최근 특허기술의 가치평가가 크게 강조되고 있으며, 그 평가의 수단으로 특허의 피인용횟수가 매우 유용한 척도 중의 하나로 받아들여지고 있다. 그에 따라 이 연구에서는 특허의 피인용횟수와 이에 영향을 미칠만한 형태적․기술적․개념적 요인의 17개 변수들 간의 상관관계를 미국특허를 대상으로 5개 주제분야에 걸쳐 분석하였다. 분석결과 특허의 피인용횟수와 일정 수준 이상의 상관관계, 즉 5% 이상의 설명력을 갖는 변수는 페이지 수, 청구항 수, 참고문헌 평균 피인용횟수, 기술분야 특허증감율, 서지결합도, 동시인용도 및 문헌간유사도 등 7개로 나타났다. 또한 이들 변수에 대한 분산분석 결과 7개 변수 모두 전반적으로 대부분의 주제분야 간에 있어서 평균값의 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다.
Recently, the valuation of patented technology has been greatly emphasized, and patent citation has been accepted as a very useful index of this technology. In this study, we performed correlation analyses between the patent citation counts and 17 explanatory variables of morphological, technological, and conceptual factors with a test dataset of U.S. patents in five subject fields. Seven variables having 5% or more standardized variances(r2) with patent citation counts were identified; number of pages, number of claims, reference-average-citation rate, patent increase/decrease rate, strength of bibliographic coupling, co-citation counts and document similarity. The result of the ANOVA test shows that the mean values of these variables vary among most subject fields.
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