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@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@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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