Read before you cite! M.V. Simkin, V.P. Roychowdhury (UCLA)

[Andrea Scharnhorst]

http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0212043

Read before you cite!
Authors: M.V. Simkin, V.P. Roychowdhury (UCLA)
Subj-class: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks; Statistical Mechanics; Physics and Society

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. 



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