June 1, 2019 Dataset Open Access

Patent Citations to Science

Marx, Matt; Aaron Fuegi

This dataset contains citations from USPTO patents granted 1947-2018 to articles captured by the Microsoft Academic Graph (ID) from 1800-2018.  

The main file, pcs.tsv, contains the resolved citations. Fields are tab-separated. Each match has the patent number, MAG ID, the original citation from the patent, an indicator for whether the citation was supplied by the applicant, examiner, or unknown, and a confidence score (1-10) indicating how likely this match is correct. Note that this distribution does not contain matches with confidence 2 or 1.

The remaining files are a redistribution of the 1 January 2019 release of the Microsoft Academic Graph. All of these files are compressed using ZIP compression under CentOS5. Original files, documented at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/academic-services/graph/reference-data-schema, can be downloaded from https://aka.ms/msracad; this redistribution carves up the original files into smaller, variable-specific files that can be loaded individually (see reliance_on_science.pdf for full details, the latest version of which is available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3331686).

Source code is available at https://github.com/mattmarx/reliance_on_science. Be sure to see the replication disclaimers.