Mapping of Scientific Production on Intellectual Property: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

The purpose of this article was to analyze the profile of bibliometric production published on intellectual property in the interval of 20 years, in the period from 1998 to 2018.The research was conducted in the scientific databases of the Google Scholar platform and Scopus. The searches carried out in the databases took place through the insertion of the keywords "propriedade intelectual" (term in Portuguese) and "intellectual property" in the field referring to the "title" of the cited databases.During the searches 37,099 publications related to the topic intellectual property were identified. Among the areas of knowledge identified in the research, the one that had the most prominence in the number of publications was Social Sciences, with 1,237 articles published. With regard to the authors, the highlight in the amount of publications was to the American professor Keith Eugene Maskus, with 11 articles published. According to the survey, the journal with the highest number of publications was the Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, published by the Indian National Institute of Communication and Scientific Information Resources, with 73 articles. It is worth noting that most of these articles were written in English, in total 2,399 articles were published in that language.The country with the largest number of publications on intellectual property was the United States, with 767 articles published, 27 of which were published by the University of California, Berkeley.