Yuanqi Cai, Xiaoming Zhang, Kuixing Zhang, Jingbo Liang, Pingping Wang, Jinyu Cong, Xin Xu, Mengyao Li, Kunmeng Liu, Benzheng Wei
BACKGROUND: Monkeypox is an emerging infectious disease with confirmed cases and deaths in several parts of the world. In light of this crisis, this study aims to analyze the global knowledge pattern of monkeypox-related patents and explore current trends and future technical directions in the medical development of monkeypox to inform research and policy. METHODS: A comprehensive study of 1,791 monkeypox-related patents worldwide was conducted using the Derwent patent database by descriptive statistics, social network method and linear regression analysis...
April 15, 2024: BMC Infectious Diseases