Re: ISR citation patterns

I want to thank everyone who recommended the Michel and Bettels paper.
It is spot on.



Fattori Michele wrote:

>Alan,
>you can have a look at this article:
>"Patent citation analysis - A closer look at the basic input data from patent search reports", written by Jacques MICHEL and Bernd BETTELS, EPO DG 1, jointly published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht and Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest in Scientometrics, Vol. 51, No. 1 (2001) 185-201.
>It's freely downloadable from the EPO's website: http://www.european-patent-office.org/news/pressrel/2001_07_17_e.htm
>
>Michele
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-piug-l_at_derwent.co.uk [mailto:owner-piug-l_at_derwent.co.uk] On Behalf Of Alan
>Sent: 12 September 2005 18:34
>To: epo_at_mlist.austria.eu.net; PIUG-L_at_derwent.co.uk
>Subject: ISR citation patterns
>
>Are there any studies of citation patterns in International Search Reports? For example, to what extend do Search Authorities cite domestic references to the exclusion of foreign references?
>
>Alan
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