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| Title |
The effects of business practices, licensing, and intellectual property on development and dissemination of the polymerase chain reaction: case study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration, July 2006
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| DOI | 10.1186/1747-5333-1-7 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Joe Fore, Ilse R Wiechers, Robert Cook-Deegan |
| Abstract |
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was a seminal genomic technology discovered, developed, and patented in an industry setting. Since the first of its core patents expired in March, 2005, we are in a position to view the entire lifespan of the patent, examining how the intellectual property rights have impacted its use in the biomedical community. Given its essential role in the world of molecular biology and its commercial success, the technology can serve as a case study for evaluating the effects of patenting biological research tools on biomedical research. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 3 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
| Colombia | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 129 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 6% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | <1% |
| Argentina | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 116 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 22 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 19 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 12% |
| Other | 14 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 11% |
| Other | 24 | 19% |
| Unknown | 21 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 42 | 33% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 19 | 15% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 9% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 5 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 23 | 18% |
| Unknown | 25 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 51. 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 13 March 2023.
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Altmetric has tracked 25,373,627 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 14 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.9. This one scored the same or higher as 13 of them.
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