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Read before you cite! | | M.V. Simkin
; V.P. Roychowdhury
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3 Dec 2002 | | Journal: | Complex Syst. 14 (2003) 269-274 | | Subject: | Disordered Systems and Neural Networks; Statistical Mechanics; Physics and Society | cond-mat.dis-nn cond-mat.stat-mech physics.soc-ph | | Affiliation: | UCLA | | Abstract: | We report a method of estimating what percentage of people who cited a paper had actually read it. The method is based on a stochastic modeling of the citation process that explains empirical studies of misprint distributions in citations (which we show follows a Zipf law). Our estimate is only about 20% of citers read the original. | | Source: | arXiv, cond-mat/0212043 | | Services: | Article forum | Review this article | Full Text PDF | Add to favorites | 
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24 February 2009 at 16:36 GMT. | | Comment: | This article shows what everyone knows: cited articles are seldom read. The authors shows that 80% of cited articles are not read by the cit [...] |
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