The US comes in the second place in both types of publications with Biomass Energy Enhancements LLC being its top patent assignee and North Carolina State University having the highest number of journal publications (Supporting Table ). Interestingly, though the US is in 2 nd place, unexpectedly it is the UK company GE Healthcare UK Limited and the German organization Carl Freudenberg KG that come in 4 th and 5 th place respectively in number of patent publications.