Department of Biology and Geology, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain.
Department of Engineering, University of Almeria, ceiA3, 04120 Almeria, Spain.
Acta Trop. 2022 Aug;232:106532. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2022.106532. Epub 2022 May 20.
Mankind has known about different parasitic diseases since ancient times. There is no doubt that parasites are the infectious agents that have caused the most deaths throughout history. But even today, parasitic diseases affect more than one billion people worldwide. In this paper, the relationship between articles published in the area of parasitology and international patents in this field from 1996 to 2019 was analyzed. For this purpose, Scopus has been used. This is a database developed by Elsevier, which, in addition to having numerous indexed journals and books, has developed SciVal, an analysis tool with which the publications that have been cited in the patents of the 5 largest patent offices in the world have been analyzed. The analysis has allowed us to study 2814 publications, to know their time trend, their Authors, Affiliations, and Countries, as well as the journals in which they have been published. Also, the topics and topic clusters related to parasitology that appear in publications cited in international patents have been known. Thus, the existence of six Topic Clusters that group 94% of all publications has been discovered. Of all of them, the Topic Cluster referring to malaria stands out above all others, with 968 articles (34% of the total), probably due to the fact that malaria continues to be, to this day, one of the great challenges for both industry and basic research throughout the world.
人类自古以来就知道各种寄生虫病。毫无疑问，寄生虫是历史上导致死亡人数最多的传染病原体。但即使在今天，寄生虫病仍影响着全球超过 10 亿人。在本文中，分析了 1996 年至 2019 年寄生虫学领域发表的文章与该领域国际专利之间的关系。为此，使用了 Scopus。这是爱思唯尔（Elsevier）开发的数据库，除了拥有众多索引期刊和书籍外，还开发了 SciVal，这是一种分析工具，可用于分析世界上 5 个最大专利局的专利中被引用的出版物。分析允许我们研究 2814 篇出版物，了解它们的时间趋势、作者、所属机构和国家，以及它们出版的期刊。此外，还了解了在国际专利引用的出版物中出现的与寄生虫学相关的主题和主题群。因此，发现了六个将 94%的所有出版物分组的主题群。在所有这些主题群中，疟疾主题群最为突出，共有 968 篇文章（占总数的 34%），这可能是因为疟疾至今仍是全世界工业和基础研究的重大挑战之一。
