Samsung, Midea, Huawei, Canon and Panasonic among the highest-ranking companies on IFI’s Global 250 patent ranking; Japan notches highest number of companies

45 U.S. companies on list including IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm and RTX; Chinese companies dominate the Top 10 and claim the highest number of active inventions globally

Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 12, 2025

Chinese companies held the strongest foothold in global innovation, commanding seven of the Top 10 positions in the 2025 IFI Global 250, published today.

State Grid Corp of China controls the highest number of active families around the globe, with Chinese Academy of Sciences and Samsung coming in second and third, respectively. Two Japanese companies appear high on the list: Canon and Panasonic.

Although not one earned a Top 10 spot, 45 U.S. companies made the list placing America third behind Japan and China. U.S. firms on the list include IBM, at 20, with more than 38,000 active patent families, followed by Microsoft (32), Qualcomm (34) and RTX (37). Japanese companies hold 75 spots on the list, or 30%. China is close behind at 29% or 72 companies, which comprises the most inventions held by a single country.

“Quantifying active patent families at the highest level of ownership gives investors a better sense of the overall patent portfolio and the company’s current technological standing,” says Lily Iacurci, Head of Marketing at IFI. “The number of active patent families sheds more light on ‘intangible assets’ than the company balance sheet currently provides.”

These are some of the conclusions from the latest analysis by IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, the world’s most trusted patent data provider. This analysis can be found in IFI’s Global 250 patent ranking. An overview of the Global Trends and Insights also appears on IFI’s website.

The 2025 Global 250 is a measurement of total active patent families owned by a company as of July. “Family” signifies a single invention; it is a term used to represent a set of related patent documents held around the world to protect one advancement. To compile this data, IFI looks collectively at 106 patent jurisdictions globally.

IFI’s Global 250 captures a snapshot of patents at a particular point in time to showcase the collection of active inventions in a corporate portfolio. IFI includes only active patents (patents that have not yet expired) and utilizes its proprietary Names Service and Ultimate Owner methodology of mapping patent-holding organizations to corporate owners and parent companies. As a result, the Global 250 consolidates patents from all subsidiaries of an organization into a single parent entry.

Patent activity provides valuable insight into companies’ R&D activity for researchers, analysts, and investors. Often the true value of a company lies with its intellectual properties, so examining patent assets is a key tool in gauging the intangible assets of publicly traded companies. It speaks to productivity, technological efficiency, and IP strategy, and frequently reveals technology trends and the competitive landscape within various industries.

About IFI CLAIMS Patent Services

IFI CLAIMS Patent Services uses a proprietary data architecture to produce the industry’s most accurate global patent database. The CLAIMS Direct platform allows for the easy integration of applications, other data sets, and analysis software. IFI CLAIMS is part of Digital Science, a digital research technology company based in London. For more information, visit www.ificlaims.com and follow IFI on LinkedIn.

About Digital Science

Digital Science is an AI-focused technology company providing innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by researchers, universities, funders, industry and publishers. We work in partnership to advance global research for the benefit of society. Through our brands—Altmetric, Dimensions, Figshare, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, metaphacts, OntoChem, Overleaf, ReadCube, Symplectic, and Writefull—we believe when we solve problems together, we drive progress for all. Visit www.digital-science.com and follow Digital Science on Bluesky, on X, or on LinkedIn.

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Emerald Publishing to safeguard research integrity with Dimensions Author Check

Wednesday 6 August 2025

Digital Science is pleased to announce that Emerald Publishing has adopted Dimensions Author Check as part of Emerald’s ongoing commitment to research integrity.

Dimensions Author Check offers publishers a fast and reliable way to incorporate research integrity checks into their work, helping to support responsible and ethical publishing.

Built on Digital Science’s Dimensions – the world’s largest interconnected global research database – Dimensions Author Check offers unmatched transparency into authors’, editors’ and reviewers’ publishing and collaboration histories, accessible through an intuitive and visual dashboard.

Using the dashboard, publishers can thoroughly review the publishing history of a researcher and the people they’ve collaborated with, to spot any unusual activities, such as retractions, expressions of concern, or atypical collaboration patterns.

Sally Wilson, VP Publishing at Emerald, said: “The primary use case for Author Check is to support our due diligence processes when developing and reviewing new special issue proposals. It allows us to efficiently verify the academic credentials, publication history, and editorial experience of proposed guest editors and contributors, helping ensure they meet our editorial standards and ethical expectations.

