World Patent Information
Last updated ISSN 0172-2190
World Patent Information is published by Elsevier BV in business, management and accounting. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,653.
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What it publishes
Recent work in World Patent Information concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Intellectual Property and Patents
- Innovation Policy and R&D
- Science, Research, and Medicine
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Educational Robotics and Engineering
- Biotechnology and Related Fields
- Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies
- Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Firm Innovation and Growth
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0172-2190, 1874-690X |
| Subject area | Business, Management and Accounting |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,653 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,334 |
| Publishing since | 1979 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/world-patent-information |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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