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Evaluating and ranking patents using weighted citations

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Sooyoung Oh,

Zhen Lei,

Prasenjit Mitra,

John YenAuthors Info & Claims

JCDL '12: Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries

Pages 281 - 284

https://doi.org/10.1145/2232817.2232870

Published: 10 June 2012 Publication History

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Abstract

Citation counts have been widely used in a digital library for purposes such as ranking scientific publications and evaluating patents. This paper demonstrates that distinguishing different types of citations could rank better for these purposes. We differentiate patent citations along two dimensions (assignees and technologies) into four types, and propose a weighted citation approach for assessing and ranking patents. We investigate five weight learning methods and compare their performance. Our weighted citation method performs consistently better than simple citation counts, in terms of rank correlations with patent renewal status. The estimated weights on different citations are consistent with economic insights on patent citations. Our study points to an interesting and promising research line on patent citation and network analysis that has not been explored.

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JCDL '12: Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries

June 2012

458 pages

ISBN:9781450311540

DOI:10.1145/2232817

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Karim B. Boughida
The George Washington University, USA
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Old Dominion University, USA
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Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
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Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway

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