“Additional use cases are to support our editor succession planning and commissioning activities, offering valuable insights into potential candidates’ research impact and professional networks.

“We hope by integrating Author Check into these workflows, we not only enhance the integrity and transparency of our editorial decision-making but also save time by streamlining what would otherwise be manual and time-consuming processes.”

Dr Leslie McIntosh, VP of Research Integrity at Digital Science, said: “We’re excited that Emerald has become the latest publisher to adopt Dimensions Author Check, further boosting Emerald’s commitment to supporting the integrity of the scholarly record.

“Dimensions Author Check empowers publishers to uphold trust and transparency in research by ensuring they have the best possible information at their fingertips – within seconds.”

Discover more about Dimensions Author Check

About Emerald

Founded by management scholars in 1967, and now part of the Cambridge Information Group, Emerald Publishing provides a range of publishing services to help researchers tell their stories in a meaningful and timely way, providing innovative tools and services to build confidence and capability in impactful research. As a proud signatory of DORA, Emerald is committed to establishing new pathways to impact, making research more accessible, and helping communities make decisions that change their world for the better.

For over 55 years Emerald’s core purpose has been to champion fresh thinkers and help them make a difference so that little by little those in academia or in practice can unite to bring positive change in the real world. Emerald Publishing is proud to be a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality 2025 – for the second year in a row – and one of the Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces in the UK and Ireland for 2024.

About Dimensions

Part of Digital Science, Dimensions hosts the largest collection of interconnected global research data, re-imagining research discovery with access to grants, publications, clinical trials, patents and policy documents all in one place. Follow Dimensions on Bluesky, X and LinkedIn.

About Digital Science

Digital Science is an AI-focused technology company providing innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by researchers, universities, funders, industry, and publishers. We work in partnership to advance global research for the benefit of society. Through our brands – Altmetric, Dimensions, Figshare, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, metaphacts, OntoChem, Overleaf, ReadCube, Symplectic, and Writefull – we believe when we solve problems together, we drive progress for all. Visit digital-science.com and follow Digital Science on Bluesky, on X or on LinkedIn.

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Tom Shiels, Communications Manager, Emerald Publishing: tshiels@emerald.com

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Bloomsbury partners with Digital Science to monitor online impact

Wednesday 30 July 2025

Bloomsbury Academic & Professional today announced that it is partnering with Digital Science, a technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, to introduce Altmetric Explorer across the whole of its e book platform, Bloomsbury Collections.

The introduction, which will go live on July 31st, will bring better data and intelligence to the impact of Bloomsbury’s Academic work published globally.

Altmetric badges and data will be displayed on all content on the platform, providing users with quick access to online attention information. The suite of metrics, across all Bloomsbury Collections content, will enable Bloomsbury, its authors and the academic community to understand the reach, impact and value of its publishing, signposting trends and providing insight for future editorial strategy.  It will also inform future platform development.

Pooja Aggarwal, Director of Academic and Professional Publishing commented, “Intelligent analytics data is a vital component in creating a great experience for all our customers and authors. It will improve our publishing strategy, including the way we structure our content in order to improve the reader engagement. We also know that this introduction will greatly benefit our ground-breaking open access programme, measuring the widest audience and supporting the personal profile and career of the funding author.”

Altmetric Explorer tracks social attention by detecting links and citations to research in non-traditional literature, such as patent documents, policy papers, social media, news or blog sites. Additionally, it tracks sharing and discussion on social media; all global attention is then aggregated in a large searchable database which can be used to track the attention, re-use and impact of published research or a research topic.

Bloomsbury Collections contributes forward-thinking scholarship to the global academic community with perpetual access to more than 30,000 individual eBooks on a title by title basis, plus Collections of titles across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. It contains more than 30,000 titles across 45+ subject areas. Options are flexible to help librarians complete their collections by imprint, subject, collection year, or selected series.

About Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Bloomsbury has offices in London, New York, Maryland, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney.

About Digital Science

Digital Science is an AI-focused technology company providing innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by researchers, universities, funders, industry and publishers. We work in partnership to advance global research for the benefit of society. Through our brands – Altmetric, Dimensions, Figshare, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, metaphacts, OntoChem, Overleaf, ReadCube, Symplectic, and Writefull – we believe when we solve problems together, we drive progress for all. Visit digital-science.com and follow Digital Science on Bluesky, on X or on LinkedIn.

