USPTO Patent Citation Network
A US Patent and Trademark Office (1963–1999) dataset of 3,774,768 nodes and 16,518,947 edges, collected by B.H. Hall et al.. Each record contains directed: True, weighted: False. Massive directed citation network of 3.7M US patents spanning 1963–1999 — one of the largest citation networks available.. Suitable for citation network analysis, technology diffusion, innovation research.
Cite this dataset at
patentcite.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 3,774,768 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
patentcite- Authors
- Hall, Bronwyn H.; Jaffe, Adam B.; Trajtenberg, Manuel
- Year
- 2001
- Source paper
- The NBER patent citations data file: Lessons, insights and methodological tools
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 3,774,768
- Nodes
- 3,774,768
- Edges
- 16,518,947 (directed)
- Nodes are
- patent
- Edges are
- citation
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2001 (2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://konect.cc/networks/patentcite/ unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 80.3 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{hall2001,
title = {The NBER patent citations data file: Lessons, insights and methodological tools},
author = {Hall, Bronwyn H. and Jaffe, Adam B. and Trajtenberg, Manuel},
year = {2001},
note = {In NBER Working Papers 8498, Natl. Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, 2001.}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Hall, B. H., Jaffe, A. B., & Trajtenberg, M. (2001). USPTO Patent Citation Network [Data set]. https://patentcite.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Hall, Bronwyn H., et al. USPTO Patent Citation Network. 2001, patentcite.echo.directory/.