Evaluating and ranking patents with multiple criteria: How many criteria are required to find the most promising patents?

Nikolaos Ploskas, Tong Zhang, Nikolaos V. Sahinidis, Flor A. Castillo, Krishnan Sankaranarayanan. Evaluating and ranking patents with multiple criteria: How many criteria are required to find the most promising patents?. Computers & Chemical Engineering, 123:317-330, 2019. [doi]

@article{PloskasZSCS19,
  title = {Evaluating and ranking patents with multiple criteria: How many criteria are required to find the most promising patents?},
  author = {Nikolaos Ploskas and Tong Zhang and Nikolaos V. Sahinidis and Flor A. Castillo and Krishnan Sankaranarayanan},
  year = {2019},
  doi = {10.1016/j.compchemeng.2019.01.011},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2019.01.011},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/PloskasZSCS19},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  journal = {Computers & Chemical Engineering},
  volume = {123},
  pages = {317-330},
}