Fig 1.
IPC classification example.
Table 1.
Sector wise distribution of patents.
Table 2.
Category wise distribution of patents (top 10).
Fig 2.
Patent distribution by top-5000 companies (best viewed in color) without top-100 companies.
The threshold line for Prolific Applicants is marked with a red dashed line.
Table 3.
Top-5 patents by citation count.
Fig 3.
Patent citation count distribution.
Table 4.
Patent distribution for companies/organizations.
Table 5.
Patent distribution by country (Top-20).
Table 6.
Summary statistics of citation network.
Fig 4.
Degree distribution of citations (best viewed in color).
Fig 5.
Distribution of degree centrality.
Table 7.
ERGM results for predicting the sector E citation network.
Table 8.
ERGM results for predicting the sector B citation network.
Fig 6.
Citation network among top-20 prolific companies (best viewed in color).
Fig 7.
Citation network for topmost applicant ‘Siemens AG’ (best viewed in color).
Table 9.
Top-10 applicant hubs and authorities.