Studying the Reverse citation relations in university and industry co-publications based on Web of Science database in 2018

 The main purpose of this study is to study the relationship between science and technology based on the citations of patents in university and industry co-publications based Citation Database Science Expanded in 2018.

 This research is applied one that has been done with a scientometrics and documentary approach and a reverse citation analysis method. The research population is the industry and university co-publications, and the data collection tools include WoS, ESI, USPTO, and EPO databases.

 The data obtained in this study showed that only about 2.32% of the publications cited patents in which about 4.27% of total citations were patents.

Conclustion: 

The link between technology and science based on the patent citations in scientific documents, in the other words, co-publications, has not been strong. Since the geographical distribution of more than half of the citations belonged to the G8 countries, it can be acknowledged that industrial development affects the industrial impact of countries on scientific outputs.