Visualizing and mapping the research on patents in information science and management science

• Published in: Malaysian journal of library & information science Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 87 - 103
• Main Authors: Gui-Feng, Liu, Hua-Ping, Sun, Xin-Ping, Song
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kuala Lumpur University of Malaya 01.01.2014
• Subjects: Bibliometrics; Cocitation; Information science; Library and information science; Management; Management science; Trends; Visualization

The aim of this work is to present the development of patent-research through the years (1996-2011) from a bibliometrics and scientific visualization approach. Our corpus consists of 1529 original research and review articles obtained from an initial topic search on patents retrieved from the Instit...