Table 2 Summary statistics of patent data utilized for this study
From: Community structure in co-inventor networks affects time to first citation for patents
No. of patents | No. of inventors | |
|---|---|---|
Full patent cohort | 46 034 | 49 703 |
Patents gaining a first citation within 10 years | 44 137 | — |
Largest connected component (LCC) of co-inventor network | — | 15 525 |
Patents associated with inventors from the LCC | 20 021 | — |
LCC-associated patents gaining a first citation within 10 years | 19 284 | — |
LCC-associated patents with a first citation by LCC inventors | 16 271 | — |
Subset of these patents whose first citation is a self-citation | 2 584 | — |