| Backward Citations | Documents that are cited by a specific patent document during any of the procedures before a patent authority or by the applicant. It can be a patent or a non-patent literature (NPL) document. |
| Forward Citations | A forward citation is any citation made to a published patent document by a patent issued at a later date. |
| Backward Citation Count | The total number of Backward Citations of any specific patent is known as the Backward Citation Count. |
| Backward Citations with Details | It includes the backward citations of a particular patent and the details of the patent authority (Examiner/Applicant) who has cited it. |
| Forward Citations with Details | It includes the forward citations of a particular patent and the details of the patent authority (Examiner/Applicant) who has cited it. |
| No. of Forward Citations (Individual) | The total no. of forward citations of a particular patent. |
No. of Forward Citations (All Simple Family Members)
| The total no. of forward citations of all the members of a particular patent’s Simple Family. |
No. of Forward Citing Families
| It is the total no. of forward citing families that cite a particular published patent. |
| No. of Non-Self Citations | It is the total no. of citations other than its self-citations. |
| No. of References | It is the total no. of non-patent literature cited by a particular patent document. It can be any published document from brochures, to scientific articles and standard documents. |
| References | It is any non-patent literature that is referred by the inventor/assignee for any patent document. |
