Patent citations

Patents are recognised as a source of innovation and technical change. Any patent related citations to your research could be advantageous when applying for grants or promotions and to demonstrate your research impact.

Patent metrics include:

• any patents you have
• data about patent documents citing your publications or patents 
• publications or non-patent literature that have cited your patents including scholarly publications, conference proceedings, books, technical manuals and standards descriptions.

Find patent citations

PatCite

Visit PatCite to find:

• cited publications found in patent literature
• patents that cite publications.

Use the Digital Object Identifier or PubMed Identifier of a publication, or the patent identifier to discover patent related citations.

Watch Using PatCite via the Lens org (YouTube, 3m 43s).

SciVal

Visit SciVal for patent to publication citation data.
Open the Explore module then select the Patent metrics link from the Impact section in the menu

• SciVal Patent Metrics Guidebook (see page 26) — guide to analysing the socio-economic impact of your work.
• Check which patent metrics SciVal calculates.

Derwent Innovations Index

Visit the Derwent Innovations Index for patent citations for chemical, electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering.

• Perform a Cited Patent Search to find which patents cite an inventor or assignee (owner of a patent).
• The results can be analysed to see who is citing the patents (Assignee Names or Inventors) and in which subject areas.

When searching for assignees in List, search using abbreviations rather than whole words e.g. UNIV for university, INST for institute.

CAS SciFinder

Visit CAS SciFinder for citing and cited patent information in the sciences.
First time users must create a personal user name and password.

Search SciFinder for patents that have cited an author's publications:

1. perform a search under Author Name and select the correct author
2. click Get References
3. Select the Get Related Citations dropdown and then Get Citing
4. Select the Refine tab, then Document Type
5. Select Patent
6. Click Refine.

The result list should be patents that have cited that author's articles and/or patents.

Altmetric and patent citations

The Altmetric patent data may indicate if a publication has been cited or mentioned in patents.

See Online attention and altmetrics for more information.