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2002/12/03 by M. V. Simkin, Vwani Roychowdhury, V. P. Roychowdhury · 1 voice · 9 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.stat-mech #physics.soc-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.25088/complexsystems.14.3.269

published as Complex Syst. 14 (2003) 269-274

arxiv created 2002/12/03 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

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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