Patent Citation Data in Social Science Research: Overview and Best Practices

The last two 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过去二十年见证了专利引用数据在社会科学研究中使用的显著增长。在专利数据数字化和计算能力提升的推动下，一个实践社区逐渐形成，该社区已开发出利用这些数据的方法，用于：衡量