This figure displays the average CD5 index over time for six data sources and five different patent categories. The data sources are JSTOR (1,588,088 papers), the American Physical Society corpus (461,359 papers), Microsoft Academic Graph (random sample of 1,000,000 papers), and PubMed (1,563,211 papers). For reference, the Web of Science (22,479,429 papers) and PatentsView (2,926,923 patents) data sources are also included.
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