Glossary
Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Searches the patent abstract text |
| Aggregation | A calculation but usually used to refer specificly to Elastic / Scholarly search index. |
| Angular | Client side application framework |
| Author Affiliation Name | The author's affiliated institution and address |
| Author Display Name | The author's full name (first name, middle name/initial, last name) |
| Author First Name | The author's first name |
| Author Last Name | The author's last name |
| Backbone | Legacy client side application framework |
| bambi | Codebase that contains the server component of our “frontend”. Serves web pages and apis that proxy to backend search indexes. Also contains middleware such as Collections and Authentication |
| Chemical Substance Name | Name of the chemical substance. Substance reflects the chemical field listed in PubMed records |
| Citation Id | The external identifier(s) for cited scholarly works (DOI, PubMed ID, PubMed Central ID or Microsoft Aacademic ID) |
| Citation Id | The external identifier(s) for cited scholarly works (DOI, PubMed ID, PubMed Central ID or Microsoft Aacademic ID) |
| Cited By Patent Count | Number of patents documents citing a patent |
| Cited by Scholarly Works | Indicates if the scholarly work has been cited by a another scholarly work at least once. |
| Cites | The numeric Lens ID of a scholalry work cited in the reference list of other scholarly works. |
| Cites Patent Pub Key | Patent documents citing US_7128866_B1 |
| Citing Patents | Number of individual patents that incorporate the scholarly works in your results list. Patents in this set can often be a variety of patent document types for example: Granted patents, Patent Application and so on. |
| Clinical Trial Registry | The clinical trial registry |
| Conference Date | The date of the conference |
| Conference Instance | The conference instance or edition |
| Conference Location | The location of the conference |
| Conference Name | The name of the conference |
| Conference Year | The year the conference was held |
| CPC Classifications | CPC patent classification codes |
| Custom Analysis | A set of custom visualisations based on a single search/collection |
| D3 | Data visualisation library |
| Dashboard | A set of pre-configured / saved visualisations |
| Date Published | Date of publication |
| DocDB | DocDB or INPADOCDB (INternational PAtent DOCumentation DataBase) is the main Patent database of the EPO (European Patent Office). The International Patent Documentation Center file contains bibliographic and family data or patent documents and utility models of more than 100 patent-issuing organisations, including the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). In addition, the legal status data of 77 patent issuing organisations. Patent Citations from 31 countries are also available. |
| Facet | Usually the result of a doc_count aggregation on either search index. e.g. Top 10 Applicants. |
| Filter | The additional filtering |
| Full Text | Searches the full text of the patent |
| Funding Country | The country of the funding body |
| Funding Organisation | Name of the funding organisation |
| Has Chemical | Indicates if the scholarly work has an associated chemical substance |
| Has Clinical Trial | Indicates if the scholarly work has clinical trial information |
| Has Funding | Indicates if the scholarly work has funding information |
| INPADOC | INPADOC (International Patent Documentation) is an international patent collection database produced and maintained by the European Patent Office (EPO). The Patent database also provides legal status information for Patents from 44 jurisdictions: AT,AU,BE,BG,BR,CA,CH,CL,CN,CZ,DD,DE,DK,EE,EP,ES,FI,FR,GB,GE,GR,HU,IE,IL,IT,JP,KE,KR,LT,LU,LV,MC,MD,NL,NO,PH,PT,RO,RU,SE,TW,US,UZ,WO. The database contains information relating to the legal status of Patents however is not a legal instrument. |
| IPCR Classifications | IPCR patent classification codes |
| Issue | The journal issue |
| lens-ui | Codebase that contains the client component of our “frontend”. Primarily CSS, HTML, Javascript and static assets. |
| MeSH | MeSH terms are the National Library of Medicine’s controlled vocabulary or subject heading list. |
| MeSH Heading | MeSH terms are the National Library of Medicine’s controlled vocabulary or medical subject headings assigned to PubMed entries. NB MeSH Headings are case sensitive e.g. Calcium not calcium. |
| Non Patent Citation | The original non patent citation string |
| Npl Lens Id | Non-Patent Literature Lens ID (i.e. Scholarly Work) |
| Open Access Colour | The Open Access colour category |
| Open Access Colour | The Open Access colour category |
| Open Access Colour: Bronze | Free to read on the pulisher page, but without a clearly identifiable license |
| Open Access Colour: Gold | Published in an open-access journal that is indexed by DOAJ |
| Open Access Colour: Green | Toll access to the publisher page, but there is a free copy in a OA repository |
| Open Access Colour: Hybrid | Free under an open license in a toll-access journal |
| Open Access License | The Open Access license type |
| OpenURL | The Lens uses the OpenURL standard in combination with OCLC's WorldCat repository of Library resolvers to implement the OpenURL standard. This implementation of OpenURL passes the metadata for a scholarly work along to the WorldCat registry, which uses the IP address of the user to redirect the request to the user's institution OpenURL resolver. Depending on the institution's subscriptions and access to services, the resolver will provide the user access to the available version(s) of the scholarly work which the institution has access. |
| Publication Type | Describes the type of publication or document that is retrieved. |
| Publication Type | Publication Type (eg. Journal Article, Conference Proceedings, Book, etc.) |
| Publication Type: book chapter | A Book Chapter correponds to a discrete section/chapter or excerpt from a Book or Monograph. Books or Monographs are often authored by disparate groups of scholars or individuals therefore they represent distinct research-based knowledge ona specific topic. |
| Publication Type: journal article | A Journal article is commonly a document published subsequent to some form of research activity.As a written form, the journal article is often a product of an editorial process to validate the reliability of data, methods and conclusions recorded in the publication and typically focuses upon presenting the method(s), proceedures and results from an investigation into a highly specific aspect or area of science and engineering. A journal is the most ubiquitious form of communicating research and investigation and can often be referred to via other terms such as:Peer-Reviewed Article, Scientific Literature or Scholarly Research Article. |
| Publication Type: unknown | While Unknown publication types designate science-related publication and documents. An Unknown publication type is both a way to identify works or documents that have been appended to the underlying Lens data pool as a result of web text mining. Unknown document types represent a novel data set due to their proximity to science as a non-uniform dataset. Documents in this set can be Newsletters, Abstracts, Speech Transcripts, Press Releases,Lab Protocols, Product Descriptions etc. |
| Query String | The boolean or keyword query typed into the search input box (optional) |
| Reference count | The number of works in the reference list of a scholarly work |
| Reference Text | The the original text string in the references |
| Referenced By Patent Lens Id | Scholarly works that are cited by a given patent(s). |
| Referenced By Patent Lens Id Num | Scholarly works that are cited by a given patent(s). Uses the numeric value of Lens ID (see https://support.lens.org/help-resources/basic-help/the-lens-id/) |
| Relevance | [Describe how Relevance is determined] |
| Sequence Type | The type of sequence e.g. N - nucleotide, P - peptide |
| Source Asjc Code | The All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) code |
| Source Country | The publisher's country |
| Source Issn | The International Standard Serial Number of the source publication, without hyphenation |
| Source Publisher | The publisher of the source publication |
| Spring | Web server framework |
| Subject | Subject is derived from journals descriptions in Crossref metadata based on the Science Journal Classification Codes |
| US Classifications | US patent classification codes |
| Volume | The journal volume |
| Year Published | Year of publication |