On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
But, as Laura comments, there may be a lot of citations clustered in a
small part of the article, but few elsewhere. Also, the number of sources
is relevant – I can cite the same source 1000 times in one article and
that’s probably not quality either. I’d be inclined to reduce the influence
of both multiple citations at the same point of the text (or very close in
the text) as well as repeated citations to the same source. It’s not that
either is bad but there should be some limit to how much they influence any
conclusions.
The issue of volume of citations can also be subject specific. An article
about Sudan women's national football team, which is a Good Article, has 26
total citations. Topically, this makes a lot of sense. Sioma, an article
about a town in Zambia, has 23 citations and is a Start. I would expect an
article about a town to potentially have more sources. There more well
known a topic is, the more page views, it seems a sliding scale for sources
should be used if trying to assess relative quality.
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