作者
Ummey Hani, Graham G Mulvaney, Matthew D O'Brien, Sarah Jernigan, Paul Kim, Christopher Holland, Matthew J McGirt, Michael A Bohl
发表日期
2023/3/1
来源
World Neurosurgery
卷号
171
页码范围
115-123
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
Bibliometric analyses of the scientific literature have grown increasingly popular in the past few decades. However, patent bibliometric studies, evaluation of technological literature, have not yet been applied in neurosurgery.
Objective
To perform a pilot patent bibliometric analysis of the top 100 most cited patents in cranial neurosurgery.
Methods
The Lens was used to query multiple databases, to select the top 100 cranial neurosurgical patents based upon forward patent citations. These were organized into 9 categories based on technological descriptors and were evaluated based on the earliest priority date, year issued, and expiration status, among others.
Results
The top 100 most cited patents included technology underlying 3D navigation (n = 31), pharmacology and implants (n = 20), vascular occlusion (n = 5), craniotomy closure (n = 9), focal lesioning and tissue resection (n = 8), brain and systemic …
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