Hall, Bronwyn (contributor); Jaffe, Adam B. (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper describes the database on U.S. patents that we have developed over the past
decade, with the goal of making it …—about 3 million patents and
16 million citations—is now available on the NBER website. We discuss key issues that
arise in the … to use
the raw number of citations received by different patents directly in a meaningful way. To
remedy this problem we …