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The emergence of intellectual property as an academic issue opens a big gateto a cross-disciplinary field. Different disciplines start a dialogue in theframework of the international multilateral treaties in the early 90's. Asglobal economy demands new knowledge on intellectual property, Science grows atits own pace. However, the degree of consolidation of cross-disciplinaryacademic communities is not clear. In order to know how closely related arethese communities, this paper proposes a mixed methodology to find invisiblecolleges in the production about intellectual property. The articles examinedin this paper were extracted from Web of Science. The analyzed period was from1994 to 2016, taking into account the signature of the agreement onTrade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights in the early 90's. Atotal amount of 1580 papers were processed through co-citation networkanalysis. An especial technique, which combine algorithms of communitydetection and defining population of articles through thresholds of sharedreferences, was applied. In order to contrast the invisible colleges thatemerged with the existence of formal institutional relations, it was made aqualitative tracking of the authors with respect to their institutionalaffiliation, lines of research and meeting places. Both methods show that thesubjects of interest can be grouped into 13 different issues related tointellectual property field. Even though most of them are related to Laws andEconomics, there are weak linkages between disciplines which could indicate theconstruction of a cross-disciplinary field.

Developmental tendencies in the Academic Field of Intellectual Property through the Identification of Invisible Colleges