Study on Patent Information of"Long"Medicine Based on Patent Bibliometrics
Objective To analyze the research and development capability of"Long"medicine through patent application of"Long"medicine;To provide strategic suggestions for the development and utilization and innovation of"Long"medicine in Gansu Province.Methods Using databases such as Patent Star and CNKI as retrieval platforms,the total amount of patent applications,application region,main inventors,frontier hotspots and other aspects were analyzed by bibliometrics.Origin 2021 and VOSviewer 2022 software were used for visualization.Results Totally 195 international patents were involved in"Long"medicine since 2012-2022,with a total of 16 417 patents on"Long"medicine in China and 1 743 in Gansu Province,with the patent volume reaching its peak in 2016-2018.The top ranked applications were from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Gansu Province,whose R&D power was mainly concentrated in universities and research institutes,and the technical hotspots were mainly in active components,extraction and preparation.Conclusion Patent application capacity of"Long"medicine and"Long"medicine resource reserve is extremely mismatched,and the quality of patent applications should be improved."Production,learning,research"should be combined to enhance the product research and development capacity and technological innovation of"Long"medicine,increase the competitiveness of the market,and improve the recognition of"Long"medicine at home and abroad.