On the Scattering Distributions of Patent Citation
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Huang, Kuo-Jui
Abstract
The objective of this research is to set up a criterion for classifying the patents by their importance and value. Bradford’s law provided a practical method for us to find this criterion and verified the unequal distribution of patent data related to forward citation. Groos droop was also verified which presented in the industries studies that revealed there would be a rule of higher number of patents containing fewer forward citations. he meaning of patent data scattering was also deeply elaborated and illustrated in some growing patterns. Based on more numerical discussion, it was more precisely depicted that how the distributions in several zones of patent data grew which Bradford was mentioned in the industrial studies. Meanwhile, the comparative discussions on the patent data distributions of three industries were also verified that there would be the similar trends among them.he managerial implication was discussed in the study as well. It was emphasized that a firm should have more of the patent belonged to the first zone and make effort to focus on the development of the relative technology. The future works were supposed that using the valuable patents, the first zone’s patents, was more meaningful than the numerical count of all the patents. Therefore, the other studies about the prediction of firm’s performance could modify the independent variable according the criterion made from Bradford. Besides, taking the entire firm’s granted patents as a Bradford curve to see the overall development pattern was also a technological development method.
Subjects
Bibliometrics
forward citation
unequal distribution
Groos droop
Type
thesis
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