Transnational citation, technological diversity and small world in global nanotechnology patenting

Scientometrics

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 609-633

  Guan, Jiancheng ^a   Shi, Yuan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nanotechnology; Patent citation network; Small world; Technological classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869187336     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0706-9     Document Type: Article

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