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The Case Against Patents

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Economic Perspectives, February 2013
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#11 of 1,684)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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Title
The Case Against Patents
Published in
Journal of Economic Perspectives, February 2013
DOI 10.1257/jep.27.1.3
Authors

Michele Boldrin, David K Levine

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 9 2%
Brazil 5 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Netherlands 3 <1%
Finland 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Peru 1 <1%
Other 7 1%
Unknown 499 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 98 18%
Student > Master 92 17%
Student > Bachelor 68 13%
Researcher 37 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 34 6%
Other 121 23%
Unknown 85 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 165 31%
Business, Management and Accounting 74 14%
Social Sciences 67 13%
Engineering 21 4%
Computer Science 16 3%
Other 91 17%
Unknown 101 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 746. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 April 2024.
All research outputs
#27,104
of 25,791,949 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Economic Perspectives
#11
of 1,684 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#110
of 293,315 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Economic Perspectives
#1
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,791,949 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,684 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 61.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 28 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.