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 …. First, it takes stock of these main uses. Second, it discusses four pitfalls associated with patent citation data, related …

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 …. First, it takes stock of these main uses. Second, it discusses four pitfalls associated with patent citation data, related …