Contribution of Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (JIPR) in IPR Research: A View through the Articles Published in the Second Decade of Twenty-First Century (2010–2014)

Abstract

This Paper seeks to review the articles published in the Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (JIPR) in the first half of the second decade of the twenty-first century from Volume 15 (1) (2010) to Volume 19 (6) (2014). This is the fourth paper on the theme ‘JIPR in IPR Research’ and proceeds with the same argument and method as developed and used in the previous three papers published on the theme ‘JIPR in IPR Research’. In this decade, two Special Issues on the themes ‘IPR and Agriculture’ and ‘Leveraging IP for Business Advantage’ were published with their separate guest editors. Compared to the previous decades, the articles published between 2010–2014 are maximum. Out of the total articles published between 1996–2014, the number of articles (251) published in this decade between 2010–2014 constitute 37.24 (point two four) compared to 32.64 (point six four) percent in 2005–2009, 19.58 (point five eight) percent in 2000–2004 and 10.53 (point five three) in 1996–1999.