Greetings!
Joe: that's the same question the alt-metrics people were getting at
in the paper I posted earlier... does being cited in WP give you a
measurable citations boost? Does the same boost carry over even if the
work is only in print or behind a paywall vs open access? Or, does it
have an effect at all on citations (versus *viewings*, where the
additional exposure in WP must make a difference) since most published
scholarship depends on larger lit reviews than are typically done in
WP -- and there is a larger filter effect at work among the body of
already published literature that may have a stronger effect on what
gets cited and what doesn't?
>From the "building an encyclopedia" perspective, it's in Wikipedia's
interest to cite general works, famous works, and review papers/works,
which already are more likely to be more highly cited than average
research papers. So one possibility is any citation boost from
citations in WP just reinforces existing citation trends.
-- phoebe
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Joe Corneli <holtzermann17@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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@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@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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