情报学报  2024, Vol. 43 Issue (2): 140-153    DOI: 10.3772/j.issn.1000-0135.2024.02.002
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Quantifying Basic Research Contribution to Biomedical Firms' Scientific Output: A Perspective on Individual Publication Characteristics
Min Chao1, Lin Haotian2, Gong Chenjiao1, Ke Qing3, Gao Jiping4, Li Minglu5
1.School of Information Management, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023
2.The Literature and Information Center, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433
3.School of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077
4.Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Beijing 100038
5.Bureau of Policy, National Natural Science Foudation of China, Beijing 100085
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Abstract  As the foundation of core technologies, basic research has a significant impact on the development of high-tech companies. Therefore, basic research should be accurately identified and measured for its impact and mechanism to be explored. This study uses the scientometric method based on the “Level Score” index, a quantitative index for measuring the basic level of a research paper, to quantify the basic research of firms in the biomedical field, which is a key development industry in China and abroad, thereby investigating the dependence between output and basic research. The results of this study show that: (1) Most biomedical firms need to conduct basic research to sustain their development, and a certain scale and strength are required to conduct both basic and applied research. Large biomedical firms have a more intensive distribution of average basic level papers, whereas smaller firms tend to publish more basic research papers. (2) Basic research type references are the main knowledge base of the papers published by biomedical firms which also rely on some applied research references, indicating that the research activities of biomedical firms are highly dependent on basic research. (3) The basic output type of biomedical firms depends on basic knowledge input and is thus less difficult to obtain applied output type from basic input than to generate basic type output from applied type input.
Key wordsbasic research      biomedicine      firms      scientific output      contribution      quantification     
Received: 03 December 2022     
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Min Chao,Lin Haotian,Gong Chenjiao, et al. Quantifying Basic Research Contribution to Biomedical Firms' Scientific Output: A Perspective on Individual Publication Characteristics[J]. 情报学报, 2024, 43(2): 140-153.
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