Patent Citations Analysis and Its Value in Research Evaluation: A Review and a New Approach to Map Technology-relevant Research

Abstract

First, to review the state-of-the-art in patent citation analysis, particularly characteristics of patent citations to scientific literature (scientific non-patent references, SNPRs). Second, to present a novel mapping approach to identify technology-relevant research based on the papers cited by and referring to the SNPRs.

Keywords

• patent citations
• scientific non-patent references
• inventor-author relations
• bibliometric mapping
• science and technology interface
• research evaluation
• technology-relevant publications