.md) | 2023-10-09 | Hyungseok David Yoon, Pete Tashman, Mirko Hwan Benischke et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use NBER patent data most often with USPTO / PatentsView (27), European Patent Office / WIPO (20) and Compustat (18); it has 18 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

*What papers use NBER patent data together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [USPTO / PatentsView](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/uspto-patentsview.md) | Dataset | 27 | 77.7 |
| [European Patent Office / WIPO](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/european-patent-office-wipo.md) | Dataset | 20 | 49.2 |
| [Compustat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/compustat.md) | Dataset | 18 | 25.3 |
| [PATSTAT](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/patstat.md) | Dataset | 16 | 130.0 |
| [CRSP](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/crsp.md) | Dataset | 7 | 14.6 |
| [WRDS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wrds.md) | Dataset | 6 | 42.2 |
| [China patent office (CNIPA / SIPO)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/china-patent-office-cnipa-sipo.md) | Dataset | 5 | 37.2 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 5 | 3.0 |
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 5 | 1.0 |
| [BoardEx](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/boardex.md) | Dataset | 4 | 29.8 |
| [CSMAR](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/csmar.md) | Dataset | 4 | 8.1 |
| [Economic Policy Uncertainty index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/economic-policy-uncertainty-index.md) | Dataset | 4 | 1.5 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). NBER patent data. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/nber-patent-data

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-nber-patent-data,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {NBER patent data},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/nber-patent-data}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).