Dominance relations and universities ranking

This paper proposes a theory for establishing dominance relations between universities on the basis of their scientific production and the number of citations their publications received in given time window. We apply this theory to the ranking of French Universities.Ranking; dominance relations; citations

Who\'s Who in Patents. A Bayesian approach

This paper proposes a bayesian methodology to treat the who’s who problem arising in individual level data sets such as patent data. We assess the usefullness of this methodology on the set of all French inventors appearing on EPO applications from 1978 to 2003.Patents, homonymy, Bayes rule