Another interesting question (that would take a broader scope) would
look at the frequency of *downstream* citations to works that are
cited in Wikipedia versus all other citations.
Per usual, correlation would definitely not be causation, BUT my usual
practice is
1. Google
2. Wikipedia
3. Read some of the papers cited
4. (A miracle occurs)
5. Write my own paper
Interesting to wonder how many of the papers read at step 3 survive
the semantic leap to step 5.
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 5:52 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you everyone! Grouplens folks, if you could send
a link to your
work too, that would be awesome.
What I'm curious about: if we can give (within an order of magnitude,
say) an approximation of how many sources are cited within Wikipedia
-- then maybe broken out into references to printed works and
references to online-only, etc. What does our project look like viewed
as an ad-hoc catalog of scholarship? How does that compare to the
major databases? (It's going to be a tiny, tiny percentage of the
total scholarship in the world -- Pubmed has 21M records, Worldcat
around 246M -- but how tiny?) This may only be answerable if someone
creates a wikicite project :)
thanks,
phoebe
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Paolo Massa <paolo(a)gnuband.org> wrote:
I know of this paper
"Scientific citations in Wikipedia" by Finn Årup Nielsen
First Monday, volume 12, number 8 (August 2007),
URL:
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/nielsen/index.html
but, as the title says, it took into account only citations to
scientific journals.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:31 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Has there been any research done into: the number of citations (e.g.
to books, journal articles, online sources, everything together) on
Wikipedia (any language, or all)? The distribution of citations over
different kinds or qualities of articles? # of uses of citation
templates? Anything like this?
I realize this is hard to count, averages are meaningless in this
context, and any number will no doubt be imprecise! But anything would
be helpful. I have vague memories of seeing some citation studies like
this but don't remember the details.
Thanks,
-- phoebe
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