Without digging into the details, my first guess would be that more non-English research is being conducted as the size of non-English Wikipedias increase. Those conducting such research are less likely to publish English summaries of their work, making them less "findable" and thus less likely to be linked from the pages you specify.
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
The data needs cleaning (and every small edit or redirect helps), but multiple sources agree on a trend similar to this, from 2011 to 2014 (partial): 943, 778, 489, 250. http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/2011 http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/2012 http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/2013 http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/2014
What's going on?
Nemo
Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l