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title: "World Patent Information: impact and top papers"
description: "World Patent Information has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.16 and an h-index of 52 in OpenAlex, #45 of 56 tracked management journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 63 papers, and its papers received 1,346 citations."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-patent-information
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share_text: "World Patent Information has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.16 and an h-index of 52 in OpenAlex, #45 of 56 tracked management journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 63 papers, and its papers received 1,346 citations. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# World Patent Information

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- category: Management
- publisher: Elsevier BV
- ISSN 0172-2190
- Journal website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-patent-information
- ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/0172-2190
- OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S84022812

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md

Rankings of Management: [Management dashboard](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) · [Management journal rankings by citations](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) · [Top management institutions, 2023–2025](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/management.md) · [Top funders of management research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders/management.md) · [Companies in management research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/management.md) · [Open access in management journals](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/management.md) · [Top Management conferences](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/categories/management.md)

## Key findings

- World Patent Information has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.16 and an h-index of 52 in OpenAlex, #45 of 56 tracked management journals by citedness.
- In 2025 it published 63 papers, and its papers received 1,346 citations.
- World Patent Information published 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #156 of 480 journals.
- Leading institutions: Shiraz University (1), Ivey Business School (1) and Western University (1).
- Countries: Iran (2), Canada (1) and Brazil (1).
- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, World Patent Information published 7 papers (0 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex).
- Its most frequent keywords over that period were “patent landscape” (2), “3D printing materials” (1) and “AI patents” (1).

## Citation metrics

*Citation metrics (OpenAlex)*

| Metric | Value |
|---|---:|
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.16 |
| h-index | 52 |
| i10-index | 429 |
| Papers in OpenAlex | 5,326 |
| Citations in OpenAlex | 18,420 |
| Rank among tracked management journals | [#45 of 56](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) |

*Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)*

| Year | Papers | Citations received |
|---|---:|---:|
| 2026 (so far) | 67 | 1,125 |
| 2025 | 63 | 1,346 |
| 2024 | 48 | 1,392 |
| 2023 | 62 | 1,305 |
| 2022 | 46 | 1,128 |
| 2021 | 39 | 1,027 |
| 2020 | 50 | 887 |
| 2019 | 49 | 793 |
| 2018 | 70 | 761 |
| 2017 | 59 | 712 |
| 2016 | 86 | 621 |

2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly.

Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-patent-information

## The last 36 months

*Papers by publication date, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026*

| Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |

*Most frequent keywords, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | patent landscape | 2 |
| 2 | 3D printing materials | 1 |
| 3 | AI patents | 1 |
| 4 | CAR T-cell therapy | 1 |
| 5 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 1 |
| 6 | Herfindahl-Hirschman index | 1 |
| 7 | additive manufacturing | 1 |
| 8 | aluminum alloys | 1 |
| 9 | bibliometric analysis | 1 |
| 10 | bio-based materials | 1 |

*Papers, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | [Unsupervised Interpretable Similarity (UIS): A zero-shot framework and benchmark for patent landscaping and technology mapping](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wpi.2026.102514) | [World Patent Information](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-patent-information.md) | Reza Rezazadegan, Mehran Moein Farsani | Shiraz University |
| 2026-10-23 | [Large language models combined with open-source algorithms for identifying prior art for obviousness analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wpi.2026.102513) | [World Patent Information](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-patent-information.md) | Joshua M. Pearce | Western University; Ivey Business School |
| 2026-10-22 | [Elaboration and analysis of patent indicators on powder production and aluminum alloys used in additive manufacturing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wpi.2026.102512) | [World Patent Information](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-patent-information.md) | Luis André Sousa Andrade, Leandro Innocentini Lopes de Faria, Lucas Salomão Peres et al. | Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio; Universidade Federal de São Carlos |
| 2026-10-20 | [Retrieval error in patent corpora: a repair-first pipeline and reporting items for the USPTO Open Data Portal transition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wpi.2026.102511) | [World Patent Information](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-patent-information.md) | Anton Sokolov |  |
| 2026-10-08 | [COVID-19 patent publications in WIPO PATENTSCOPE: A bibliometric analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wpi.2026.102510) | [World Patent Information](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-patent-information.md) | Amrollah Shamsi, Ting Wang, Amir Hossein Darabi et al. | Bushehr University of Medical Sciences; Emporia State University; Alzahra University; … |
| 2026-10-07 | [Patent landscape of biomass valorization technologies (2000–2025): growth modeling, concentration analysis, and convergence pathways toward a circular bioeconomy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wpi.2026.102508) | [World Patent Information](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-patent-information.md) | María José Lozano Polo, Katty Avilez Marquéz, José David Arias Teherán et al. | Universidad de Sucre |
| 2026-10-07 | [Three patent portfolio structures for lifecycle management of cell therapy products](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wpi.2026.102507) | [World Patent Information](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-patent-information.md) | Yasuaki Kawai, Shingo Kano | The University of Tokyo |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). World Patent Information. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-patent-information

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  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).