(本文发表 Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science 2014，19（1）)

2014-Visualizing and mapping  the research on patents in information science

Visualizing and mapping the research on patents in information science and management science

ABSTRACT

The aim of this work is to present the development of patent-research through the years (1996-2011) in a comprehensive bibliometricand scientific visualization view. Our corpus consists of 1529 original research and review articles obtained from an initial topic search on patent retrieved from the “ISI Web of knowledge” (SSCI) database. CiteSpace II software was used to represent the knowledge domains of country, institution, author co-citation network, journal co-citation network, document co-citationnetwork, and networks of keywords, related with patent-research in the field of information science and management science. The results show that: USA is the most productive country. The most productive institutions are Katholieke University Leuven, University of Sussex, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Harvard University. Cohen W M is the mostly co-cited author, followed by Jaffe A B, Griliches Z, Hall B H and Narin F. “Research policy” is the most cited journal for published articles on patent. The visualization of data with the CiteSpace II software revealed intellectual bases and research fronts for the patent-research development in the given time window.

Keywords:  patent; CiteSpace; visualization; co-citation analysis; scientometrics; paper