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Tash Payne, Senior Corporate Communications Manager, Bloomsbury: tash.payne@bloomsbury.com

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Karolinska Institutet: Transforming research visibility and accessibility

Karolinska Institutet (KI), a globally recognized medical university, has transformed how it manages and shares research information by adopting an integrated solution powered by Symplectic Elements and Figshare. These tools have enabled KI to streamline administrative processes, improve research visibility, and advance open science initiatives in alignment with its Strategy 2030 vision.

• A Centralized Research Ecosystem: KI has unified research information across departments, leveraging Symplectic Elements (known internally as KI RIMS) for streamlined data management and Figshare for open access archiving.
• Boosting Research Visibility: By integrating with KI’s public website, researcher profiles and group pages are dynamically updated, allowing external collaborators, funding bodies, and the global research community to easily discover expertise and ongoing projects.
• Supporting Open Science Initiatives: KI Open Archive (powered by Figshare) simplifies the process of sharing research outputs, ensuring compliance with open access policies while supporting the FAIR principles of data management.
• Reducing Administrative Overhead: Automated data integrations pull in information from HR systems, publication databases, and grant records, significantly minimizing the manual workload for researchers and administrative staff.

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Digital Science relaunches Scientometric Researcher Access to Data (SRAD) program

Access to Altmetric and Dimensions data is now boosted with Dimensions on BigQuery for researchers in the scientometrics field

Tuesday 22 July 2025

Digital Science today reaffirms its commitment to supporting the global scientometric research community and the study of scholarly literature, by relaunching its Scientometric Researcher Access to Data (SRAD) program.

This revitalized initiative will offer scientometric researchers streamlined, no-cost access to Digital Science’s Altmetric and Dimensions data, and is now further expanded by offering access to Dimensions on BigQuery.

The SRAD program is available to scientometrics researchers involved in non-commercial scientometric studies, empowering them to more easily answer system-wide research questions about scholarly literature and its impact.

To lead this important effort and build a thriving global community of expert users, Digital Science has appointed Kathryn Weber-Boer to the position of Director Scientometrics – Scientometric Researcher Engagement. Ms Weber-Boer brings deep expertise in scientometrics, academic engagement, and advanced analytics. 

Ms Weber-Boer said: “This program plays an important role in Digital Science’s commitment to open research and improving research. I am honoured to be in the position of driving strategic outreach, program design, and community leadership, to help researchers maximize the impact of Digital Science tools.

“By expanding access to Dimensions on GBQ, we’re excited to enable scientometrics researchers to answer complex questions with big data, exploring and linking more datapoints, and connecting our world-leading Dimensions data to other open datasets.

“The SRAD program is built around key principles of accessibility, responsible data use, and community empowerment. Through tailored training and dynamic community engagement, it’s our hope that we can contribute to driving innovation in the fields of Scientometrics, Research Policy, and Innovation Studies,” she said.

Find out more about the Scientometric Researcher Access to Data program

About Dimensions

Part of Digital Science, Dimensions hosts the largest collection of interconnected global research data, re-imagining research discovery with access to grants, publications, clinical trials, patents and policy documents all in one place. Follow Dimensions on Bluesky, X and LinkedIn.

About Altmetric

Altmetric is a leading provider of alternative research metrics, helping everyone involved in research gauge the impact of their work. We serve diverse markets including universities, institutions, government, publishers, corporations, and those who fund research. Our powerful technology searches thousands of online sources, revealing where research is being shared and discussed. Teams can use our powerful Altmetric Explorer application to interrogate the data themselves, embed our dynamic ‘badges’ into their webpages, or get expert insights from Altmetric’s consultants. Altmetric is part of the Digital Science group, dedicated to making the research experience simpler and more productive by applying pioneering technology solutions. Find out more at altmetric.com and follow @altmetric on X and @altmetric.com on Bluesky.

About Digital Science

Digital Science is an AI-focused technology company providing innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by researchers, universities, funders, industry and publishers. We work in partnership to advance global research for the benefit of society. Through our brands – Altmetric, Dimensions, Figshare, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, metaphacts, OntoChem, Overleaf, ReadCube, Symplectic, and Writefull – we believe when we solve problems together, we drive progress for all. Visit digital-science.com and follow Digital Science on Bluesky, on X or on LinkedIn.

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