Geographic information

[cchikis]

First off: Thank you so much for this awesome tool/data. I'm not sure it is under active development any more, but it should be if it isn't!

Geographic information on both the citing patents and the cited bibliographic publications would be a superb addition. It would help one track knowledge flows across space and across time (as of now, as far as I can tell, the best one can do is link patents to their patent office applications. In principle, I believe there is a way to link some of these records back to PATSTAT but it appears a bit involved.

I of course know de minimis about the data pipeline, but, for citing patents, there is likely inventor and/or applicant location information wherever the raw patent data is coming from and of course there is de Rassenfosse et al. (2019) for more carefully geo-located patent data (I believe de Rassenfosse and perhaps others on that paper are/were involved in this project).

For cited academic publications, I can see that being tougher, but, in principle, the author affiliations should be useful in "geo-locating." Indeed, in a nonstandard format, it appears the table bibliographical_reference documents, when it can, the affiliation location. There is also a location field under "event" but I'm not 100% certain what "event" refers to here.