Web citations in patents: Evidence of technological impact?

Enrique Orduna-Malea; Thelwall, Mike; Kousha, Kayvan

dc.contributor.author	Enrique Orduna-Malea
dc.contributor.author	Thelwall, Mike
dc.contributor.author	Kousha, Kayvan
dc.date.accessioned	2016-10-25T12:44:20Z
dc.date.available	2016-10-25T12:44:20Z
dc.date.issued	2017-07-17
dc.identifier.citation	Orduña-Malea, E., Thelwall, M., & Kousha, K. (2017). Web citations in patents: Evidence of technological impact? Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(8), pp 1967-1974.
dc.identifier.issn	2330-1635
dc.identifier.doi	10.1002/asi.23821
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2436/620237
dc.description	This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Wiley Blackwell in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology on 17/07/2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23821 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.
dc.description.abstract	Patents sometimes cite web pages either as general background to the problem being addressed or to identify prior publications that will limit the scope of the patent granted. Counts of the number of patents citing an organisation’s website may therefore provide an indicator of its technological capacity or relevance. This article introduces methods to extract URL citations from patents and evaluates the usefulness of counts of patent web citations as a technology indicator. An analysis of patents citing 200 US universities or 177 UK universities found computer science and engineering departments to be frequently cited, as well as research-related web pages, such as Wikipedia, YouTube or Internet Archive. Overall, however, patent URL citations seem to be frequent enough to be useful for ranking major US and the top few UK universities if popular hosted subdomains are filtered out, but the hit count estimates on the first search engine results page should not be relied upon for accuracy.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wiley Blackwell
dc.relation.url	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asi.23821
dc.subject	Link analysis
dc.subject	Google Patents
dc.title	Web citations in patents: Evidence of technological impact?
dc.type	Journal article
dc.identifier.journal	Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
dc.contributor.institution	EC3 Research Group, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), 46022 Valencia, Spain
dc.date.accepted	2016-09-29
rioxxterms.funder	University of Wolverhampton
rioxxterms.identifier.project	UOW251016MT
rioxxterms.version	AM
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate	2016-09-29
dc.source.volume	68
dc.source.issue	8
dc.source.beginpage	1967
dc.source.endpage	1974
refterms.dateFCD	2020-06-30T13:13:00Z
refterms.versionFCD	AM
refterms.dateFOA	2016-09-29T00:00:00Z
html.description.abstract	Patents sometimes cite web pages either as general background to the problem being addressed or to identify prior publications that will limit the scope of the patent granted. Counts of the number of patents citing an organisation’s website may therefore provide an indicator of its technological capacity or relevance. This article introduces methods to extract URL citations from patents and evaluates the usefulness of counts of patent web citations as a technology indicator. An analysis of patents citing 200 US universities or 177 UK universities found computer science and engineering departments to be frequently cited, as well as research-related web pages, such as Wikipedia, YouTube or Internet Archive. Overall, however, patent URL citations seem to be frequent enough to be useful for ranking major US and the top few UK universities if popular hosted subdomains are filtered out, but the hit count estimates on the first search engine results page should not be relied upon for accuracy.