The effect of patent family information in patent citation network analysis: a comparative case study in the drivetrain domain

Scientometrics

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 437-452

  Nakamura, Hiroko ^a   Suzuki, Shinji ^a   Kajikawa, Yuya ^b   Osawa, Masataka ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Rd Management Section   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; Patent; Patent family

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937629086     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1626-2     Document Type: Article

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