Read before you cite!
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2007-05-23 v1 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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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0212043,
title = {Read before you cite!},
author = {M. V. Simkin and V. P. Roychowdhury},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0212043},
year = {2007}
}