Patent citation data in social science research: Overview and best practices

• Published in: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Vol. 68; no. 6; pp. 1360 - 1374
• Main Authors: Jaffe, Adam B., de Rassenfosse, Gaétan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.06.2017
• Subjects: Citations; Communities of Practice; Digitization; Innovations; Patients; Social Science Research; Social sciences

The last 2 decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of patent citation data in social science research. Facilitated by digitization of the patent data and increasing computing power, a community of practice has grown up that has developed methods for using these data to: measure attribu...