keepset

Cit-Patents

US patent citation network (patents granted 1975-1999).

npx keepset fetch cit-patents

Nodes
3,774,768
Edges
16,518,948
Size
81.2 MiB

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Overview

Idcit-patents
Categorygraph/v1
Kindgraph
DomainPatent citation network
Tagscitation
Licencenot recorded by the source
Cataloguekeepset 1.33.0

Sources and provenance

#URLStatusRetrievedRead by recipePinned snapshotSHA-256
0https://snap.stanford.edu/data/cit-Patents.txt.gzlive2026-02-16yes20250415223558raw9d05955aa997

Citations

Recipe

Source#0
Archivegzip
Parser format"edge-list"
Parser encoding"utf-8"
Parser delimiter"tab"
Parser skipLines0
Parser commentPrefixes["#","%"]
Parser sourceColumn0
Parser targetColumn1

Crosswalk

keepset/topology to graph/v1, as a crossmap crosswalk.

RuleFromToDirection
movemetametaboth
movenodes[].idnodes[].idboth
moveedges[].sourceedges[].sourceboth
moveedges[].targetedges[].targetboth

Expected counts

Edges16,518,948
Nodes3,774,768

Properties

Components3,627
Connectedno
Cyclicyes
Density0.000002319
Directedyes
Download bytes81.2 MiB
Edge types1
Heterogeneousno
Multigraphno
Node types1
Raw bytes0 B
Self loopsyes
Weightedno